Posted on 08/29/2020 1:35:53 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
President Donald Trump has found another cause to bang his drum about. He wants college football to come back, after some conferences have delayed their seasons.
Trump's been specifically loud about the lack of football in the Big 10 -- which houses college football powerhouses in key Great Lake battleground states such as Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin -- while omitting mention of the Pac-12, Mid-American and Mountain West conferences, which have also decided not to play this fall. "I've been calling for football to be back, including Big 10. Big 10, get with it. Open up your season, Big 10," the President said at his Friday rally in New Hampshire.
A look at the numbers helps explain why Trump yearns for Big 10 college football to return to these states, but it also reveals why Trump should be careful for what he wishes (i.e. Americans don't seem to be aching for college life or sports to return to normal).
Trump's path to winning the White House shrinks considerably without winning in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. If former Vice President Joe Biden takes the three states and all of the states Hillary Clinton won in 2016, he'll have over 270 electoral votes. Biden would almost certainly win all the Clinton states if he won in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
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A trick play.
The GOP flea-flicker?
Yeah, we like this twilight zone existence. What a stupid thing to say.
CNN fake news.
I can remember the media’s bias being subtle, hard to detect. Now it’s in your face flagrant, no holds barred biased crap. The media is an adjunct of the rabid commie left.
Funny how these CNN folks think they have their fingers on the pulse of America !!
ML/NJ
CNN is pretty much Democrat Party propaganda — wall to wall.
I stopped reading when I got to CNN.
And the 50,000 March in D.C. Wasn’t???
People want life back normal. Fall football at HS, College and Pro is a part of that. Return of football creates the psychological perception with dropping case numbers that the Virus has been defeated. People are tired of lock downs. He would score of lints for defeating the virus
Am I stupid for agreeing?
Funny how these CNN folks think they have their fingers on the pulse of America !!
CNN has their fingers on the pulse of the media in the New York / Washington axis. It’s a bit of a skewed sample of public opinion.
To the fearful and unbelieving, everything is risky and threatening.
Go away Convoluted News Network.
CNN probably based that statement on the awful TV ratings for sports broadcasts in recent weeks.
CNN is scared. Americans don’t want college football? Maybe in your leftist bubble. Here in AMERICA, college football is hugely important.
Trump is absolutely right to call out the political decision made to cancel the Big 10’s season. The big supporters of this are of course, Democrats. Once Midwesterners see everybody else playing, the Democrats will get the full “credit” for having sabotaged their season.
Harry Enten is a Senior Writer and Analyst for CNN Politics, where he specializes in data-driven journalism, covering politics with a focus on poll numbers and electoral trends.
Prior to joining CNN, Enten was a senior political writer at FiveThirtyEight. There he became known as ‘FiveThirtyEight’s ‘Whiz Kid’ for his sharp analysis of politics using polling data combined with demographics and history. He also previously worked at The Guardian.
Enten graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude from Dartmouth College with a degree in Government. He is a diehard Buffalo Bills fan from the Bronx, NY.
Never heard of him.
>> CNN is scared
CNN is ATT. It has nothing to worry.
Too bad ATT isn’t scared of its complacent subscribers/investors.
Obviously written by someone who has never lived in the South or Midwest.
The CNN propagandist is following orders.
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