re: #392 Axolotl

I’m cautiously optimistic, I certainly like reading about being ahead in the polls

The way I see it, it’s much better being in biden’s position then the other way around..

I think we can all agree on that.

Not to come across like a doom-and-gloomer, I hope: (I’m cautiously optimistic about the election as well, though the operative word here is “cautious”) but we, unfortunately, are still way too early in the process - and will be until convention time(s) at the end of next month - to be cheering President Biden’s inauguration just yet.

The real problem, IMO, is the “Mainstream Media”, of course: they have been preoccupied with other things of late (like a deadly, near-out-of-control pandemic): but post-conventions, I have a sinking feeling that they are going to revert to their usual Republican-by-default “horse-race” coverage, in which every minor uptick in Trump’s/Republicans’ polling is going to be ballyhooed endlessly as a “comeback” or “revival”; that - in the interest of “fairness”, naturally - every phony “scandal” or hoked-up “questions” about Joe (or any Democrat) will be endlessly parsed and nattered about on TV; that issues of election security will (again, as usual)
dismissed or ignored.

I’m still pretty sure Joe and Team (D) can - and will - pull it out in the end: that apparently permanent 45-55% gap is unlikely to be overcome - never mind the national disgrace of that “45%” - but it isn’t going to be easy or pretty.