This is part of what has me frustrated with the current Democratic Party. Trumps legacy will be transitioning the Republican Party from a party viewed as out of touch elitists to the party of working class people. I used to love the fact that Democrats were for the “every man” and supported those who were focused on trades and less educated. The frustration hit a high for me during the college loan forgiveness thing. While not really opposed to it, that extremely expensive policy didn’t help the every man. They don’t really go to college and there’s nothing wrong with that.
All fair but that’s not why the map reads this way. The map reads this way because they aggregate polls.
I was kinda kidding...
The map reads that way because they aggregate so stupidly that they cannot meaningfully be described as attempting to discern any truth.
Yes, but they allow red wave polls to skew their aggregation. And that's very likely to be related to the fact they're heavily funded by conservative donors.
Which aggregator has compiled correctly according to you?
I understand the perception issue, but Dems are still the ones pushing for policies that benefit the "everyman" and Republicans are still the ones whose policies disproportionately benefit the "upper classes." The shift in voter allegiance has me frustrated too, but it's not because Trump or Republicans are actually doing anything to benefit the working class. They've won working-class voters over with culture war BS, not by actually doing anything to help those people. Unless you count horrible policy ideas that will likely never be implemented like "no taxes on tips!" that Trump cynically throws out.
It’s become really impressive how you have become someone who can be counted upon to have the absolute dumbest takes on every topic. You think that a billionaire who inherited a multi-hundred-million dollar fortune from his father, squandered it several times, lived in a gold-plated penthouse in Manhattan, and shits on literal golden toilets, and whose sole legislative success was cutting taxes for billionaires and corporations, represents the “working man” and the party led by Joe Biden and now Kamala Harris, both from middle income families who have spent their lives and careers in public service, do not represent the “working man.” You are either militantly ignorant or a yet another one of our recreational contrarians who have a humiliation fetish.
Sorry responding at speed today, my out of date sarcasm meter may be having a hard time keeping up.
Why does "every man" mean "not college educated"? Or to flip your script, some people do go to college and then work in fields like publishing or public health or social work, where they do not make much money. In fact, those fields pay less than a lot of blue collar work. They went to college, and there's really nothing wrong with that.
What's the goal? If aggregation itself is the goal, I mean sure. But if truth is the goal, then at a minimum you will want to:
This guy claims to be a progressive, but so few of his posts lean in that direction. He reminds me of Ovshinsky.
LOL. We had a poll from Dartmouth showing Kamala up 28 in NH but sure, it's a tossup.
Good piece about the Blue Dot:
No kididng. Have had that same exact thought before.
Perception drives voting. Politics is a game of perception.
Fair enough. I know nothing about how they weight and value each polls so I learned something.
I used to look at RCP all the time, but once I learned about the background of the site (it was founded by two Republicans, I believe) and that it did have a partisan bias I didn't look at it as much. I finally quit for good after it was obvious that they had moved even more to the right than they were previously. Maybe they're right in their prediction of this year's electoral vote, but if so I definitely think it's still more due to partisan bias than an objective reading of the polls, imo.