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That will engage their population to vote and put the 'left' at ease, maybe not to vote.
What they say doesn't matter, the only thing that matters is for us to vote.
Democrats trailing in the polls = give up chance of flipping seat and don’t vote
Democrats doing well in polls = don’t bother to vote it’s in the bag
Are the only good poll numbers nail biting 50/50?
There are no good poll numbers until after the race has finished
Fuck poll numbers. I've marked every political and polling message I've received as spam. They can find out my vote when I cast it. Go vote people, ignore polls.
was about to say almost the exact same thing.
Regardless of whatever they say. Don't get lazy. Don't get complacent. Get off your ass and go vote, no matter what it takes
I don’t believe it.
These same stories come out every election cycle, especially from right-wing news sources. “The left are going to take the senate” “The dems are going to have a landslide victory”
It’s propaganda with two goals:
Hit the nail on the head. Same reason I keep seeing polls about how all these places are going to vote blue. Their trying everything they can to keep blue voters at home and or invalidate their mail in votes, don't be fooled go out and vote!!
Ignore polls, vote.
Vote early if you are able.
Yes. Also try and avoid mailing in ballot, use drop boxes if able.
Or early in person, I'm going on my next day off.
Yeah I don't believe anything else Fox News says, why would I believe them about this? They may just be trying to motivate.
Probably trying to rile up their viewers so they'll go out and vote.
Don’t forget making blue voters think it’s gonna be alright, no need for them to go out and vote, everyone else already has it in hand.
Bingo!
More likely to have the opposite effect. Historically speaking, good poll numbers help a candidate and bad poll numbers hurt them. That's why low quality partisan polls are always boosting their own side's numbers and not the other guy. Republicans are already far less enthusiastic about voting in the mid terms this year. Telling them their side can't win is only going to discourage them that much more.
Fox News is a shit hole run by lying sociopaths, but they do take their political polling seriously. It's one of the few areas where they have any credibility at all. I wouldn't be surprised if they've been intentionally vague and overly cautious with their analysis of the data so that they can hide some of that potential blue wave in the big pile of toss up races. But you can only fudge things so much without looking incompetent, especially if they have to resort to more obvious methods of tipping the scales.
Honestly, the actual poll is barely even news at this point. A year and a half ago the conventional wisdom was that the Senate as safely red while the House was going to be tough fight. But for months now the House has been looking like a lost cause for the Republicans, and, especially in the last few weeks, the Senate is looking like an uphill battle for them too. What's newsworthy here is that Fox is actually reporting it.
The attempt of voter mobilisation I assume?
Yup
The writing's on the wall and Donald's starting to lay the groundwork for an "emergency." He just sued California alleging non-citizen voting. His DHS claimed 16,000 non-citizen votors in Nevada, trimmed the list to 185, and then when Nevada checked all 185 on the list, it went to 0.
I don't believe anything Fox news reports. People still need to vote.
Pretend this is psyop propaganda designed to lull you into a false sense of safety-
AND VOTE ANYWAY.
Polls like this will just galvanize the magats and lull the left into staying home and letting someone else vote.
I'm already calling it for another republican majority. How this is even close is beyond my comprehension, but America.
Yes, I'm still voting regardless. I don't believe anything until I see it. And we gotta do it again two years from now.
Maybe it's because I'm autistic and think differently, I'm legitimately confused when people take news that they have a good chance of winning as telling them not to vote. If anything, shouldn't it be taken as encouraging you to vote? The opposite is also taken as discouraging people from voting. Are people just that defeatist? You have no chance of winning, you don't bother voting, you have a good chance of winning, you don't bother voting
The goal is to lull people into a false sense of security. Voting isn't necessarily easy for every person legally entitled to vote. You're supposed to get time off of work, sure, but the actual reality of that especially for shift-laborers, or parents with young children who can't stand in line for an hour with them, or people who live in remote locations with few voting places can be quite different.
If they keep hearing that their side is likely to win and it's going to be a pain in the ass for them to actually vote anyway, then they're more likely to skip the hassle thinking they have the victory in the bag.
Additionally, hearing "the opposition is probably going to win" does a lot to mobilize the maga side to get off their asses and vote, even if trumpster's approval rating has dropped to pretty much just dedicated magats.
I'm convinced that 99.95% of the time, polls exist and are publicized primarily to impact the outcome and NOT to provide clear or unbiased information.
“We need to let bygones be bygones and not dwell on the past. We need to move forward and work on unity…”
Without the Senate majority no impeachment will go through.
I hope gas goes up to ten dollars a gallon and Peter Theil somehow has a change of heart and becomes like Jesus and donates all his money to ending world hunger and making sure that tech companies behave ethically and transparently
I also hope they make another video game like deadly creatures where you can play a tarantula who acts like a cowboy sorta
Also dear God please make sure that Republicans fuck up all their shit like they already be doin' so intensely right now.
Amen.
No shit, everyone knows this. It's the senate that we should be worried about.
I'm all for Dem wins. My prediction is they won't be able to do much, and get blamed for too much time on hearings, maga will ignore subpoenas and otherwise drag it all out. Dems get blamed for not fixing all the damage, since people ignore that they don't have the presidency, or enough majority in senate. Some people imply by comments in various places, that they think they can vote for president this election. If that's the lack of civic comprehension the voting public has, it's no wonder they flippantly swing back and forth and keep regressing with maga.
As usual. "fix everything in 24 months or we throw the bums back in".
Democrats actually have to do things.
I just hope it isn't donorcrats who are helming the Democratic ship. They have a tendency of going around in circles.
To make us complacent so we won't vote.
To motivate the fox viewers to prove those polls wrong.
I hate that politics is like fucking sports. Just dumb stats and predictions to fill airspace. And the best part is people who think they’re too smart for sports eat it up.
Any word on who the two conservative Democrats who vote with the Republicans to ensure that they can't do anything meaningful, or at least symbolic, with the majority will be?
People are so easy to fool. If this really turns out in a win for the GOP, man that’s the saddest fucking thing.
Fox are only predicting a 1 seat majority.
Once they take the house and the senate, they can stop all that negative legislation that's been passing, like...
uhhh...
ummmm...
...don't get me wrong... everyone should absolutely still vote, but even a massive victory is going to fix fuck all, and we should all be prepared for that.
Winning the house and senate would curb the Trump admin considerably. The admin will be playing defense rather than offense and democrats can issue subpoenas. Are we surely going to stop contributing to the Palestinian genocide? Probably not, but there's a chance the progressive wing could withhold support for key votes and demand concessions — in much the same way the ultra conservative wing of the Republican Party prevented them from passing some of their agenda.
We need an army of kamikaze progressives willing to run for everything from dog catcher to Senate/Governor. Wave after wave of people willing to be one term politicians, dedicated to policy.
Policy, policy, policy.
No more cults of personality. That’s how they peel off popular support.
If this actually happens and Republicans lose the House by a handful of seats, please don’t call it a “blue wave”…
Unless they predict the current administration and several justices getting hanged, I don’t fucking care.