If Biden gets out of the way (of his own accord or not) and somebody else becomes the nominee, they will have name recognition immediately. I promise you.
They really won’t. I think as someone on Lemmy you’re probably overestimating how much the average person pays attention to politics
I appreciate the non-rude and direct response. Someone else raised this point to me and I responded with this link that shows 70% of Americans watch cable news. Considering digital news is much bigger now, that means even more Americans watch the news regularly, so I believe you are incorrect.
That’s not how public perception works. Most people don’t watch the news.
That is how public perception works. Anyone who became the Democratic nominee between now and the election would instantly be famous. Their name would become a household name within a week. There’s no real way to prove this, but it just seems silly to think otherwise.
Most Americans do watch the news. The link below is a statistic just about cable news. If you included digital news, the numbers would be even higher. Here’s my source 👈😎 But as you can see 72% of Americans watch cable news.
I hope that helps ☺️
Right, anyone who thinks their name and the attention wouldn’t go viral overnight is clueless. It will go something like this:
BREAKING NEWS: Joe Biden to RESIGN FROM THE PRESIDENCY; ENDORSES GRETECHEN WHITMER
For 5 weeks:
MEDIA: omfg omfg omfg omfg
SOCIAL MEDIA: omfg omfg omfg omfg
MILLIONS GOOGLE:: “Who is Gretchen Whitmer!?”
OBAMA, BIDEN, DNC rally behind Whitmer
WHITMER’S POLLING & NAME-RECOGNITION: Skyrockets
At convention:
MEDIA: Omfg omfg omfg
GRASSROOTS: ENERGIZED.
Swing-voters: Happy to vote for someone young and a fresh face because we’re America and we like new less boring shit.
