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cause / effect
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I would argue that the poll is slightly misleading https://warpcast.com/eirrann.eth/0x9b96079
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1. How could you have an opinion about the speech if you didn't watch it? 2. 26% independents in the sample
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1. When it's absolutely necessary to learn what he says, I read objective summaries so I don't have to listen to him directly. I don't think he's a moral or decent person who has the best interests of America in mind, and much of what he says seems designed to inflame rather than ease tensions, so I try not to listen to him talk. 2. Plenty of people across the political spectrum are willing to hear him speak. I’m just not one of them.
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Right, but you can't run a good survey of what did you think of the speech if you didn't actually listen to the speech
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Not really - but that doesn't make it any less flawed as a gauge of the extent to which Americans support what he said in that speech, which seems to be how the poll is being portrayed, which is the basic point I'm hitting at (also, there's a reason that I cast it in /hottakes)
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ok, I guess my original point is you're seeing democratic leadership -- which does their own private polling -- react to public perception of the speech -- which was more positive than the election results
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I think Democratic leadership is broadly a failure, so I'm not surprised to see them floundering while trying to stay on top of public opinion
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then why do people keep voting for them?
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because the single most successful thing the two parties have done to maintain their death grip on US politics is to convince people with views that don't align with either of the extremes that anything but a vote for their extreme is a vote for the other extreme
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> maintain their death grip on US politics Not true for the GOP since 2016. They lost control to an outsider
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What's left of that Republican establishment pivoted on time into a wholesale embrace of the outsider to maintain their party's ~50% of the death grip The Democrats have yet to pivot as successfully What is the percentage of the electorate that doesn't even vote, because they're fed up with the extreme partisanship? How large would their voting block be if a party that didn't pander to either extreme were to court them? I have left-aligned friends who think centrism is a sin The refusal to compromise is what's wrong with this country, ping-ponging is every few years from one side of a bad choice to the other on increasingly slim margins I have no answers, only a longing need for a better choice
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