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Fork of Unknown Origins
Oct 21, 2005
Gotta Herd On?
It boggles my mind that 29% of democrats are tuned out enough that they’re not sure enough about this DeSantis fellow to say they view him unfavorably.

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Fork of Unknown Origins
Oct 21, 2005
Gotta Herd On?

AsInHowe posted:

And you know why they really hate Disney, deep down?

Competition on the fairy tale front?

I first remember them hating on them in the 90s when they started allowing same sex partners to get health benefits. Imagine being that angry someone got insurance.

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Oct 21, 2005
Gotta Herd On?

Space Fish posted:

God bless 2016 for inoculating me against believing election surveys/forecasts ever again. Anything can happen, chaos reigns.

It was really just a lesson that something with a 33% chance of happening actually does happen one in three times.

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Oct 21, 2005
Gotta Herd On?

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

As long as Trump is still in the race, running your campaign message as "Trump is great, Trump won the election in 2016 and 2020, he is being railroaded, even though I definitely think he won in 2016 and 2020 I also think he might be unelectable and you should vote for me because I am almost as great as Trump" is going to be a losing strategy.

DeSantis also doesn't really have a compelling reason to be the race or have a distinctive platform. If you asked someone to sum up DeSantis' campaign message in less than 5 words, could anyone do it? Could you get 80 out of 100 people to give you the same answer when you asked them?

Say what you will about them personally or how they ran their campaigns, but Trump, Obama, Bernie Sanders, George W. Bush, Howard Dean, and John McCain all had very clear messages and narratives around why they were running to be President.

DeSantis is just "I'm almost as good as Trump and people might not remember me in 6 years, so I gotta do this now."

To be fair as long as Trump is in the race the only message that is going to win the GOP nomination is “I am Donald Trump.” He more or less has the incumbency advantage in a unique way.

If we want to be… charitable I guess? it’s possible that a large part of him pushing the “stolen election” narrative was as much to do about maintaining that advantage as it was actually trying to reverse anything. I’m not sure I would go that far, but it’s an interesting thought.

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