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Kennedy has been funded by a bunch of billionaires who thought his name would funnel votes away from Biden. But the brain worms mad him weird enough that Democratic voters aren't willing to vote for him in significant numbers.

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[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 38 points 4 weeks ago

Oof. They realized they were spoiling the vote for Republicans more than Democrats and their little plan backfired hahaha!

[–] AtomicTacoSauce@lemmy.world 37 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] PenguinMage@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

(Shit)birds of a feather flock together.

[–] AtomicTacoSauce@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

RIP Mr. Lahey.

[–] Numenor@lemmy.world 31 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I love how these articles never even name RFK Jr's running name. No one knows her or her name,. If the article had said "Alisha Glacer" everyone would have been like "who?"

It’s the name of his brain worm

[–] DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 21 points 4 weeks ago
[–] Lauchs@lemmy.world 13 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

This is actually pretty worrying. A lot of polls show Harris doing better with RFK and co on the ballot. From split polling, seems like RFK was pulling supporters from both camps but at a 3:1 ratio of trumpers. If even half of those go back to trump that'd be really bad news.

[–] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 15 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Recent polls I've seen show Harris doing as well or better without RFK.

Yougov 8/14-16: Harris +2 with RFK, +3 without RFK

Outward Intelligence 8/11-15: Harris +6 with or without RFK

Emerson College 8/12-14: Harris +4 with or without RFK

Ipsos 8/9-13: Harris +3 with RFK, +4 without RFK

[–] Lauchs@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

Totally fair, thanks for sharing and I love that you brought the receipts! I'm thinking of the last NYT/Sienna poll (which is kind of the gold standard) I recall. Should dive in again now that polling is a little more settled!

[–] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 1 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah, it doesn't matter for her.

[–] PenguinMage@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

My step mother was planning on voting for RFK dad is full on trump... now it's two trumps... I only cancel 1 of my family =/

[–] LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 1 points 4 weeks ago

Polls are useless. Just go vote everyone!

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 weeks ago

Hopefully Kennedy doesn't get fuck... in the end he's just a Trump toady.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] ChowJeeBai@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

About to endorse a whiner.

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Who even is his running mate? I have no idea about her

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 12 points 4 weeks ago

She married one of the Google founders for a few years, divorced him, and walked away with billion-dollar kind of money. Kennedy wanted her as a running mate because he figured she'd fund the campaign.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

He already tried to sell his voters to Harris. https://youtu.be/cpiAjK_6XGc

Looks like Trump’s buy’n.

[–] InternetUser2012@lemmy.today 5 points 4 weeks ago

Damn, Dementia DonOLD is going to be doing great with the additional three votes they're going to bring.

[–] mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 weeks ago

Nicole Shanahan seems to fit the definition of a psychopath.

[–] Pappabosley@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

I kinda assumed this was part of their plan. Rope along some Republicans who are too moderate(?) for Trump, then ditch at the last minute and tell them they have to vote for Trump now. Gives less chance that they'll have time to sway to Dems or other 3rd party candidates

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

their independent presidential bid was not likely to end in victory

Given the way elections are run in this country, running third party is only going to be about being a spoiler. You are never going to win.

As for voting: voting third party is always going to be just throwing your vote away. You might as well set fire to your ballot.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago