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Democrats worry their most loyal voters won’t turn out for Biden in 2024
(www.washingtonpost.com)
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Because he's over a decade past senior citizen.
Who the fuck do you think your constituents are? All retired senior citizens?
If a 35 year old was running, I'd vote for them literally for the age alone, providing there were no fascism ties.
We need to stop electing people that have not worked a job in over 60 years. It's a fucking joke.
I will vote for anyone under 40. I will NEVER vote for a senior citizen.
Fuck this bullshit.
Mother fucker if Biden is the not-Trump option then you better vote for his senior citizen ass. Elections have consequences. Be idealistic in the primary but for fucks sake vote logically on election day.
Staying home or voting 3rd part/write in is a vote for Trump and is indirect violence against your fellow citizens and others around the world. How many more people would be alive today if we didn't have Trump purposely providing bad COVID information?
Lives are literally at stake. Hold your nose and pull the correct lever. It's simple harm reduction.
The maybe they should let us, I don't know, vote in a primary election for the person we want to run as the Democrat nominee?? Just forcing Biden on us, like wtf?
Remember Bernie, both times?
Well, like someone else said, vote for Bernie or whoever you like in the primaries, then go cast your anti-Trump vote on election day. If Trump gets back in you'll never get the opportunity to vote in a real presidential election again.
I think part of the reason why people feel they don't have a choice is because the DNC seems to have just chosen biden instead of letting any other democratic candidate have a chance at the nominee.
If you even have the privilege to vote. Lol.
no, it's not. it's abstaining or voting for someone who isn't trump.
you don't seem to know what harm reduction means.
If a candidate wants my vote, they need to earn it. I've done enough of voting against, and from now on I'm only voting for.
What I see is that Democrats can't put up any candidates who are actually worth voting for and then to top it off they push insulting slogans like "Vote Blue No Matter Who." If other Democratic voters really want to swallow that with no pushback, that is their business. But I'm not doing it anymore.
But don't you dare go and demand who I vote for while claiming the consequences of not would result in some imagined violence. It's bad enough when the DNC is lying to me but then I have to read nonsense takes of Liberals making threats because they've scared themselves to death with their own propaganda.
It's not imagined. It's already happened and you still don't care. Is voting really that difficult for you? Hundreds of millions of people but you'll only participate if the leader of everyone gets to be your first pick. That's some childish shit right there.
Then you’re helping to elect Trump. Simple as that.
wrong. the only people who help elect trump are the people who vote for trump.
Wrong. It’s a statistical certainty.
wrong.
Wrong.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/15/electoral-college-third-party-democrats-00106472
two of our 46 presidents have been from so-called third parties.
this "analysis" is garbage
The reason we're in this mess is because of political tribalism. If we actually want different candidates, we gotta vote for them.
Cool, do that in the next primary, but for now let's pick one of the real options on the table.
I'm doing it in these primaries. Why would I take a primary off?
Well, that's good. Unfortunately lots of people don't vote in the primary, and then complain about their options in the general election.