Harris’ now polls better with white people than any Democratic president since Jimmy Carter
https://www.opb.org/article/2024/08/06/poll-harris-jumps-to-a-small-national-lead-over-trump/
Harris’ now polls better with white people than any Democratic president since Jimmy Carter
https://www.opb.org/article/2024/08/06/poll-harris-jumps-to-a-small-national-lead-over-trump/
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Relevant paragraph:
>**Harris has also improved with white voters overall.** Harris has gone from 40% with white voters overall to 46% in this survey, which is closer to where Biden was, and that’s very high for a Democrat. In fact, no Democrat has scored that high with white voters in a presidential election since Jimmy Carter in 1976. Biden got 41% in 2020, Barack Obama in 2008 won 43%.
FYI the title should have said “any Democratic presidential candidate.” But I think the point got across.
idk Im seeing all these great things with her demographics polling, yet the national poll is still a dead heat. Finding it hard to believe.
I think it’s good to see that our elections are getting less racially polarized
It’s crazy what being a normal person can do!
Republicans politicians care way too much about what other people minding their own business are doing
It’s starting to wear on people
Whelp, she’s not a narcissist, not crazy, not senile, not focused on retribution….yea she’s definitely a liberal but that’s better than that crazy motha running against her.
She’s killing it in all the demographics yet doesn’t have a significant lead. Explain this to me like I’m 8 years old.
Yah, she’s normal and frankly it’s refreshing.
As a white guy, I think this is embarrassing. Especially now, in this very moment it should be 90+ percent behind the sane non-rapist patriots.
I am guessing that there is a heavy split by gender. The issue she did best against Trump in the poll was abortion.
What am I reading?
“Harris is not where she needs to be with voters under 45 at this point. Biden won them in 2020 by 14 points. Harris and Trump right now are tied with the group.” — I thought she was leading with GenZ/Millenials ?
While I don’t want to get hopes up. If things continue this could end up being a landslide win for Harris.
Unfortunately, all those hicks in the South keep this number from where it should be
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.opb.org/article/2024/08/06/poll-harris-jumps-to-a-small-national-lead-over-trump/) reduced by 93%. (I’m a bot)
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> Vice President Harris has upended the presidential race and has now built a 51%-48% lead over former President Trump, according to the latest NPR/PBS News/Marist poll.
> She has gone from a 23-point lead with Black voters over Trump a couple of weeks ago, when many voters moved into the undecided camp, to a 54-point lead now.
> Harris is benefiting from a boost in enthusiasm with core Democratic voter groups Black, Latino and younger voters are saying they're more fired up to vote now that Harris is in the race.
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they keep going by race and gender and the usual separations. It really is getting to be more and more about education. They even note “educated white women” but in reality it’s just educated people in general.
In the last few cycles, haven’t Republicans been losing in white women and white college grads, while gaining among blacks and especially Hispanics?
That’s a serious problem for the republicans.
Hopefully that’s Carter the first time.
Well, back then they said Clinton was the first black president…..funny enough, the next democratic president was Obama. He was Irish!
That jerk Jimmy Carter? Why doesn’t he get his lazy ass back to building housing for low income people! Dude is a the only one that could beat Dolly Parton on our intergalactic representative leader team.
Women are fucking pissed, and Millennials and Gen Z are the majority if the electorate now. 20 million boomers have died since 2016. 41 million Gen Z’s have become eligible to vote.
The marvelous thing about Kamala’s campaign is its the first presidential campaign to feel like it belongs in the 2020’s. I swear everyone else is stuck in 1995.
Just win baby
I’m white and conservative! I’m campaigning for the Kamala & Tim ticket.
What I found most interesting in this data, is that among the generations, Harris’ biggest lead is with the Boomers. Her weakest age demographic are those older than Boomers.
Imagine that… white dudes not caring about the rhetoric of “voting for a woman turns you into one” because most are secure in masculinity. Get that weak shit outta here.
~A white dude.
Can confirm. White straight guy and I’ve never been this pumped for a presidential candidate. Ever.
It’s amazing how much people did not want Biden… there is a literal Nazi on the other side and he couldn’t even win a poll. Now we get Kamala and everyone is like GET RID OF THAT NAZI!!!
I’m old And white go K and T 😄🙏👍👊
Because of college educated white women. Though I think Walz will help her with folks who aren’t college educated. Give it a few weeks.
But what about the orange vote?
I’m 91% white, 95% male, 12% conservative, but 100% going to vote for Harris
I always find this poll breakdown of race a bit odd. The only time I saw it matter is when Trump gutted funding for black schools. Besides that policies should be aimed to improve everyone’s lives.
Then shouldn’t the polls show her 10 point ahead in every which way.
One of the best lines of the day comes from Shawn Fain, “.. Let me tell you something, Donald tRump doesn’t know shit about the auto industry!…”
I think the White Dudes/Ladies for Harris thing was fucking genius. A lot of white people have for whatever reason felt alienated by the Dems but *really* want an out to distance themselves from the cranks who turn their family reunions into an Infowars broadcast. And they actually want to feel *welcomed.* Meaning that they won’t walk into a Robin DiAngelo racial sensitivity lecture type thing.
Heck even a far right asshole Elon had in my feed was like “damn that was genius” and openly said that Trump can’t do a White Guys for Trump type thing because he’d only attract gutter-dwelling racists.
Honestly. this type of event should have been happening 6 years ago
20 bucks says by the end of the election a high ranking republican uses the term “jungle fever”