Chill out people - this election will be 1980 in reverse

[AmericanCanuck]

In 1980, end of October polling had Reagan 47% and Jimmy Carter 44%. Reagan's lead see-sawed in September and October - hardly stable.

However, the atmosphere was governed by high interest rates, high inflation, long gas lines and the Iran hostage crisis. Reagan won in a landslide and we nearly lost the senate.

This year is the reverse - we have an incumbent Trump with Covid, a crashing economy, high unemployment, a perpetually lying and amoral president - that is the atmosphere.

Biden will win in a landslide. His lead is persistent and stable.

[roamer65]

1. 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

[Polybius]

2. Biden has an outside chance of winning by 9

However, Biden is not coming anywhere close to 489 EV's. I predict 310, and I'll take it. It's a win.

[amb123]

3. Actually Dems did lose the Senate in 1980

But, like a reverse 1980, we will get the Senate back in 2020.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_United_States_Senate_elections

[Shermann]

4. Reverse 1980's sound good to me

Bald guys get to be the rock stars.

Smart kids get to be the cool kids.

TV and movie actors go back to acting and stay out of politics.

Blue is the new Red!

[sarisataka]

5. Oh good,

Since it is going to be a landslide I guess I don't even have to bother voting. What does one vote more or less matter?


Just in case it isn't clear-

[AmericanCanuck]

6. I said chill out - I didn't say don't vote

[sarisataka]

10. It is my opinion

That the predictions of overwhelming victory are more harmful than the doom and gloom posts. I want everyone to feel a sense of urgency that they need to vote because we may need every last vote.

I fully expect Biden to win the popular vote by a greater margin than Hillary did in 2016.However I also know that popular vote margin does not matter one iota.We need electoral votes and even though people don't want to hear it, just like many did not want to hear it in 2016, trump has too many paths to win the electoral college. I don't want us to take the role of the hare from the fable and ease up because we are ahead. Again.

[BannonsLiver]

9. Where did the poster say not to vote?

[sarisataka]

11. It is not necessary to be explicit

to give the impression a person's vote is not needed.

We should have learned that it only takes a small percentage of votes in a few key states to see a victory slip away.

[BannonsLiver]

12. Yeah, that's not happening here though.

DU is awash with Doomers. Confident people are clearly outnumbered by those who are not.

[LuvNewcastle]

7. It's been said by many historians that

that our political pendulum swings every 40 years, roughly, in the U.S. 1980 ushered in a new era of Republican dominance in our government that had been in Democratic hands since 1932, so we were ripe for a change. Now we’re 40 years since Reagan was elected and we’re poised to take control of a country that has been wrecked by Republican corruption. If we’re smart, we’ll seize the moment and usher in a new era of reform and government that’s responsive to the people’s needs.

[Demsrule86]

8. Thanks for this...I agree.