Many of us question the validity and accuracy of polls. Whether regarding a policy or the policy maker, the stats often seem tainted and biased. You usually have to analyze the poll takers and the source of info that accompanies the poll before you can trust the data. Years ago, polls were taken by calling random home phones. With very few landlines, polling techniques had to change, and the results over the last decade show those changes might not have been correct or effective. Don’t bet the house on poll results; you have to draw trends and the people’s temperature from the polls. To ignore polls is to do so at your own peril. Karine Jeanne Pierre said on Monday that the White House does not pay attention to polls from any source, and with the data on the current polls, they probably wish they could sign an executive order banning them.
There will be seven Republican candidates on the debate stage Wednesday night. Asa Hutchinson did not make the cut, falling short on ratings and contributions. Of the seven that did make the RNC’s cut, they really need to take stock of why they are still in the race. If you have been working the voters of Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina and are stuck in single digits in the polls, your message is not getting through or wanted.
The case is the same for the President and his Administration. You may not like or agree with the polls, but if you are so upside down on the President’s approval, the economy, or our defense readiness, face it: any segment of the President’s performance you look at, you have to look in the mirror. You must look at yourself, drop the ego, and admit your vision of the country and the future does not align with the populace. KJP and Biden can take to the microphone daily and tell you how good things are because of Joe Biden’s policies, but politicians are vision and ego; people are reality. The reality today in America is not good. Drop the mic.
The Democrats are not following Biden’s plan of hunkering down, and we will simply win the White House again. They are more realistic than the feeble Biden and know the Oval Office is slipping from their grip. Biden likes to strut and remind everyone that he beat Donald Trump once and, based on the successes of his first term, he will beat Trump again. They see how upside down Biden and Harris are in every poll, and his chances of winning are bleak. The problem is pushing aside a sitting President who does not want to be pushed.
They have a doubly hard task ahead, for if they successfully move Biden, what do they do with Harris. As the sitting VP, she will expect to move into the first spot, but she is even weaker than Biden. No Vice President has ever had lower approval ratings. So what are the options? They are few. They have to prod Biden to make the move himself and give Kamala something to assuage her ego. The clock is ticking, and a decision must be forthcoming in the next few weeks. The final puzzle piece is what to do with Kennedy and Williamson. They have a right to be considered, and having been dissed by the DNC to this point, they will be tough to bargain with. The Dems have a mess of their creation. It will be fun to see them fight their way out of this paper bag.
