• infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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    2 months ago

    Nah it's just the seesaw effect. There are very few times when a presidential candidate from the incumbent party does better than their predecessor.

    • Speaker [e/em/eir]
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      2 months ago

      That sounds like something losers say, ngl. Any of these seesaw candidates ever try doing something good?

      • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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        2 months ago

        I mean maybe they're doomed to seesaw because of the bourgeois two-winged uniparty, but accumulated outrage is a strong driver.

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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    2 months ago

    The last time an incumbent president got a bigger fraction of the vote
    was in 1984