• Pratai@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Approval rating has nothing to do with polling. I can’t stand Biden; but I’d support him over traitor to America.

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      1 year ago

      I rather like Biden. Compared to every president for the last 40 years, I think he’s going it less for the ego and more to serve the country.

      But he’s too damn old.

      Either way, the choice between “too damn old” and “too damn old self-serving, grifting traitor to the country” is pretty easy.

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      1 year ago

      And that’s the sentiment of millions of Americans.

      And regardless of how polls try to adjust to compensate and show results among the population, the fact of the matter is that they can only poll a subset demographic of “poll respondents”, which means “people eager to share their political views to anyone who will listen”.

      And these days, your average trump voter is orders of magnitude more likely to want to be a loudmouth to anyone who’ll listen…compared to millions of Biden voters who aren’t even Biden supporters.

      Of all these people wailing and gnashing teeth over these polls, I wonder how many of them have paid close attention to polls and polling over the last decade. Because most of them, it seems like they only discovered this shit over the past 4 years if that. Some sound like they only learned what a poll was this morning.