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In reply to the discussion: 46/46% tie between Biden & Trump is not about age. Democrats better wake up to the real cause. [View all]Fiendish Thingy
(18,909 posts)31. Faulty premise, faulty logic
Faulty premise: accepting as fact that national polls in September 2023 have any predictive value for swing states in November 2024.
Faulty logic: using the faulty premise above, the author presumes the reason Trump and Biden are supposedly tied (and will be tied in November 2024) is because the Democratic establishment doesnt listen to voters in Republican strongholds, where Biden is unlikely to win in 2024.
Logical logic: rather than waste resources on trying to persuade a small number of economically anxious white boomers who hang out in swing state diners to abandon Trump and vote for Biden, instead Dems should focus on the largest untapped pool of reliable, predictable Democratic voters in the country: voters between 18-29. Young voters voters choose Dem candidates more than twice as often as they choose republican ones, something like 67% to 30%, IIRC. Their turnout numbers continue to increase, and without their votes in 2020, Biden would not have won his razor thin victories in GA, AZ, and WI.
It is my understand the DNC and the Biden campaign are launching a voter registration effort this month targeting young voters in certain critical regions.
Lets hope that kind of logical logic prevails.
Faulty logic: using the faulty premise above, the author presumes the reason Trump and Biden are supposedly tied (and will be tied in November 2024) is because the Democratic establishment doesnt listen to voters in Republican strongholds, where Biden is unlikely to win in 2024.
Logical logic: rather than waste resources on trying to persuade a small number of economically anxious white boomers who hang out in swing state diners to abandon Trump and vote for Biden, instead Dems should focus on the largest untapped pool of reliable, predictable Democratic voters in the country: voters between 18-29. Young voters voters choose Dem candidates more than twice as often as they choose republican ones, something like 67% to 30%, IIRC. Their turnout numbers continue to increase, and without their votes in 2020, Biden would not have won his razor thin victories in GA, AZ, and WI.
It is my understand the DNC and the Biden campaign are launching a voter registration effort this month targeting young voters in certain critical regions.
Lets hope that kind of logical logic prevails.
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46/46% tie between Biden & Trump is not about age. Democrats better wake up to the real cause. [View all]
samsingh
Sep 2023
OP
Popular vote doesn't count, rightely or wrongly. Point is, we need more than 55%.
Silent Type
Sep 2023
#15
Roe v. Wade actually got overturned as opposed to it just being a possiblility
Blues Heron
Sep 2023
#35
If TFG is the GOP nominee, President Biden's age will not be a big issue
LetMyPeopleVote
Sep 2023
#3
Oh... look who wrote it. That tells me all I need to know. It can be safely ignored!!
Oopsie Daisy
Sep 2023
#9