Who's going to draw a bigger audience?
Which of the candidates are more Americans going to tune into? Is Trump or Biden going to pull more viewers, and why? Trump, for his spectacle? Biden, for his policies? Neither - is there something better on?
-My show is better than yours...
The only thing I can say for sure is that we're about to find out.
One thing to keep in mind with the ratings is that NBC (Trump) has a bigger platform than the ABC (Biden) -- including a Spanish-speaking channel. So any quick numbers you see when this is over might not give you a full comparison?
US election live updates: Donald Trump and Joe Biden hold town halls instead of presidential debates - ABC News
"Joe Biden is President material. Trump is human garbage. End of story."
Probably Trump because they know what to expect from Biden. Trump is a drawcard, people love to see train wrecks, laugh at the clown and look forward to the orange afterbirth being non-scripted questions to which he bloviates and goes off on irrelevant tangents.
Trump is the political equivalent of 'Jersey Girls' (never seen it but can imagine - does that actually exist?) while Biden is the 'News'.
To me that is criminal to have to wait that long. It just shows how far the GOP goes to try and suppress the vote and limiting the number of polling stations is a big way they do it.
I am glad to say that I got my ballot in the mail as always and filled it out in the comfort of my home. I will in short order take it to the ballot drop off location. In normal times I would rely on the post office to deliver it but in the current climate this year I am not taking any chances.
Hold on. Some recent news……..
Florida Republicans close registration gap with Democrats to historically narrow margin
Florida’s Republicans have narrowed the voter registration gap behind Democrats to historically close levels in the final tally of voters before the Nov. 3 election.
Democrats hold only a 134,000-voter lead over Republicans in the nation’s largest swing state, according to a Thursday report from the Florida Department of State that shows how many active registered voters registered in time to participate in the 2020 general election. Four years ago, when Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton by 113,000 votes, Democrats held a 327,000-voter edge.
There are more than 14.4 million active registered voters in Florida.
Democrats in 1980 boasted twice as many registered voters than Republicans, but the gap between the two parties has steadily closed. Democrats saw a boost in their registrations during the 2008 election of President Barack Obama, but Republicans have regained that ground in subsequent years.
Florida Democrats had hoped to reverse the trend in 2020. Former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum at one point aimed to register or “re-engage” 1 million voters.
Then came the coronavirus, which significantly altered voter registration efforts. New voter registrations plummeted in the spring as many Floridians began avoiding public spaces and local driver’s license locations — where a significant proportion of new voters register — and other government offices closed to the public. Voter registration efforts were impeded, too, without big events and with door-to-door and other in-person efforts stymied.
After the pandemic hit, volunteers with Forward Florida Action, which was founded by Gillum, texted more than 500,000 potential voters as part of a digital voter registration program and invested in enrolling voters in vote-by-mail, said executive director Ryan Hurst.
“While Democrats were preparing our voters to vote safely by mail in the pandemic and building up an 800,000 vote-by-mail request advantage, the Republicans continued to put the public at risk by conducting in-person voter registration activities and simultaneously discouraging their voters from voting by mail,” Hurst said. “We are organizing and fighting for every vote, and believe the momentum and enthusiasm are on our side.”
Republicans crowed Thursday that their strategy would lead to victories on Nov. 3
Florida Democrats, meanwhile, have been talking up Democrats' early turnout numbers in returned vote-by-mail ballots this election cycle.
Juan Peñalosa, executive director of the Florida Democratic Party, tweeted Thursday that more than 1 million Democrats have already voted in Florida. That’s well ahead of the 620,000 Republicans ballots returned and a switch from previous years, when Republicans have typically held vote-by-mail advantages.
Experts have cautioned against reading too much into early voting returns, as it’s possible that large numbers of voters could come out on Election Day or for in-person early voting.
According to the data released Thursday, Republicans added a net total of nearly 619,000 active registered Republicans compared with 2016, while Democrats added nearly 426,000.
No-party-affiliated voters made the largest jump in voter registrations compared with 2016, with a net gain of 663,000 voters, an increase of about 21 percent.
Compared with 2016, Democrats made voter registration gains in some urban counties, including Broward and Orange. Several counties that in 2016 held Democratic voter registration advantages now have more Republican voters than Democrats, including fast-growing Volusia and Polk counties. No county flipped the other way.: Florida Republicans close registration gap with Democrats to historically narrow margin - https://twitter.com/scontorno/status...16526968848384
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
We all have to hold on for couple weeks but looks pretty bad for Frump.
Today’s 2020 Election Polls: Battleground Polls Start To Reflect Biden’s Large National Lead
Last edited by pseudolus; 17-10-2020 at 02:16 AM.
The "poll" computer was right in 2016 (vote count) and it was right in 2018 with the sweep of the House, unless you think the computer factors in the Electoral College.
Wrong again. 40% of the US deserves the sleazy criminal, 60% do not, unless you think the orange Lucifer is trustworthy and has not broken the law and the US is not divided.
Last edited by elche; 17-10-2020 at 01:28 AM.
Lucifer is so desperate he is now courting QAnon. Hilarious. That's equivalent to soliciting support at a mental hospital. It doesn't get any lower. It reminds me of the film "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest".
Last edited by elche; 17-10-2020 at 09:58 AM.
I'm waiting with baited breath his response to reports that Bidens town hall got 1 million more viewers than his.
Considering his obsession with ratings he's not going to be happy about that.
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