• @thoro@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    It’s incredible people are down voting you because they don’t like this thought. Y’all know how America is right? If this is all real, his approval numbers likely grow and his base gets fired up. Reagan got a bump back in the day.

    You don’t have to like that, but it’s not misinformation to speculate on how this plays out. These images will be used for the rest of this race.

    • AFK BRB Chocolate
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      134 months ago

      No, it’s just a bullshit argument in this election. The electorate is viscerally polarized, and very few people are in the fence about who to vote for - maybe some undecided about whether they’ll vote at all. I can’t imagine there are many people who are going to switch from Biden to Trump because of this, or who will even go from undecided to Trump. It makes no sense.

      On the other hand, Trump is going to fundraise the crap out of that picture, and it will squeeze lots more money out of his base.

      • @ramirezmike@programming.dev
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        44 months ago

        the argument isn’t that people will switch sides, it’s that more right-leaning people will vote who would have otherwise just skipped

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        4 months ago

        Do you remember 9/11? The war in Iraq? Are you aware of what happened with the assassination attempt against Reagan? Do you remember how those affected the approval ratings of politicians?

        You don’t even necessarily have to flip people. You just have to get them to come out and mobilize.

        It’s not a sure thing, but a lot of y’all are coming across as coping. Political violence has often united this country around figures and policies.

        Isn’t Biden already polling poorly?

        • AFK BRB Chocolate
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          34 months ago

          I do remember those times, but we weren’t nearly as polarized then, and the assassination attempt made Reagan more sympathetic and somewhat more heroic. I didn’t think this will do that for Trump.