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In reply to the discussion: Prediction: The polls are significantly overestimating Trump [View all]VOX
(22,976 posts)40. Swing states, swing states, swing states...
That is where this elections outcome lies. Its mathematically possible for King Asswipe to win with an even greater popular vote loss than the 3,000,000 in 2016.
Which is why hes campaigning mainly in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Florida, etc.
Democrats are hostage to the goddamned Electoral College. Biden has to STOMP the orange baboons ass in most of the swing states, or else democracy is over.
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The problem with overestimating is that it gives trump cover for saying it was rigged.
BComplex
Sep 2020
#57
Trump's gonna have to cheat so bigly that I can't envision how even he can get away with it
Blue Owl
Sep 2020
#5
OVERCONFIDENCE plays to the interests of foreign operatives seeking to interfere with our elections
bucolic_frolic
Sep 2020
#21
The polls were adjust to include more non-college voters, fewer college educated
Fiendish Thingy
Sep 2020
#31
These heathen traitors are just about to lose control of two branches of government for decades....
Hulk
Sep 2020
#45
it was always about the talk radio and nothing has changed there - democrats still ignore
certainot
Sep 2020
#47
i like the prediction by dr jack but dems always miss-estimate republican prospects because
certainot
Sep 2020
#56