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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
I'm not arguing for who he should pick. I'm just more raising the question of how much polling may shift once Biden makes a VP pick. If right now the polling is a reflection of a lot of politically centrist racists and misogynists not having anything to hate in Biden's ticket, those people could swing back to Trump once they're given someone sufficiently dark-skinned and sufficiently female to hate.
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Honestly I think recent events have really caused the tide to shift against the racist trolls of the world. Prior to Floyd's murder, there was still a whole bunch of what I'd call "plausibly deniable" racists/racism. Basically people who, unless they out and out said the N-word, could get away with as much dog-whistling as they wanted to.
There's obviously still a home for those people in right-wing circles, but whereas it used to be that politically moderate/independent whites would give them the benefit of the doubt or NBD that type of racism, there seems to be more condemnation.
When you have traditionally conservative organizations such as NASCAR and the NFL taking firm stand on some of these issues, you can start to read the tea leaves. I don't believe that any of these organizations are doing this out of sincerely held beliefs. They're just capitalists who are trying to course-correct in order to encapsulate a wider audience.