Poll Has AOC Leading Schumer by Nearly 20 Points in 2028 New York Primary
Poll Has AOC Leading Schumer by Nearly 20 Points in 2028 New York Primary | Common Dreams
Cool... AOC is leading in the polls about an imaginary election taking place more than 3 years from now. Meanwhile yesterday I spent $116 on groceries and didn't even need help carrying them up the stairs.
$116 of groceries that you can carry up the stairs‽ So like, a few bananas, an avocado, and some stale bread (no toasting required)? Quit bitching, you're spending wayyy over your means, obviously! Lemme guess, you occasionally enjoy cheese as well. Have you tried $116 worth of beans instead?... I bet not, you bougie peasant
Carry on AOC, perhaps she will lead the normal Americans out of the fucking orange nightmare.
Come 2028 and the Dems are going to try running with Hillary again.
It's just a Senate seat she'd be running for... unfortunately
AOC has it all. She's progressive, well educated, from a humble background, intelligent and good looking. I am rooting for her but I don't expect the Democratic Party to have a fair primary for that Senate seat.
Was nodding along until you commented on a politician’s appearance….
Unless you haven't lived in the real world, you'd know that -like it or not- looks also matter, and right now we need all the matter we can get
JFK has entered the chat.
In the first televised presidential debate in 1960, radio listeners said that Nixon won, but TV viewers thought he looked thin and sallow compared to Kennedy's youthful vigor and gave JFK the edge.
Appearance has played a big role in politics ever since.
I think they meant that in the sense that charisma is a practical tool to get elected and to get your message across, not that they want to see more hotties on CSPAN.
Like the other reply said, it’s unfortunate that it’s a significant factor, but here it is.
It's the unfortunate reality in American politics, especially for someone from a minority group
2028 primary election polls?
I'm busy planning the Orlando Magic's NBA title parade, while we're worrying about realistic concerns.
Uh oh establishment dems... that's a huge margin.
Better pull strings to shoehorn the controlled opposition back in!
Quick! Gather the superdelegates! 🥴🦸♂️
Any poll three years out is worthless bullshit.
I remember a time when the United States actually took a break from reporting on elections instead of manufacturing hype for four solid years between major elections.
The current political media landscape is exhausting, and I'm so sorry to everyone who is young enough to think that constant election projections are "normal."
Multiple 24hr all-news channels + produced as an entertainment & engagement product + people thinking that what smart informed people do is watch the news channel all the damned time. It all adds up to this crap we have today.
yeah they do that so it burns people out and they check out
Plenty of time for her "own side" to stab her in the back.
I mean the polling shows for the 2036 race has me for the next car. /s
For that matter, any action three years out is worthless bullshit.
What a dream come true it would be to have AOC primary him.
If she loses, it could be the end of her political career. So it’s definitely a risk. At the same time, if he loses it will be as well. He better resign if he thinks it will be even close.
If she loses, the country is cooked. We might be cooked anyway, but like, double cooked. Refried.
Why would that be the end of her political career?
No, she'd just stay in her Congressional seat.
If she loses, it could be the end of her political career.
If she loses, it will mean the party has been dead a while.
The ONLY thing I'm learning from these Polls is that we need to go FURTHER RIGHT and Bring Back HARRIS!
-The DNC!
Biden is already offering to come out of retirement to help!
Fuck off you old POS. I’m so ready for someone like AOC to be the front runner. This country needs it whether the majority of people realize it or not.
Someone should tell the Boomers that it's time for them to get out of politics and let the younger ones replace them.
Tale control of production and starve them out 🤷
Good. I'll never forgive that simpering, cowardly, weak, spineless bitch for stabbing Al Franken in the back. He should quit while has a chance to do it without looking too bad, but if he won't, she should run him out in embarrassing and humiliating fashion.
AOC got into Congress by beating the #4 Democratic Congressional leader in the primary, now she's poised to beat the top Senate Democrat in the primary. She's an actual giant killer. All other Democrats should take note - it's not her politics that people are responding to, it's her strength. We need people who aren't afraid to stand up to the Nazis, and she is fearless.
It is her politics and her strength, and Also her transparency and her target demographic. She represents the people - not the big corporations, even the corporations that favor Democrats. She's here for the 99%, and to help her people, she is willing to take from the top 1% that never should have the money they possess.
Also her politics though. They’re pretty good.
Yeah, I shouldn't have made it sound like her brand of politics isnt important. I also heavily agree with her politics.
There are others who have the same ideals, but they arent considered the leaders of the young progressives, and Bernie's heir apparent. The reason she is out front is because she has never been afraid to get in people's faces when they come after her. They demonized Hillary for 30 years, and in the end it was what blocked her path to the White House. AOC isn't going to let them do the same thing to her.
Her Politics of the People make us trust her, but its her relentless strength that makes us want her to lead us. That will only increase as she spends time in the Senate, and we see her grow. It would be great to see her in the presidency in her 30s, but she'll do a better job in her more-experienced 40s.
If America lasts that long.
I just want her to run for president. But after fielding 2 uninspiring establishment centre-right candidates with no grassroots base, that offer nothing exciting, the Democrats and even many voters think that women in general are unelectable.
Yeah. Democrats chose to run some of the worst candidates in history.
It's sad that now a female candidate guarantees a trump victory. Nominating conservative female candidates did more harm than good.
I just don't think very highly of Americans in general. They are too sexist, too racist, and too elitist.
They want a rich old white man. Only one time ever did they attempt something else, and that lead directly to a third of the country becoming extremists.
I love AOC. Hope she will become president one day. But please just run with someone that your sexist, racist, elitist neighbors can actually vote for.
Let AOC become Senate majority leader first. That would be really cool, impactful, and help people get used to her.
This is in 3 years… not many Americans can remember that far
That's why he needs to resign now, so she can navigate whatever mechanism NY has to replace him (special election or governnor appointment). He might as well quit now, he has no coherent plan to resist the Nazis for the next 3 years, just appeasement and capitulation. Get out of the way and let someone who wants to do the job have a crack at it.
Promote AOC to senate!
I was thinking more like President but you do you.
She'd have my vote in that case. But to have her as Majority leader in the senate would be huge. people undermine the importance of the senate. but i guess the senate does too. If we can take back our congress we can impeach trump and reverse all these outrageous executive orders that are just starting to hurt people.
Lmao we're all going to be in mass graves by 2028
Schumer has already started cozying up to the most important election lobby.
Israel.
Activate AIPAC
It's amazing to me that she's still only a congresswoman. I can't think of anybody who has been in the national spotlight for that long without moving up to at least senator, if not a cabinet position.
She first got elected in 2018. How many senators got there within three election cycles of their first office? Just because Obama went from Illinois State Senate to US Senate to President in a four year span doesn't make such a climb normal.
It's not just Obama. Reagan spent only 2 terms, 8 years as governor of California before becoming president. George W Bush spent only 5 years as governor of Texas before becoming president. JD Vance only spent 2 years as a senator before becoming VP.
For people who haven't become president, Tammy Duckworth spent only 4 years as a congresswoman before being elected to the senate. John McCain was only a congressman for 4 years before becoming a senator.
Generally people who get national name recognition that quickly don't hang out in congress that long. Once they hit the senate, sometimes their progress stalls. See Biden, Warren, Bernie, McCain, John Edwards, John Kerry, Bob Dole, etc. But, normally national name recognition = senate, at a minimum.
Useful idiots keep shouting "she's too young" while voting for dinosaurs.
Really puts into perspective how 'smart' the average voter is.
Citizens United was such a misstep, because most people can't think for themselves and their votes can be bought by convincing them that voting for X will make them look good in front of their peers.
Senators are congresswomen, no?
Technically yes, but we commonly refer to members of the House as congressmen/women and members of the Senate as senators. Being a senator gives you more power because there are only 100 of them compared to 435 House members, so it is a meaningful distinction to make.
Nobody?
Don't think I can support anyone running against AOC. She's the best candidate by a country mile.
It's not even that she's so spectacular, it's just the other options are horrendously shit.
Gearing up for the tsunamis of useful idiots though telling me why we need a moderate candidate just like hillary and kamala.
why we need a moderate candidate just like hillary and kamala.
Screw the "don't rock the boat" candidates... unless they're the only option compared to the "let's destroy America!" candidate on the other side.
Not rocking the boat is better than setting the country on fire for no goddamn reason (if the system were burning down with a reasonable expectation we could make it better that'd be arguably different). I'm sure there are plenty that feel smugly superior for having "protested" by not voting, and I trust you don't mind the whole "country's on fire" thing going on (insert "this is fine" meme).
Not American but from my point of view it looks like you need her more than anything. Her, and preferably many more just like her. Normal intelligent people from all walks of life. Decent human beings.
This is also why I've never had an issue with Elizabeth Warren, not that I want to be shilling for her here. I would've loved to see her get a real chance at the presidency though. While she might be relatively wealthy now she also came from a comparatively normal background, and she seems to remember living it, too (I obviously don't have her voting records in front of my face, but I've read almost everything she's ever written).
Got called a misogynist at Reddit back then for daring to suggest she might be a good candidate, because apparently that's what you are if you think she might have a better temperament than trump..
I digress, though. AOC is awesome.
No need for a moderate candidate. If you have another election, people would happily vote for a mentally handicapped squirrel over whatever republican is running.
My hope is that more "quiet Democrats" get primary'd. Usually they would say "don't primary me, you'll risk losing us to the Republican candidate in the general and we have a moderate agenda that's the lesser evil".
Right now they don't have an agenda at all, no rudder, no direction. This is the time to primary tf out of the old Dems.
I’ll be glad to see the back of Corporate DINO Schumer. Though after being booted, he’ll probably regularly show up on Fox News as a token Democrat to criticize anything the government does that helps the people more than the billionaires and corporations.
People are turning against Chuck "my job is to keep the left pro-Israel" Schumer? Say it ain't so!
Try lowering your glasses even further Chuck!
Lol 😂
He'd have to have his nose surgically elongated first 😄
Nah, he can just tell a few more lies.
Cue the next learned essay about how what Democratic voters really want is centrists in 3, 2, 1...
The US has a centrist party? I thought it was right-wing or far right-wing, but to US voters, the former is "left".
You thought correctly.
No matter how much the billionaire owned establishment media narrative tries to tell people otherwise, state and federal level politicians in the US are significantly further right wing than the electorate they're supposed to accurately represent and have been for decades.
I really hope she runs for NY Senator. We need both Schumer and Gillibrand to go.
Trump already told U.S citizens that they won't be voting anymore after his election.
Ugh, 2028? So, we have to wait 4 years?
AOC 2028
AOC Now!
Hopefully she becomes a leader of the Democratic Party
That is some good news!
AOC as president and Cory Booker as VP?
Booker did stand around talking for a day. It wasn't a filibuster, because no bill was up for debate. And he pledged undying loyalty to Israel during his day of remarks.
So while I admire his energy I'm not a fan of the support of genocide.
pledged undying loyalty to Israel
I missed that part.
Definitely should have watched the entire speech.
I take everything back then.
she better research if schumers districts only vote for someone like him over her, because if they do, she isnt likely to win regardless.
It’s a statewide race.
The country will be long gone by then
At least things will be different. This is a circle jerky post for the “go aoc” SoMe activists