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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

How in the hell is this race so close? If misinformation were factored out, would it be close at all?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

America has a cultural sickness. 2016 revealed that well enough for anyone who was still in doubt about it. And it's not drag queens.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 weeks ago

One thing to have to know about conservatives is that they value fairness over everything else. That thought gets twisted to be “if I had to suffer then everyone else should have to suffer too.” They don’t vote Trump because they like his policies. They vote because they think he’ll cause others to suffer.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Total ad spend so far by both parties comes to $16.61 per person in the state. DAMN.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

So I do run an adblocker for most of the web on most of my devices, but the TV for example still plays youtube ads and I would say that maybe 1 out of every 3 or 4 ads is not a political ad. Well over half of the ones that are political are for Trump. I've also received at least one mailer every day this week. Usually 2-3 (one for each of my wife and I). All of the mailers are pro Trump. Yes, I let the TV play trash politics adjacent videos on mute trying to waste as much of their money as possible.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Wow. That's fascinating, thanks for the details. Interesting that you're mostly seeing pro-Trump stuff as from the article the dems are outspending the Trump campaign.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I live in small blue town in very red county, and I'm probably not being distinguished from the surrounding area. A lot of it is in the 'motivating you to show up' category. At least it would be if I actually believed Bob Casey was holding down Pennsylvanians while Harris injected them with fentanyl smuggled over the border in a sack of illegal aliens.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

What’s more, this person said there aren’t regrets over Biden leaving the race. This person said they could’ve been convinced before the switch at the top of the ticket that Biden was better positioned to win Pennsylvania but since seeing the explosion of Democratic enthusiasm they said: “I think we’d all agree it has been a net positive.”

It's concerning that so many people still don't understand why voters didn't want Biden, or even that voters didn't want Biden.

It's not just enough to vote D every four years, the only political party large enough to fight facisism, is completely out of touch with it's voters...

So like...

Maybe we should replace them with people who know what the fuck they're doing?

Maybe start putting some sociologists in charge rather than who has the best connection to donors and ignoring literally everything else?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Publicly funded elections are so needed.

[–] gravitas_deficiency 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

And private funding (and specifically, undisclosed funding) of any candidate should be extremely illegal. But the Supreme Court (and the ACLU, incredibly) is behind Citizens United, so that’s not changing for the foreseeable future.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

The ACLU is behind it because there are unintended consequences to getting rid of it.

For example, Florida could pass a law that bans pro-choice advertising from women's rights groups while still allowing ads from anti-abortion groups.

The only reason they can't do that today is that pro-choice organizations have First Amendment rights.

There is a misconception that without CU corporations wouldn't influence elections. But actually without it, politicians could choose which corporations are, or are not, allowed to influence elections.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Remind me to never go to Pennsylvania.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Philadelphia is just fine. Maybe Pittsburgh to an extent. It’s everything else that sucks.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

So goes Pennsylvania so goes the election generally.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

They used to say that about Ohio. …before that Florida …before that Iowa …before that California ….way before that, Pennsylvania

Queue that XKCD.

Soon it’s going to be Georgia or Arizona And then Texas

I for one, can’t wait for the chili cook offs, and when all the candidates start wearing cowboy hats. The y’all’s will truly have it!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Why can't we have presidential chili cook offs now? Even if they don't cook, they can be tasters

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I can see Tim Walz making a good chili.

[–] vaultdweller013 4 points 4 weeks ago

I think he outright has won a chili cook off before.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 weeks ago

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