{"id":41342,"date":"2024-10-31T19:13:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T00:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=41342"},"modified":"2024-10-31T19:13:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T00:13:40","slug":"for-this-election-already-in-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/10\/31\/for-this-election-already-in-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"For This Election, Already In Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d sort of forgotten about the pollster <em><strong>Gallup<\/strong><\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/652853\/half-votes-likely-cast-election-day.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">but this is interesting<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Voter-Enthusiasm-During-the-2024-Presidential-Election-Campaign.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41343\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Voter-Enthusiasm-During-the-2024-Presidential-Election-Campaign.jpg?resize=800%2C867&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Voter-Enthusiasm-During-the-2024-Presidential-Election-Campaign.jpg?w=1220&amp;ssl=1 1220w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Voter-Enthusiasm-During-the-2024-Presidential-Election-Campaign.jpg?resize=277%2C300&amp;ssl=1 277w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Voter-Enthusiasm-During-the-2024-Presidential-Election-Campaign.jpg?resize=945%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 945w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Voter-Enthusiasm-During-the-2024-Presidential-Election-Campaign.jpg?resize=768%2C832&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Voter-Enthusiasm-During-the-2024-Presidential-Election-Campaign.jpg?resize=138%2C150&amp;ssl=1 138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Democrats can be encouraged. But how about Republicans? If this is accurate, I doubt Mr Trump, no matter how much he runs around with his hair on fire and screaming, is going win &#8211; or even be competitive.<\/p>\n<p>A Democratic blowout may be numbing for the Republicans. You really have to wonder: If Trump had dropped out and Haley had become the Republican nominee, would we looking at a different graph?<\/p>\n<p>But the Republicans allowed a demented old man direct their destinies. There were reports of members of Congress receiving threats of violence if they didn&#8217;t back Mr. Trump, or so former Rep Cheney (R-WY) claimed. If a few of them had had the courage to take the risk, would this be happening to them? Or would they have booted Mr Trump, who&#8217;s never won the popular vote, and taken a chance on a better candidate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d sort of forgotten about the pollster Gallup, but this is interesting: Democrats can be encouraged. But how about Republicans? If this is accurate, I doubt Mr Trump, no matter how much he runs around with his hair on fire and screaming, is going win &#8211; or even be competitive. \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/10\/31\/for-this-election-already-in-progress\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/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-41342","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\/41342","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=41342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41348,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41342\/revisions\/41348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}