President Bidenā€™s reelection campaign announced Monday that it will aim to flip Florida, targeting the home of former President Trump.

Campaign managerĀ Julie Chavez RodriguezĀ said in a memo that investing in Florida is part of the Biden campaignā€™s pathway to 270 electoral votes. Trump won the Sunshine State in 2020 with more than 51 percent, compared to Bidenā€™s 48 percent.

ā€œMake no mistake: Florida is not an easy state to win, but it is a winnable one for President Biden, especially given Trumpā€™s weak, cash-strapped campaign, and serious vulnerabilities within his coalition,ā€ she said.

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The Biden campaign has also set its sightsĀ on flipping North CarolinaĀ in November. Trump won North Carolina by a tight margin in 2020, and Biden visited the state as part of his tour of every battleground state last month.

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    Honestly, maybe this is pure hubris here, but I think Biden is in for a big win in November. They have so much fucking money on hand they can blow it in Florida to troll Trump and Desantis. I think roughly 10-20% of the Republican party is, because of Jan 6, never Trump voters. We see Haley getting about that much support in these late primaries, even after she dropped out. We havenā€™t had an election with Trump on the ballot since Jan 6 I think this is the sole reason he wonā€™t win. Moderates fucking hate him over Jan 6. So we have completely disengaged moderate conservatives, big donors are walking away because they donā€™t want to pay Trumps legal bills. State GOPs are bankrupt. And to top it all off, Trump is going to be in court all summer over __________ crimes

    Meanwhile Biden has strong issues to campaign on: Abortion and threats to American democracy. We still havenā€™t managed to hit a recession yet, even tho its been predicted for the last 3 years. Things are improving, albeit slowly. Also what nobody in the mainstream is considering: Polling is completely broken. Pew research did a poll and found that 12% of respondents were capable of operating a Nuclear Sub (the reality is less than 1%). Online polls pay per poll, people are very clearly just answering question as quickly as possible to get the pay outs.

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      I wish I had this amount of confidence in my fellow man. I fear this election is going to be just as close as the last two and it will be a coin flip in the end.

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      maybe this is pure hubris here, but I think Biden is in for a big win in November

      Yes, it IS pure hubris. He won most mutual states by a smaller margin than Hilary and heā€™s currently behind in at least one of the swing states that cost her the election.

      If he doesnā€™t get his act together and stops turning droves away from voting at all, heā€™s going to lose.

      Just because I know some will trot out this strawman: no, I donā€™t WANT him to lose. Heā€™s by far the lesser evil and if he loses to the mango Mussolini, there might not be another election.

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      Donā€™t forget that the republican party has shrunk just in raw numbers. Covid deaths and people switching parties after jan 6 means even if 100% of Republicans voted Trump in 2024 itā€™d be a smaller number than if 100% of Republicans voted Trump in 2020.

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      If Democrats try just a little, I think youā€™re right, and we could be seeing the complete collapse of the Republican party because of it. When special elections are flipping R+15 districts, and the reaction against the Dobbs decision has been so strong and sustained, then thereā€™s a message that will work in every district. Meanwhile, Republican fundraising has already dried up, and what funds they do have are going into Trumpā€™s mounting legal bills. The party has the wind knocked out of it, and if Dems would just fucking try rather than give them a moment to catch their breath, it would be a curbstomp.

      But they need to fucking try.

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      They have so much fucking money on hand they can blow it in Florida to troll Trump and Desantis. I think roughly 10-20% of the Republican party is,

      It already cost Biden over a billion dollars in 2020 to win the electoral by a very small marginā€¦

      Pew research did a poll and found that 12% of respondents were capable of operating a Nuclear Sub (the reality is less than 1%)

      Weirdly topical, but Iā€™m assuming they meant Naval Nuclear Engineersā€¦

      The ASVAB is typical standardized test where the best score is 99%. Weighted for when the test is taken.

      So if only 1% could be a nuke, that would be assuming 100% of people take the test and the Navy only takes 99.

      Now, I got a 99, and got into the program. But there was people in the high 70s as well. People could retake the test as many times as they want. And there is/was even a supplemental test people could take if their main ASVAB wasnā€™t quite high enough.

      So yeah, 12% of poll responders being able to do the toughest job of a nuclear sub doesnā€™t sound rightā€¦

      Itā€™s really much higher than that.

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        You didnā€™t click the link did you?

        The poll was about who is ā€œlicensedā€ not just ā€œsmart enough.ā€

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          You didnā€™t click the link did you?

          The on hyperlinked in the previous sentence that just says ā€œpolls are brokenā€?

          No, I donā€™t click on most links that donā€™t say where theyā€™re going and sounc conspiracial. Iā€™m on a phone and canā€™t ā€œhoverā€ to see.

          I just did tho:

          For example, in a February 2022 survey experiment, we asked opt-in respondents if they were licensed to operate a class SSGN (nuclear) submarine. In the opt-in survey, 12% of adults under 30 claimed this qualification, significantly higher than the share among older respondents. In reality, the share of Americans with this type of submarine license rounds to 0%.

          So, OP read one thing, and then said another.

          But thatā€™s about something factual, not an opinion like ā€œwho are you going to vote forā€.

          And it is specifically about online opt in pollsā€¦

          https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/03/05/online-opt-in-polls-can-produce-misleading-results-especially-for-young-people-and-hispanic-adults/

          Which is probably why OP decided to hide the link. You donā€™t even need to read the title to realize why itā€™s not relevant. The link says it plain as day.

          But man, Iā€™ve been overestimating people recently.

          If you truly donā€™t understand why ā€œonline opt in pollsā€ are the worst kind of polling I can take the time to explain it. But itā€™s basically like saying trump is selling shitty shoes so youā€™ve decided to go barefoot the rest of your life.

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            ā€œonline opt in pollsā€ are the worst kind of polling

            YouGov, SurveyMonkey, The Harris Poll, Morning Consult and Lucid are all online opt-in polls. Those polls, and others like them, are the ones that everyone uses to show that Trump is ahead of Biden.

            The rest are generally random-digit dialing phone polls. Guess what: those are even worse.

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              Formating a hyperlink so itā€™s embedded in text is more work than just putting the linkā€¦

              But the multitasking does explain why you didnā€™t notice it was an online opt in poll.

              That was my issues. Your statistics, not your ā€œjournalismā€ while shitting.