Just two days before the election, Trump trails Biden by 10

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CNBC:

In the closing days of the campaign, Biden takes a 10-point lead over Trump, garnering support of 52% of registered voters nationally versus 42% for Trump. That's slightly down from Biden's 11-point lead in the NBC News/WSJ poll from two weeks ago.

Six-in-10 voters said the country is on the wrong track under the president's leadership and a majority disapproved of Trump's handling of the pandemic, according to the current poll. A majority of voters, 51%, said there's no chance they'd support Trump, while 40% said the same for Biden.

The poll finds that a majority of voters, 52%, disapprove of Trump's job performance, while 45% approve. 55% of voters approve of how the president has handled the economy. But 57% disapprove of the president's handling of the pandemic, while just 40% approve.

Biden's key advantages are among Black voters (Biden has 87% to Trump's 5%), voters ages 18-34 (60% to 32%), seniors (58% to 35%), women (57% to 37%), whites with college degrees (56% to 41%) and independents (51% to 36%).

Trump takes the lead among white voters (51% to 45%) and whites without degrees (58% to 37%). He also takes a narrow 1-point lead among men (48% to 47%).

Maddog wrote:

JulesV wrote:

Rock solid evidence is hard to produce, in matters like this, Maddog. Heck even the coroner hedges his bets when announcing verdicts and openly admits that there are no certainties  - and goes instead with the sheer "weight of evidence."

So here we are - you say his suicide is NOT related to the terrorist attack.
I say it is related.
What now, hon?

We say we don't know why (or even how) he killed himself as opposed to speculating.

Maybe someone had pictures of him fucking a goat?  

I'm not comfortable with trying to win any arguments regarding the tragic circumstances of this guy's suicide.
Accuracy is a good thing - but squabbling over the minute details? changes nothing.
He was probably a very decent human being, and a damn good cop, 15 years in that job.

So take the win - let's reset the statistics :
A) it was only 5 people who died resulting from storming the capitol, not 6.
B) it probably wasn't a painful suicide at all -maybe he was even smiling broadly as he died.


You get your win and I get to swerve debating a depressing tragedy. A good result for both of us.

JulesV wrote:

Maddog wrote:

We say we don't know why (or even how) he killed himself as opposed to speculating.

Maybe someone had pictures of him fucking a goat?  

I'm not comfortable with trying to win any arguments regarding the tragic circumstances of this guy's suicide.
Accuracy is a good thing - but squabbling over the minute details? changes nothing.
He was probably a very decent human being, and a damn good cop, 15 years in that job.

So take the win - let's reset the statistics :
A) it was only 5 people who died resulting from storming the capitol, not 6.
B) it probably wasn't a painful suicide at all -maybe he was even smiling broadly as he died.


You get your win and I get to swerve debating a depressing tragedy. A good result for both of us.

Maybe it wasn't even a suicide.

Cue the spooky music.