Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez holds a slight lead over Vice President JD Vance in a hypothetical 2028 presidential matchup, according to a new poll.

The New York Democratic congresswoman, known as AOC, edges the likely Republican nominee 51% to 49%, in The Argument/Verasight survey released on Tuesday. However, the result was within the poll’s 2.7 percentage point margin of error, making the two candidates statistically tied. The poll asked voters who they would vote for if the election was between the two of them.

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    18 hours ago

    We’ve proven we don’t like centrist women with status quo platforms pretty convincingly. Anything more is speculative imo.

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      17 hours ago

      And yet it’s elected centrist man after centrist man. Funny, that.

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        16 hours ago

        The last time there was another option on the table he became the first black president in our nation’s history. Perhaps there’s a lesson to be learned there.

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          I think it’s a stretch to say Obama wasn’t centrist, but really it’s irrelevant. US voters were fine with voting in centrist men in if they were appealing enough, but once a centrist woman is put up, they’ll let a self-confessed wannabe dictator into office with hardly a fight.

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            Obama certainly acted like a centrist but that’s not how he campaigned which means that’s not what won him the election.

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              14 hours ago

              Again, irrelevant. Also, he won twice, so his initial campaign wasn’t the end all be all, either.

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                11 hours ago

                It’s only irrelevant if you’re intentionally ignoring facts which disagree with your conclusion

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                  Nope. It doesn’t disagree with anything, it’s just irrelevant. Two admittedly centrist women missed the vote to the most vile candidate possible, while countless centrist men won to slightly farther right opponents. That math is crystal clear, and Obama’s first election has no bearing on that.

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      I guarantee you a far left woman like AOC is not going to get elected. Too many independents think she’s too far left. The right can win by being extreme right. The left can’t win by being extreme left. Not in this shithole.

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        That’s what they said about far left black men until Obama came along running as a progressive and won handily. For some reason we didn’t learn any lessons from that and went right back to boring centrist candidates afterwards.