Rachel Bitecofer electoral college evaluation: Biden 289-Trump 181!

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43. I don't blame the media

because I don't see how they could possibly do otherwise at the moment. We are in the midst of a national emergency and Biden is just a "normal" citizen who holds no office (and is not even the formal damn Dem nominee yet) so it's only natural that our official "leaders" (however incompetent and clueless they are) who do hold the reins of power and have the authority to actually do something be given the vast majority of airtime. Maybe if Joe was still in the Senate it would be different but it is what it is. This is one reason why Cuomo has shot into the national limelight as of late...being the sitting Governor of a state under siege gives him the airtime to offer a contrast to what Trump is doing, or not doing.

Either this thing goes away over time in which case things can return to "normal" and the political process resumes with Joe getting more of the available airtime or it doesn't...in which case it means the medical maelstrom and financial turmoil has continued throughout the spring and into the summer. If that should be the case that can't possibly be good for Trump. It's that "rally around the flag" effect you mentioned in a recent post. Folks tend to only rally for so long if they don't see positive results, be it a terrorist attack or a dumb war that was started under false pretense. Patience will wear thin if this thing continues week after week and month after month.

Nobody knows how this will unfold so we'll just have to sit back and watch what happens. I am not nearly as pessimistic as others as to what this means for the Democrats' chances and I think AD's Vegas friends are gonna lose some money this November and I'm glad to hear he didn't plop a few of his own bucks down for whatever reason.