Polls regarding voting intent have become incredibly unreliable over the last decade.
Especially when there is a fascist government in charge that wants to murder all opposition. Like, hell no am I going to tell a random phone number how I’m going to vote.
Almost like the reporting on it is intentionally misleading. Really odd.
Conservative rural voters don’t detest datacenters, they detest density, traffic, noise, etc. they assume datacenters will bring. This same “not in my backyard”-ism defeats other things that would be environmentally good, but sometimes folksy ignorance happens by chance to do the right thing.
I’ll believe it when Trump is hanging from a lamppost. Until then, these headlines are disinformation and should be disregarded.
that poor lamppost… what did it do to you for you to punish it that badly?
i know. we’ll never get the stink out
There’s a travel Youtuber I used to watch who goes around to places in the US to “just ask questions” to the locals. (read: looks for conservative opinions)
He has a couple of videos where he goes to natural disaster affected areas. The locals said in the Trump years the government provided more support than the Biden administration. I’m finding that kind of hard to believe considering the news stories seem to say the opposite.
Polls might go one way or the other on certain issues, but the GOP has done a good job of psychologically priming their base to reflexively default voting for them in the end.
Strong guarantee that the data center issue is not enough to get conservatives voting for any democrat no matter how much they talk about jesus or whatever
Nothing will push them to vote Dem.
They may vote for an independent candidate or not vote at all, but they will not vote Dem, regardless of how many Dem policies align with their own.
Some of them actually will. Not everyone who dumbly voted for Trump is a hardcore magat, it just looks that way on social media
I live in maga central and I do know people who’ve changed over to voting for Dems.
There’s really no need for this level of cynicism. I understand why you feel this way but it doesn’t help anything.
A shitton of voters will NEVER vote for a Dem, no matter how bad things get. For some it’s gun rights, for others it’s being anti-abortion or anti-LGBT, and most believe liberals are EXTREMISTS because Fox News pounds that into their brain 24/7.
Just wait until they hear about what billionaires are doing to their children.
Yea… my super maga dad is all pissed off about data centers. Don’t think it would get him to vote dem, but it did sway his primary vote towards an anti DC candidate.
I thought yall guys over there are all proud of how the US is the epicenter of the whole internet. Hmmm, I wonder, where said internet is hosted.
Most couldn’t care less, and people like my dad has a rudimentary understanding of how the internet works anyway.
And the issue the US is having with data centers isn’t generally with infrastructure like hosting ones, but the mass build out of hyperscale AI data centers with no regard to available power, water, etc.
Decades of leftist organizing couldn’t do it. One server farm drinking the town aquifer to make AI slop did it in a year.
Rural American voters weren’t actually the conservative base they are today until relatively recently, at least not in all the same ways we see them today. Through the first half of the 20th century rural mine workers and even agriculturalists all over were part of progressive movements of their time.
Turns out »bringing the future to rural America« is a tougher sell when the future arrives as a windowless warehouse guzzling water and electricity while your bills climb. Republicans get the backlash, Democrats get the votes, and both parties get checks from the same tech lobby. Truly bipartisan innovation.
I don’t really believe this. Yes, a lot hate data centers but they blame dems.
It’s funny I see this interviews etc… and I’m still not convinced
the dumbest rural 24/7 fox news watching, over 50 year old, truck driving, mozzarella stick and ice cream treat eating, “Applebee’s, redlobster and olive garden are fancy eatin” Hogs will never vote in a democrat.
Like if Kansas, Iowa, or Nebraska flips blue maybe I’ll change my mind
if Mississippi flips blue I’ll go to church
we aint all that happy with them down south neither
Ms. Whitmer you killed your career over buildings
