Exclusive: Harris leads Trump 44% to 42% in US presidential race, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

Yes

Different polls with different methods.

Many call people, some online polls (using advertising with demographic targeting), some emails to various news list subscribers, some in person polling, etc. It's definitely harder these days to get accurate numbers because fewer responders means self imposed selection bias by those answering, which can correlate to the answers you get in unpredictable ways.

There's plenty of downticket races that potentially directly affect your life more that matter.

I don’t vote in my state it won’t change anything

Wrong, wrong and wrong.
Your vote matters down-ballot. Your vote matters for a mandate. Your vote matters because you will pay attention. The trick is to get people to feel the way you do so they can rule you.

Federal, maybe, but it’s still important to vote for down ticket races, and your presidential vote can at least be a statistic toward the popular vote count. I get what you mean though, I’m from a consistently blue state.

Yeah, and it's great to see Trump's standing reversed in that one day!

Better 2-pts up with Harris than 3-pts down with Biden. I like the direction those polls are swinging, even if I wouldn't put money on an outcome.

it's honestly blowing my mind.

Wait until the convention - momentum and thunder.

Agreed, but I will say that I feel at least a bit less panicked.

Stepping aside may honestly be the single greatest show of leadership Biden has done in his lifetime. If the polls are swinging, it's as much due to him making such a historical and respectable move as it is people surprised and refreshed by Kamala Harris.

Exactly. If polls didn't matter, Biden would still be running for president. With that being said: vote.

How do you do that without violating the first amendment?

In a similar situation. Theres a zero percent chance trump doesn't win my state by at least 10 points. Still gonna vote though.

Just saw Oklahoma has one of the lowest voter turn outs in the nation. With Tulsa and Oklahoma city it's more progressive than most people realize. We've just got to get out and vote and convince those around us to do the same. I know we have the numbers to win local elections.

Lots of downticket races can be swung by a popular presidential nominee.

That said, Oklahoma's awash in O&G money and its state bureaucrats are notoriously corrupt. At some point, the sheer volume of gerrymandering, vote caging, and criminal disenfranchisement needs to be addressed. Simply shouting at people to "GO VOTE!" when they're getting handed broken machines and defective butterfly ballots and threatening robocalls isn't helping anyone, least of all the candidates they're hoping will win.

Nah, not meaningless. Any swing away from the degenerates will dispirit them.

Good for you. It may not mean anything for national elections but it could make a difference in a local one

This sub hates the following message. That's why it comes today instead of yesterday.

Focus on loyalty to ideology, not party affiliation. Left ideology has been most consistently expressed by the Green Party platform (Sanders watered it down, twice). They've lots of problems. But, they're incredibly loyal to the platform.

If the Green Party gets 5% of the general election vote then they'll be on every ballot in '28. The Democrats can't silence the platform choice in primaries as they did twice to Sanders. This would place an incredible amount of pressure on Democrats immediately and be passively sustained for four years.

In a purple state I'd vote Democrat POTUS for harm reduction. In a blue state it'd depend on the nuance of the situation. But, in a red state, I risk absolutely nothing by not for voting harm reduction.

We're the only ones completely free to act for the long term. The blue wave thinks we're too stupid to understand nuance. Political parties don't deserve your loyalty. We need be loyal to each other, especially when we're hated for our choices.

I agree, and also, go vote!

Yup, like I say, this is the bottom.

They're aggregating polls with a public methodology. Just because an organization exists doesn't mean it is pushing a bias in everything it does. If you're going to claim a bias point it out, say what they are doing to bias the results, you can't infer it from results.

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if all or almost all major news outlets have some bias towards Trump from up top since they all are the basically the same people.

"she hates dogs!!!"

LOL j/k. that's trump. trump hates dogs

Anything happens:

Russians: NUCLEAR WAR OOGY BOOGY

That's racist. Yeah, that's exactly the sort of rhetoric Repubs like to pick up.

little wh*re

LOL

so she's....melania?

Congressman Burchett with a belated Hillary Clinton endorsement.

She cares about accessibility

The HoR needs more members, that would solve it without touching the EC.

Most of us have told you tons of fucking times that we didn’t care who they ran, we were voting AGAINST Trump, not FOR Biden.

And now that you have the opportunity to vote for someone who can actually beat Trump, you're angry.

Why do always make shit up?

If you haven't noticed people on lemmy who were insisting that it had to be Biden because no one else could exceed his polling, you haven't been on lemmy for a while.

Only, we’re not not voting. So…. I guess you don’t really get your way. Do you?

Check my comment history. I'm overjoyed that we have a better candidate now. Seems like the party is with me.

Of course, you're not. Try to avoid the urge to write in Bidenyahu.