r/InternationalNews • u/Passervore • May 03 '24

Opinion/Analysis Biden backs police repression against non-violent anti-genocide protests

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/05/03/dcxb-m03.html
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u/CommiBastard69 May 03 '24

Worked out real well for them the first time lol

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u/VexisArcanum May 03 '24

That's how we got president Hillary Clinton!

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u/Cleanbadroom May 03 '24

Hilary Clinton was up in the polls right up until the election night and she lost. Trump is a wild card. If enough democrats stay home because they don't like Biden anymore. Trump will easily win. I think over the last 4 years his base has grown. But IDK what will happen. It might be a very close race, unless Biden does something very stupid this summer.

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u/Dineology May 04 '24

Polling aggregate for 2016 showed Clinton pulling 45.7, Trump 41.8, Johnson 4.8, and 7.7 undecided/other (excluding Johnson the third/independent candidates got 1.81% of the actual vote combined, 5.09% with Johnson included) right before Election Day. That’s a damn thin lead of only 3.9, more than thin enough that she could have still lost the popular vote depending on how those undecideds broke. Any reasonable and objective look at those numbers should have screamed “this is up for grabs”, especially when you break it down by individual states. But her campaign and their media connections made a deliberate call to spin it as her being oh so popular because they bought into the idea that positive polls illicit positive responses from voters (everyone wants to be on the winning team) and they were more worried about the sort of mandate she’d have in office if she were perceived to be popular instead of being a candidate that barely made it through a tough fight in the primaries and then barely made it over the finish line. But Clinton was a hot garbage fire of a candidate who never should have been pushed forward by the wealthy and the powerful trying so hard to keep their death grip on power.