Among Biden voters, controlling the spread of COVID-19 is "very important" to 93% and the top issue. Among Trump voters, 59% said it's "very important." Controlling Covid was the #7 issue for Trump supporters.
Whoops. Forgot the percentage on the last Biden priority:
The vast majority (75%) of Trump voters say their choice was in favor of him instead of in opposition to Joe Biden (22%). Among Biden voters, 54% said they were mostly pro-Biden while 44% said they were mostly anti-Trump. #ExitPolls
When you look at the #ExitPolls, it's interesting to see that Trump voters are less likely to say that various positive traits are "very important" to their choice of candidate.
Black and Hispanic voters more likely to say they had a line or waiting time to cast ballots in the #ExitPolls But still less than 50% of all races say they had a wait.
Only 21% of Trump voters say overturning Roe v. Wade was "very important" to their choice of candidate. Strangely, another 19% of Trump supporters say protecting abortion access was "very important" to their choice as well. #ExitPolls#ElectionDay
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Biden still has the advantage after #Election2020 but it's very clear that pollsters & modelers like Nate Silver badly messed up likely voter models.
I tried pitching publications on this topic but editors love group think and were too afraid. Here's some of what happened:
Firstly, a huge number of mailed ballots are never returned by voters. Estimates put it between 10 to 20 percent. Likely voter models should have removed some of these people, the plurality of whom were Democrats.
The Trump campaign began boasting about this in mid October but not one MSM or liberal outlet ever responded to this boasting. breitbart.com/politics/2020/…
This interview Rudy Giuliani did with a conservative Daily Caller reporter about his alleged Hunter Biden story is so shady. Let me count the ways. 1) He says the Mac repair store owner kept "forged copies" of the computer hard drive
2) He gets visibly agitated when the reporter, Christian Datoc, asks him about metadata. "This is pettifogging nonsense" Giuliani replies. He then accuses Datoc of acting like one of those evil libruls:
3) Giuliani then very clearly demonstrates that he does not know that making an imaged copy of a disk would not modify its files. He claims the metadata in NY Post stories is screwy because of image copying, not because the Post generated the images it presented
A little known fact about Scott Atlas, Trump's top COVID adviser, is that besides having no credentials in public health or epidemiology, he works for a creationist think tank.
The group, called the Hoover Institution, is located on the campus of Stanford University. Besides spreading conservative economics, it has been churning out convoluted anti-evolution nonsense for years.
Here's a Hoover page featuring Atlas discussing Obamacare that further downward touts a discussion about the supposed "mathematical challenges" of macroevolutionary theory. hoover.org/publications/d…
Because 21% of Republicans who know of the conspiracy theory say it's "very accurate." Another 17% say it's "somewhat accurate" morningconsult.com/2020/10/14/soc…
And for clarity, 44% of Republicans have heard of QAnon, 56% say they have not. So it's a pretty sizable number that believe it.
Cross tabs for the survey are in link below. The approval of QAnon question was asked thusly: "As you may know, QAnon is a term referring to multiple far-right conspiracy theories. Do you have a favorable or unfavorable impression of QAnon?" assets.morningconsult.com/wp-uploads/202…
Trump's phrase "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" is an unattributed quote of Walter Headley, Miami's police chief in 1967. It was a threat to citizens who were upset that police had terrorized a black teenager by holding him over a bridge: washingtonpost.com/news/retropoli…
Trump is very clearly settling on a Nixon re-election strategy now. While Nixon was far more intelligent than Trump, he was personally unpopular like Trump. Where he succeeded was that he leveraged white fear of race riots to garner votes from reluctant citizens.
White nationalists, meanwhile, are actively working to subvert peaceful protests of police brutality by injecting violent rhetoric and action in the hopes of sparking a race war--or as they call it "boogaloo" rawstory.com/2020/05/they-w…
If you wondered how Trump intimidated Ukraine, he just provided a demonstration on live TV when discussing how he won't help Washington and Michigan unless their governors kiss his ample behind.
Trump just said that he's unwilling to prevent American citizens' deaths unless he gets the ring kisses he desperately craves.
Why wouldn't he withhold some missiles from some random country that he doesn't care about?
This was not Trump just being sarcastic either in his comments about Washington and Michigan.
In an interview today, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said that medical supply vendors have told her they've been instructed not to send items to her state. crainsdetroit.com/coronavirus/wh…