It’s definitely an issue that’s not going away. The DNC really needs to figure it out and stop pretending that it doesn’t matter to voters.
It’s definitely an issue that’s not going away. The DNC really needs to figure it out and stop pretending that it doesn’t matter to voters.
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Running a primary against a sitting president is a fast road to losing the election.
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That’s never been the way it has worked. The sitting president for either party is the candidate unless they choose otherwise. See Johnson in '68.
The last time a sitting President had a serious primary challenger, Carter in 1980, they lost in a landslide.
The reasoning is simple:
If a sitting President doesn’t have the confidence of the party, they don’t have the confidence of the voters either.
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No, the polling is only asking and reporting half the question:
“Do you think Biden is too old to be President?”
Yes, anyone with half a brain should think that.
“Will you vote for him anyway?”
If the alternative is Trump? Yes.
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It largely depends on the poll, but the reporting is often faulty as well.
The perceived reliability of a poll is only based on who it shows winning. I’ve seen several posts on here and reddit claiming that polls were unreliable when they were showing Trump still beating Biden. On the occasional poll that gets posted showing Biden now beating Trump, all of a sudden polling is reliable and trustworthy