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There are the only mentions of Gaza:

Voters think Biden is too liberal. The Biden administration has worried about shoring up its left flank, particularly since the war in Gaza. But the Times-Siena poll found that while Biden is losing only 2 percent of his “very liberal” voters from 2020 to Trump, he is losing 16 percent of his supporters who described themselves as moderate and conservative.

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In the Times-Siena poll, 21 percent of voters say the economy will drive their vote, while 7 percent say inflation is their top issue. By contrast, immigration is the top issue for 12 percent of voters, abortion is the top issue for 11 percent, the war between Israelis and Palestinians is the top issue for 2 percent and crime is the top issue for fewer than 1 percent.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago

Biden is losing only 2 percent of his “very liberal” voters from 2020 to Trump

Because he's losing his "very liberal" voters to leftism, you nerd.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago

Biden is losing because Biden is a loser.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

this is the kind of self-debasement it takes to ride a national media meal ticket.

when Ezra Klein is mentioned I always think of the obsequious interview he did with Obama in 2017. nobody is in the tank harder than this revolting little worm.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

He supported the Iraq War, which should always be mentioned when discussing his ideas, which are themselves reheated MSNBC nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

His shtick when he first got started was as the good boy who cared about policy and not just the horse race. He was auditioning to be the guy who'd relay excuses like "but the parliamentarian" or to claim that a new jerkoff regulatory tweak was actually sweeping change, and he's been duly rewarded ever since.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Still very funny that he staked out the first (only?) "Biden can and should be replaced" take from a high profile/mainstream lib pundit, only for Biden, days later, to hold court at the State of the Union, and whip everyone in line.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

That speech was just too damned zesty, apparently.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lets add one more - Kamala isn't funny or cool and is terrible at politics, and a vote for Biden is a vote for Harris.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

"It was a debate!" maniacal laughter

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But I thought a vote for Harris isn't a vote for Biden, and is therefore a vote for Trump?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"If we appeal to moderates and conservatives we have an excuse not to change anything, jack"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Liberals are gonna look at themselves in the mirror and say "We have to be prepared to get more racist"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Liberals sitting in the Dr Strangelove war room debating how many and which minority groups they can afford to lose in order to "win."

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

was hoping for a Cracked style ordinal list kitty-birthday-sad

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

As an aside, I don’t like those “top issue” polls because often what a voter’s number two or three concern speaks to the nature of their first concern, and vice versa. A voter having immigration as their top issue with the economy as second, means something much different than immigration as top issue with crime second.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

help me do the math here, what's 2 percent of 100000 versus 16 percent of 10

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Confession time: this guy bodying Sam Harris on his show is what pulled me out of the Intellectual Dark Web and got me moving toward the left. How embarrassing.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Care-Comrade we all start somewhere, comrade

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Am I so out of touch?

joever

No, it's the children, poors, minorities, students, media, polls, Palestinians, LGBTQ+ people and environmentalists who are wrong

biden-point

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Palestine the most important issue for 2% of voters, but isn't this the most important election of our lives? Shouldn't you be fighting for every god damn point you can find so it's not so embarrassingly close as last time? 11% for abortion who are just having to eat "I'm sure we'll do something about it if I win again, Jack" with a grin? Unserious people.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you do that hacker shit that lets you deal with the paywall?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can also just turn javascript off. Most paywalls are made by thinking people so this doesn't work, but it still works for NYT's paywall (which they spent $10 million on).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

lol yeah true