I’m actually surprised that guv Evers hasn’t put a few hundred of the Nat guard on notice for possible call-up. A few guard units wandering about chatting with the peaceful protesters and to dissuade the bad elements goes a long way in the optics dept. The guard would seem to make Evers seem more serious about peaceful protest than the police SWAT units. Also many area police pulled out of sending help in to Milwaukee, Guard may assist with the manpower.
This is not good, should he have received a bump instead of the gap closing?
https://nypost.com/2020/08/17/trump-actually-praises-cnn-after-new-poll-shows-virtual-tie-with-biden/
This is one CNN poll even President Trump can get behind.
The Aug. 12-15 national poll of registered voters showed Trump down just four points, with 46 percent against Biden’s 50 percent support and a 3.7 percent margin of error that put them in a virtual dead heat.
- The poll was conducted the week before the Democratic convention. Poll conducted August 12-15; the DNC was held August 17-20, and that NY Post article about the poll was posted last Monday. It’s kind of hard for Biden to get a convention bounce from a poll conducted before his convention.
- The CNN poll results are an outlier compared to other recent polls. As 538 shows, national polls are consistently showing Biden up by 9+ points, though a Rasmussen poll conducted at about the same time also shows Biden at +4 (though, Rasmussen’s polls have fairly consistently leaned more Republican for years).
The commentators I’ve read agreed that post-convention bounces aren’t going to happen this year. Most people are locked into their positions. The vote will be decided by turnout, not opinions.
The only poll on RealClearPoltics that is post-convention is the CBS News/YouGov poll. That has Biden ahead by ten points. So did their last pre-convention poll and their poll in July. No bump, but a good margin.