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pnwmom

(108,977 posts)
Wed Sep 30, 2020, 04:32 PM Sep 2020

With 5 weeks left, Biden has the biggest lead of a Presidential candidate in 24 years:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/this-is-so-unpresidential-notes-from-the-worst-debate-in-american-history?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_093020&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5d953d84a41e4f230d455f79&cndid=57207721&hasha=1b368a0819df7dd1a92f90b159d7deba&hashb=89ed204fd1e147307fc92e1edbffc6800983e133&hashc=72b2976737ef566a2173b06f1c556c0da3a56ac56a2ca19d4eb2adc045b0705a&esrc=Keywee_Daily&utm_term=TNY_Daily&fbclid=IwAR05t8TdDS1oeP6Js681zZA6V2JSD-dMnZuPhk0LRqKEjbaTvxeDmCOLg8c

With the election now less than five weeks away, the question of Trump’s foolishness, and whether it will do him in politically, will soon be answered. Trump’s debate performance will not help him in that respect: the race was Biden’s to lose before the debate, and it almost certainly will remain that way after the debate. As of Tuesday, the RealClearPolitics national polling average had Biden up by six points nationally, and FiveThirtyEight had Biden up by seven points—a wider margin than any candidate has had at this point in a U.S. general election since Bill Clinton trounced Bob Dole, in 1996. And those polls were before the Times’ revelations about Trump’s taxes. Even the setting of Tuesday’s debate, at Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, Ohio, underscored Trump’s political weakness. Four years ago, he won Ohio, a bastion of his white working-class supporters, by eight points. Hours before the debate, a new Fox News poll showed Biden leading Trump in Ohio by five points, and the Cook Political Report changed its rating for the state from “leans Republican” to “toss up.”
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With 5 weeks left, Biden has the biggest lead of a Presidential candidate in 24 years: (Original Post) pnwmom Sep 2020 OP
Isn't it great!! Joe & Kamala are going to win and dotard goes down in flames 🔥 Thekaspervote Sep 2020 #1
Only after cessation but before they won't let T play with fire in there StClone Sep 2020 #3
And there are no stray reasons to believe magat will get any more votes to his side, either lindysalsagal Sep 2020 #2
It's not big enough superpatriotman Sep 2020 #4
Bigger is better yes indeed soothsayer Sep 2020 #6
It probably is somewhat bigger because they changed poll designs after 2016 pnwmom Sep 2020 #7
So trump/GOP crazy still coming. Look for violence flairups beachbumbob Sep 2020 #5

superpatriotman

(6,247 posts)
4. It's not big enough
Wed Sep 30, 2020, 04:49 PM
Sep 2020

This needs to be a rout. A massacre. A bigly victory.

The likes of which no one has ever seen. You know it. I know it. Everyone knows it.

pnwmom

(108,977 posts)
7. It probably is somewhat bigger because they changed poll designs after 2016
Wed Sep 30, 2020, 07:34 PM
Sep 2020

to give lower educated voters more weight, since they were underrepresented last time.

 

beachbumbob

(9,263 posts)
5. So trump/GOP crazy still coming. Look for violence flairups
Wed Sep 30, 2020, 04:58 PM
Sep 2020

going to escalate to try to make people fear and run to trump. Ain't going to work, I see trump falling to 40% nationally or lower.

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