• @Maggoty
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    21 month ago

    To be honest, this is why they leak the names early in every campaign. They’re running internal polling on them, doing focus groups, and waiting to see if any skeletons toss open a closet door. If there was a red flag in that polling they’d pull him out of consideration.

    There’s also the art of political theater to consider. Say they did flag Shapiro for exactly the thing you’re worried about. They might bring him along to stuff like the meet and greet just to make people in Pennsylvania feel more included.

    All this is to say they have a ton more data on this than we do. What little we have shows Kelly and Shapiro as the most well known and liked of the names that were put forward. I have a bit more faith that they’re getting good data since they flushed the Biden group out of the campaign. And her campaign is noticeably better run.

    • @pyre
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      1 month ago

      i hope so. for me as always it shouldn’t matter who it is. you’re literally voting against a fascist who proudly announced he wanted to be a dictator, and whose entourage has publicly announced a step by step plan to completely dismantle what little is left of American democracy. the VP could literally be a trashcan and i wouldn’t think republicans should be elected.

        • @pyre
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          31 month ago

          it’s this kind of anti trashcan political climate that led you down the Brexit path to begin with… too bad you didn’t learn from it.

      • @Maggoty
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        Haha, can we get Cookie Monster as a midterm reveal?

        • @pyre
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          21 month ago

          that might unironically guarantee the election