@staidwinnow @atrupar The reason to not freak out over the polls right now isn't that it's just poll, it's that polls this far out just aren't predictive. You can find polls where Mondale was beating Reagan a year out. We know how that went. And that's FAR from the only example.
The country is not really center-right. It's really basically an even split. The GOP has outsize power due to geographic effects and gerrymandering.
Like in the Rocketeer:
Eddie Valentine: "It matters to me. I may not make an honest buck, but I'm 100% American. I don't work for no two-bit Nazi.”
This line from The New York Times this morning kind of blew my mind:
"The game industry now accounts for significant chunks of the economy. It is larger than music, U.S. book publishing and North American sports COMBINED. Microsoft’s game division and Activision Blizzard *each* make more money annually than all U.S. movie theaters."
(Emphasis mine)
@Silversalty @marcelias The Bud Light boycott seems to me to be almost the only conservative success. Evangelicals have been "boycotting" Disney for what, three decades? It's hardly the only thing they have called for people to cancel in recent years as well.
I think the Bud light thing worked (I mean, we'll see if its still a thing a year later) because it's easy. There's only one Disney, only one Target, etc etc. But light beer? Loads of 'em.
Kevin Rothrock
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