Culture Walz, AOC to play Madden on Twitch in an appeal to young men - "hey let's watch this over sunday night football"

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Vice President Harris’s running mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.), and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y) are set to play Madden NFL together on the live-streaming platform Twitch on Sunday.

The announcement comes as the Harris campaign seeks to court young male voters, a voting bloc that former President Trump seems to be leading with in the polls.

The Harvard Institute of Politics youth poll found that the gender gap among youth supporters of Harris and Trump more than doubled since the spring, growing from 8 percentage points in the spring, when President Biden was the Democratic nominee, to 20 points now, with Harris as the party’s candidate.

Polling has also shown the Democratic nominee trailing behind Trump among male voters in key swing states.

A CNN/SSRS poll from September showed Trump leading Harris among likely male voters in Pennsylvania by 15 points — 55 percent to 40 percent — and Harris leading Trump among female voters in the state by 11 points — 53 percent to 42 percent.

The survey of likely voters in Nevada showed Trump with an 18-point lead among male voters, 57 percent to 39 percent, while Harris had a 16-point lead among female voters, 55 percent to 39 percent.

The campaign has used Twitch to attract younger voters in the past, even using the platform, along with TikTok, YouTube and more than a dozen digital services, to stream the Democratic National Convention in August.

This announcement also comes amid a series of ads on Yahoo Sports and DraftKings — platforms with predominantly male audiences — launched by the Harris campaign last week specifically aimed at winning over young male voters.

Earlier this month, some Democrats expressed worry that Harris is struggling to engage men in the final weeks of the presidential campaign.

“She has a problem with men for the same reason Hillary Clinton did: because misogyny exists, as do outdated ideas about who should hold the presidency,” Democratic strategist Christy Setzer told The Hill earlier this month. “Meanwhile, Trump has doubled down on this ‘strongman’ machismo and dictator’s act, playing ‘It’s a Man’s World’ at his rallies.”

Clinton lost the male vote to Trump in 2016 by 11 points, 41 percent to 52 percent, while she won the female vote by 13 points, 54 percent to 41 percent.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4955458-harris-campaign-courting-young-male-voters/ (Archive)

Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/aoc
 
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chiobu said:
“She has a problem with men for the same reason Hillary Clinton did: because misogyny exists, as do outdated ideas about who should hold the presidency,” Democratic strategist Christy Setzer told The Hill earlier this month. “Meanwhile, Trump has doubled down on this ‘strongman’ machismo and dictator’s act, playing ‘It’s a Man’s World’ at his rallies.”
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Good lord. This shit is what I like to call a "phantom problem". Where the victims say it happens "all the time", and the people part of the group perpetrating it are like, "but when, and where, and why are you talking in vague terms to someone sitting so far outside the problem that none of this is useful but to scold the person in the supposed offending group to don't do the thing wrong they weren't doing in the first place."

Misogyny isn't the reason that people didn't like Hillary Clinton. That assumes all women are like Hillary, and thankfully, they aren't.

Also, it assumes that misogyny is hatred of complete morons, like AOC is and who kind of bring it on themselves. That said, it might be misogyny to theorize that once she hits the wall, nobody will pay attention to her anymore.
 
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"Men love sports and videogames, don't they?"

It's insulting at this point. All you need to do is sit down and talk to one man, ONE SINGLE MAN, outside of your bubble to find out how to better appeal to them.

You have Ocasio-Cortez among your tools here, i'm pretty sure men would've lined up to watch her e-girl through some videogames, but that would mean you'd have to pretend not to hate them for an hour or two, which is fucking impossible apparently.
 
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Niggers love football almost as much as they love crime. Not a single one is going to miss an actual league game to watch some dot head hoe not take her clothes off on twitch.
 
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Gentle reminder that the last few Madden games in the franchise are largely considered to be some of the worst video games in recent memory. You would think they’d play Overwatch 2 or something along those lines, since Walz loves China-favored Blizzard.
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This. Because of EA's exclusivity rights to Madden and FIFA, they've been hard-copying their previous entries with no shame and people buy them simply because it's the only thing available.

It's literally the same game but with a roster change.
 
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have these people ever met and interacted with a normal young man in their entire lives?
this is what a woman who grew up in a convent populated only by nuns that learned what men were through the internet would do
 
Jannies are going to be working overtime with bonus pay lol. This is going to be so cringey.

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Also, doubt most Trump voters even play the normie slop. If you are going to do this, at least pick a good game.
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When they say 'men' they mean 'black men.' Also could you imagine Dems playing anything with guns in it? What is left? "We are gonna reach da home boys with Among Us and Mine Craft role play n'sheeeit"
 
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Jannies are going to be working overtime with bonus pay lol. This is going to be so cringey.
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Going to be? It happened 30 minutes ago.
Señora Airi said:
So they did a stream of an NFL simulation game, during the time in which actual NFL games were going on?

They really are retarded aren't they?
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The VOD has 3.5k views and the comments seem split 50-50 between fans and hecklers. Might blow up later tbf but so far it's looking like a flop.
 
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Not going to watch unless AOC has to play Bloodborne and get past Father Gascoigne.
 
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