Welcome friends, to the Good news Roundup, Monday edition. Where yours truly seeks out good news to bring to you, the poor, the tired, the huddling masses yearning to be free from Donald Trump.
I have to start by admitting I’ve been having some anxiety issues regarding the election this week. I’ve been nervous, checking this site, checking 538 (Which has not helped), and being nervous that somehow Trump will pull it out of his ass yet again like he did in 2016.
A lot of people think that 2020 is our very last chance, that if we don’t stop Trump now that’s it for America, game over. I don’t necessarily believe that (After all I think he had his best shot at destroying America in 2016 when he had control of all three branches of the Government, and he still failed). But I do think four more years of Trump would be very terrible and a disaster. I mean i am 37 years old, I do not want to hit 40 in Trumps America, do you? So for the love of all that is good and decent, get out and vote for Joe Biden. He’s a good guy, he’s better than Trump at least.
One finale bit of admin, special shout out to my good friend Killer300 from the RPG.net message board, who was kind enough to do the research for some of the stories this week. You were a huge help my dude.
So without further ado, lets get on with the show.
But to a substantial degree, what’s happening in America’s suburbs right now is about how those old understandings of suburban women are wrong. What polling shows, and what demographers are noticing, is that America’s suburbs are growing and becoming more diverse. And that is contributing to a massive political shift that is remaking the electoral map in lasting ways.
“The whole concept of ‘Blue Wall’ states is kind of over because of these suburban shifts,” said Anna Greenberg, the Democratic pollster whose research often centers around suburban women voters. “Certain states are more in play for Biden specifically because of the suburbs. I’m thinking about Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina. In some ways, those states are almost better opportunities than a place like Wisconsin.”
Trump basically built the RNC around the idea of scaring Suburban moms into voting for him, unfortunately for Trump, he doesn’t know the suburbs as well as he thinks he does.
Trump’s message has a number of problems on the merits, but a political attack doesn’t have to be factually or morally defensible to work; his bigger problem is that all the available polling says majorities of voters support police-brutality protests in general and trust Biden more than him to handle both “race relations” and criminal justice:
Well I mean Trump COULD solve racial injustice and stop civil unrest. Like anything is possible in a metaphysical sense, but I would trust Jeff Dunham or Trey Parker to handle race relations better than Trump.
The Republican National Convention may have ended with a literal bang — fireworks spelling out “Trump 2020” — on Thursday last week, but according to a new post-convention ABC News-Ipsos poll, President Donald Trump isn’t getting much of a convention bounce — at least when it comes to his approval rating.
Historically, presidential candidates see notable, though frequently ephemeral, increases in their polling following their party’s conventions. For instance, in 2016, Gallup found Trump’s approval rating rose about 5 percentage points following the GOP convention, before falling ahead of the election.
However, this year, Ipsos pollsters found Trump’s overall approval rating to be essentially the same as it was ahead of the GOP’s convention, falling 1 percentage point from the previous week to 31 percent.
Face it Donny, people are just plain tired of you. Four years of Trump is enough for anyone. Why don’t you just give it up already?
Trump's week of celebration did not improve his favorability, even among his own base, and the country still remains widely critical of his handling of the major crisis of his presidency: COVID-19.
Less than one-third (31%) of the country has a favorable view of the president in the days after he accepted the Republican nomination for the second time -- a stagnant reality for Trump. His favorability rating stood at 32% in the last poll, taken a week earlier, right after the Democratic National Convention.
Its kind of hard to get people to like you when the worst plague in modern time is still happening thanks to your incompetence Donny.
"Given the scale of American suburbia, talking about 'the suburbs' writ large invariably papers over the differences that exist across this spectrum of communities, which range in population (from fewer than 100 residents to hundreds of thousands), location (from streetcar suburbs to exurbs), and built environment (from strip malls and subdivisions to dense, walkable downtowns)," writes Elizabeth Kneebone.
In addition, suburbs are diverse in terms of income, race, and ethnicity, but this does not mean all suburbs are equal. Exclusionary zoning and land use regulations have resulted in significant inequities. “These practices have allowed certain jurisdictions and neighborhoods to hoard wealth and opportunity, fueling racial and economic segregation and creating disparities not only between suburbs and cities but also within suburbia as well,” Kneebone.
Once again, Trump doesn’t know the suburbs like he thinks he does, and that may cost him the election.
That does it for this week. I know things are rough, and the election is starting to get to some of us, but take heart, don’t get discouraged, we are so close to winning this and taking back our country, the next blue wave is happening and we’ll make it happen, so get ready, we got this.
