With my last couple of book and music list, I said I’d be releasing these posts more often. True to form, here’s a new one for November!
Month: November 2020 (Page 2 of 2)
OK, so the elections are done and Trump’s on the way out! But let’s step back a moment to evaluate. I made some election predictions last week. How did they go?
For readers: how did your election predictions work out?
Polls showed Joe Biden in the lead over Donald Trump from start to finish. And then he won bigly. In fact, they showed just about anyone the Democrats might nominate defeating Trump. Therefore, we might conclude that no surprises occurred. Everyone expected Biden to beat Trump, and he did*. A tidy election.
As it turns out, not exactly. For one, that’s not quite a valid argument. Perhaps more relevant to readers’ purposes, its conclusion is also false. But we’re not here to nitpick at logic. The point is that plenty of people expected Trump to win. Mostly liberals and left-leaners concerned about a second Trump term and prone to fret about electoral fraud. But the sentiment took in many analysts and pundits, too.
So why did that happen? And why did Biden win, anyway?
The short answer: Trump blew it. Bigly.
Welcome to another edition of our election predictions! People get riled up about most elections, but Trump especially worked people up in 2020.
Will Trump win? What will happen in Iowa? What’s going to happen after the election? Let’s investigate.
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