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babylonsister

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Fri Jul 10, 2020, 12:45 PM Jul 2020

Coronavirus Is the Real Swing Voter

https://politicalwire.com/2020/07/10/coronavirus-is-the-real-swing-voter/

Coronavirus Is the Real Swing Voter
July 10, 2020 at 12:37 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard


Andrew Sullivan: “The virus will be the real swing voter in this election. The sheer scale of the health crisis, and its current trajectory, obviously sweeps every other issue before it, as it should. It sure hasn’t ended the culture war, which at the elite level is arguably more intense than ever, but it is in the driving seat of the economy, and that is almost always dispositive. If we enter November closing in on 200,000 deaths, with the toll rising, and in a virally caused economic slump, I just can’t see how any incumbent can get elected, and I’m usually pretty good at seeing the worst.”

“The only way Trump can win is to ignore the pandemic or lie about it. He is trying both right now, and neither tactic is working. And as it becomes clearer and clearer that the U.S. is now a disgraced and humiliated outlier in the developed world in its tackling of the virus, Trump’s ultimate responsibility for this dismal response and thereby our struggling economy will be harder and harder to deny. We may even be approaching the moment when the cult finally cracks. Which suggests to me a Biden and Democratic landslide is no longer out of the question.”
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Coronavirus Is the Real Swing Voter (Original Post) babylonsister Jul 2020 OP
Gotta' say............ MyOwnPeace Jul 2020 #1
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