Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Planning to Announce Independent Run

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EXCLUSIVE: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Planning to Announce Independent Run
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For now at least, polls show about 25% of Democrats would vote for him over Biden vs 13% of Republicans. This is bad.

https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-faces-disastrous-defeat-if-rfk-jr-runs-third-party-candidate-1828858

It's over a year from the election. Polls right now mean nothing.

It's more the lopsidedness than the numbers themselves that concerns me. It would only take an extraordinarily small difference to hand the election to Trump with how close it was last time and is now. But I'll try to use the optimism from this thread to smother my cynicism for now.

41 percent of Democrats have an at least somewhat favorable view of Kennedy

Yeah, no. I'd guess that only a single-digit % of Democrats - mostly Extremely Online ones - have any idea who he is; this is a survey where they pressed for lukewarm responses from mostly-uninformed voters and then pretended that it actually reflected public opinion in a meaningful way.