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Polling this far out is going to be bad. As election day gets closer more and more of this information will trickle down to the low information voters.
True...
But this is worse than it normally is.
Biden s barely winning national polls. And since the electoral college favors Republican states so much, there is no way Biden can pull a trump and lose the popular vote but still win the election.
And if you zero in on battleground states, the same is true.
We're worse off than normal.
I don't disagree and on a fundamental level this is a disaster. The fact that this election is close and represents a choice between a right wing authoritarian and Joe Biden is absolutely ridiculous. I'm just hoping the undecided voters make the right decision this November.
Yeah, but at a certain point we need to ask why these people are the only other option.
Biden spent $13/vote in 2020, almost double trump's 7/vote to win 2016.
https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-billion-dollar-campaign-spent-13-every-vote-1553058
Biden spent over a billion dollars to win his last election, and this one will be even more expensive.
We can blame millions of voters for not holding their noses.
But we shouldn't let the people running the party and Biden off the hook. We all did it four years ago, and now they're doing it again.
Even his most feverent supporters openly admit the reason this debt relief is happening is the upcoming election, which means there's zero reason to expect anything more after election day.
But we're stuck in this vicious cycle where every election it costs more to get votes for bad candidates, so the next time they take more money from the wealthy, and become worse candidates.
When any cycle we could just run a candidate that's actually popular, spend 100s of millions less in advertising, and have a good president not reliant on keeping the 1% happy to get re-elected.
Either we eventually fix the system, or shit never gets better.