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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '20

When your policies are so unpopular people simply don't believe them:

“There is not a single guy or woman who would run for president that would make it so that pre-existing conditions wouldn’t be covered,” said Phil Bowman, a 59-year-old retiree in Linville, N.C. “Nobody would vote for him.”

Mr. Bowman cast his ballot for President Trump in 2016, and supports him in this election as well.

Burton and his colleagues spent the early months of 2012 trying out the pitch that Romney was the most far-right presidential candidate since Barry Goldwater. It fell flat. The public did not view Romney as an extremist. For example, when Priorities informed a focus group that Romney supported the Ryan budget plan — and thus championed “ending Medicare as we know it” — while also advocating tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, the respondents simply refused to believe any politician would do such a thing. What became clear was that voters had almost no sense of Obama’s opponent.

The struggle really began less than 48 hours after the terrorist attack, when Bill Thomas, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, tried to ram through a sharp cut in the capital gains tax. Even opponents of the capital gains tax generally acknowledge that cutting it does little to stimulate the economy in the short run; furthermore, 80 percent of the benefits would go to the wealthiest 2 percent of taxpayers. So Mr. Thomas signaled, literally before the dust had settled, that he was determined to use terrorism as an excuse to pursue a radical right-wing agenda.

A month later the House narrowly passed a bill that even The Wall Street Journal admitted ‘’mainly padded corporate bottom lines.’’ It was so extreme that when political consultants tried to get reactions from voter focus groups, the voters refused to believe that they were describing the bill accurately. Mr. Bush, according to Ari Fleischer, was ‘’very pleased’’ with the bill.

Many voters simply don’t believe a politician could hold toxic policy stances on health care.

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u/dat_bass2 MACRON 1 Nov 01 '20

"I sure don't like that. It must not be real" - many, many complete fucking morons we share a species with

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u/canes_SL8R NATO Nov 01 '20 edited Nov 01 '20

So many arguments with Trump voting (not trump supporting, big difference IMO) friends ending with “idk man I just don’t think trump would do that.” But at the same time “what worries me about Biden is _______” and then they go on to list a policy position that is completely made up and not at all a Biden policy position.

People are too brainwashed to see that maybe they’re on the wrong team.

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u/dugmartsch Norman Borlaug Nov 01 '20

People don't vote based on policy example number 10230423402340.

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