With just five days to go until Election Day, Democrats appear to have a significant advantage over Republicans when it comes to voter enthusiasm.

According to new polling from Gallup, 77% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters say they’re more enthusiastic about voting than usual, versus 67% of Republicans and GOP-leaning voters who say the same.

That’s a slightly higher level of enthusiasmfor Democrats than they had just before the 2008 election, when that same poll found that 76% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters were more enthusiastic than usual about voting. Barack Obama would go on to win that year in an Electoral College landslide.

  • @Boddhisatva
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    Doesn’t matter. Don’t let them make you complacent. Go vote!

    • @fluxion
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      Even if you think he’ll lose, the House (unless the Dems take it) will very likely try to block certification, force a per-state count instead of a per-delegate count, and punt it it to Supreme Court.

      So give as little leeway as possible. The more he loses by the harder his next little coup attempt will be

      • @FlowVoid
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        When the votes are counted, the presiding officer will be VP Kamala Harris, not the House Speaker.

        And the only way to block a state’s certification is if both the House and Senate agree. Otherwise they have to accept the results certified by the governor.

      • @Eatspancakes84
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        The house and the president will almost certainly swing the same way. This is nothing to worry about.

  • @[email protected]
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    If only enthusiasm countered the unjustness of voter suppression and the electoral college.

    • @[email protected]
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      Exactly. I have no doubt Harris will win the popular vote. Unfortunately that’s not necessarily good enough to win. And even if she wins, Trump supporters are absolutely not interested in a civilized society.

      • @[email protected]
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        It’s becoming more of a worry in my mind that within my remaining lifetime I will see an uncivilized society in America. So far the majority of people seem to at least scoff at the Jan. 6 actions, and no true movement of insurrection (meaning they are willing to wage war and not back down when confronted with armed resistance, not that Jan. 6 wasn’t treason) has seized the country.

        • @eran_morad
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          It’s becoming more of a worry in my mind that within my remaining lifetime I will see an uncivilized society in America.

          bro. they mowed down a bunch of 7-year olds at school back in 2012 or whenever the fuck it was (forgive me, these shootings are so common it’s hard to remember when sandy hook happened).

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            I remember Sandy Hook. I was working in a primary school at the time and helped harden in the pointless ways we actually could. And, like, I get that, but it isn’t the whole society. We haven’t gotten to the point where rule of law actually disintegrates. As bad as that is, I fear for true war from one side against the other(s), where we will see everyone pull out weapons and hold them to the heads of the other side in order to get their way, blast away at those they see as other… not just use laws to slowly strangle the ideas of self-autonomy and democracy.

  • @[email protected]
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    The Democrats have to win by enough of a margin that it can’t be taken away from them by a rush of spurious lawsuits aided by partisan judges. If they’ve won a state but invalidating a few batches of votes would undo that, they haven’t actually won it.

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      Republicans dont even need to win states they lost just to have their results rejected by Congress and the election having no one get to 270. In that case the house votes by state which Republicans win easily.

      • @Dkarma
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        The new Congress votes tho…we don’t know the makeup of it yet.

  • 2ugly2live
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    I just looked at the current polls and it is close. Like, I cannot believe that this many people have watched all of this shit and are still voting for him.

    Please go out and vote.

    • @Fredselfish
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      This was the line for early voting in a conversation county. Fuck polls they only call landlines and only fucking boomers have those.

      Bet the polls would not be close if they spoke to younger people. No matter vote like it could potentially be your last. Because if Trump wins or cheats and steals this election it will be.

      Please believe them when he says he will be a fucking dictator.

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        Even if they called younger people doubt itd do too much. My friends and myself dont answer unknown numbers.

    • Nougat
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      Less enthusiastic voters don’t cast votes.

  • @eran_morad
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    820 days ago

    if harris wins this, i want to see her put her fucking heel on the throats of all the fascist traitor swine.

  • @gatorgato
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    LETS FUCKING GOOOOOO!!! Shit yes.

  • @[email protected]
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    In my household we have already cast 3 votes for sanity. We can only hope that others are quietly doing the same.

  • @taiyang
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    321 days ago

    I literally just ignored a poll called (phone even IDd them as Survey) so … Let’s try not to read too much into polls. Instead, vote.

  • @TropicalDingdong
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    221 days ago

    The polling/ exit results is so confused in this past week.

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    Too bad enthusiasm doesn’t pay the bills. We dont need enthusiasm, we need policy that benefits the working class, instead we get jingoistic platitudes

    • @FlowVoid
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      enthusiasm doesn’t pay the bills

      We don’t need your platitudes either