This week’s Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows Joe Biden doing three percentage points better than last week’s Yahoo News/YouGov poll. This isn’t the most bullish survey for the Democratic nominee, but it now shows Biden with all-time high 11 -point (51-40) national lead over the liar-in-chief.
Their explanation?
The president has struggled to rebound over the past three weeks from a widely panned first debate performance and a COVID-19 outbreak that sent him to the hospital and sickened others in and around the White House. Yet the main reason Trump appears to have fallen even further behind Biden in recent days is that coronavirus cases are peaking just as the campaign is coming to a close. On Friday, new daily cases cleared 70,000 nationwide for the first time since July; hospitalizations are increasing in 39 states, and are at or near their all-time peak in 16 states.
They forgot to mention that even before the debate, there was that little thing where people finally got to see his financial records and learned that Trump pays no taxes even when he owes them, that he’s completely broke, and that he’s been lying his ass off about his net worth.
The news has been unrelentingly bad for Trump and he’s been acting like even more of an irresponsible and deranged lunatic than normal. But it’s interesting to see that this particular pollster is seeing a direct hit from the new spike in COVID-19 cases.
That is exactly how things should be. He’s working on a quarter million unnecessary deaths on his bloody hands, and it’d be a shame if he wasn’t paying a price for it. People can clearly see that the pandemic is nowhere near under control, and he’s doing phone calls with his peeps where he says, “People are tired of covid. I have the biggest rallies I’ve ever had. And we have covid. People are saying, ‘Whatever — just leave us alone.’”
The polls suggest people are indeed tired of Covid, but their message may be a bit different. It looks like they want someone who takes the problem seriously, and that’s not good news for the president.
They are indeed bloody hands. One would hope this pandemic has pulled the mask off the entire sociopathic entity otherwise known as the Republican Party. Anything less than a landslide ushering in a new political era will disappoint me immensely. I’m prepared to be disappointed.
413EV
290EV.
Right-wing authoritarians always come home.
Either scenario strikes me as feasible. RWAs are predictable. Question comes down to numbers. Who actually shows up to vote. Who actually casts ballots – by mail or in person (my preferred approach). Assuming RWAs come home as usual, are they enough, at least to make it close? Do we have any idea how many RWAs still respect their nominal leader? Are there some who are wanting to hold out for a better leader? LWAs are likely to do that sort of thing. Only thing I’m assuming anymore is that this is a turnout election. Winning the trifecta – House, Senate, and White House – strikes me as the ultimate objective. I’ve been doing what I can. Hoping to whatever deity anyone prays to that the forces of darkness are defeated for now.
My cousin called the life squad yesterday for her mom and dad. They were diagnosed last week for Covid. My aunt is a two time cancer survivor, and my uncle has chronic leukemia. He was having trouble breathing and she is coughing and running a fever.
Fuck Donald Trump. Fuck Him all the way to the gates of hell. And put every one of his supporters in the line right behind him. I want Trump to personally suffer an horrific and tortuous death. The man is beyond vile and inhumane. It didn’t have to be this way. This was the choice of Trump and every Republican in this country. I will hate them all until the day I die.
I want Trump to lose bigly, get stopped on a runway in the process of fleeing, and serve out a nice long prison sentence in the US. I hope Trump lives to 100.
I really wish that I could believe we live in a country where I would have the privilege of seeing Trump shuffle into a courtroom in shackles for all his crimes. Sadly, I don’t think that will happen. I don’t think he will suffer any personal consequences, other than maybe some financial ones, for all of the horrific things he has done and overseen. There are more than enough powerful and wealthy people who have benefitted greatly from the Trump grift to make certain that his financial spread is covered, and that he walks away from all of this with not much more than a scratch to his political fortunes. He will suffer so little that, should he lose, he will likely run again in 2024, and none of what has happened in the interim will matter. Between a complicit and compliant media, and a Republican Party that recognizes very well that it is Trump who butters their bread, he will probably pick up right where he left off. That is just the lay of the land in the good old U.S.A. in 2020. My hope is always there, but the cynicism of my personal experience these last four years overrides even my most optimistic instincts about how things actually work in the present day United States of America.
I look at it like this. If corrupt and criminal politicians get away with it this time, that’s it. The next Republican President will know that if the rule of law doesn’t apply to their criminal activities after they give up power, there’s no reason to give up power in the first place, because the law is irrelevant.
There has to be OPEN and TRANSPARENT investigations that go where they need to, and can take out Republicans and Democrat – ALL criminals. It needs to be broadcast on CSPAN live, every day. Let the chips fall where they may.
This is it. Either we clean up the government and let the decent politicians who survive write stronger laws to keep the government clean, or this is likely the last time we’ll still have an elected President and not just a sham dictator.
So, I don’t want anything bad to happen to Trump physically. I want justice done legally.
Yes, like virtually every Democrat I know, we want the system we have in place for dealing with this sort of criminality and corruption to work the way it is meant to work. I want to have some confidence restored in our processes. I recognize these very same processes have been skewed against poor people and people of color since their inception, and still are on this very day. But times like these are the very reasons the Founding Fathers framed things the way they did. They expected us to always, as a country, respect the basic tenets of the founding documents. This is nothing more than USA-101. If we can’t find a way to deal with this man, and his cronies, then we might as well just go ahead and push the flush handle on this whole fucking ordeal, lock and load our weapons, and start figuring out who should be the first ones in our crosshairs, because that is the way things are headed.
I want Herr Combover to lose bigly as well. Would love to see the whole lot of that crime family locked up. Probably more realistic scenario is they manage to flee to Dubai while they can, Trump gets into the radio talkshow biz to become the next Rush Limbaugh, and the sheep follow. The ensuing decade is ugly and violent, but we get a brief reprieve.
I’ve thought for quite a while that Trumpster and family are planning to create a media company post-election. They have a built-in audience from Fox news that they can poach. The QANONs will leave Alex Jones’ operation and other conspiracy outlets, and Limbaugh has terminal cancer. This business adventure has been in the works for awhile.
I’m with you there brother. This guy has to suffer given how much so many have suffered from every fucking lie.
State polls still look like Biden +6 at the tipping point. I wish it were higher, but there’s less elasticity in the swing states. That can be a good thing, though.
Right, but that also means we just need a 1-2 point polling error in our favor to get 413EV
Unfortunately I am unable to join in the good times of watching this hideous POS lose. I am still too fearful The Orange Turd will pull it out. Hope everyone is right. But forget the fucking national polls, if anything it hangs on Pennsylvania. I so want to celebrate a Biden win. ( never thought I would be saying that.)
BTW why are we rushing to pass another round of stimulus? That reminds me of playing into this asses hands.
After having passed not one, but two additional relief bills that McConnell didn’t even deign to read, Pelosi spending 12 hours a day with Mnuchin desperately seeking another round of pre-election stimulus to pass a week before the election[!] seems Political Malpractice 101. Obviously her caucus must want it for humanitarian purposes, thinking it cannot pass after the election. Perhaps it helps Dem members in purple districts as well. But it seems to me that its passage saves the at-risk Repubs in the senate, preserves the Gravedigger’s majority to destroy a Biden admin before he’s even elected, and could even cause Trump’s “re-election” as the “savior” of the economy. It would be interesting to get Booman’s take on this one. Seems like political lunacy to me.
New Coronavirus Spike is Hitting Trump in the Balls.
Fixed it for you. It’s childish, but it makes me happy. Sue me.
Unfortunately, given the state of both the fragile election machinery and the crazy quilt of state election laws in the country (as interpreted by Trumpist/”conservative” judges across the nation), the preferred outcome as measured by poll after poll will have an extremely difficult time being turned into certified state election results. And this is before Trumpolini’s intentional sabotage of the USPS (still ongoing, despite favorable news reports) and the latest tactic of rightwing yahoo males and “proud boys” now showing up in their monster pickups to clog early voting parking lots in Blue counties, while attempting to intimidate voters. Those reports do not indicate if the authorities are doing anything about these brownshirt incidents, and indeed may not be able to.
Another enormous problem here is that a Biden victory without the defeat of Gravedigger McConnell not only accomplishes nothing, it ruins any hope for 2024, as Biden will then simply be the failed president who presided over the death spiral of the country, ala James Buchanan. He isn’t helping himself any by acting as though he could work with McConnell, and yapping (pretending?) that “bipartisanship” still exists in the Repub senate. (“Mitch let us pass cancer funding and named it after my boy!” Good Christ.) Uncle Joe doesn’t ever say, “if I don’t have a Dem senate, then kiss any hope of emerging from the Covid crisis goodbye”.
The 21st Century has been a disaster for the US, and I have to say that while it’s heartening to see what MOST of the citizenry actually desire, their desires ultimately have not been turned into reality, as a result of the (minority faction) “conservative” movement and its perversion of all US institutions. I wonder if it is not simply wishful thinking to foresee an end to it. Polls ultimately are a very weak reed, never more than now.