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Democrats Get Lowest Rating From Voters in 35 Years, WSJ Poll Finds (www.wsj.com)

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The Democratic Party’s image has eroded to its lowest point in more than three decades, according to a new Wall Street Journal poll, with voters seeing Republicans as better at handling most issues that decide elections.

The new survey finds that 63% of voters hold an unfavorable view of the Democratic Party—the highest share in Journal polls dating to 1990 and 30 percentage points higher than the 33% who hold a favorable view.

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[–] Chulk@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

when the Dems are releasing literal thank you letters to ICE for their work.

This, for me, was the moment when I went from "man, these people really suck as an opposition party" to "They're either incredibly incompetent or they're just straight-up controlled opposition."

You can't oppose Trump while thanking his Gestapo for their service. Fuck that.

It was just the same policies filtered through a PR agency.

This is how I've felt and haven't been able to put it into words. Harris could have curb stomped Trump if she had effectively distanced herself from rightwing policy. Her stance on immigration was unforgivable and served to normalize what Trump would eventually do.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

She was a DA for several different jurisdictions in California for a BIG part of her career before she got onto Biden’s ticket. Her stance on ICE and hardline immigration policy was unsurprising, and the fact that she leaned into consultants urging her to emphasize that is similarly unsurprising. In that regard, she was straight up the wrong candidate.

[–] Chulk@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Oh yeah, it was definitely was unsurprising given her record. But it was still unforgiveable.