I'm going to keep this simple. Stop fussing. Calm down and carry on. We are the increasing majority on every issue, by wide margins. By the numbers, in June 2008 and 2012, with final election results, compared with Biden's latest blowout polling results:
Poll |
Date |
Sample |
MoE |
Obama (D)
|
McCain (R)
|
Spread |
Final Results |
-- |
-- |
-- |
52.9 |
45.6 |
Obama +7.3 |
RealClearPolitics Obama-Romney 2012
Poll |
Date |
Sample |
MoE |
Obama (D)
|
Romney (R)
|
Spread |
Final Results |
-- |
-- |
-- |
51.1 |
47.2 |
Obama +3.9 |
OK, Obama was up 13 in one poll. One.
RealClearPolitics Biden-Trump 2020
Poll |
Date |
Sample |
MoE |
Biden (D)
|
Trump (R)
|
Spread |
RCP Average |
5/28 - 6/9 |
-- |
-- |
49.8 |
41.7 |
Biden +8.1 |
Economist/YouGov |
6/7 - 6/9 |
1241 RV |
3.4 |
49 |
41 |
Biden +8 |
CNN |
6/2 - 6/5 |
1125 RV |
3.6 |
55 |
41 |
Biden +14 |
NPR/PBS/Marist |
6/2 - 6/3 |
958 RV |
4.0 |
50 |
43 |
Biden +7 |
Emerson |
6/2 - 6/3 |
1431 RV |
2.5 |
53 |
47 |
Biden +6 |
The Hill/HarrisX |
6/1 - 6/4 |
2827 RV |
1.8 |
47 |
37 |
Biden +10 |
IBD/TIPP |
5/31 - 6/3 |
964 RV |
2.9 |
45 |
42 |
Biden +3 |
NBC News/Wall St. Jrnl |
5/28 - 6/2 |
1000 RV |
3.1 |
49 |
42 |
Biden +7 |
CNBC |
5/29 - 5/31 |
1457 LV |
2.6 |
48 |
41 |
Biden +7 |
Monmouth |
5/28 - 6/1 |
742 RV |
3.6 |
52 |
41 |
Biden +11 |
Other Good News
There are too many links for me to hunt up. These stories are everywhere.
- Retired judge brought in on Flynn case gives Barr what for, at length, over doing political favors rather than law.
- Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff to Thing: Fuggedaboudit. We work for the Constitution, not for you.
- Also four prior CJCSs, including Colin Powell on the air in person.
- New laws and Executive Orders on policing all over the country.
- A few cities cutting off relations with corrupt police unions, some of which operate as criminal gangs.
- Police standing, kneeling, marching with protesters. Hugging, even.
- Even Mitch McConnell is pretending to care about our national Original Sin of slavery, which he called out by name, and about police lynchings, which he didn't. He put lone Black R Senator Tim Scott on creating a counter bill made of bandaids and Scotch tape.
Senate's only black Republican blasts critics of his police reform plan
On Wednesday, Scott reacted to being criticized online for a draft proposal that included plans to study police brutality and racial profiling, but not a ban on chokeholds or no-knock warrants, both of which were involved high-profile killings of African-Americans by police that have fueled nationwide protests.
You can get outraged at these shenanigans, or you can point and laugh, or you can keep up the pressure on officialdom, and GOTV.
Three of the Smithsonian museums are collecting signs and artwork and what have you from the Park. Many other museums are showing up.
Animals
Flowers
Weirdness, with, um, Music