I think red voters in this category aren't dumb but prefer a convenient lie than a complex truth when it comes to what the problems are in this country and how to fix them.
I guess you could say the same about Dem voters and Biden's health but to be honest I think most Dem voters were probably just voting AGAINST Trump. Plenty of people on the Dem side want the old guard/status quo to retire for new blood.
I certainly voted that way. I'd rather the old Dem guard retire, but until they do, anyone is better than a known bad guy.
And just a bit of history, sometimes voters would rather elect a dead man than a live one. Look into former Governor Mel Carnahan who was elected to Missouri senate, three weeks after he died in a plane crash. Also, Democrat Anthony "Tony" DeLuca died Oct. 9, 2022 a month before winning his seat.
In a two party system, it’s always the lesser of two evils.
Traditionally, both candidates needed to have a healthy amount of centrism to make sure they weren’t more evil/extreme than the other.
However these days it feels like populism is the new centrism. Bernie and AOC are more popular than ever and certainly have embraced populism rather than have centrist policies.
The US maintaining order (and providing foreign aid) is a form of soft power which this administration doesn't seem to value (or maybe even understand). It also benefits US corporations and their interests' abroad.
well I mean you'd use await foreach and IAsyncEnumerable equivalent... async would mean the UI would not be blocked so I agree with the original commenter you replied to.
paraphrasing another reply I left here, if everyone just wrote their code correctly we’d all be writing C and everything would be safe and fast. I’ve fixed this exact issue with this exact cause (someone wrapped an await in a loop and it passed code review because our benchmark test still passed. But the benchmark test simulated the entire stack on a local network and when we deployed it, all of a sudden it took 5 seconds to load)
I wouldn’t say extremely critical of Trump. He brings half of it on himself. Simply reporting what he says and does that makes him look incompetent is not being particularly critical.
Not when you look at objective metrics of bias such as sentiment analysis or track time spent on positive vs neutral vs negative coverage of various issues. Of course that’s in relation to US political parties, pick a different ‘center’ and you can get any answer you want for how the media is biased overall.
Objectively FOX isn’t pure propaganda they do include some coverage critical of R politicians and policies. It’s just far less than say CNN spends on coverage critical of D politicians and policies.
I can cite multiple studies showing the left bias in the media. I think it's pretty widely held to be true. I'm actually kind of taken aback that anyone would take the other side of that argument.
I’m not arguing about the existence of bias or the numbers of L/R leaning media.
There’s simply more left leaning Americans vs the stance of the Republican Party who’s specifically engineered their message to appeal to voters with more political power. Ex: Losing the popular vote when winning the presidential election only happens to Republicans.
However, simply counting the number of companies leaning left or right doesn’t tell you much. A local newspaper with 5k readers just doesn’t move the needle. Neither does an outlet that’s 0.1% left or right leaning.
So the only accurate measurement is level of lean * number of viewers, and when you do that calculation (as I have) you find the overall media landscape leans Republican.
There’s a few investigations into why Talk Radio became such a Republican dominated market, but I don’t have a good link. They also ignored how NPR fills a similar niche and leans left. But overall I setup a spreadsheet and ran the numbers on viewership vs scores on sites like:
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