• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Seems like they’d have done better with 62% of the voting public behind them.

    Trump faced an entire gaggle of conservative opponents and rarely failed to clear the 50% mark by state.

    Biden’s biggest defeat was to the 20% of voters who cast spoiled ballots in Michigan. Marianna Williamson and Dean Phillips were barely acknowledged.

    Even RFK Jr isn’t polling at better than 10%.

    Who do these people actually want for the position?

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        6 months ago

        The RFK brand name carries a lot of weight among boomer voters. This looks less like coordination by either party and more like a dimwit failson cashing in on his name brand before it expires. He’s raised over $72M in his Presidential bid and has numerous friends and family on his campaign payroll.

        My man is an absolute money fountain for the consultancy class. Not as lucrative as the comically overpriced Bloomberg primary bid, but definitely worth the grift on his face.

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            6 months ago

            Bloomberg was a NYC Republican who thought he could Moneyball the Democratic Primary by focusing all his efforts in a few big states. Biden wasn’t running as a moderate candidate in 2020. He was running as a conservative democrat. The moderates - Warren and Klobacher and Buttigieg and Harris - never managed to triangulate a winning position between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders.