The bias against Trump is much greater. He does a good job creating his own turmoil and controversies…but the amount of things he says that get taken out of context, the straight up lies and fabrications against him is insane.
Its why many people don’t trust the media. Sure he does and says stupid sh*t but when you also call him a Russian agent and a nazi everything the media says loses credibility. They’ve become the boy who cried wolf and real issues and concerns get dismissed as fake newz.
Thought I'd do a comparison of numbers one week later...
National: 42% (D) / 40% (R)
GA: 49% (R) / 45% (D)
NC: 34% (R) / 34% (D)
AZ: 43% (R) / 35% (D)
NV: 41% (R) / 35% (D)
WI: 35% (D) / 23% (R)
MI: 52% (D) / 38% (R)
PA: 60% (D) / 30% (R)
All those numbers were pulled from NBC's data site because that was what I originally used last week. Other data sites have similar but slightly different numbers. As a reminder, share of early in-person and mail-in votes for the 2020 cycle was estimated around 60% (D) / 32% (R) and for the 2016 cycle it was somewhere around 54% (D) / 52% (R).
2020 was an abnormal year for early/mail-in turnout, heavily favoring the Democrat party due to both the pandemic and Trump's insistence for his voters to wait till Election Day. Probably makes that year not the best for comparison. It actually appears, at least on a national level, that this cycle will more closely resemble 2016. That would not necessarily point to an inherent pre-Election Day strength for either party. Battleground states tell a slightly different story though, especially when broken out a bit more. For example, taking a look at urban vs. suburban vs. rural vote shares in a handful of those states (WI, MI, GA, NC, even where Democrats lead by more substantial margins like PA), urban turnout is pretty low across the board while suburban turnout is the highest share. Rural turnout actually overtakes urban in many instances. IMO, that points to a potential low base turnout problem for the Democrats, obviously assuming these percentages remain semi-consistent over the next ten days. This might be why Kamala's team seems more focused on base turnout for their closing argument than persuading undecideds. A positive for the Democrats would be the share of women vs men so far, with almost every battleground state showing a +10% gap between the groups in favor of the women turnout. Definitely a bright point if you are hoping the abortion issue remains a big motivating factor.
It'll be very interesting to see where these numbers stand next Saturday and if the Democrats can make up some of their urban problem over that span.
WHY did the democrats anoint Kamala to elevate to Pres.?
There were any number of very smart democrat women to choose from?
Instead they choose a person that can’t authentically and intelligently answer a straight question.
Ehhh... there is a double standard the other way. Trump can say whatever he wants and have no real plans and just rant and rave while Kamala is expected to layout every detail perfectly. But she is extraordinarily weak in her answers. It's like people advising her have laid out so many things she can't say that all we see is the wheels spinning in her head with every question. Just say f*ck it and let it fly. You can clearly see the difference when she is comfortable on things like abortion and Trump being evil.
And yet in a statical popular vote tie with another awful candidate.
What is amazing is she can't just let it fly. Say Biden f*cked up. Say the Dems were looney back in 2020. Just say it. Everyone knows it's true.