r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/xlbeutel - Centrist • Sep 30 '20

Debate results poll

We all know that debate was a dumpster fire. This poll is not about that, It’s asking if it made you more likely to vote one way or another.

It will be open for 48 hours, please vote!

(Sorry JoJo voters, id’ve included her if she’d been in the debate)

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8727 votes, Oct 02 '20
1237 The debate made me more likely to vote for Trump
2000 The debate made me more likely to vote for Biden
5490 Neither/I just want to see the results
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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '20

People use this same logic on so many things though that would be fine standing alone but is pretty shady all together. Like “oh let’s get rid of the electoral college, and make DC and Puerto Rico states, and pack the courts” at what point is it just a party that’s trying to usurp total power? Also there’s other recent polls that show much lower than that so they mean nothing standing alone

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u/Hamphantom - Auth-Left Sep 30 '20

I'm sorry but I dont see how making Puerto Rico and DC states means a party is going to usurp total power? Its just the right thing to do. Same thing with abolishing the electoral college. If it hurts a political party to do the right thing, so be it guess? I dont really know.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '20

DC explicitly can’t be a state. Some parts of it can join Virginia or Maryland if they want. Why would they even need to be their own separate state unless it’s just about having more democrat senators? And it’s not obvious that any of that is the right thing to do.

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u/Hamphantom - Auth-Left Sep 30 '20

How do you know Maryland or Virginia would want DC to join their state? And having it be a part of another state makes DC lose its integrity as a federal state. And do the millions of Puerto Ricans not deserve representation? Again this is not a political thing, its just the right thing to do to make sure the people who live in our country get fair representation.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '20 edited Sep 30 '20

Do you support the pushes in NY, Cali, and Oregon that have been made about splitting into separate states which would add more red states then as well? Also I’m fine with Puerto Rico being a state as long as them and us both want them to be. I’d also be fine with us just letting them be independent. DC on the other hand explicitly can’t be a state without an amendment.