MicroWaveDec 17

AOC leads JD Vance for first time in 2028 election matchup: poll

https://lemmy.world/post/40326709

AOC leads JD Vance for first time in 2028 election matchup: poll - Lemmy.World

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez holds a slight lead over Vice President JD Vance in a hypothetical 2028 presidential matchup, according to a new poll. The New York Democratic congresswoman, known as AOC, edges the likely Republican nominee 51% to 49%, in The Argument/Verasight survey released on Tuesday. However, the result was within the poll’s 2.7 percentage point margin of error, making the two candidates statistically tied. The poll asked voters who they would vote for if the election was between the two of them.

Show threadskozziiDec 17

I’m all for a women president eventually, but perhaps the elections during an attempted fascist take over isn’t the time.

Some men will simply not vote for a woman, it’s sad, but it’s reality. If a woman is on the ballot the democrats will lose again.

The time will come, just not yet with stakes this high. I would love to see AOC as the first female president.

Show threadWoodScientistDec 17

Attitudes like yours are why Democrats lose elections. We talk ourselves out of our best candidates. We try to compromise with Republicans right out the gate, and try to select the more moderate ‘electable’ candidate.

Your line of thinking got us Kerry, Clinton, and Biden.

Trying to select a candidate based on “electability” is bullshit, because you just end up selecting for the most uninspiring centrist who can’t get people to the polls.

Or in short, you have no damn idea what electability means.

Show threadjayboneDec 17

This argument is frequently made on Lemmy. I’d like it to be true. But I just don’t know.

Makes sense in places like California or New York. But I don’t know about places in the Midwest e.g.

Show threadUnderpantsWeevil

Makes sense in places like California or New York.

California and New York are absolutely fountaining with conservative voters. These states only go blue because conservatives like Diane Feinstein and Gavin Newsom have found it easier to voice conservative policies from a liberal party than to voice liberal policies from a conservative one.

On the flip side, Bush Jr won Texas against Anne Richards by running to her Left and pandering to Hispanics and black voters while she pounded the old Dixiecrat drum on crime and drugs. Shortly thereafter, long time Democrat Rick Perry changed parties, because he decided it was easier to get oil money as a liberal Republican than a conservative Democrat.

Politics in this country is way more complex than people like to give it credit. So much is simply driven by the party with the most money or the most gerrymandered districts. What’s winnable can boil down to whether or not your brother is the governor, not your race or your gender or even your voting record.

Dec 17 at 7:56pmWeb
Show threadZinkDec 18

That complexity sure sounds like corruption!

But realistically, corruption does add to the complexity, lol.

Show threadJcbAzPxDec 18
Meanwhile a democratic socialist won the mayorship of New York City.
Show threadUnderpantsWeevilDec 18
Against a former Dem governor who was backed by a Republican president no less