• Hegar@fedia.io
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    11 hours ago

    THERE IS ANOTHER ELECTION BEFORE THAT.

    It’s two years away. It’s not even the next election! And this is all presuming that there even is another election, which is far from given.

    There is absolutely nothing you can say about a hypothetic 2028 election in 2026.

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      4 hours ago

      They run polls on potential 2028 primary candidates all the time. This was the first one AOC has led in. It is notable.

      The point of these polls isn’t to predict who the Democratic candidate for president will be in 2028. The point is to gauge what the Democratic primary electorate is currently feeling/prioritizing. They’re moving away from “just give me a safe white guy who can win the general” and toward “give me the most progressive one you got.”

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      9 hours ago

      There is absolutely nothing you can say about a hypothetic 2028 election in 2026.

      Speculation on the 2028 presidential race began five minutes after the 2024 polls closed.

      The Forever Campaign is much like the Forever War, in so far as it is a suffocating political miasma that strangles any other conversation.

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      9 hours ago

      It’s just a buzzworthy headline, just for people to click so they can get more ad revenue.