President Bidenā€™s reelection campaign announced Monday that it will aim to flip Florida, targeting the home of former President Trump.

Campaign managerĀ Julie Chavez RodriguezĀ said in a memo that investing in Florida is part of the Biden campaignā€™s pathway to 270 electoral votes. Trump won the Sunshine State in 2020 with more than 51 percent, compared to Bidenā€™s 48 percent.

ā€œMake no mistake: Florida is not an easy state to win, but it is a winnable one for President Biden, especially given Trumpā€™s weak, cash-strapped campaign, and serious vulnerabilities within his coalition,ā€ she said.

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The Biden campaign has also set its sightsĀ on flipping North CarolinaĀ in November. Trump won North Carolina by a tight margin in 2020, and Biden visited the state as part of his tour of every battleground state last month.

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    7 months ago

    You didnā€™t click the link did you?

    The on hyperlinked in the previous sentence that just says ā€œpolls are brokenā€?

    No, I donā€™t click on most links that donā€™t say where theyā€™re going and sounc conspiracial. Iā€™m on a phone and canā€™t ā€œhoverā€ to see.

    I just did tho:

    For example, in a February 2022 survey experiment, we asked opt-in respondents if they were licensed to operate a class SSGN (nuclear) submarine. In the opt-in survey, 12% of adults under 30 claimed this qualification, significantly higher than the share among older respondents. In reality, the share of Americans with this type of submarine license rounds to 0%.

    So, OP read one thing, and then said another.

    But thatā€™s about something factual, not an opinion like ā€œwho are you going to vote forā€.

    And it is specifically about online opt in pollsā€¦

    https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/03/05/online-opt-in-polls-can-produce-misleading-results-especially-for-young-people-and-hispanic-adults/

    Which is probably why OP decided to hide the link. You donā€™t even need to read the title to realize why itā€™s not relevant. The link says it plain as day.

    But man, Iā€™ve been overestimating people recently.

    If you truly donā€™t understand why ā€œonline opt in pollsā€ are the worst kind of polling I can take the time to explain it. But itā€™s basically like saying trump is selling shitty shoes so youā€™ve decided to go barefoot the rest of your life.

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      7 months ago

      ā€œonline opt in pollsā€ are the worst kind of polling

      YouGov, SurveyMonkey, The Harris Poll, Morning Consult and Lucid are all online opt-in polls. Those polls, and others like them, are the ones that everyone uses to show that Trump is ahead of Biden.

      The rest are generally random-digit dialing phone polls. Guess what: those are even worse.

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        7 months ago

        Formating a hyperlink so itā€™s embedded in text is more work than just putting the linkā€¦

        But the multitasking does explain why you didnā€™t notice it was an online opt in poll.

        That was my issues. Your statistics, not your ā€œjournalismā€ while shitting.