Sobering comment from Obama's pollster.

[RandySF]

Obama pollster Cornell Belcher went on Pod Save America and said that, right now, all of our specific policy issues are secondary because the election is 'literally a matter of life and death for our democracy' and nothing is going to matter if Trump wins a second term.

[Me.]

1. He Has Been Doom & Gloom For Months Now

[PJMcK]

4. I'm almost there, too

Each day feels like one step forward, two steps back and another to the right for good measure.

If Trump wins/steals the election, all of what we know will be over in a short period of time.

[USALiberal]

5. Pure BS! He is correct! nt

[dhol82]

11. It ain't over til the fat lady sings.

[oldsoftie]

15. Or in this case, the fat man

[dhol82]

21. True.

[Me.]

25. So You Think It Is Going To Win A Second Term?

if not, then everything matters. Charlie Cook says that what no pollster will tell you is that Trump cannot possibly win the electoral college.

[oldsoftie]

33. Sep means nothing. If these numbers hold up to the end of Oct, i'll be much more confident.

Too many things can happen to sway voters between now & then. Riots help him. Like it or not.

[Me.]

34. Take The Reverse View

The discussion always seems to be that he has the upper hand, that any bad news that comes will be for Joe. What if the economy tanks, worse than it? That predictions of more deaths come true? What if he has a medical incident that cannot be denied? THat the October surprise is for him?

[oldsoftie]

37. Oh, of course. If any of those scenarios happen its ALL on Trump.

ESPECIALLY health. He reminds me of those people who refuse to listen to their doctors.

[Me.]

38. Well You Know He Had ALL Those Mini Strokes

[RobinA]

39. That's Because

nothing sticks to this man. He makes Teflon look like glue. Reagan was Teflon. Trump is some substance that hasn't been invented yet. Something comes at him and he makes it do a U-turn and hit whatever it came from like a damn boomerang.

[Me.]

42. Nothing Lasts Forever

and when Reagan should've been settling into sweet retirement....you never know where faye has you on the bulletin board.

[RobinA]

40. That's Because

nothing sticks to this man. He makes Teflon look like glue. Reagan was Teflon. Trump is some substance that hasn't been invented yet. Something comes at him and he makes it do a U-turn and hit whatever it came from like a damn boomerang.

[oldsoftie]

41. Aint that the damn truth

[dchill]

30. He's right. Doom and Gloom are both at hand.

[Me.]

31. I Don't Agree

‘As Joe Biden was preparing to give his presidential nomination acceptance speech Thursday night, for me like so many others it was a time to reflect on where the race stands. I was thinking about the the Hans Christian Anderson fable “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” which many have cited in writings and cartoons criticizing President Trump. Each has put a slightly different contemporary spin on the 1837 story, in which a pair of swindlers convince a vain king that they could weave fabulous clothes for him with a magic fabric that could not be seen by anyone who was stupid or incompetent. The king commissioned the faux-tailors to make him a suit of clothes, checking on their work, watching the pair at their looms as they pretended to weave, not letting on that he could not see the fabric, lest people think him a fool. Once presented with the “clothes,” he strutted through the streets wearing nothing, no one letting on that they, too, could not see the clothes. Finally, a young boy cries out, “But he has nothing on!”

I think about the story in the context of this election, but not in a way that compares Trump to the king. Rather, I think about it in terms of the political analysts, pollsters, and pundits who refuse to state publicly what the data plainly show: that it is very, very unlikely Trump will win 270 electoral votes and the election.”

https://cookpolitical.com/analysis/national/national-politics/many-are-afraid-say-it-not-close-race


The Resource Trap
https://cookpolitical.com/analysis/national/national-politics/resource-trap

Approve or Not, Trump Is Setting Unfavorable Downballot Conditions
https://cookpolitical.com/analysis/national/national-politics/approve-or-not-trump-setting-unfavorable-downballot-conditions

[NoRoadUntravelled]

32. Thanks for this. It's very encouraging and needed just now.

Good things to reflect on during the next couple of months.

[BamaRefugee]

2. I don't see it as DOOM and GLOOM. I see it as, get Biden elected, then we'll iron out the details.

If Biden loses, nobody's agenda is worth 2 cents anyway.

[brush]

7. That is right. He's delineating the importance of this election.....

and the need to get trump out, which is much different than Michael Moore predicting, as he usually does every four years, that repugs will win the WH.

[PunkinPi]

36. This. nt

[brush]

3. Most of us on this site know this. It's fascism-r-us if trump wins.

Work to get out the vote, donate, phone bank, do data entry, do voter registration if it's save to do considering the virus, same holds for canvassing.

We must get the fascist dictator wannabe out.

[warmfeet]

23. Yep. Do everything to get Joe and Kamala elected.

[Cha]

6. Of course he's dead on!

[stillcool]

8. the deck is seriously stacked...

and all we can do is vote.

[RandySF]

9. And call, and text, and donate and talk to friends family and

Neighbors

[PatrickforO]

10. I'm going to have to go with Belcher on this one.

Getting Trump out is Job #1. All else pales beside that. We have to get rid of Trump.

[dhol82]

12. +1

[UserNotFound]

26. Yup...

+2

[Initech]

13. Yup, if Trump wins, game over.

We have to stop this at all costs!!

[oldsoftie]

14. Oh, so if trump managed a win we should all just give up. Yeah, NOPE.

[BamaRefugee]

17. We'll fight on from the re-education camps!

[liberal N proud]

20. We are the resistance

We must however defeat him now

[Lonestarblue]

16. Yes, we need to get rid of Trump and as many Republicans as possible.

Then it will be time to clean up the mess and get the country back on track. There’ll be lots to do in the Biden-Harris first term.

[liberal N proud]

18. Yes, it is that important

[Pepsidog]

19. Scary thing is the ignorant Trumpers feel the same way. Very scary.

[UserNotFound]

29. I don't think

That most people understand how important your observation really is.

It'll take years for our country to recover as it is; another 4 years of tRump? Things are gonna get ugly...

[cheezmaka]

22. The tightening of the race will motivate us to work like crazy...

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And keep "complacent" Democrats from "staying home" or not voting in November due to thinking Biden has it IN THE BAG...

[Kaleva]

24. And yet most live there lives that it's no big thing.

It'd be interesting to observe Cornell Belcher for a week or two and see if he is taking any actions that would lead one to believe that he thinks there is a possible major catastrophe on the the horizon heading towards us or is he behaving in a way one would expect if it was 1976 and we were working to defeat Gerald Ford.

[dalton99a]

27. The monster must be defeated by any and all means

which are not illegal

[TomSlick]

28. Exactly!

The future of democracy in this country is at stake.

We must vote like future of the country depends on it - because it does.

[Renew Deal]

35. That's true, but some people need a reason to vote for Biden.

The argument can’t be that it’s the end of the world if Trump wins. Some people want something to hang on to.