With Two Months To Go, a Steady Presidential Race

[brooklynite]

Cook Political Report

These last two weeks provided Pres. Trump the best opportunity to change the trajectory of this race. His GOP convention offered a rosy (and inaccurate) portrayal of a president who effectively tackled the coronavirus pandemic. Both during and since the convention, Republicans and the president have focused intensely on the unrest in Kenosha, arguing that it was a snapshot into what the country would look like with Joe Biden in the White House.

Pollsters and strategists we spoke with over the last couple weeks of August — Republican and Democrat — told us that that didn't see much, if any, real changes taking place in voter perceptions of the election.

This week, a slew of new, high-quality polls out this week confirmed their off-record observations: Biden continues to hold a steady lead over President Trump.

Post-convention national polls from Quinnipiac, Suffolk/USA Today, CNN and Selzer & Company show Biden ahead of Trump by 7-10 points. The FiveThirtyEight model, which incorporates a larger universe of polls, puts Biden's lead at 7.4 percent. That's not much different from Biden's pre-convention lead in early August of 8.3 percent.

[empedocles]

1. School 'openings', football openings, higher paying jobs layoffs, Covid; all coming as

we speak.

Might make more of a difference.