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this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2024
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These people like to cosplay as swing voters.
Real swing voters might have voted Trump in 2016 and Biden in 2020.
But anyone who voted for Trump twice and is seriously entertaining a third vote for Trump after Jan. 6, Dobbs and his felonies is not a swing voter.
Swing voters will sway democratic this election.
The real question is simply how hard each base turns up.
and if you keep repeating this mantra to yourself maybe it will become true
There is one odd vibe shift I am noticing, which is people who say the r-slur and use "gay" in a derogatory manner backing Dems this cycle
the dem base is shedding all of the progressive posturing they've been doing for the past decade just like they tossed "me too" aside once there was a credible accusation against biden
soon the differences between the parties won't even be aesthetic beyond the color palette of the ties and banners