• @[email protected]
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      I used to be shocked Biden was #1 in 2019. Turns out, name recognition matters more than anything else, and Harris had a historic campaign budget. (Not that it was used well, but AOC has never had that level of PR)

      • FartsWithAnAccent
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        Not so sure about that, I knew who Cortez was years before I recognized Harris and I’m not in either of their districts.

        • @[email protected]
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          But you are commenting on Lemmy, which i’d argue makes you atypical and your media/news consumption probably looks very different to that of the average American.

          • FartsWithAnAccent
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            Technically I’m on Mbin, but I get your point.

            That said, I was hearing her name in broadcast and print news reports way before Harris and I visit a wide variety of websites.

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          1515 days ago

          that’s not because of pr or an ad campaign, that’s because she says important things when nobody else will, and because the gop has had a massive hate/racist fit about her for years…

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              214 days ago

              PR is a type of company that handles talking to the press, mostly… it’s not the abstract concept of relating to the public

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                814 days ago

                No, That’s a PR company, which specializes in the abstract concept of relating to the public. If you just say PR you’re not talking about an organization

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          415 days ago

          I only knew about Cortez because my MAGA cousins would rant about her and the Green New Deal and I decided to look her up.

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            113 days ago

            “Ehrmagerd we’ll be forced to live in unpolluted cities where everything’s within a 15-minute walk! I’d rather die!”

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      3214 days ago

      I’m not,

      I’m genuinely skeptical that most polls are an accurate sampling of the population. Most people I know would never sit through a phone poll. Most polls reek of phishing. One of the very first phone polls said that Dewy would beat Truman in a landslide. It was completely wrong because it was predominantly rich people who had the phones to even answer the polls.

      Who has the time for polls? Who drops by the candidate booths at the state fair? It’s a type for sure.

      The only poll I have been a part of all last year was a phone poll entirely about optometrists and eye appointments and how they should be handled in the healthcare system. I couldn’t even finish it because the entire things was just… painful to go through.