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AOC Seen as ‘Face’ of Democratic Party — and It’s Not Even Close: New Poll

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“Currently, there is no consensus on the face of the Democrat Party, as a majority of voters either give the title to AOC (26%) or simply say there is none (26%),” Co/efficient concluded.
Never heard of Co/efficient, but “Democrat Party” is a bit of a red flag. From mediabiasfactcheck:
FiveThirtyEight, an expert on measuring and rating pollster performance, has evaluated 20 polls by co/efficient, earning 0.7 stars for accuracy, indicating they are Mixed Factual by MBFC’s criteria. They also conclude that their polling moderately favors the Right with a score of -2.7, which equates to a Right-Center polling bias. In general, co/efficient is considered moderately accurate and demonstrates a right-leaning bias in polling.
- MBFC gives The Guardian and Breitbart equivalent ratings for factuality, which is patently ridiculous
  It's not a reliable gauge of anything, and it's harmful to trust its rankings
  
  Who fact checks the fact checkers?
  
  Wikipedia. Which says MBFC is unreliable and has a pro Israel bias.
  
  42
  
  9point6.
  
  All of those sites are right-wing propaganda operations. Every single one of them.
  Factual news is almost always going to be liberal biased. Sites like these encourage journalists to bias their news stories to the right for no good reason.
  I'm surprised so many people are falling for this.
- However, co/efficient also states that it provides research for mostly Republicans, such as Gregory Steube (R-FL)
- How does Media Bias Fact Check assess the work done by Fivethirtyeight that they do not have access to as fivethirtyeight does not publish it?
  Also are we teally accepting Fivethirtyeight as a good source anymore?
  
  Isn't 538 mostly just an aggregator of other polls?
  
  No, they had their own model that Nate Silver built every year he was there. IDK who took over after he left.
  Regardless they were shuttered last month. Before the closure they removed Rassmussen for being “rightward biased” despite Rassmussen being more accurate in their predictions than fivethirtyeight
- Democrat Party
  This "red flag" is meaningless to people broke the age of 50 or so. I am a Democrat. I vote for the candidate who is a Democrat. Obama was a Democrat.
  I don't have time to get pissy over the difference between the noun and the adjective. If that's all the points they can score on us, they are welcome to them.
  The review by 538 is a much more important judgement.
  
  This “red flag” is meaningless to people broke the age of 50 or so. I am a Democrat. I vote for the candidate who is a Democrat. Obama was a Democrat.
  I get it man. I'm over 50 too and my team is the White Sox. I support the White Sox no matter that. Whats important in sports is that you support the team of your home town. Sure they were the worst team in 2024 and not entertaining to watch. Doesnt matter.
  Anyone who writes scathing articles of the sox pathetic performance in the newspaper is wrong and disloyal, and is missing the whole point of sports. Its not about celebrating human athleticism and competition in striving to to be the best a human can be, its about adherence and loyalty to the corporation who owns your local team.
  Adherence to your political party is similar. Government is not about advancing or serving society, its about eating rotten scraps off the floor and being grateful for having that much.
  
  I think you missed the entire point of my statement, which, amusingly, proves my point.
  The older generations get pissy about being called the "Democrat party" rather than "Democratic party," which, to be fair, is the proper name. But it's really a stupid thing to get worked up over.
  The fact that you didn't even realize that I we talking about such a silly little thing is reasonably good evidence that it is, in fact, irrelevant to modern democrats.

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