Posted on 11/01/2020 3:56:05 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Contrary to the prevailing wisdom among the cognoscenti, history and current circumstances suggest President Donald Trump is going to defeat former Vice President Joe Biden - for some of the very same reasons he came from behind in 2016 to shock the Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
It is understandable why conventional wisdom is getting this wrong again. Trump is down in the polls, the nation’s demographics are continuing to change in ways unfavorable to Trump and Republicans, the coronavirus has wrought death and economic destruction throughout the land and Trump’s personality provokes stormy oceans of antipathy - perhaps most crucially among women and suburban voters.
But Biden and his campaign are making mistakes that will ensure little of this matters. And the polls are almost certainly wrong again. The only question is by how much.
The economy is turning around, playing to Trump’s strength. The president has made significant outreach to minorities, and a relative handful of Black voters switching from Democrat to Republican could help him secure states like Georgia, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and North Carolina. Not to mention that Trump - unlike Biden - is actually campaigning for the job.
Refusing to mobilize voters by showing up in their neighborhoods early and often is another likely ill-fated Biden experiment in ignoring modern campaign practice.
Moreover, the polls are not as bad as they seem for Trump. At this point before Election Day, Trump is, on average, polling behind Biden in battleground states by nearly the same amount he trailed Clinton in 2016. Trump is going to win many of those battleground states again.
And, just like in 2016, the Electoral College and the presidency will follow.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
Yeah, it didn’t read like a typical NBC story.
Telecom tried so hard to destroy Trump.
You subscribers should at least acknowledge what’s been going on.
Death and economic destruction throughout the land?
Trump’s personality breeds antipathy?
Boy if this is one of his fans I’d hate to read one of his enemies :-)
The rare Op-Ed giving the Rat news operation the impression of honesty.
The Washington Examiner is nowhere near as Conservative as it was in the past.
So the Fake News has been shoveling the same thing a constipated bull is full of until 2 days before the election then all of a sudden we get stories like this.
Who could have guessed? /S
Now they are worried about their credibility and are throwing something out so that they can say ‘we told you he might’. They all sense it and it scares them to death.
I have noticed that.
I’m still trying to figure out if Byron York is AGAINST any politician or FOR any politician. Maybe that’s good, but I see it as someone who can’t make a decision.
I think Byron is still at the Examiner. They jump around so frequently.
The Michael Moore School of Thought.
What a headline.
Keith Koffler clearly drunk stoned or suffering mental fatigue or maybe he just didn’t feel like falling on his sword for the likes of Joe Biden
Biden is physically and mentally challenged. He is not capable of doing multiple campaign rallies.
“...he came from behind in 2016...”
He was never behind. The polls then, like now, are crap.
Byron York works in reality, which most often favors conservatism. His daily blasts highlight D folly on a regular basis, but isn’t blind to R folly either.
one of the straightest, imho.
Bidens going to get walloped and they feel it coming!
I keep reading this stuff and am baffled by it. But then I am baffled by anyone voting for Biden.
Biden is a Chinese soy and the media is complicit.
Real losers in this campaign are Big Tech and the MSM. Both bet all their credibility and political clout on defeating Trump. They will lose bigly.
MSM gave up whatever tiny thread of credibility they had with the American public.
Big Tech will be facing phone company-style monopoly breakups and be stripped of legal protections.
The Red Wave will give us the House as well. Will be a fun week ahead.
NBC, you can’t have it both ways. Your polls have been the most outrageous of all the suppression polls with Biden in double digit leads everywhere. Don’t think you are going to reestablish your lost credibility when your suppression polls did not work in successive 2016 and 2020 elections by simply saying 2 days before election day, sorry, we were bs ing you in our polls and we really thought Trump was going to win. That CYA is not going to fly
That’s true. But sometimes he frustrates me.
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