The focus group participants offered their opinions on Tuesday, during the Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial primary, which a self-described democratic socialist narrowly lost. There's a debate in the Democratic Party about whether recent wins by democratic socialist candidates will spell trouble with more centrist voters come November.

A recent Pew Research Center survey found that about a third of Democratic voters view democratic socialist leaders positively and that a plurality of all Americans neither like nor dislike democratic socialist politicians.

Focus groups are not scientifically significant like polls, but they do provide insight into what voters are thinking and feeling about certain issues. These focus groups were held by messaging firm Engagious and marketing research group Nelson Recruiting. NPR partners with them each month as part of the Swing Voter Project.

Rich Thau, the president of Engagious, moderated both focus groups Tuesday. He said he was surprised that so many of these swing voters, who he said "tend to be attracted to more centrist political positions," said they would not automatically think negatively about a candidate who identified as a socialist.

Economic anxiety may drive an openness to socialism

The 12 voters were roughly split on approving of Trump's job performance, yet 10 of the 12 participants said they feel more economically anxious now than when Trump took office last year. And seven reported carrying a higher debt load now than they were a year ago.

Uh huh.

>>1529795
It was funny enough when voters rejected woke politics (and dementia Joe) by voting Trump. Imagine how funny it will be for voters to reject MIGA by voting for socialists

>>1529795
>cant even do the Saddam meme right

>>1529803
that's hilarious coming from you

>>1529805
>that's hilarious coming from you
You have literally no idea who I am. You fucked up one of the most iconic, and simplest, memes there is. Giving pajeets AI was a mistake.

>>1529806
trust me, we know who you are

>>1529803
What's the joke?

>>1529807
>we
No, (you) dont.

>>1529809
>What's the joke?
They're here
>>1529803
>>1529806
>>1529810

>>1529799
How are there still people who believe this?

>>1529799
The issue is conservatives have been screaming 'SOCIALISM' so much at everything, it now means doing even basic government services.
like how Mandami is installing trash bins all over NYV to get trash off the sidewalks and streets and the right wing is having a total meltdown over it saying keep the trash on the streets.

>>1529799
But Joe didn't run in '24. Even Trump forgot that. Are you all senile?

>>1529816
Socialism is anything that doesn't transfer wealth to the very richest people. If even a dollar gets sent to a poor person, then the planet has failed.

>>1529799
won't happen people would sooner vote for literally anyone else because democrats want to kill everyone else while they live in their gated communities

>>1529823
I thought Biden won the nomination during the 2024 primaries
Wasn't there a debate between Biden and Trump?

>>1529795
In about 20 years or so I'll be too old to fight my way out of communism.
But, I'll be poisoning the fuck out of the commie who don't die from lack of HIV meds in the war.

>>1529838
>NPR observed two online focus groups of Nevada voters on Tuesday night, and 10 of the 12 participants
lol you have nothing to worry about, boomer.
NPR=Not real news.

>>1529834
>Was there a debate between biden and trump?
Yeah, and biden was clearly confused, and while it's pretty obvious he was/is in cognitive decline, he surrounded himself with decent people that did a decent job managing the country, such that our post pandemic economy was called the envy of the world.

Now YOU remind ME, was there a debate between trump and the person who replaced biden. And in that debate, did she make him gasp and stutter about his crowd sizes like a fussy toddler? And didn't she outline a plan to elevate the middle class with tax cuts, right around when she made him rave about immigrants eating pets, like a demented moron. "No, it's true, I saw it on tv!"
And did you vote for him anyway because you're too much of an insecure faggot to let a qualified woman lead you, because you're so repugnantly unfuckable women have trained you to avoid them.

Kidding, that was all rhetorical, but good job throwing that stone thru that glass house ya stupid faggot.

>>1529838
>Somebody should really come put me in a home before I hurt myself and others.

Despite what we say on here and what the shills say and such you have to realize the 4chan community is very very small. If you go on actual social media aside from old people's Facebook you will see there is strong support of the far left and the socialists, if they even care at all about politics.

Most people don't care they only care about sex and family.

Don't even kid yourself and think that you matter in the big picture, ESL shill.

>If you go on actual social media aside from old people's Facebook you will see there is strong support of the far left and the socialists, if they even care at all about politics.
NTA, why did they lose the last election then?

>>1529834
there was. The DNC realized that Joe was not competent to serve a second term, so they convinced him to drop out.

The RNC has never realized this about their guy.

>>1529874
>The RNC has never realized this about their guy.
Maybe we will, after he's left office the same way dems can only admit Biden had mental problems now that he's gone.

>>1529870
>NTA
nice try esl shill

>>1529841
lol I guess it helps to read the article.
10/12, odds are 41% will kill themselves. And I'm pretty sure I'll still be able to kick the shiit out of 6 fags when I'm in my 50s.
>>1529862
Go do a left wing terrorism, tranny,

>>1529874
I'm very sure they have but they're making too much money and have too much power to care. They just keep scaling up their money power and corruption which they love.

Wow fixing nothing. DOGE was around and we're still in a 200 billion dollar deficit this budget season. Lol

>>1529870
because the people who voted for Biden decided to fuck it all after the way the DNC handled it. It was a bigger clusterfuck than Hillary in 2016.

The GOP candidate in 2024 got 3 million more votes than they did in 2020.

The DNC candidate in 2024 got 6 million fewer votes than they did in 2020.

6 million? oy veh!

>>1529882
To be fair, those 6 million voters the DNC lost were motivated by propaganda and came out to fulfill their moral imperative and Democrats absolutely ass raped them.
So, it's no surprise that Dems lost votes, given they are lying scammers with connections to media billionaires who will do anything for power.

>>1529883
meanwhile the minorities who somehow convinced themselves trump was a better choice are being targeted en masse by trump's new personal army

>>1529885
Not really, fuckwit.

>>1529887
you're getting more immature the longer you're here

>>1529796
NPR is not legitimate news.
DSA is just open borders and anti-white rhetoric
Trump would still win an election if he could run right now
ESL shills still seething

>>1529891
you're not american

>>1529888
Pretty soon I'll probably get so lazy and immature I'll just call people "esl" over and over and over again 4-7 times per thread. Won't that be fun?

>>1529891
>Trump would still win an election if he could run right now
lmao his approval rating is in the shitter and he's run probably the worst government in living memory.

esl shill loves his nickname

>>1529897
So why did Republicans win the House the Senate and the Presidency during the last major election?

>>1529934
because corporate interests have spent the last 50 years convincing americans that shit tastes great

>>1529934
Trump got elected because Democrats were mad after not having a primary in their own party, which made them want to stay home on election day. Trump won because 1/4th of all dems chose not to vote, not because Trump's failed policies were popular. People forget Trump left office the first time with a 29% approval rating based on the same policies.

>>1529936
Is corporate interest a good thing when your side does it?
https://youtu.be/L2LQW1TY0lY

>>1529934
Because they didn't have this disaster of an admin to compare it to. They gave Republicans what they wanted and see how it worked out.

>>1529940
if corporations decided to give out more healthcare free of charge i wouldn't be complaining, then again i'm not an easily hoodwinked boomer or a shill

>>1529945
Just because you didn't have to pay for the COVID vaccine doesn't mean the corporations were giving away healthcare free of charge. They were being paid billions, just not by you

>>1529948
and for some reason you're okay with that unless it benefits society generally instead of a few billionaires

>>1529949
I'm not the one watching corporate left wing media
https://youtu.be/sSkFyNVtNh8

>>1529951
you're the one shilling for the most corrupt, self-serving administration in history

>>1529952
I'm not shilling for the Joe Biden administration that's you

>>1529955
your life is humiliating, esl shill. i'm going outside now, have fun being a faggot online all day

>>1529955
They don't call em Joe Briben for nothin. Joe and Hunter Briben both trafficked kids out of Ukraine with Zelenskys help. All 3 of those liggerals made billions of dollars looting Ukraine. Just look deep into Burisma. All the proof is there.

>>1529952
Corporate interests have spent 50 years convincing Americans Democrats have their best interests at heart, and when things get worse while Democrats are in charge (like during the Biden regime) it's not their fault it's actually the fault of the prior Republican president

>>1529799
Socialist?
Too little, too late for that.
I want a gulag archipelago for all billionaires!

>esl shill impotently rages to no one

>>1529971
>I want a gulag archipelago for all billionaires!
The book you're quoting explicitly says that killing communists before they began imprisoning dissidents would've prevented that entire situation.

>>1529967
A certain Republican was President before Biden.

>>1529980
And things were great until Biden, Thus the reason Trump was re-elected.
Hopefully sane, non-homosexual voters won't be tricked again.

>>1529971
Useless.

>>1529991
I remember things getting really bad in 2020 for some reason

>>1529994
You're imagining things.

>>1529994
https://i.imgur.com/cCgEfoN.jpeg
I remember inflation not being a problem in 2020. The price of things like gas falling and the president filling up the strategic petroleum reserve

When the shills are disagreeing with each other you know they're having a sad time in shillland

There are idiots in the world that actually belive this.

>>1529934
Because Trump ran against a woman, both times. If he were to run against a straight white male, he would never have stood a chance.

>>1529874
trump's coherent biden should be in a nursing home.

>>1530100
Or Obama

>>1529874
They already have, they just don't care. Trump's a useful clown to wave around as they turn the country into a fascist oligarchical hellhole.

>>1530000
Well, all the pain actually stated in 2021 was my point.

>>1530114
Well good thing there wasn't any major world events that started in 2020 and continued into 2021, so this is probably entirely due to US politi- wait...

Get real, America is misogynistic and racist to the core. Republicans have a very long and bright future ahead of them. It is sad, but true.

>>1530114
Then your point was almost as retarded as you are, who taught you that?

>>1530000
I remember things pretty differently and Dear Leader telling us Covid wouldn’t be an issue whatsoever

>>1530117
I mean, there was COVID. 2021 was the deadliest year. And Biden mismanaged it into ruin. So, I fail to see your point.

>>1530145
Get new lies esl shill

>>1530142
Almost like the leader who promised it would blow over soon had 1.3% inflation while the leader who promised a winter of suffering and death for the unvaccinated got a 9.1% inflation rate from his fear mongering

>>1530154
>Guys obviously it was Biden saying it would be bad that caused all that inflation, and not the literal millions of deaths and hospitalizations along with complete disruption of global trade that did it
This is equivalent to saying the only reason people died in a fire is because the guy who shouted the building was on fire did it too loud.

>>1530156
Millons of people hadn't died from COVID when Trump was President. That happened during 2021 which was the deadliest year of COVID. A year Trump had nothing to do with the covid policy, unlike 2020

>>1530159
Until a vaccine or proper treatment is rolled out, pandemics, particularly their mortality rates, are universally decided by initial response. Which president was in charge of initial response anon?

>>1530165
Luckily there was a vaccine rolled out in 2021. It didn't stop Biden from fucking things up with his vaccine rollout and COVID policy

>>1530171
>It didn't stop Biden from fucking things up with his vaccine rollout and COVID policy
Ok wait, so you're saying Biden was TOO insistent people get the vaccine and quarantine, and that somehow makes him worse than Donald "eh don't worry about it" Trump?

>>1530174
What?

>>1530119
>Objective facts are "retarded"
OK. I fully understand liggeralism now.

>>1530184
Genuinely what were the problems with Biden's rollout and COVID policy. This conversation started with you saying this is because Biden's fearmongering of "yeah a lot of people will die over the winter if people don't get the vaccine" somehow led to more deaths and inflation.

>>1530189
No, the conversation started when I stated the objective fact that Biden mismanaged covid.
The "what?" should've probably been aimed at the other anon who cited "Biden's vaccine rollout". But whatever.
Since it's my belief the vast majority of people who needed the vaccine knew they needed it (essentially 55+ and the flu vaccine group) took the vaccine.
The problem was that Biden completely mismanaged COVID and cause hyper inflation. Additionally he presided over THE DEADLIEST year for COVID. And Democrats ran him on a, "Dude, trust me we got this" platform which turned into a shit explosion.

Reminder that esl shill is always objectively wrong and you do not need to debate him. Just call him a faggot

Also esl shill's forced meme will never catch on

>waaaah waaaah I'm a big cry baby
~Liggeral

>>1530220
>love calling me esl shill because I'm a retarded lolcow debasing myself for their amusement
fixed it for you, esl shill

>>1530199
>The problem was that Biden completely mismanaged COVID and cause hyper inflation.
Ok, so back to the question: how? How did he mismanage it, and how did that mismanagement contribute to the massive post-COVID inflation in ways that weren't just related to the general mass shipping and trade disruption?

>>1530304
>how?
NTA
Covid mandates and his half-baked attempt to implement the Green New Deal.
The oil markets are speculative. After he shut down the XL pipeline extension it scared off oil investors.
On top of that, he also waged a proxy war against Russia. We were buying a lot of our oil from them prior to that.

>>1530307
>Covid mandates
So wait he mismanaged COVID by being too hard on covid? Reminder; this conversation started by blaming him for the deaths in 2021, not any economic bullshit.

>The oil markets are speculative. After he shut down the XL pipeline extension it scared off oil investors.
Also this straight up didn't happen. We drilled even more after XL shuttered.

>On top of that, he also waged a proxy war against Russia. We were buying a lot of our oil from them prior to that.
Russia started that war by invading Ukraine.

>>1530309
>So wait he mismanaged COVID by being too hard on covid?
He did race-based COVID relief programs and used OSHA to devastate private businesses for not following COVID mandates.
There was a doctor's clinic in my home town that got fined 100k+ because a dozen people walked into the clinic without wearing masks. Shit like that.
We're talking about a guy that literally created a Ministry of Truth to censor people that contradicted the government's messaging on COVID. He really is an evil fucker.
>Also this straight up didn't happen.
Yeah it did happen. He limited drilling leases too.
>Russia started that war by invading Ukraine.
Yeah, but we still cut off one of our biggest energy trading partners by sanctioning Russia.

>>1530312
>He did race-based COVID relief programs and used OSHA to devastate private businesses for not following COVID mandates.
Ok this is borderline schizo behavior, and STILL doesn't address the original claim that Biden was responsible for COVID deaths.

>There was a doctor's clinic in my home town that got fined 100k+ because a dozen people walked into the clinic without wearing masks. Shit like that.
Also yeah no shit a clinic gets fined for people not following quarantine protocols DURING A PANDEMIC. You're literally taking a place where people with compromised immune systems are supposed to go, and then risking everyone inside by refusing to mask to limit spread in the middle of an outbreak.

>>1530312
>Literally created the ministry of truth.
>I have a problem when the government will not let people spread potentially deadly misinformation, and am going to insinuate that is orwellian fascism.
>I stand by a president who literally threatens journalists and the broadcast licenses of TV stations that publish unflattering stories about him.
>I'm a fucking moron in a glass house and I just threw a boulder through my living room.
Wow, you really are an evil fucker.
>I'm just getting started! We shouldn't put sanctions on Russia, they're great and when an invading force threatens the stability of our allies I think we should be giving them money! Do not underestimate what a stupid faggot I can be.

>>1530325
We should defend our allies
Ukraine is not part of our strategic alliance, NATO, nor are they part of the economic alliance we are partnered with, the European Union

>>1530353
>Ukraine is not part of our strategic alliance, NATO, nor are they part of the economic alliance we are partnered with, the European Union
Neither is Israel but look where we are.

Wanting to not allow Russia to expand by invading other countries is defending our allies indirectly.

>>1530353
Ukraine is literally between NATO and Russia, and also wants to join NATO you absolute fucking brainlet. Their economy and stability absolutely effects the nations around them.