Potential candidates who received support in the low single digits included Mark Cuban, Josh Shapiro, Cory Booker, and Gretchen Whitmer.
  • jpreston2005@lemmy.world
    57·
    11 days ago

    Are you fucking kidding me.

    AOC and Bernie over here amassing entire legions of working class people and they’re over here bashing themselves in the nuts. doing a straw poll with corporate doners pretending like it means fucking ANYTHING.

    GODAMNIT THESE FUCKING DEMOCRATS ARE FUCKING MORONS.

  • aseriesoftubes@lemmy.world
    572·
    11 days ago

    We still have three years to go before the next election, assuming one actually happens.

    At this stage in the game, the only thing that these types of polls are going to reveal is who has the most name recognition.

    In other words, everyone calm down.

    • Omega@lemmy.world
      10·
      11 days ago

      Just like the polls that show McDonald’s, Taco Bell, or Chic fil a as America’s favorite restaurant in X state. It doesn’t take too many idiots to outweigh everyone else.

    • CarnivorousCouch@lemmy.world
      102·
      11 days ago

      Thank you! Any time this kind of polling shows up on Lemmy, users seem to think this is the Plan of the Democratic Leadership Cabal, rather than an incredibly premature name recognition test.

      People want to vote for people they have favorable impressions of who they also think others will vote for. Without other frontrunners, who emerge over time, it’s not surprising that polled Democrats would recognize and still support the candidate that 75 million people voted for five months ago.

      If you want other candidates (I do), identify them and figure out how to help them build their profile now.

      • Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world
        5·
        11 days ago

        It’s crazy how fast incredibly premature polling turns into unstoppable freight train that cannot be interrupted by anything but a certified act of God signed and dated with appropriate postage to oh shit oh God what’s happening someone should have planned something.

  • Skyrmir@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    11 days ago

    Honestly I don’t think she should run in 28. Nothing against Kamala, but we really don’t need a moderate centrist insider to bring us back from the damage Trump is doing. The nation would be far better off having a real debate with Pete, Tim, and Alexandria up on stage. Kamala would have too much power over the process, and would use every bit of it. Which of course means that’s exactly what’s going to happen, probably handing us a narrow loss to fucking Don Jr. or some other moron puppet.