{"id":30803,"date":"2020-10-08T21:10:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T02:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=30803"},"modified":"2020-10-08T21:10:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T02:10:08","slug":"magical-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/10\/08\/magical-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Magical Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"

From<\/a> WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a long way to go and there is a pent-up Trump vote that I believe is underreported,\u201d former Trump campaign adviser Ed Brookover said. \u201cThe president has his pulse on the country and a lot of America is going to get out there and make sure he has four more years.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s take this apart.<\/p>\n

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  1. Trump has been running his reelection campaign from the day he filed papers with the FEC – and that was the day he was inaugurated. Voters have already begun sending in their ballots, and they cannot be retracted. We’re down to the last 3.5 weeks. Dude, you don’t know how to measure time, do you?<\/li>\n
  2. Underreported<\/em>? He wasn’t in 2016, the polls were accurate, but failed to take the oddities of the Electoral College<\/em> into account – Clinton won by several million votes. In 2018, the last nationwide & official measurement of voter’s sentiment, Trump and the Republicans were stomped<\/strong> into the ground.<\/li>\n
  3. Just about every recent poll and survey I’ve seen makes it clear that all but the Trump cult members have realized, and really quite quickly, that Trump’s a faker and a taker. Name your polling service, it’s there. Hell, Fox News<\/strong><\/em> has Trump down 10 points<\/a> – and that’s Fox News<\/em><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    A prime example of magical thinking, saying what he wishes – or his employers wish – were true. These are the sort of people that lead to disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    From WaPo: \u201cThere is a long way to go and there is a pent-up Trump vote that I believe is underreported,\u201d former Trump campaign adviser Ed Brookover said. \u201cThe president has his pulse on the country and a lot of America is going to get out there and make sure \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30805,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30803\/revisions\/30805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}