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Biden’s defiance against calls for him to leave the presidential campaign after last month’s debate have only worsened his chances in November, Cook Editor-in-Chief Amy Walter wrote.

“Biden was losing pre-debate. Now, he’s losing by a bit more,” she said, adding that the possibility Biden leaves the race at this point is “remote.”

Citing postdebate polling, Cook announced it will move Minnesota, New Hampshire and Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District from “Likely Democratic” to “Lean Democratic.” The group also moved Nevada, Arizona and Georgia from “Tossup” to “Lean Republican.”

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    4 months ago

    This isn’t about their predictions, it’s looking at recent polling data they are aggregating.

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      4 months ago

      And polling data is seriously flawed. I suggest people vote as if there are no polls.

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        4 months ago

        It can be flawed, which is why you track multiple polls over time.

        Using the same process outlined above, I watched these states go from pro-Biden, to toss-up, to pro-Trump, and now stronger pro-Trump.

        It’s less about the actual numbers and more about the momentum. Biden’s campaign is running out of steam, Trump’s is gaining momentum.

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          4 months ago

          Well, I can honestly say that as a cis white male, I will have little to worry about when Biden looses. And if I left it at this, no one would ever hear from me.

          But I have LGBTQ in my family, my blood. And many friends that will be hurt by another four years of Trump.

          So… this is where we’re at.

          You have a shit ton of people in your community- urging people to not vote because “old!” While a rapist/convicted felon is waltzing right through the mess, not even being questioned about how or why he lied in every answer he gave.

          These people are fucking lunatics man. This should be a no brainer. Biden’s podium could poll worse than Trump and I’d vote for it.

          These people are willing to destroy a nation if it means an old man is not elected. Note how I didn’t say genocide supporter- yeah. It’s a non issue now with them. Did you notice?

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            Ah, one of those steadfast LGBTQ allies who also hates SJWs. That’s a coherent personality, but most of the examples of it are Republicans who discovered the leopards would eat their loved ones faces (or usually that their loved ones were revealed as leopard prey), but then didn’t evaluate any of the other social propaganda they had bought into.

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              Riiight. Cool story. I especially LOVE how you created an entire persona for me having had a brief conversation of no more than a few paragraphs.

              Speaks volumes about how seriously you should be taken. Listen up, You have no clue who I am, what I do- and who I care for… and the fact that you found yourself in a situation where you thought making assumptions would be a good idea, doesn’t just show who you are, it proves my point.

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                4 months ago

                Man, you basically confirmed it in your other comment. You’re an enlightened centrist worried about SJWs, which in this political environment is basically almost entirely Never Trump Republicans that want Trump’s threat to democracy to pass on by but haven’t considered how any of their other political beliefs might have lead to Trump gaining power in the first place.

                Sure, the right is hurtling headlong into fascism and the left has been dominated by moderates for the last 40 years, but what’s equally important is whether someone tells you you should change your language to be more sensitive. You’re right in the center, rising above it, everything in perfect balance!

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        Biden has been consistently polling behind the Democrats who also have a state-wide election. If it’s flawed it’s in a very specific way that overweights the specific kind of Democratic voter that supports their state candidate and doesn’t support Biden. That’s not particularly likely.