RFK Jr. polling at 20%. Erin Burnett Outfront up next. 7:15 PM EST

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[JohnSJ]

1. Well some people are still watching CNN exploit a worthless poll from someone who won't win a

single primary contest.

RFK jr ‘s family won’t support him. That says volumes

and I remain skeptical that anyone who says they are a Democrat is supporting him

This is from an anti vaxer, applauded by Bannon, and praising Tucker Carlson for his bravery

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8. I hope you are right.

[JohnSJ]

16. One poll means very little..

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

17. Oh please

The poll was rubbish, done on behalf of a rubbish media outlet, for rubbish reasons.

Like what we're seeing now.

Fox commissioned that poll not to get the mood of the country, but to find some kind of way to promote a stupid and dishonest "Biden in trouble/Democrats in disarray" narrative.

And now we're seeing how it works: Fox does the poll and puts the chum in the water by talking about their useless poll's results on the air (and it is useless, since it has an unacceptable margin of error--never take a poll seriously if that margin is over 3%).

The stupid brigade of the anti-Democratic left, who don't understand maths or use any critical thinking at all, got their knickers in a twist about it, as they always do because they're always ready to believe the worst about Democrats.

CNN, ever watchful for anything to feed into their own long-running fondness for a "Democratic POTUS in trouble/Democrats in disarray" narrative, found enough idiots "getting excited" about AntiFacts rfk the lesser. Now they're expanding the Fox propaganda, because "some are saying." Never mind that the only "some" doing that talking are either rw propagandists or half-wits in the general public.

Now the John Public morons are again talking about the rubbish poll results because "more respectable" CNN has. So it will seep over to the other corporate lapdog media outlets and chattering classes, and become "a thing."

Congratulations. You're perpetuating the very narrative that Fox wanted you to talk about.

All this over a poll 8 months out from actual primary season, when polls are notorious for being unreliable, and only done to create BS media narratives. And worst of all: A rubbish poll showing a candidate getting a laughable 19% from Democrats themselves. Do you realize that if you held a poll tomorrow asking people if the earth was a spheroid or flat, 19% would probably answer flat?

I don't get why so many Americans can't get some perspective based on reality. It would work wonders to kill narratives like this in their tracks.

[Demsrule86]

2. More bullshit...sigh. He should run as Republican...and I read some polls and most of the voters

were Trump supporters...either GOP types or Libertarians.

[Texaswitchy]

3. Look behind him and see a Republican.

Hope we do not have a 2016.

[Bucky]

4. Wait till he opens his mouth

At least this will get the rest of the Kennedy family up off the bench and back into the public square

[RegulatedCapitalistD]

5. We need to POUND the fact that Steve Bannon

Is behind him

[Sky Jewels]

6. Meh. Who cares? He's not going to get the nomination.

[Fiendish Thingy]

7. He won't win a single delegate in a single state. Nt

[DemocraticPatriot]

15. I think he might win a single delegate in a single state, at least--

especially if President Joe Biden does not appear on the New Hampshire primary ballot because New Hampshire cannot be made to follow the Democratic primary schedule, since Republicans control the state...


I expect President Joe Biden to win handily in New Hampshire on a "write-in" vote,
if his name is not on the primary ballot.

Whether RFK Jr. wins a single delegate is a smaller question, compared with "will his candidacy continue until there is a single primary", IMHO.

Both his father and his uncle had serious ideological issues, as well as great groundswells of grass-roots party supporters which were demanding their candidacies when they ran for president. RFK Jr. has neither.

[Xavier Breath]

9. Where, in his own home?

[Sympthsical]

10. Of the great many things I am not worried about

I am not worried about this most.

[yardwork]

13. +1

[Poiuyt]

11. It's all because of name recognition right now

"Oh, he's a Kennedy. He must be good."

Wait until they hear him talk. I just hope he doesn't do too much damage in the meantime.

[DemocraticPatriot]

14. Yup. He was blessed with a great, great name

but squandered it--- and now may be a conduit for various dangerous communicable diseases...

[DemocraticPatriot]

12. The acorn may not fall far from the tree, but sometimes it is carried far away

by rabid anti-vax squirrels.... as is the case of RFK Jr.


Why anyone feels that a candidate polling 19% or 20% against an incumbent who is outpolling him by more than 3 to 1,
is worthy of any note whatsoever is beyond me.


Let me put this into perspective:

At this point in the 1967, RFK Jr's father was ahead of President Johnson in the polls for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination...

At this point in 1979, his uncle Ted was leading President Carter in polling for 1980 by a margin of more than 2-to-1!

And neither of them were declared candidates at the time.


In comparison, 19% or 20% is a piss-poor showing, and clearly there is no great desire for his candidacy.


RFK Jr. will be very lucky to become even a "footnote in history".