A landslide is a victory in an election in which a person or political party gets far more votes or seats than their opponents.
btw. - a lot of polls are conducted by calling landlines. until they figure out how to get a more diverse cross section of people to participate, polling will be unreliable. people under a certain age have no concept of a landline. --- blue avalanche in november.
March aggregate polling predicated the popular vote winner for every election since RCP started it in 2004.Approval ratings have predicted if an incumbent would win re election with 100% accuracy for over 70 years. Seems pretty damn reliable to me
Margin off,which is why I say whos leading in the most polls regardless of margin is more important,but popular vote winner predicted every single time since RCP started this in 2004. The landline /cell phone argument is bullshit that losers spew when their preferred candidate is down in the polls
Matt Taibbi nails it: Why I don’t spend a lot of time on the Republicans: 1) There is a enormous army of MSM reporters already going after them from every angle, with most major news organizations little more than proxies for the DNC, to the point where stations hire Biden spokespeople as anchors; 2) The Republicans have very little institutional power nationally. It’s not their point of view prevailing in schools, on campuses, in newsrooms (where over 90% of working reporters vote blue), and especially in the intelligence and military apparatus, which has openly aligned itself with Democrats. Even if Donald Trump were a “threat to Democracy” he lacks the institutional pull to do much damage, which can’t be said of Democrats; 3) The Democrats’ ambitions are significantly more dangerous than those of the Republicans. From digital surveillance to censorship to making Intel and enforcement agencies central players in domestic governance — all plans being executed globally as well as in our one country — they are thinking on a much bigger and more dangerous scale than Republicans. I lived in third world countries and the endless criminal indictments of people like Trump and ongoing lawfare efforts to prevent even third party challenges are classic authoritarian symptoms. The Republicans aren’t near this kind of capability; 4) Last and most important, the Democrats are being organized around a more potent but also much dumber, more cultlike ideology. People like Yuval Harari and his Transhumanist “divinity” concept scare me a lot more than the Rs, and I was once undercover in an apocalyptic church in Texas. Ask your average Russian or Cuban what overempowered pseudo-intellectuals are capable of. I have a pretty good record of picking dangerous phenomena ahead of time. I feel confident on this one, and that’s before we get to the demographic/class shifts in the parties.
The World Needs Peacemaker Trump Again https://townhall.com/columnists/jef...e-world-needs-peacemaker-trump-again-n2637781 As the world deals with multiple international wars and unprecedented chaos in the Middle East, it is useful to remember what was happening when Donald Trump was our President. Trump advocated the doctrine of “peace through strength” and it certainly worked as the United States was not involved in any wars during his term. During his presidency, the southern border was secure and, unlike the crisis today, our military recruitment levels were strong. While Trump was President, China was restrained, and North Korea was engaged in diplomatic summits with the United States, not saber rattling. Instead of wars raging internationally, there was peace abroad. Russia did not invade Ukraine, due to their concern about Trump’s response. As President, Trump dealt harshly with the Russians, blocking the completion of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, while arming Ukraine with Javelin missiles. While he opened the door to diplomatic negotiations and was not opposed to meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump never appeased him.
yeah...trump was so hard on russia... https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/17/politics/trump-soft-on-russia/index.html