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Man, people on lemmy need to look outside of their own bubbles a little more. There's more than just those in my camp and those against my camp.
There are uninformed voters who genuinely do not pay as much attention to politics as those of us on this platform do. Uninformed voters exist and they are influenced by the big headlines like this.
This is why other factors regarding a candidate such as whether or not they are likeable matter. It's not for me. It's not for you or any other hardline party entrenched voter. It's for them, the ones who barely pay attention.
What I am wondering is among that uninformed voter base are there people who think "hmm, maybe I won't vote for the guy that somebody just tried to kill."
Sure, but there probably a lot more who think, "man, someone thinks this guy is dangerous, maybe he's onto something big!"
The scariest thing is not that there are people who would vote for trump, but the amount of people that can't imagine why someone would vote or think different than them. The level of "same as me" bias is really scary.
I get that, but people are acting like this is a guaranteed win for Trump just because he was shot at and can claim that he’s a martyr. I just don’t think there’s enough undecided voters that will swing the election for Trump this easily.