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U.S. Chat: Have you and your friends/relatives decided how they'll vote? Would different candidates matter? (self.politics)

submitted 4 months ago by memfree to c/politics

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I'm trying to figure out if anyone would change their vote if there were different candidates, and what sorts of people fall into which categories: Always a D or R, depends on the situation/person (let us know what matters), sitting this one out, used to sit out but voting this time, or other (please explain). More than just the people here, I'm curious about any other people who you know vote in particular ways.

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[–] millie 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure everybody I know is voting for Biden even though like half of them at least don't approve of his policies. Specifically, every leftist I talk to is against his continuing to give arms to Israel, but recognizes that Trump would make things much, much worse.

I think he's going to win by a pretty wide margin. Political polling is fundamentally flawed and self-biasing other than at exit polls. The media is trying to make Biden look like a confused old man, but he's got enough on the ball to listen to the people he's put in charge and to get a good read on the situation. He doesn't have to micromanage everything, he needs to know how to delegate, which he clearly does.

That's part of the problem with the current ways of looking at politicians in the US, especially the office of the president. We look at this one figure head and just see like, their personality. As if they're going to wake up in the morning and just wing it based on their gut instinct. I'm sure Trump does that, but most presidents have advisors that they actually listen to and that actually have qualifications.

Biden is a decent president because his VP and his cabinet are decent. He could literally die in office and we'd probably have nearly the same policies.

[–] memfree 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do the people you mention always vote? As a Yellow Dog Democrat who never misses an election, myself, I don't really influence the outcome. I'm just one of the predetermined Ds. The only person I know who is voting R -- an ex-boss firmly in the Trump camp -- is an equally reliable R, so we kind of cancel each other out.

[–] millie 5 points 4 months ago

Probably not. But I also live in Massachusetts, which hasn't voted Republican since Ronald Reagan.

I typically vote in every election. I think I might have missed a mid-term or two in the past couple decades. Maybe more than that, but I haven't missed a presidential election and I've always voted Democrat.

If we had ranked choice I'd probably be more into some leftist third-party, but it is what it is.