BornADemocrat

BornADemocrat's Journal

October 7, 2020

Rasmussen has Biden with a 12-point national lead

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/519999-rasmussen-biden-leads-trump-by-12-points-nationally

If even Rasmussen is showing a large lead like this...

October 2, 2020

Dow jumps 300 points minutes after Biden announces negative test

Market knows who they're rooting for, not so secretly.

September 15, 2020

200,000

September 15, 2020

Biden +4 in MN

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/09/15/morning-consult-poll-minnesota/5801624002/

Up from +3 in June. Also:

Despite the tightening race, Biden remains in the lead and other polls have found him with a more comfortable margin. On Sunday, a CBS News/YouGov poll found him leading Trump by 9 points, 50%-41%, among likely Minnesota voters and a New York Times/Sienna College poll released last week found him ahead by the same margin.

Overall, the polling site FiveThirtyEight finds Biden with a 7.6-point lead in its polling average – slightly higher than his national lead. RealClearPolitics' polling average has Biden up 8.8 points in the state.

July 11, 2020

Actually, the Supreme Court Just Gave Congress a Big Win

Trump might have won a short-term political battle. But Congress’ subpoena power is clearer than it ever was.

In the immediate aftermath of Thursday’s Supreme Court rulings on who has the right to access the president’s financial records, numerous commentators cast the decisions as a “split” that gave prosecutors a clear win but thwarted Congress’s ability to obtain Trump’s financial records. But while Trump might have won a short-term political battle by effectively managing to keep his records hidden until after the November election, there should be no confusion about who won on Thursday.

The 7-2 majority rejected Trump’s claim of absolute immunity for himself, his businesses and his children from state grand jury subpoenas and subpoenas from three congressional committees. Yes, the court did not give Congress the immediate and largely unconditional win that it handed prosecutors in New York. But that scorecard misses the bigger picture. Indeed, in some respects, Congress emerged with more clarity about its oversight powers, and how to enforce them, than it had before the Supreme Court weighed in.

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https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/07/11/actually-the-supreme-court-just-gave-congress-a-big-win-356274