Nine months is forever in politics—and national polls are absurd at this stage.
However, the mass media just loves the stuff—it is pre-packaged “news” so they don’t have to do actual work.
Seriously, anyone who has not made up their mind by now is a complete idiot.
I see the evidence of this on any given day. I work with an intelligent woman who didn't even know about the homeless problems and crap in the streets in California until she visited a friend in Arizona last week. It never occurred to her that black families might have been harmed by liberal policies. Another associate takes CNN as gospel. I talk to people all the time that say totally uninformed things and you just have to bite your tongue most of the time.
30+ years ago people could look at both parties and see positives and negatives in each. Most every candidate seemed to have the country in their best interest. Those days are over.
I long for the days when you’d see bumper stickers, yard signs, buttons and t-shirts on people expressing their opinion and preference.
The goal of the dems has been to conquer and divide and they’ve done a nice job of it. Families and friends are drifting apart.
This minute I’m wearing a “Trump Winery” shirt that I got there a few weeks ago. Even this gets nasty glares. I have a red cap that I wear that’s from an organization my daughter was once in that has 0 to do with politics. Even that gets people staring at the front to be sure it doesn’t feature the “horrifying” MAGA on it. And the looks I get are like “yeah, I guess that’s ok”. Like I passed the test and they won’t attempt to pull it off my head after all. Which would be a major error on their part.
What Americans know is that they have jobs, are getting bigger tax refunds, and there 401Ks are swollen.
They would like to keep it going. Thats how America votes.
I talked to a recruiter the other day who handles mid to high level candidates. He said it has *never* been like this. Unemployment has not been this low in the history of the Republic.
He said overall were at 3%. In the recession proof sectors, like healthcare, its more like 1-2%.
At the moment, he has 2500 jobs to fill.
His candidates are not unemployed. All of them are seeking to upgrade into better positions.
We are in a Golden Age. Dont let any silly nonsense make you believe otherwise. Its white noise.
Imagine if President Trump told his supporters to answer every phone call they get for a week just so they can answer the pollsters. The Dems in the media would go insane (or insaner) trying to spin that.
With all the crap phone calls people get now, telemarketers and scammers, who talks to pollsters?
My elderly Democrat-voting mother just discovered that Buttigieg is gay. She likes Bloomberg no doubt due to the constant and honestly rather Trump-sounding tv ads. She actually agrees with the majority of what Trump stands for but due to the daytime talk shows, the evening news and the local newspaper to which she still subscribes she thinks Trump is crazy. Id imagine there are a lot of people like that.
Butt-Bern 2020
FORGET POLLS. THEY LIE! Just ask president Hillary.
I think this article makes an unstated and highly questionable assumption that voter will have made themselves any more educated come Election Day.
What is the opinion worth of a person who is ignorant?