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Seth Meyers: Trump and Brett Kavanaugh Telegraph Their Plan to Steal the Election

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Jay C10/29/2020 8:16:51 am PDT

re: #396 makeitstop

That plan would depend upon the numbers being close.

I’m not seeing it. People are fucking tired of Trump, and he hasn’t polled above 50% for his entire term. Add the Covid response on top of that, and chances that the numbers are going to be close enough to warrant a recount are pretty damn slim.

This seems fairly accurate. The NYT published a (“Last”) poll today showing Biden/Harris numbers for seven “battleground” states, and the aggregate (with only one exception*) showed Joe/Kamala still winning all but one, even with their “qualifying exception” - which were numbers based on the assumption that “polls were off as much as they were in 2016”. Which seems to me to be a pretty thin reed to base assumptions on. Like generals prepping to fight the last war, pollsters always seem to be sampling to gauge the last election…

*North Carolina