That poll putting Trump ahead of Biden in all the major battleground states sure looks terrifying, but there's never been an election more clouded by the unknown than this one.

That poll putting Trump ahead of Biden in all the major battleground states sure looks terrifying, but there’s never been an election more clouded by the unknown than this one.

A week after Halloween and the scary monsters are still abroad in the land.

Scary polls!

Scary plans!

Boogedy, boogedy!

It was a great weekend for intellectual doomscrolling, to say nothing of galloping paranoia. First, The New York Times comes out with a poll that shows the president is trailing Fulton County (Ga.) Inmate No. PO1135809 in all the major battleground states.

  • xenomor@lemmy.world
    655·
    1 year ago

    I’m seeing a lot of what looks like famous last words in this thread. I just don’t know where you people get this confidence in the American people from.

    • swearengen@sopuli.xyz
      33·
      1 year ago

      I just don’t know where you people get this confidence in the American people from.

      Same. 2016 and covid were just a little taste of how low we can go. I don’t doubt that it can get worse.

    • redfellow@sopuli.xyz
      233·
      1 year ago

      This, 100%. Americans were the people dumb enough to elect Trump. They haven’t changed that much in 8 years. All bets are off.

        • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
          153·
          1 year ago

          He lost pretty convincingly. It was only 3 years ago. You don’t remember Biden voters lining up to vote early, during a worldwide pandemic, just to kick Trump while he was down.

          Biden won 25 states, the District of Columbia, and one congressional district in Nebraska, totaling 306 electoral votes. Trump won 25 states and one congressional district in Maine, totaling 232 electoral votes. This result was exactly the reverse of Trump’s victory, 306 to 232, in 2016 (excluding faithless electors).[321] Biden became the first Democrat to win the presidential election in Georgia since 1992 and in Arizona since 1996,[20] and the first candidate to win nationally without Florida since 1992 and Ohio since 1960, casting doubt on Ohio’s continued status as a bellwether state.[322] Biden carried five states won by Trump in 2016: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. He also became the first Democrat since 2008 to carry Nebraska’s 2nd congressional district, winning one electoral vote from the state. Trump did not win any states won by Clinton in 2016.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election

            • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
              123·
              1 year ago

              Why would you care about that? That doesn’t decide the election. Anyway, he lost that by 4.5% (7 million votes). Biden’s percentage (51.3%) was the highest for a challenger to an incumbent president since 1932. Trump got completely stomped.

            • grogthax@lemmy.world
              52·
              1 year ago

              I will never understand the proclivity to just make numbers and shit up when the sum of all human knowledge is at your finger tips.

      • Telorand@reddthat.com
        6·
        1 year ago

        This. People seem to think the voting public has a memory. As ever, these early analyses are meaningless.