So this county only 50% got them, and statewide it’s only 2/3s?

In Pennsylvania, where voters over the age of 65 have cast nearly half of the early ballots, registered Democrats account for about 58 percent of votes cast by seniors, compared to 35 percent for Republicans. That’s despite both parties having roughly equal numbers of registered voters aged 65 and older.

The partisan gap is narrower than it was in 2020, when views of early voting were more partisan, and Republicans take that as a good sign. But the GOP still is counting on more of its older voters to show up on Election Day, while Democrats have more votes in the bank.

So not lagging as much as 2020…

And concerning because Biden only won by 80k votes and it’s literally his home state.

These are the same ones who were spoofing gps and making up responses to meet quotas…

So the only ones making quota are the fakes, and everyone else gets fired for not meeting the standard.

And all of this is a complete waste of money.

By the same token, they report everything trump says…

The report everything Vance says, but also Biden and Kamala too.

If Biden and Kamala talked about those things, then the media would too.

Kamala just went on an interview blitz, I watched some of it, didn’t see her being up anything you mentioned. Did she in any of the recent interviews you e seen?

She was just on Colbert, he’d have let her say anything she wanted to…

Do you remember what she choose to discuss?

Edit:

Walz just talked about ending the Electoral college, and the media reported on it.

But they also reported on Kamala distancing herself from it.

That’s an example from like today of what I’m talking about. All it takes for the media to report on something is a high ranking politician saying it. There’s so many and so desperate for ad revenue they will cover anything that comes out of someone’s mouth if they’re on the presidential ticket.

They like neoliberal economics

Then why did 08 Obama carry the party and flip red states when all those neo liberals voted R due to the PUMA movement?

The neo liberals are not a majority of voters, they just still have a death grip on party leadership positions at the DNC

Yep.

So making the “good” restaurants food shitty only hurts their business, and their the only ones with the power to set their menu.

We can protest, leave bad reviews, stop going to the restaurant, anything to communicate that we would eat there more if they had better food.

But at the end of the day it’s up to the handful of people running the restaurant/party what they serve up.

If the two restaurants both serve shitty food, there’s not as much judgement for eating a shit sandwich. Because everyone eating at a restaurant is eating ahitry food. It becomes normalized.

The “good” restaurant becoming ahittier doesn’t steal customers from Shit Sandwiches, it just makes people think that shit sandwiches isn’t as crazy as it seems because both restaurants serv shit.

Which still fits.

Dems moving to the right year after year and adopting things like fracking and a border wall when a decade ago we said only a racist idiot would want those things… Makes the average American question if other “conservative” ideas are really as bad as Dems say they are, or if 5 years both parties would want them.

It only hurts the left and helps the right

Yep, if the easiest votes to get were between the two parties, Republicans wouldnt pull the shit they do with far left parties while embracing the far right.

They’d move to the center to fight for those mythical “moderates” or at least have the Green party positioned slightly to the right of the Dem party.

But they’re not. Because Dems just use those mythical moderates as an excuse to do what big money donors want. Moving to the right is effective at raising money from billionaires, but completely ineffective at increasing Dem votes.

The party and the voters don’t have the same goals.

I can see the reasoning that the presidency is the biggest office and gets people talking about third parties the most…

But the reason the Green Party is obviously a grift is they focus on battleground states for those presidential runs.

If they were doing what they said they’re trying to do, they’d focus on states like Cali where they can get the media attention and votes while not handing the presidency to Republicans.

Like everything in American politics, it all depends on what state something is happening in

The point is there’s been a political mandate for economic change for over a century…

The reason the Dems don’t have the numbers to accomplish it, is them giving up on progressive economics.

Think of it like a restaurant. One that used to serve food people wanted and was always busy. Then the restaurant got kick backs from a differemt food supplier. One whose food was worse, and thus unpopular.

The restaurant loses business because the food gets worse, it takes a while because people only go out to eat every four years, and the only other restaurant serves shit sandwiches exclusively.

People won’t still go out to eat and pick the shit sandwich, they’ll just stop going out to eat. The patrons of the shit sandwich restaurant will eat anything, they’ll keep showing up.

In this analogy, that explains the decrease in Dem voters while Republicans stay steady.

We can bitch and moan when the shit sandwich restaurant is the most popular, but bullying people to still patronize the restaurant that’s a shadow of it’s former self isn’t going to work as well as that restaurant just serving the food customers want.

But they won’t do that, because they make more serving cheap shitty food even if they get less customers

It’s really as easy as running a Dem candidate that is as progressive as Dem voters.

Hell, Pennsylvania is an important battleground state where close to 60% of voters want to ban fracking…

If Kamala gave voters what they want on just that one single issue it would likely hand her the presidency. But she’s not.

For some reason we only hear “this is what voters want” from the Dem.party when it’s used to rationalize being more conservative. When the voters are more liberal than the party, the voters are told their views don’t matter, and that depresses turnout which is why we don’t have “the mandate” we used to.

I hope that makes sense.

Like, you understand that if the Dem party wanted to, they could still be that economically progressive, right?

And that in doing so it mitigate Republicans lying?

The Dem party becoming more economically conservative is solely the fault of the people choosing to do what donors want over what Dem voters want…

Both parties focusing on the “wedge issues” is by design, that way the wealthy who donate to both parties always win…

The only people who control the Dem.platform is Dem party leadership, them choosing wealthy donors over voters is literally no one’s fault except the people running the party who keep repeatedly making that choice.

I get wanting to blame Republicans, but we can’t on this one.

It’s literally as easy as Kamala deciding to do so at this point, it’s a month from election and she’s the candidate. But she’s not, instead she keeps moving to the right economically the closer we get to the election.

Partly…

But also that the Dem party today is significantly more “conservative” economically than we used to be, as the article points out:

In 1910, Teddy Roosevelt thundered his warning that “a small class of enormously wealthy and economically powerful men, whose chief object is to hold and increase their power” could destroy US democracy. Roosevelt’s answer was to tax wealth. The estate tax was eventually enacted in 1916, and the capital gains tax in 1922.

In the 1912 presidential campaign, Woodrow Wilson promised “a crusade against powers that have governed us … that have limited our development … that have determined our lives … that have set us in a straitjacket to do as they please”. The struggle to break up the giant trusts would be, in Wilson’s words, a “second struggle for emancipation”.

Wilson signed into law the Clayton Antitrust Act, which strengthened antitrust laws and protected unions. He also established the Federal Trade Commission to root out “unfair acts and practices in commerce”, and created the first permanent national income tax.

Years later, Teddy Roosevelt’s fifth-cousin, Franklin D Roosevelt, attacked corporate and financial power by giving workers the right to unionize, the 40-hour workweek, unemployment insurance, and social security. FDR instituted a high marginal income tax on the wealthy – those making more than $5m a year were taxed up to 75% – and he regulated finance.

Plus, Teddy was the first presidential platform that used universal healthcare…

So part of it is that Republicans lie and propaganda

But if the modern Dem party didn’t think the Dem party platform from a fucking century ago wasnt “too extreme” the modern Dem party would be as popular as it was with FDR.

Kamala Harris’s campaign should strike a more populist note

I agree, if we could get Kamala to agree then I’d feel a lot more confident about her beating trump.

I don’t understand why people want to blame everyone except Kamala and her campaign for her campaigns failings tho.

The media is always mad at Dem voters for not being excited for Dem candidates, probably because the wealthy owners of the media are the same ones donating so the left most option isn’t really all that “left”.