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 threadWoodScientistDec 17
“We’ve never tried the inspiring candidate, but without evidence, I must insist that they’re unelectable.”
Show threadripcord

I mean, we did run the inspiring candidate. Obama. It was a huge success.

Did he turn out to be everything that everyone hoped and dreamed? No. But he energized the hell out of the base and at least the best president of the past few decades.

Dec 17 at 11:44pmWeb
Show threadWoodScientistDec 17
Exactly. And people were also saying then that we needed to go with the more electable candidate with more experience. That was the exact argument Hillary supporters made during the 2008 primary.