People just... can't deal with actually being unpopular, huh The question of "How do you convince people they're actually wrong and I'm right" remains this unsolvable thing no one wants to look in the face
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*Everyone* prefers to believe "People really secretly agree with me but they're just afraid to say so or act on it"
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That doesn't square with policies Biden has soundly rejected: M4A, College Tuition coming out with leads in the same exit polls he won. Bernie even wins on "most policies I agree with." People just genuinely believe Biden is more likely to beat Trump (per the same polls above)
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The problem is that M4A or free college mean lots of different things to different people.
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So are people lying in polling? Or lying in their voting? People are complex. They are as likely to vote for against their fears, as much as for their desires.
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In all seriousness "lying" is just the wrong word. It's more that the data cited is being wildly over-interpreted. Like there's widespread confusion over what exactly "M4A" means, it's inferred to describe everything from Single Payer to a Public Option added to the ACA+
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Also like, ths popularity of these prosposals varies wildly on how you ask about them. Most people dont even know what m4all even is or what bernies plan entails.
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Serious question: has Bernie exactly said what M4A is? In more detail than this? https://berniesanders.com/issues/medicare-for-all/ …
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Assuming voters always vote for what they actually want, or even their best understanding of what they want, is some pre-101 level political science, my dude. That's not to say you can't argue yourself in circles to justify your own views, ofc.
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What Krystal is talking about is actually a phenomenon observed so often in elections, especially FPP or plurality ones, that it is captured under multiple terms of art- usually "favourite betrayal" or "(non-)monotonicity."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotonicity_criterion …
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