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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does calling them weird really influence swing voters?[/quote]

Maybe. Maybe not.

This election is about two things in terms of voters: 1) getting the base out to vote (i.e. - not losing supporters); and 2) persuading the still persuadable (a much smaller number) to vote for you.

Casting Trump, Vance, and the GOP as weird seems to be a somewhat effect pushback against the MAGA idea that they are the only "real" Americans. As a real American that loathes Trump and MAGA it's been frustrating to see him do insane things like tell sexually suggestive stories and curse at the Boy Scout Jamboree, which is one example of a million, and realize there's been no effective reaction.

Weird is also kind of a unifying label. There's no identity politics in weird. There's no wonky policy points in weird. But if you can like weird to things like laws that force 10 year olds to have their rapist's baby, well then you have successfully bonded the word to your political opponent in a very negative way and you have a chance to outline your own policies as majoritarian and mainstream.[/quote]

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