Post Ajb0iGWt3LjpAz8lBA by dan131riley@federate.social
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 (DIR) Post #AjaLiI6N6wB5vqdDCy by ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social
       2024-07-04T11:20:13Z
       
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       Found this data genuinely amazing! I'm sure it helps that she hasn't had a political career to dissect much, and wrote some popular books, but 11 extra points? Are all independents just dying to vote for Michelle Obama?(in fairness, she does have the extraordinary qualification of not wanting to be president)
       
 (DIR) Post #AjaLvxJ5DscPUY5p7A by saxx@mastodon.social
       2024-07-04T11:22:40Z
       
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       @ZachWeinersmith We probably should force the person to be president who wants it the least 😉
       
 (DIR) Post #AjaPTJ93LjTedlzqdM by Phosphenes@glasgow.social
       2024-07-04T12:02:17Z
       
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       @ZachWeinersmith Could you post a link to the source? I want to read more.
       
 (DIR) Post #AjaPiwp46xqW2g6a9I by 32z0WQSy2TuOsfxCSZfc@mastodo.neoliber.al
       2024-07-04T12:05:07Z
       
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       "The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."-Douglas Adams
       
 (DIR) Post #AjaPvcecPOW7FtGKzQ by ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social
       2024-07-04T12:07:26Z
       
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       @Phosphenes https://data.fivethirtyeight.com/
       
 (DIR) Post #AjaQySKPMAxq3KixbU by babelcarp@social.tchncs.de
       2024-07-04T12:19:08Z
       
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       @ZachWeinersmith In the poll, Michelle Obama has an advantage over the Dem governors—and maybe even over Harris: everyone in the USA thinks they know her.
       
 (DIR) Post #AjaSp82VcVHgQl23ou by butorzigzag@mas.to
       2024-07-04T12:39:51Z
       
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       @ZachWeinersmith name recognition weighs so heavily in polls. A long established name (H. Clinton) or an omnipresent buzz (B. Obama) sends the predictions flying
       
 (DIR) Post #AjaYeNjTX6YhdoO7m4 by neeran@mastodon.social
       2024-07-04T13:45:09Z
       
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       @ZachWeinersmith Has someone checked whether Michelle Obama has an email server in her basement?!
       
 (DIR) Post #Ajb0iGWt3LjpAz8lBA by dan131riley@federate.social
       2024-07-04T18:59:34Z
       
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       @ZachWeinersmith HRC polled well when she wasn't running (for example, when she was Secretary of State).  Then she admitted to having ambition and *boom*.There's an unfortunate reservoir of misogynistic and racist hatred that would come out of the woodwork if MO were running.AFAICT, Michelle is nice, empathetic, and intelligent--and I'd vote for her.  But I don't think she has the ambition BO did to test the viability of the system as an instrument for social progress.