I always thought Michigan was pretty anti-Republican, in a similar way to Illinois. But I’m pretty sure Michigan has a big problem with white rural/suburban conservatives, so my guess is they’ve become more emboldened and riled up recently due to the Republican radicalization, and they’re more “passionate” about voting now than they were in previous elections – analogous to what happened with Democrats and blacks/latinos/liberal women in Georgia in the 2020 elections.
But that’s just a hypothesis, I’m not exactly knowledgeable on Michigan… I’m from Georgia and am in the process of moving to Illinois.
I live in Michigan and basically as soon as you go into any rural area, it’s Trump Land. Complete with crazy hand painted signs calling Biden a demon and praising Trump as a god.
Michigan is historically republican leaning to a toss up in local elections and democratic leaning in national elections. Trump was the only republican to win a presidential election there in about 40 years or so, both senators have been democrats as well.
Michigan got fucked hard as the auto companies left the country, and it’s never really recovered. Pro-nafta opinions aren’t popular. Michigan also has a high Arab population, they likely won’t vote Trump, but if they stay home it’s bad for Biden. There’s still a lot of active racist militias in Michigan, there’s also heavily segregated cities.
Michigan lacks a truly large city to dictate politics at the state level, like Illinois and Chicago. There’s also the occasional issue with being a border state, unpopular federal decisions get used to win votes on both sides.
ITT: poll denialism about the least popular president in modern history. The rising prevalence of poll denialism by democratic voters is the biggest indication, to me, that were in very serious trouble.
If wishes were fishes, we’d all swim in riches. Just because we are sleepwalking into fascism doesn’t mean denying what’s happening helps. At all. Quite the opposite.
They still include landlines, but no major polling agency in the United States has used landline contacts as the primary source of polling data in at least a decade.
As you yourself note, landlines are wonderful for sampling particular demographics, which are then weighted against local, county, regional, and national demographics (to name only a few of the analytics used).
Do you think polling is just some guy smoking a cigar yelling at a room full of people dialing furiously on rotary phones to old people, and that’s why Trump is polling ahead?
No. He’s winning because majorities of likely voters are going to put a narcissistic fascist in the White House because they’re mad at things, and Biden has continued to lose astonishing numbers of non-white voters.
That should scare you, if you care about the United States falling into fascism. The US is a technology, nuclear weaponry, military, and economic superpower. The world’s economy runs on the USD and the United States has 800+ military bases in over 70 countries. That alone makes it a concern.
I haven’t done extensive research or anything, but it does seem like the gap closes when the survey includes more people. I’m hoping this indicates a strong margin of error in Trump’s favor - though I don’t know why it’s so consistent.
I’m also hopeful that there will be a large amount of “normal” conservatives that would say ‘Trump’ in a poll, but are turned off by him enough to not show up to vote.
They’re not perfect, but they’re not complete bullshit.
I can’t explain it all in a comment, but, like most things, there are good polls and bad polls. Saying polls are bullshit is like saying car mechanics are incompetent because some of them are.
If you read up on polls and their methodology, and read more then headlines, you can start to discern good ones from bad ones.
Most people don’t realize margin of error and how close elections are. There hasn’t been that large of polling errors in the last several elections. 2016 was larger than normal, but still within pretty explainable ranges.
Good polls are worth paying attention to, and proclaiming they are all bullshit is just a flatly bad take. There are a lot of shit polls that are politically motivated to make candidates look good or bad, but there are good pollsters doing good work. But you have to know what to look for. Not all polls are equal.
Feb. 22-23 - Kaplan Strategies - Trump +10
Feb. 20-24 - Emerson College - Trump +2
Feb. 20-24 - Emerson College - Trump +3
(+2 is a head to head, Biden/Trump, +3 is a multi-candidate poll with Kennedy, West, and Stein)
Feb. 22-25 - North Star Opinion Research - 43/43 tie
March 8-12 - Quinnipiac University - Trump +3
March 8-12 - Quinnipiac University - Trump +5
(+3 is a head to head, Biden/Trump, +5 is a multi-candidate poll with Kennedy, West, and Stein)
March 13-18 - SSRS - Trump +6
(multi-candidate poll with Kennedy, West, and Stein)
March 14-18 - Emerson College - 50/50 tie
March 14-18 - Emerson College - Trump +2
(Tie is a head to head, Biden/Trump, +2 is a multi-candidate poll with Kennedy, West, and Stein)
Tracking this over time is important.
Further, if you look at the differences between head to head polling, and polling that includes 3rd party candidates, it shows you how voting 3rd party is voting for Trump.
No because Trumps base loves that he’s a criminal. Bidens base isn’t so crazy about genocide. It’s not really comparable unless you’re fine with losing Michigan.
Why the fuck do we always aim for “slightly better than the Republicans”?
Two party voting. In order to win, you have to get voters that are as close to your opponent as possible, without your base staying home in protest. Having a more objectionable opponent just means you can ignore your own base even more, because they’re not going to stay home when that means the other asshole might win.
you have to get voters that are as close to your opponent as possible
That is one of the dumbest opinions I’ve ever heard, but don’t feel bad, the people running the DNC share it too.
Some of us are just in the “sweet spot” where we’re old enough to remember 08 Obama but young enough the normal mental effects of aging haven’t made us forget yet.
Obama was the furthest from center Dem we’ve ran in decades, and he was flipping red states all over.
What you said just isn’t based in reality, it’s just what neoliberals have been repeating for 30 years over and over and over…
It doesn’t make it true.
Because whether the “moderate” candidate beats the Republican or loses, the neoliberals will always say whatever just happened is proof we need to be more conservative.
All it’s led to is running a candidate that needs over a billion dollars spent to beat donald fucking trump in a presidential election.
My dumb ass dog could beat trump. And he doesnt even have opposable thumbs. And there’s a very good chance Biden can’t beat trump twice.
What I said is what got Clinton, Obama, and Biden elected. Not saying it’s a great thing, it’s just reality. Neither party has the base to win on their own, the GoP is a lot closer to being able to do it due to voter turn out rates. So they either chase the middle, or demonize their opponent to get more of their base off the couch.
In order to win, you have to get voters that are as close to your opponent as possible
That may have been the case in the 90s, but nowadays not many people occupy that space. Nobody wants an almost-Republican when they can get the real deal and if you’re morally bankrupt enough to ALMOST be a Republican, you’re usually willing to take that last step in exchange for a shitload of bribes.
without your base staying home in protest.
That’s just it: Dems arepretending that it’s always going to be 1992.
That Republicans are always going to be legitimate opposition acting in good faith rather than a fascist cult.
That just a little to the left of the GOP is the ideologically perfect Democrat and always will be.
This stubborn insistence on keeping up pretenses and never admitting they’re wrong or trying another way is costing them a shitload more people staying home than they’re gaining independents or wavering Republicans.
It’s why Democrats are only winning by the slimmest of margins and even lost the House at a time when winning by landslides should be easier than ever since the opposition is the most incompetent fascist party in history and the majority of the population is to the left of center. Not just left at where neoliberals pretend that the center is, left of ACTUAL center.
Biden literally ran on being able to work with Republicans in Congress…
Then when everyone got surprised and dems won the presidency, Senate, and House, suddenly Biden said it would be pointless for him to try and change even a democrats vote.
But he still ran again in 2024 despite admitting the entire reason he said he should be president was bullshit
Hmm, sounds like maybe he shouldn’t have bypassed Congress multiple times to sell arms to israel. Or avoided structuring transfers to avoid congressional oversight
I doubt it honestly. People calling for stopping the genocide are on the left, which should see trump getting elected as a worse option in everything (including Palestine) than Biden is
Yes. At the same time, he’s burned a lot of voters by letting it go this long.
People who downvoted ^^ this comment are fucking stupid. If you don’t believe / agree that there’s a genocide happening in Gaza, you’re inhuman or unthinking.
The thing people probably take offense to is the notion that electing Trump to office is gonna make things better for Palestinians and curtailing genocidal Israeli nationalism under Netanyahu.
No. Centrists just don’t want to hear any criticism at all of the genocide they’ve been moving to the right for decades to get, and they’ll pretend anyone who opposes it is a Trumpist.
It’s disgusting that this is the only policy centrists won’t immediately abandon when they encounter pressure.
No, I’m just answering your question of who said it.
Seriously, why’s this your first reaction when you ask for proof/information and then someone provides it? I’m just providing information for what you asked about. No need to make assumptions and go combative.
Isn’t Biden’s continued aid/support still helping Israel “finish the job”? He is the sitting president and refuses to stop…there is no difference in the actions; one shithead candidate is being honest about it. stop this what if talk and look at what is actually still happening. Actions speak louder and reach a wider audience
Even if he did stop it we won’t forget what he’s allowed to happen. Anything at this point is meaningless damage control, like their bullshit ceasefire resolution at the UN.
Yes, though it’s also worth noting that there seems to be a reverse effect of 2016 where Trump was underrepresented in polls from actual votes to now where he seems overrepresented compared to actual results.
I suspect for the same reason in opposite application.
In 2016 it was embarrassing to be pro-Trump, and so a lot may have said “undecided.” Now, particularly in conservative areas or households, it could be outright dangerous not to claim you are for him on a phone poll.
How many households have a fanatical pro-Trumper but other members planning to secretly vote against him who would never say as such on the phone to a pollster?
I definitely think anyone rational should be fighting tooth and nail to prevent the catalyst to the fall of democracy, but the situation may not actually be as dire as it seems and people’s apathy in the face of what seems an unavoidable tragedy is probably misplaced - this is very much avoidable and primary polls were off by double digits for Trump in many places.
It’s not like climate change where we really are fucked. This one is likely still up in the air.
+8 and +10 are outliers, but +5, +6 when it’s more than Trump/Biden is definitely scary.
This is why I keep saying voting 3rd party is voting for Trump. Tie to +2/+3 Trump/Biden suddenly Trump +5/+6 when it’s Trump/Biden/Kennedy/West/Stein.
West hasn’t qualified in any state other than Alaska or Oregon, so he’s not going to be a factor unless sonething changes, but Stein will likely be there. Looks like Kennedy has qualified in Hawaii, Arizona and Georgia.
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