I mean yeah, if Biden is the nominee Trump has zero chance in Pennsylvania. He will still win at least 40% of the vote which accounts for millions of people.
This is basically the underlying logic for Trump wanting to commute Blago's sentence too: every politician is guilty of this, so why single him out for punishment? Instead of, you know, just punishing the corruption.
Right. I don't think every single farmer hurting from the trade war will stick with Trump next year, but many or most will, which is why I personally bank flipping some of these states less on betrayed farmers voting against Trump and more on suburban women disgusted by Trump and the GOP.
2022 – When Suburban voters decide they're ok with racism since GOP politicians say they can improve the economy.
Bill O'Reilly hasn't entirely gone away, he's just retreated to right-wing radio.
Bill O'Reilly was the first lesson that deplatforming works that I never realized. He's been relegated to only popping up on twitter from time to time, usually getting dunked on.
Reminder of where the Democrats were at before Bernie came along
Sanders and Warren who combine for a large percentage of the Democratic electorate and who are beating Trump in early General Polls support single-payer.
A significant portion of their supporters want a public option and yet simultaneously think Bernie and Warren hold the answer to that. There could be a few reasons why that is, but the point is that the line isn't linear.
Most of the right wing TV nuts also seem to have radio shows. Sadly conservative talk radio isn't as niche as it sounds.
Reminder of where the Democrats were at before Bernie came along
I do to. I enjoy following the updates of suits and so I share on here.
I can't say AM style radio worries me much these days. I'm not saying it's not insidious or even ineffective but let's not lose sight of the fact that virtually no one listens to the radio anymore. Also he's on like 100 stations. He's hardly flooding the airwaves with his dreck
Lmao, just because people our general age don't listen to radio (though I still do in the car, but music only- any talk and I change the station) doesn't mean it's dead. Do you know who still listens to the radio? Boomers.
I'm not disputing that people listen to the radio. It still pulls in huge numbers (although I'm curious how much of that is satellite vs AM/FM) but I find it unlikely it's going to convince the unconvinced in numbers that matter. I'm talking about younger voters here. Anyone that's tuning in to O'Reilly isn't in need of convincing (ie Boomers)
Lol. Basically I'm trying to say Bill is still fucking irrelevant :)
I would not read the combined primary support for Bernie and Warren as a commensurate level of support for single-payer. More people support Bernie and Warren for president than support the elimination of private health insurance, which they have both called for. Which tells me that some not-insignificant chunk of voters either support Bernie and Warren in spite of Medicare for All, or don't really know what they want healthcare-wise and aren't quite squaring that circle.
