Wisconsin remains contested but polling has gotten stranger.
Right- @chrislhayes is absolutely right, The ABC/WashPO poll released their results as they fell. The easy thing for them to have done would have been to reweight things to pull that Biden margin down.
Once in a blue moon, you see a poll that makes you blink twice to make sure you’re not seeing things. This morning’s ABC News/The Washington Post survey of Wisconsin was just such a poll. It showed Joe Biden 17 points (not a typo) ahead of President Trump, 57 percent to 40 percent, among likely voters. To put it mildly, this is a stunning margin in what is supposed to be one of the most competitive swing states in the country — a place that Trump carried by less than 1 percentage point in 2016.
What might be going on here? Well, Biden has led in some of these states for a while, but it’s also possible that Trump could be losing support in the Midwest due to the recent spike in COVID-19 cases there. Much of Wisconsin is currently a hot spot; on Tuesday, the state reported more new cases (5,262) and deaths (64) than any other day of the pandemic.
MADISON – Half a dozen liberal groups in Wisconsin say they were deceived by a longtime member of the conservative group Project Veritas this summer in an apparent attempt to get damaging footage of Democrats in a battleground state.
Black Leaders Organizing for Communities, Voces de la Frontera and others on Friday asked Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul to investigate the matter, according to a letter the groups provided to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Kaul has not said what he will do.
Project Veritas for years has misrepresented itself to get an inside look at how Democratic campaigns and liberal groups operate in Wisconsin and around the country. Its secretly recorded videos have hurt some entities, but some of the group’s claims about improprieties have fizzled when independently investigated.
Veritas’ founder, James O’Keefe, in 2010 pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for unlawfully entering federal property as part of an undercover operation at the office of then-U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, a Democrat from Louisiana.
In the latest episode, a man with ties to Veritas posed as a documentary filmmaker to get interviews with liberal groups, according to those groups. A second man pretended to be a member of Our Wisconsin Revolution to get access to private meetings.
In all, six groups said they were targeted: BLOC, Voces, Our Wisconsin Revolution, Souls to the Polls, Wisconsin Race Class Narrative Project and Wisconsin Voices.
“We believe that any information they have obtained in this process will be used to intentionally misrepresent our work, prevent people from exercising their right to vote and further damage political discourse in our state,” the groups wrote in their letter to Kaul.
SCOTUS said Wisconsin absentee ballots must be in by 11/3. Trump said election must be concluded by 11/3. And GOP now controls SCOTUS 6-3. Everything is in place to steal the election. We’re the only thing standing in the way.
— Read Jackson Rising by @CooperationJXN (@JoshuaPHilll) October 27, 2020
After a surprisingly sluggish weekend for polling, the floodgates have opened, with a mix of high-quality polls, low-quality polls and pretty much everything in between. And although there are some outliers in both directions, they tell a fairly consistent story, overall: A steady race nationally, perhaps with some gains for Joe Biden in the Midwest.
And then there’s some other polling averages, setting an interesting metric:
@RealCarlAllen Since 2004, a candidate has polled at or above 49% in a battleground state and gone on to lose that state once. One time. #ElectionTwitter Never in recent history (curious if ever?) – has a candidate polled over 50% and lost.
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Not only has a candidate only ONCE lost a state since 2004 with a polling avg of 49%+, but also
Vote. Take back the White House and Senate in overwhelming numbers. Have the Secret Service remove Covid spreader on January 20th. Then, #ExpandTheCourt. Kill the filibuster. DC statehood. And that's just the beginning of returning the country to majority rule.
SCOTUS brought us the Iraq War (courtesy of the absurdity of Bush v Gore), unlimited dark money in politics and the shit-storm that unleashed since Citizens United, and systematic racism in the wiring of our democracy. It's time to dispense with niceties and fix our democracy
We can assume the period between the election & inauguration will be a time for Trump to seek retribution against enemies, real & perceived, further sabotage our govt & country to create the worst possible conditions for a new president, & cause harm to voters who rejected him.
It’s too late to use the mails. Given Supreme Court rulings I urge everyone to now vote in person; early vote or use drop boxes. Protect your health but don’t let the Court and the deliberately crippled Postal Service deprive you of your most precious civil right. Plan your vote.
Ex-Mueller deputy Andrew Weissmann: "I suspect strongly that if the president does not win reelection, that he is going to pardon a lot more people related to the Trump Organization, his family, people who work there, and even himself." https://t.co/ds64zbTmce
