• @TropicalDingdong
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      254 months ago

      I’m making a called shot of a drop into the 40’s for July’s polling.

      He wont’ drop below 25%, ever. That’s his core. They may never support another candidate again.

      However, dropping to high 30’s low 40’s only puts Trump back to par with Biden. Hardly a W, but at lease Biden would be back in the running.

      • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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        154 months ago

        They may never support another candidate again.

        Don’t do that. Don’t give me hope.

        • @TropicalDingdong
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          124 months ago

          I mean it in a “There are still people who think gamestop is going to be a billion dollar stock” manner.

          See: https://lemmy.world/c/gamestopstock

          Cult/ Cargo cult level “They will never support another candidate again” is what I mean. They’ll write him in. They’ll have wild conspiracy theories. Not need to push. It will happen it on its own.

          I would guess its around 25-30% of Republican voters. Its the conspiracy theory mind-set cutting backwards against those that seed it. There is no undoing this.

          • @barsquid
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            54 months ago

            If Donald could please just die and they continue writing in his name for all future votes that would be great. They are the most ignorant and racist people within a party wholly committed to cultivating ignorant and racist voters.

            • @TropicalDingdong
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              24 months ago

              Thats what I’m conjecturing. This is the cohort that thought JFK was going to show up to some event or something a few months ago.

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            34 months ago

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    • nfh
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      114 months ago

      I suspect some people will mental gymnastics themselves into thinking this isn’t a serious crime, and stipulating an abstract ‘serious crime’ yields more extreme results than we’ll see as a result of this verdict.

      But a few percentage point swing in a few key states is enough to ensure a Biden victory, so it may be enough.

      • @[email protected]
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        34 months ago

        The fact of the matter is for a lot of white Americans it’s either support the republican nominee or those scary minorities will take over. To them, a white criminal is preferable to what they see as guliable saps at best or race traitors at worst.

    • @kromem
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      14 months ago

      The end of the article after discussing the failure of the impeachment of Clinton to actually change polls despite a difference in the hypothetical poll question before it occurred:

      “It’s possible for people to say a conviction would change their minds, but when/if [a conviction] happens, it’s possible (even likely) that it won’t matter at all."