Even as an outlier, this is only really interesting as a demonstration of the power of Fox News / right-wing propaganda. Objectively, Biden is a bland no-drama candidate. His only scandal isn’t even his - it’s his son’s. He should have a fairly high approval because he’s weathering quite a few crises (not to mention cleaning up after Trump driving the country straight into a brick wall). And likewise, any rational person will have written Trump off as a dangerous easily-manipulated man-child sociopath - that’s demonstrated in pretty much every speech he gives.
The idea that even an outlier has Trump leading by 10 is only possible because the Fox News echo chamber actually works, and is still continuing to pull a substantial minority of country to the right. I would love for an epidemiologist to quantify it somehow, but at this point I’m guessing it’s a 20-25 point swing.
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Even as an outlier, this is only really interesting as a demonstration of the power of Fox News / right-wing propaganda. Objectively, Biden is a bland no-drama candidate. His only scandal isn’t even his - it’s his son’s. He should have a fairly high approval because he’s weathering quite a few crises (not to mention cleaning up after Trump driving the country straight into a brick wall). And likewise, any rational person will have written Trump off as a dangerous easily-manipulated man-child sociopath - that’s demonstrated in pretty much every speech he gives.
The idea that even an outlier has Trump leading by 10 is only possible because the Fox News echo chamber actually works, and is still continuing to pull a substantial minority of country to the right. I would love for an epidemiologist to quantify it somehow, but at this point I’m guessing it’s a 20-25 point swing.
Fox News really has rotted so many brains. People unironically using phrases “crt” and “woke” as boogeymen to rally against is just sad.