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Is this just Election Day votes, or early voting too?GEORGIA EXIT POLLS
We are talking very tight! Trump is 50.01, Harris 49.99. It is flipped from 2020. Biden had a 3 time greater difference exit poll wise.
I think it is everything. That is how it played out in 2020. So I'm assuming that is the case. The lead is statistically insignificant, which is I would venture to say, a good sign for Harris. I am willing to say Georgia is indeterminate and we won't know today.Is this just Election Day votes, or early voting too?GEORGIA EXIT POLLS
We are talking very tight! Trump is 50.01, Harris 49.99. It is flipped from 2020. Biden had a 3 time greater difference exit poll wise.
Neither is the Republican base, alone by itself, enough to win. So we have a dance, and DJT has an enduring problem. His base will support him no matter what he does or says, but he cannot seem to gain any traction outside of that base. which, jn many ways, makes him similar to Bernie Sanders.Doesn't look like it's working.She surged because people were happy that Biden was no longer running. It wasn't specific to her.At the beginning of her campaign, she came out swinging. People were vague on her policies, but strong on rejection of Trump and his plans for the country. It was working.
And yes, she based her campaign initially on "memes and vibes". As Maya Rudolph's Kamala said: "the lyrics are vague, but the vibe slaps". Coconut trees, being a brat, Republicans are weird.
You can't build a campaign just on "memes and vibes" long term. And yes, she did fumble the dismount onto a more grounded phase of the campaign.She should have stuck with it.
It's not just Republicans, although I do think some Republicans are swayable. It is mostly Independents, who are plurality of the electorate.I do not believe that this is about swaying Republican voters to her side. That is unlikely in any case. What's at issue is how many people are coming to the polls.
Like it or not, the Democratic base is not enough to win. And neither is appealing to people like you who on the left even in a place like California.
She needs to win states Hillary lost in 2016 - Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin. If possible Arizona and Georgia too. Nevada was won by Hillary and also Biden, but is a tossup now. She needs to appeal to voters in these states, not run up the score in NY, IL and CA.
Poor color choice. I was confused at first.
Isn’t this a little convenient? Whatever happens, Redfield & Wilton — not a firm with a well-established reputation in the US — will be able to throw up their hands and say “well, we projected a tie, so don’t blame us!”. And since all of these states are also close in the polling averages, they’ll also ensure that they won’t rank at the bottom of the table of the most and least accurate pollsters — although unless the race really is that close, and it probably won’t be, they also won’t rank toward the top.
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This is a clear-as-day example of what we call herding: the tendency of some polling firms to move with the flock by file-drawering (not publishing) results that don’t match the consensus or torturing their turnout models until they do.
Poor color choice. I was confused at first.
Someone made a poor colour choice, but it was the US of A, not the Europeans. The left wing is always coloured in red, and the right wing in blue.
Just as temperatures are always measured in Celcius, and distances in Metres...