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Are you at all worried that enough protest votes may split the vote enough for Trump to get the electoral he needs to take the White House? CT is historically blue when it comes to the electoral vote, but I'm curious about your reasoning.
For the record I agree with you that Biden needs to step it up, and start pressuring Netanyahu in ways that will actually produce results.
Comment by sporks_and_forks at 28/02/2024 at 00:55 UTC
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am i worried CT is going to buck like 3 decades of trend and go red? no, not in the slightest tbh. especially not after things like J6, his many legal issues percolating, his day-to-day reminders of who he is, and so on. if i had any such inkling i might not be as fervent in my choice to vote 3rd party/independent this cycle.
nationally, like in swing states? sure, it's 100% a possibility we repeat 2016. yet the thing is that's on Biden and Dems to address. you can't really blame the voters if you fail to win them over, cuz ya ain't entitled to votes dig? that's on them to handle. i honestly can't say i've seen much "olive branches" or outreach for folks like myself. the "but Trump" fear/shame only goes so far, yet it seems to be all they've got. from the party right down to their partisan supporters on social media, surrogates, etc. instead we're called idiots, told to fall in line, preemptively blamed for a loss, taken for fools, etc. doesn't much make me want to VBNMW again.
frankly i'm probably an outlier.. i don't believe Dems believe their own fearmongering w.r.t Trump, for if they did they'd be behaving quite differently.