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RFK Jr. is a right wing, conspiracy pushing, anti-vaccine candidate. He is presently running for the Democratic nomination for presidential candidate. The particular problem with the RFK Jr. candidacy is that he enjoys widespread support due to the Kennedy name and the values that the name has historically supported.

The present purpose of this community is to spread awareness of RFK Jr's actual positions and viewpoints in an effort to diminish his utility as a chaos agent and a spoiler in the upcoming election cycle.

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[Statistics] RFK Jr. has a big primary problem: Democrats like Joe Biden | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)

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This article skeptically interrogates data from recent polling. RFK Jr. supporters and various media outlets have reported that RFK Jr. has the highest favoribility rating among primary challengers in either primary. However, delving through the data shows that RFK Jr's primary source of support comes from the Republican electorate, which does not help him in a Democratic primary. Furthermore, among Democrats, Biden has a much higher favoribility rating than RFK Jr.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He really doesn't talk like a Democrat. Also it's kinda funny how since the first comment on this post was deleted, Lemmy marks the post as having "-1 comments"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, that is curious. And after you posted it said 0 comments (1 new). I don't know the proper avenue to report software bugs for Lemmy, but that is a bug.

RFK Jr's platform has nothing to do with the Democrat platform as far as I can tell. He is attempting to run as a populist with unpopular platforms, and as a Democrat with Republican platforms. His main feature that is driving a plurality of his polling favorability is that his last name is Kennedy.