538 has Wisconsin at D+7.6 and Florida at D+6.8. Not sure how Larry has those as toss ups. As a matter of fact, all four toss ups go Democratic according to 538.
Right now Trump looks way worse than Carter. Carter was to this day raked over the coals for his use of the word āmalaiseā and many felt it cost him the election in addition to all the other issues. Trump in reference to COVID-19 deaths saying, āIt is what it isā is far worse. Looking solely at the economy is Awval-esque. And the economy was roaring when Trump got in office and heās done absolutely everything he could to derail it. Right now just about anyone with any sanity can see his actions are killing as many people as humanly possible and that he doesnāt give a s*** at all. Thatās not going to improve at all between now and the election. If he had even been remotely presidential during the pandemic, he would have cruised to re-election. But this is Trumpā¦
Also Trump is presiding over the most catastrophic health crisis and economic crisis of the century in the US and his main characterization of his Presidency is āIām being treated unfairlyā. This whole interview with Chris Wallace is fuel for attack ads.
well SCOTUS would be 4-4 or 4-3. Depends if RBG got fooled into retiring and Rās laughing their asses off not filling that seat either. Rās would have both house/senate right now and obviously she gets impeached at least once. Trump favored in the pres election race.
Might well have gotten the same thing as now just 4 years afterwards.
Yeah, that guyās model is bullshit. Being right in 24 out of the last 26 elections isnāt that impressive either. Most of our elections arenāt that close, thatās a recent phenomenon.
Carter got stuck the way a lot of leftists do, explaining shit. Reagan figured it out, be on TV a lot and just say yes/no keep it simple. He was really confused when Reagan said something stupid on smog and nobody gave a shit. Nothing ever changes.
as youād expect, a lot of trumpās stuff is just stolen from other people. Do nothing congress was how Truman came back from down in the polls plus a bunch of nixon and some reagan shit. Heās probably really confused how none of it seems to be working and itās purely because he canāt stop being himself for even one minute.
What I see is his hardcore base remaining fairly silent. They will never abandon him but they used to aggressively defend every stupid thing he did. This is no longer happening to any significant degree. Meanwhile he continues to flail crazily.
Pretty clear his grifter instincts carried him pretty far but they are not all season qualified. He has no other gears and this gear has grinded to dust in 2020. Add that to the fact he believes he is always right and doesnāt take on advice, we will not see a substantial pivot from what he has been doing.
The scary part is he could pivot hard and start tackling Covid and make a real dent before the election but his mind wonāt let him do anything required.
itās simple and dumbāwho gets more primary votes vs their competition wins the election model.
so it always gets the incumbent, and they usually win. Kudos to harvard though, if I was trolling thatās something Iād do but heās old so maybe not.
Democrats need to frame covid in a way that holds that anything Trump might do to properly tackle the pandemic is some sort of admission that he was wrong. There should be no face-saving path for doing the right thing.