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  • Trump Gaining on Biden in Key States

    Trump Gaining on Biden in Key States

    According to a new poll from CNBC, Trump is gaining ground on Biden in several key states.

    Despite the increase in the president’s approval rating in six states that will help to determine who wins the election, the poll shows a challenging environment for him. Swing-state voters said by a 51% to 49% margin that they think Biden and Democrats would do a better job than Trump and the GOP of handling the coronavirus.

    Though the survey shows a competitive presidential race, it found Biden leading Trump by a 49% to 46% margin across the key states. He has an edge over the incumbent in five of the six states, while North Carolina is virtually tied.

    Arizona: Biden 49%, Trump 47%

    Florida: Biden 49%, Trump 46%

    Michigan: Biden 50%, Trump 44%

    North Carolina: Biden 48%, Trump 47%

    Pennsylvania: Biden 49%, Trump 46%

    Wisconsin: Biden 49%, Trump 44%

    Pollster Frank Luntz pointed out the comparison to 2016 polling from the same date.

    https://twitter.com/FrankLuntz/status/1298315805893881856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1298315805893881856%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.redstate.com%2Fbrandon_morse%2F2020%2F08%2F26%2Ftrump-gap-biden%2F

    While this is good news, there are still challenges for the President to overcome. The majority of those polled think Joe Biden would do a better job of handling the Chinese coronavirus than Trump, by a 51% to 49% margin. That difference is just outside the 1.5% point margin of error though. The virus is a concern to the majority of voters, with 66% of respondents saying they have serious concerns.

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    Other recent polls have shown Trump Gaining on Joe in recent days. I still don’t trust most polls, simply because they got 2016 so wrong.

  • Snap Poll: Will You Watch Pt. II

    Snap Poll: Will You Watch Pt. II

    The Republican National Convention starts tomorrow. We want to know if you’ll be watching, and what you plan on watching if you do.

    [Total_Soft_Poll id=”3″]

    Your answers here, and in the comments below will help shape our coverage of the event for the next few days, so be sure to leave as much feedback as you can.

  • Snap Poll: Will You Watch. . .

    Snap Poll: Will You Watch. . .

    Your editor has been looking for some non-DNC related news today. Unfortunately, the convention seems to have sucked the air out of the room, and that’s all anyone is talking about.

    So, will you or have you watched any of the coverage of the convention?

    [Total_Soft_Poll id=”2″]

  • Snap poll

    I got 15 minutes to tally up the count I go vote in the primary where it held in town

    going to town

    translates to putting me in a foul mood

    this time of year

    the place is crawlin with tourists along with the normal abnormals

    I do get different reactions depending on which protection I use

    So your choices are for me to wear to go vote are as follows

    the Shemagh or gas mask

    weird really, the Soviet USSR Gas mask GP-5 black breathing hose set NATO Filter CF F3 NBC 40 mm scares the shit outta the little ones while the Shemagh freaks out the so called adults

    myself

    I’m good either way

    wouldn’t be to hard to make a mini chain link fence as a face covering

    you know to stop the moskeetoes

    that’ll work as well as those COMMUNIST BURKA’s at stopping the China- cough

    15 minutes

  • Rasmussen: Majority of Americans want Feds involved

    Rasmussen: Majority of Americans want Feds involved

    A new Rasmussen survey shows 55 percent of likely US voters think federal law enforcement officials should be used to fight the growing level of violent crime in several major cities since the cities appear unable or unwilling to handle the problem themselves. 36 percent oppose this federal anti-crime help.

    80 percent of Republicans and 48 percent of independents want the federal intervention, while 53 percent of Democrats are opposed.

    51 percent of all voters agree that government policies and practices encourage violent crime in some cities and states more than others. Just 24 percent disagree, while another 24 percent are undecided.

    66 percent of Americans oppose reducing the police budget in the community where they live. 61 percent believe violent crime will go up in communities that defund the police.

    Related: Poll: Majority of Americans. . .

    This seems to me to be more evidence that the media needs to get out of its coastal bubbles. If you listen to the MSM, you would think the idea of Trump moving federal law enforcement into troubled cities is extremely unpopular. Turns out, that isn’t the case. Consider this, In January 2017 when Trump first proposed sending federal law enforcement to Chicago help stem its rising murder rate, just 36 percent of voters felt that was a federal responsibility. 

  • Poll: Majority of Americans won’t do this

    Poll: Majority of Americans won’t do this

    A new poll from the Cato Institute shows the majority of Americans are afraid to voice their opinions on political topics. That includes 52 percent of people who identify as Democrats, 59 percent who identify as independents, and a whopping 77 percent of those who are Republicans.

    As the chart above shows, this is a marked increase over 2017, with the exception of those who identify as strong conservatives.

    32 percent of responders said they were concerned their views would impact their employment opportunities. And it’s not just one side of the political spectrum: 31% of liberals, 30% of moderates and 34% of conservatives are worried their political views could get them fired or harm their career trajectory. 

    Related: Poll: Americans not as woke as media wants

    Cato drew this conclusion, and I mostly agree.

    Taking these results together indicates that a significant majority of Americans with diverse political views and backgrounds self‐​censor their political opinions. This large number from across demographic groups suggests withheld opinions may not simply be radical or fringe perspectives in the process of being socially marginalized. Instead many of these opinions may be shared by a large number of people. Opinions so widely shared are likely shaping how people think about salient policy issues and ultimately impacting how they vote. But if people feel they cannot discuss these important policy matters, such views will not have an opportunity to be scrutinized, understood, or reformed.

    Where I differ from those conclusions is this: The self censorship is a direct result of the cancel culture. If you run the risk of being cancelled simply for voicing an opinion someone takes offence at, you simply don’t voice that opinion.

  • Poll: Americans not as woke as media wants

    Poll: Americans not as woke as media wants

    A new poll seems to have shaken the media establishment. Turns out most Americans don’t want the things they want.

    A WaPo/ABC news poll found clear majorities did not want to defund the police, pay reparations for slavery, remove statues of the Founders who were slaves holders, rename military bases or remove Confederate statues.

    The breakdown looks like this:

    For defunding, or reallocating funds from, the police, 55 percent of Americans oppose moving funds from police departments to social services — and 43 percent say they oppose it “strongly.” Interestingly, among independent voters 53 percent are opposed.

    63 percent polled say the government should not pay reparations. 8 in 10 black people say the federal government should pay reparations while three-quarters of white people say the government should not. Among Hispanic people, 56 percent say reparations should not be paid. While 86 percent of black Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents support paying reparations to black descendants, that falls to 35 percent among white Democrats and Democratic leaners.

    Regarding the Founders, 68 percent of Americans opposed and 25 percent in support of their removal. But while at least 7 in 10 white and Hispanic people are opposed, 6 in 10 black Americans support removing these statues.

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    Half of Americans oppose renaming military bases currently named after Confederate generals. Here the divide is generational, with a majority of Americans ages 50 and older opposed and a plurality of those under 50 supporting it.

    52 percent of Americans oppose removing public statues honoring Confederate generals. That includes an 80 percent majority of Republicans and 56 percent of independents in opposition, while 74 percent of Democrats support the removal of these statutes. Almost 6 in 10 white people, along with just over half of Hispanic people, oppose removing statues of Confederate soldiers, while over three-quarters of black people support their removal.

    The poll was conducted July 12-15 among a random national sample of 1,006 adults, with 75 percent of interviews conducted by cellphone and the remaining 25 percent by landline. The margin of sampling error for overall results is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points; the error margin is 4.5 points among the sample of 661 white adults and 10.5 points each among the samples of 113 black and 117 Hispanic adults.

    I’m not holding much hope, but maybe this poll will make the media realize that they’re stuck in a tiny little bubble. The coastal echo chambers they live in are limiting, and social media only amplifies that.