I applaud you for recounting some of the posittive developments re economics and the environment.
However, there is a sorry truth which, to a large extent, supersedes objective information:
The mood of the voters often overrides objective reality, and the voters are often apt to be deluded by a damnable demogogue -- such as the Donald.
Although there are many indicia of good tidings, the Donald is ridinjg high on the impression that America is on the verge of Armageddon. Not too long ago, polls showed the Donald was on average, 4 points ahead in 5 of 6 swing states. Biden's favorablity rating is about 36 percent, almost 10 points beneath the Donald's favorabiity rating in 2020 as the pandemic roared.
We have seen this bad movie before. In the late 60's and 70's, many voters shifted toward the right because they believed that liberal states and liberal policies -- such as new York, California and New Jersey -- had made urban America a crime infested jungle and that the Deep South was a haven of law and order and Christian propriety. IN FACT, crime was higher Down South than in the supposed Sodoms and Gemorah's of America's North. However a steady drum beat of jokes on Johnny Carson about New York and criminality, black exploitation filmes like "Superfly " and unchallenged and untested asserrtions regarding urban decadence, decay and degradation convinced Americans that the North Eastern Cities of America were a Hades of murder and robbery.
Thanks for your comment, David. I thought I might end the year on a few positive notes! I could be living in denial...but I do not have faith in polls this far out, or to be honest, even 2 or 3 days before an election (Remember that Ms. Clinton was supposed to win ...right up until she didn't). I can't believe that the vile messages "The Donald" spews, which I think are way worse than when he was elected in 2016, will resonate with enough Americans to give him a win.
Your criticism re polls has a lot of merit. But Hillary Clinton did win; she won the popular vote by 3 million, a solid win but it was less than what we had predicted -- and that leads me to another sour point: Trump generally has done better than what the polls have suggested. Apparently, many Trump voters are afraid to admit they are for Trump lest someone from the deepstate kidnaps them and performs scientific experiments on them. One would think that the American people would have to reject such a fulminating and feral beast such as Donald Trump but a sort of sickness is afflicting America almost as severe as the psychic disturbanes that afflicted Weimer Germany and led the people to vote for Hitler. I'm not gonna go into it here -- I did in other articles -- but many indicia suggest that more and more Americans are emotionally seriously out of kilter.
When the polls showed that Clinton was ahead by 2-3 points (or whatever it was) the day before the election, I'm pretty sure they factored in the electoral college given that moment -in -time point spread in the most important states. But I do not agree that she won. The only way a person becomes president is by winning the electoral college, and she simply didn't do that.
I applaud you for recounting some of the posittive developments re economics and the environment.
However, there is a sorry truth which, to a large extent, supersedes objective information:
The mood of the voters often overrides objective reality, and the voters are often apt to be deluded by a damnable demogogue -- such as the Donald.
Although there are many indicia of good tidings, the Donald is ridinjg high on the impression that America is on the verge of Armageddon. Not too long ago, polls showed the Donald was on average, 4 points ahead in 5 of 6 swing states. Biden's favorablity rating is about 36 percent, almost 10 points beneath the Donald's favorabiity rating in 2020 as the pandemic roared.
We have seen this bad movie before. In the late 60's and 70's, many voters shifted toward the right because they believed that liberal states and liberal policies -- such as new York, California and New Jersey -- had made urban America a crime infested jungle and that the Deep South was a haven of law and order and Christian propriety. IN FACT, crime was higher Down South than in the supposed Sodoms and Gemorah's of America's North. However a steady drum beat of jokes on Johnny Carson about New York and criminality, black exploitation filmes like "Superfly " and unchallenged and untested asserrtions regarding urban decadence, decay and degradation convinced Americans that the North Eastern Cities of America were a Hades of murder and robbery.
Thanks for your comment, David. I thought I might end the year on a few positive notes! I could be living in denial...but I do not have faith in polls this far out, or to be honest, even 2 or 3 days before an election (Remember that Ms. Clinton was supposed to win ...right up until she didn't). I can't believe that the vile messages "The Donald" spews, which I think are way worse than when he was elected in 2016, will resonate with enough Americans to give him a win.
Your criticism re polls has a lot of merit. But Hillary Clinton did win; she won the popular vote by 3 million, a solid win but it was less than what we had predicted -- and that leads me to another sour point: Trump generally has done better than what the polls have suggested. Apparently, many Trump voters are afraid to admit they are for Trump lest someone from the deepstate kidnaps them and performs scientific experiments on them. One would think that the American people would have to reject such a fulminating and feral beast such as Donald Trump but a sort of sickness is afflicting America almost as severe as the psychic disturbanes that afflicted Weimer Germany and led the people to vote for Hitler. I'm not gonna go into it here -- I did in other articles -- but many indicia suggest that more and more Americans are emotionally seriously out of kilter.
When the polls showed that Clinton was ahead by 2-3 points (or whatever it was) the day before the election, I'm pretty sure they factored in the electoral college given that moment -in -time point spread in the most important states. But I do not agree that she won. The only way a person becomes president is by winning the electoral college, and she simply didn't do that.