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[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Those semi-con swing voters are deciding this election though. Nobody else is "on the fence" right now.

Jesus christ, we saw two assassination attempts on Trump and it didn't change polls. While polls are trash and not to be trusted, they still would have changed if there was some large amount of moderate undecided voters.

And lets not forget H. Clinton won the popular vote by millions of votes. Yes, the Dems are addicting to losing and make the worst decisions in order to appeal to the most useless people, but they're also playing against a stacked deck here.

[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

I broke this down in another comment, but there's really no evidence that this moderate strategy will work. Democrats win when their base turns out, and they lose when their base isn't motivated. Watching Harris campaign with Liz Cheney doesn't motivate the base. They may pick up some moderate voters in PA (though, again, it didn't work in 2016, so there's no reason to think it will work now), but it's not going to matter if she loses Michigan because of a hard-right position on Israel.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

but they’re also playing against a stacked deck here.

that they're helping perpetuate.