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This poll is *wild* Head to head Biden wins under 35s by less than three points. He is up 15 points with 65+. A bunch of the other cross-tabs look basically plausible.
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Biden is +5 in the suburbs (+19 with suburban women), +27 with “moderates” (self-ID), and wins 40% of rural whites. If you assume that under-35s are basically impossible to accurately poll in this era the guts of this thing spell an absolute collapse for Trump.
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i mean put me down for doubt on him winning 40% of whites period, let alone rural ones
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lots of other polling has Biden strong with whites
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sure but when was the last time a dem won 40% of rural whites? clinton? maybe carter? i don’t think we’ve won 40% of all whites since 08
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I mean, if you think there's nonwhite collapse and Biden is ~tied then white surge is the necessary corollary.
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true but i’m skeptical of both tbh i *can* imagine biden improving with whites as he bottoms out in the rurals and winemomification continues
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I think gender gap swallowing everything pretty much explains what we're seeing
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this poll has men at Trump+15 and women at Biden+17 and at some point that just swamps the other demographic characteristics
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so a 30-point swing by gender? that's insane, and like everything in Trump-era politics I'm wondering if it's a Trump effect or a broader (likely Dobbs-based) one.
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i think that gender gap widening actually pre-dates trump but it accelerated under him
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I wonder about the long-term effects of that trend. I had assumed it ~mostly washed out on a personal level because of geographic sorting, but a 30-point swing is nuts. Especially with the parties also being very polarized.
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just to start with, how is that stable? in my head, you get race-related or urban-rural polarization because the communities are (or can be) isolated from one another, but that doesn't work with men and women. is the future the US turning into South Korea?
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