Decades of unfilteted right wing propoganda.

Seriously Fox, and Right wing radio have portrayed democrats as the epitome of evil, or working eith the literal christian devil. If you take your faith even the slightest bit seriously you will not or cannot possibly vote for a democrat no matter how bad it may get.

Look at them trying to deify Charlie Kirk, the man said some absolutely vile things and he was fucking mild compared to people like Fuentes, Milo, Miller and even Alex Jones. They never see what he said about the civil rights movement, or black pilots. They only see a good christiam boy taken down for expressing an opinion. It shouldnt surprise a single soul its this close

People like a lot of those things, I would say the ICE thing probably makes Republicans more popular

It's a cult — plain and simple. As someone looking from the outside, it's bizarre so many people make the political party they vote for their entire personality. With merch and everything. I can't wrap my head around it.

48% always vote Democrat.
48% always vote Republican.
It’s the 4% that decide elections.

The economy has not hit the shitter just yet. Wait until end of Q4 when the economy starts to really tank and that 48% will erode a bit.

This absolutely baffles me. Who thinks these issues are in ANY way improving under the current regime?

5-point advantage on the economy

Oh they want the economy to go bad?

Counterpoint: they learned fuck all 2016-20, they will learn fuck all 2024-28. The problem is real people will not feel the effects until years later, then they will blame anyone other than an old white guy.

Look at all the shit Obama endured having to fix Bush's mess.

They don't have legit elections anymore, and even if they did it doesn't matter.

The poll clearly shows Americans have a more favorable view of the Republicans than the democrats. What a pathetic country.

Trumps 2nd term has had higher approval ratings. Let that sink in.

This. They stole '24 and they aren't going to give it back willingly. Just look at the way republican congresspeople are acting. They know there will be no electoral consequences or they would have acted on the feedback they got at town halls earlier in the year.

That would be a lot easier and more predictable way of doing things, but election or no election I believe popular will matters. Authoritarianism is a lot harder to do when the subjects are restless.

Every time you say this you give them more power

I have upsetting news for you, about the general qualification level at anything of a lot of my fellow countrymen.

They can actually be pretty skilled at some things, and most of them are not actually bad people on a personal level. But their systems of education and media have been under sustained attack by malicious forces for as long as they've been alive. It would be surprising if they did have as much grasp as a Golden Retriever on anything about what's actually happening in the world.

And both parties will fight tooth and nail to prevent ranked choice voting.

I mean, yeah?? It's the party's job to rally the voters and get them to the polling station, is it not?