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Managing to piss off even the people who don't read the news is the sign of a truly incompetent president. It is really hard to piss off the people who don't even want to be informed.

This would be great news if we were still gonna have free and fair elections. Ah well.

If only someone could have seen this coming. Dumb fucks.

It is INFURIATING that they are paying attention NOW after this SOCIOPATH was re-elected!

I find it fascinating that you’re looking at the coming dictatorship with dread as if the rule of law has not already been killed and yet you’re also operating under the assumption that there will be free and fair elections next year without mass protest and direct action?

They actually have to feel regret first. And even if they do, it doesn’t guarantee they will return to vote him out, or work to help remove him. I would not necessarily count on them to show up to do anything.

I’m a little surprised by that, but great news. I knew the moderates and independents who are paying attention would turn on him. It’s been 100 days of chaos and evil, and it would be hard to miss even with MSM’s “both sides” approach. But why would those who aren’t paying attention? Interesting.

Cool at least he hasn’t had 3 1/2 more years

finally

well that's interesting..you would think it would be the reverse

Too little too late

What does "the news" mean in this context? I feel like the picture this paints is radically different depending on what we're treating as "news."

Is it GOP decline, though? Do they understand these are the underlying principles of modern conservatism, or do they they think it's just Trump? That's not even getting into blue maga, Dems acting conservative, and how that turns off non and low info voters.

Oops

@whstancil.bsky.social theory would suggest that they're hearing similar things from multiple people in their social circle/social media feed, so it's starting to become a narrative.

Hmm, a category like "barely follows the news" seems especially prone to "non response bias" errors and false movements.

Yeah but that cohort are mostly unhappy he hasn’t deported millions already. They were hoping the news would be all about “illegals” whisked off to work camps and crying children sent to sweat shops for life.

Memes their friends share on social media, or for which they are individually targeted with Meta's spyadware unawares, or wherever else they might brush up against a vibe. raw.githubusercontent.com/kateto/CHIP5...

Constant polls, surveys, and studies.

Who said anything about a degree? In the US, access the higher ed is limited to the privileged, decades of conservative cultural rot has taught people higher ed is about getting a job instead of learning. If you can get a decent job without it, why care? Society says you shouldn't.

One or two news outlets have kind of mentioned that Christmas orders are low at the time of year a big headline could matter. Instead, they'll wait till September or October when nothing can be done, and we are deeper in the facsist hole. A total failure of their job. It's always months too late.

By far the most intriguing part of this chart for me is the enormous difference between the "hardly at all" and the "only now and then" groups. I'd be really interested to try and dig deeper to see what's going on there.

Woulda been cool if the media had hammered the consequences of tariffs as hard as they hit Joe’s age or pardoning his son or Hillary’s emails or some sophomores’ protest signs or the plague of trans people or literally anything ever. Oh well.

Agreed. This is like the early part of a Tsunami, where the water pulls away from the shore (at first… then the Big Wave hits)

This is consistent with the decline in Trump's approval among his softer supporters from November.

THIS is the poll I’ve been waiting for.

Seems like a fault that they omit a category for "obsessively all the time".

If we don’t see this reflected in every election across the country now, the ratings are wrong or the opposition narrative, ours, is weak.

But HOW do it know? (an old friend's punchline for an idiot's response to his lunch break explanation of a thermos as something that keeps cold things cold, and hot things hot)

On The Shawn Ryan Show, wealth manager Rob Luna said, “Everyone is super euphoric about what’s going to happen.” 1/20/25 Could economic reality (stock market, tariffs) have burst some of that euphoria? www.mediamatters.org/google/right...

May 11th!

When you cut your budget change your spending decide to cut costs bc the US economy is a mess: TELL YOUR VENDORS THAT IT IS ALL ON TRUMP AND THE GOP Tell them, in detail! These low information voters won’t know that it is trump & the GOP that are costing them your business unless you tell them!

I envy the “and now and thens” so much. They figured out they hated Trump and only tune in every few months to verify that yes, Trump is still a stupid piece of shit.

It's very early and the American economy is a powerful thing. Not convinced Trump has affected it irrevocably. But yes that would matter. "And if conditions remain poor, they may lose ground, not gain it."

Again, it would be SO HELPFUL to see this data additionally calculated for the Swing States that determine the outcome. I'm absolutely convinced that stupid voter engagement efforts in PA in particular gave Trump his margin there.

The theme of the article is that this is a group that does not pay attention to the news :-/

They are exhibiting the requisite MAGA trait of refusing to admit error, no matter the shifting societal trends.

They're fascists?

Money for religious schools, more fedsoc judges, anti-trans laws, burning down universities, getting rid of waste fraud and abuse, guns... I could go on.

A better idea is to engage them on the things they care about earnestly, instead of constant bait and switch. They get engaged when progressive ideas are championed and implemented. Trump lied about having progressive ideas this round, and many mistook pandemic aid for being from him.

www.commondreams.org/news/trump-d...

I'm also very interested in what the effects of the GOP's voter suppression tactics will be now. Those tactics target the low-informed, low-engagement voter by creating unnecessary hurdles. So did MAGA shoot themselves in the foot?

While I opposed the SAVE Act on principal, making it way harder to vote by requiring a bunch of documents that it takes time and money to obtain won't cut the way the GOP thinks it will, I don't think

MAGA has the same lock on their "base."

You can see that? Man I wish I felt the same

The toxic politics isn't exactly something they weren't aware of when they cast their votes.

The comfort sir. It’s so cold.

Very interesting