This stood out to me:

The poll comes also as Republicans hold a slight partisan edge over Democrats, which shows that 45% of Americans are Republican or lean-Republican, while 42% are Democrat or lean-Democratic, per Gallup.

That’s a change from previous years, including in 2022, when an equal number of Americans said they consider themself a Republican or a Democrat.

Democrats held a partisan edge over Republicans in 2020, 2018 and 2016, per the average of Gallup party affiliation polls from those years.

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    1 year ago

    Do you dislike career politicians because you think they are somehow more corruptible than your average Joe Schmoe whom you’d like to share a beer with? Or do you just hate the idea of government being run by people who know what the fuck they’re doing?

    Trump was not a career politician and he did a horrible job. Maybe you should reevaluate your criteria for good leadership qualities.

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      1 year ago

      I mean why would it have to be some random person? That’s why we have elections supposedly