That poll putting Trump ahead of Biden in all the major battleground states sure looks terrifying, but there’s never been an election more clouded by the unknown than this one.

A week after Halloween and the scary monsters are still abroad in the land.

Scary polls!

Scary plans!

Boogedy, boogedy!

It was a great weekend for intellectual doomscrolling, to say nothing of galloping paranoia. First, The New York Times comes out with a poll that shows the president is trailing Fulton County (Ga.) Inmate No. PO1135809 in all the major battleground states.

  • FerolisD@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    9
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    I was referring to the popular vote, not the sick joke that is the electoral college. He got like 48% of the 170 million-ish votes in 2020.

    • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      12
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      Why would you care about that? That doesn’t decide the election. Anyway, he lost that by 4.5% (7 million votes). Biden’s percentage (51.3%) was the highest for a challenger to an incumbent president since 1932. Trump got completely stomped.

      • redfellow@sopuli.xyz
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        5
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        The outside world cares, as it tells a lot about the US as a nation. Nearly half of you are batshit insane, at minimum.

      • FerolisD@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        I care about who the American people voted for, not an illegitimate EC win. And 7m is nothing out of 170m, he should have lost by 80% but he didn’t, hence this country is fucked.

    • grogthax@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      I will never understand the proclivity to just make numbers and shit up when the sum of all human knowledge is at your finger tips.

    • Socsa
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      To be fair, 48% of America is still an extremely uncomfortable level of fascism