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Fair enough. I'm talking about the fact that half the country is currently polling that way. Polls are flawed, don't reflect what's asked, etc., etc., showing any contest at all is problematic, given what we know about trump. Pew says we're about 50/50 D vs R, and I'd guess 40% of the GOP supports trump, which comes out to about 20% of the country. here's the pew ref: pewresearch.org/politic…
Fair enough. I'm talking about the fact that half the country is currently polling that way. Polls are flawed, don't reflect what's asked, etc., etc., showing any contest at all is problematic, given what we know about trump. Pew says we're about 50/50 D vs R, and I'd guess 40% of the GOP supports trump, which comes out to about 20% of the country. here's the pew ref: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/09/the-partisanship-and-ideology-of-american-voters/
And my point is, the poll reports, data AND the language used, are skewed to SOUND like half the country supports Trump. That’s a gross exaggeration. A decided minority of Americans even have any respect left for that man. His rabid Republican base is more like a cult than anything else. The Oligarchs who put money into keeping him in play politically are using him as a tool to bring us around to autocracy. He does have a base of support, but I get eternally tired of hearing that half of us support and respect that man, because that isn’t so. .
{I’m also exhausted by how much we hear about how old Joe is and how we hear little or nothing about the energy the man has expended all around the world putting our country back on a firm footing and strengthening alliances that The Other Guy decimated when he was in the White House. }
Recall Dukakis led Bush by 18 points on Labor Day, enough about Memorial Day polls.