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Obama-Biden Democrat
Zyzz
Junior Chimp
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« on: July 26, 2021, 09:13:59 PM »

This won’t make a difference, no matter how much certain users here want it to.

You cannot stop the Ron!

Honest question, why is there the belief on the Republican side that DeSantis is some sort of powerhouse candidate? What separates him from the dozen generic Republicans who are likely to run?  To me the key for Republicans winning in 2024 is the upper mid west,  I don't see how a generic governor from the deep south helps them there.

He is from the Sun Belt, but Florida is too weird and unique to be similar to GA, AZ, and TX. Florida swung to the right in 2020, while the rest of the Sun Belt swung left in 2020.
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Obama-Biden Democrat
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Junior Chimp
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« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2021, 08:10:22 PM »


He is like 2012 Tim Pawlenty.
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Junior Chimp
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« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2021, 09:12:45 PM »
« Edited: July 31, 2021, 01:25:06 AM by Teflon Joe. »

Covid was a long-running event so it's hard to pick up the effect from the polls, but I think it has to have hurt Trump somewhat. It was a major crisis that he bungled (and the polls showed beyond a narrow margin that people didn't like his response to it) and now something had gone wrong for ordinary people, Trump couldn't just run on a 'great economy'. My guess is that pre-Covid Biden was on track to win the PV by 2-3 points, while losing the election, and if Trump had come across better in his Covid response and worn masks more he would have gotten some of the usual incumbency boost and perhaps lose the popular vote by 0-1 points. Polarisation/stability in views of Trump was so high that his ceiling may have been lower, but it's very likely his ceiling was at least 0.6% higher and so he would have been re-elected if he didn't obviously botch Covid.

The polls in March 2020 had Biden up around 5%. If you take off 3% due to the Trump over performance in polls then you get to a Biden PV win of 2%, but losing the electoral college.
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