Super tiny little bounce noticable with 538 avg trump approval when Harris picked GONE

[Laura PourMeADrink]

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But all gone now He's back up to 41.9%, better than before pick.

I have been watching this since day one of this travesty. Telling me this measurement - overall mood/trend of country doesn't matter doesn't matter

Not too worried since Harris pick was about boosting Dem turnout - not about swinging undecideds

[Laura PourMeADrink]

1. Bad # today

[lagomorph777]

3. Still solidly underwater.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

5. Yes! True. Yet a two full point jump up in such a short time

Is very troubling.

So what's happened lately?

1. Biden picked Harris, the right full out trashing her. (Yes, would have done that to anyone except maybe to a lesser degree had he picked Duckworth?)

2. NBC poll Kornacke just showing on MSNBC..
- Trump still favored over Biden on economy (lies, but trump flaunts and boasts every day)

- Trump still favored over Biden on crime. Trump mentions this constantly too. My wingnut in-laws think every city in America is on fire and looting abounding.

Biden ahead on immigration, healthcare, foreign policy and coronavirus handling.

[lagomorph777]

6. It's short-term noise; sampling error.

[Awsi Dooger]

11. It was always going to go up and not down

The problem is too many people around here asserting Trump would drop to 30 or 35% approval. They have no clue regarding the applicable numbers. It would require 10 to 15 million hard core partisans reversing course during an incumbent reelection year. That simply doesn't happen.

[BannonsLiver]

2. Do what now?

I’m not sure your point is very clear.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. Down good. Up bad

[LisaL]

7. Stop obsessing over every little bump on the polls.

As I recall people here were so convinced Clinton was going to win because she was up in the polls (and not by much, mind you, by a point or two in quite a few sing states). And then of course that didn't happen. To look at every little bump and obsess over it makes no sense.

[Kaleva]

8. It got your attention.

The title alone would have given you enough info to not bother reading the OP, much less respond to it.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

10. The why did you bother opening, just to be rude? If you

Don't care about polls don't click.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. I think replying just to criticize/obsess about someone who watches the polls and

trends is a waste of time.