"Why are the polls SO CLOSE?"

[Harry Dresden]

I'm of the opinion that the bottom of the barrel is where the fight is being won or lost. Trump is there because THAT is where the enemy has set up shop!!

Greg

and in the meantime lots of shitty people get elected...

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

I sat through a lot of the Robert Reich video below to see whether, at any point, he would stop looking outward and start looking inward. I stuck around for about half of it.

So, "why are the polls so close?" Some of the theories they cover:

• The polls are wrong
• The media is propping up Trump to keep it close and get views and clicks
• People are tuning out the news and facts because they're overwhelmed and exhausted
• The public doesn't know Harris well enough so they'll take the devil I know
• People respond to fear than to "nice messages"
• Harris has not done a good enough job of defining herself
• They don't understand what a madman Trump is
• Voters are not considering their own economic self interest
• Mysogyny
• Racism

I've watched many of these conversations, and I have yet to see a Democrat ask "could it be US, and more specifically, the way we advocate for our positions? Do we go too far? Do we overreach? Have we made ourselves unattractive in some way? If so, how? How can we change our approach (not our ideals, but the way we advocate for them) to make ourselves more attractive?"

When a party loses, the last place it looks is the mirror. Personally, I think (and I was warning about this for years here) that some of the tactics the Dems have deployed (particularly the way they've weaponized PC and Identity Politics) have played a significant role in the rise and growth and staying power of Trumpism.

We told ya months ago
They gotta look close to make a steal seem legit

 

[Dogmaphobe]

My goodness, I hadn't realized that the polls were so close because our mainstream media is so solidly Trump. I suppose I will have to reevaluate all the things I take for granted in life.


I plan on starting with death and taxes.

 

[dblack]

My goodness, I hadn't realized that the polls were so close because our mainstream media is so solidly Trump. I suppose I will have to reevaluate all the things I take for granted in life.

You really should.

 

[initforme]

Why does it matter if thr pills are close? There is nothing to be read from close polls. It's the sign of a nationnon the rise.

 

[Mac1958]

Democrats can't admit to themselves that half the country is fed up with their bullshit. They can't admit that they've alienated the working class. They can't admit any errors, so that can't correct them. They think that all they have to do is point out how bad Trump is and offer up more free shit. It's not working.

Correct.

 

[initforme]

What's bad about close polls?

 

[dblack]

What's bad about close polls?

I think, from the perspective of Democrats, the question can be restated as, "why are the polls so close when it's obvious that Trump is such a douchebag?". But they don't really want to know the answer.