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Originally Posted by GGG
Can you expand on your last sentence of why the pools look like they?
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A lot of posts in this thread about how the only people voting for Trump are uneducated far right MAGA idiots, and how good Biden has been because that’s how American politics is portrayed in Canada (and the rest of the world). “Dumb Americans” is the classic trope so people can get on their high horse about how their country is better.
In reality, there are some very valid criticisms of Biden. His approval rating has been dropping for a long time now and he’s been trailing Trump in the polls for a lot longer than people on here like to admit. He’s been polling (relatively) weakly with black and Latino voters, which aren’t exactly the MAGA demographic. One example is that his border policies had been atrocious and it was an issue that was very visible to a lot of Americans.
“Sleepy Joe” and Biden’s decline has been well publicized and talked about down here for a while, it wasn’t some revelation with the debate. I’m not sure why people are saying it’s a conspiracy theory that Biden’s team has kept a pretty tight lid on him publicly, that’s pretty obvious for anyone who’s followed American politics.
Many people simply didn’t want to vote for Biden, and it wasn’t just dumb Americans.