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In reply to the discussion: Does anyone else just randomly break down and cry since Trump was inaugurated? [View all]Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Polling people whose only phone service is a mobile phone, pollsters are simply missing this now massive category of Americans. And cell service as the only phone service will become more common. Initially, we were undercounted in polls relative to the right because the right used landlines more, in the last eight years, cell use has evened out. There are still more of us, but when people like long laid off factory workers and their now voting age kids that witnessed their parent's struggles first hand and now can vote, take the words of a conman over a woman that could have truly helped them with jobs, our advantage gets neutralized and as Trump, with his lies, showed us, we can get beaten.
We are also weakened by some that claim to believe as we believe. I read a national news feed earlier today where a group is proposing that Bernie Sanders form his own party, the group wants to field local candidates and a Presidential candidate in 2020. The group is either a collection of republican ratfuckers or are seriously misdirected. The best course of action would be to get involved with local democratic groups and use their energy to influence who gets backed in local and state elections - anything else only insured continued republican rule, that isn't good for any of us.