Pennsylvania — a state that both sides consider crucial to win — remains the weak spot in the "blue wall" for Harris.
    • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
      7·
      3 months ago

      America has a cultural sickness. 2016 revealed that well enough for anyone who was still in doubt about it. And it’s not drag queens.

    • stoly@lemmy.world
      13·
      3 months ago

      One thing to have to know about conservatives is that they value fairness over everything else. That thought gets twisted to be “if I had to suffer then everyone else should have to suffer too.” They don’t vote Trump because they like his policies. They vote because they think he’ll cause others to suffer.

  • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    Total ad spend so far by both parties comes to $16.61 per person in the state. DAMN.

    • suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      3 months ago

      So I do run an adblocker for most of the web on most of my devices, but the TV for example still plays youtube ads and I would say that maybe 1 out of every 3 or 4 ads is not a political ad. Well over half of the ones that are political are for Trump. I’ve also received at least one mailer every day this week. Usually 2-3 (one for each of my wife and I). All of the mailers are pro Trump. Yes, I let the TV play trash politics adjacent videos on mute trying to waste as much of their money as possible.

      • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Wow. That’s fascinating, thanks for the details. Interesting that you’re mostly seeing pro-Trump stuff as from the article the dems are outspending the Trump campaign.

        • suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          I live in small blue town in very red county, and I’m probably not being distinguished from the surrounding area. A lot of it is in the ‘motivating you to show up’ category. At least it would be if I actually believed Bob Casey was holding down Pennsylvanians while Harris injected them with fentanyl smuggled over the border in a sack of illegal aliens.

    • stoly@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Philadelphia is just fine. Maybe Pittsburgh to an extent. It’s everything else that sucks.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    What’s more, this person said there aren’t regrets over Biden leaving the race. This person said they could’ve been convinced before the switch at the top of the ticket that Biden was better positioned to win Pennsylvania but since seeing the explosion of Democratic enthusiasm they said: “I think we’d all agree it has been a net positive.”

    It’s concerning that so many people still don’t understand why voters didn’t want Biden, or even that voters didn’t want Biden.

    It’s not just enough to vote D every four years, the only political party large enough to fight facisism, is completely out of touch with it’s voters…

    So like…

    Maybe we should replace them with people who know what the fuck they’re doing?

    Maybe start putting some sociologists in charge rather than who has the best connection to donors and ignoring literally everything else?

      • gravitas_deficiencyEnglish
        7·
        3 months ago

        And private funding (and specifically, undisclosed funding) of any candidate should be extremely illegal. But the Supreme Court (and the ACLU, incredibly) is behind Citizens United, so that’s not changing for the foreseeable future.

        • FlowVoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          3 months ago

          The ACLU is behind it because there are unintended consequences to getting rid of it.

          For example, Florida could pass a law that bans pro-choice advertising from women’s rights groups while still allowing ads from anti-abortion groups.

          The only reason they can’t do that today is that pro-choice organizations have First Amendment rights.

          There is a misconception that without CU corporations wouldn’t influence elections. But actually without it, politicians could choose which corporations are, or are not, allowed to influence elections.

    • wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io
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      3 months ago

      They used to say that about Ohio. …before that Florida …before that Iowa …before that California ….way before that, Pennsylvania

      Queue that XKCD.

      Soon it’s going to be Georgia or Arizona And then Texas

      I for one, can’t wait for the chili cook offs, and when all the candidates start wearing cowboy hats. The y’all’s will truly have it!