CONTRARY TO WHAT many people think and say, public opinion polls, particularly those having to so with presidential elections, are almost always very accurate. In 1948, when all the polls predicted Dewey would defeat Truman, polling was primitive and erratic, but over the years has become extremely scientific, computerized, and accurate. In 2016 they said Hillary Clinton would defeat Trump in the popular vote fifty one percent to forty nine percent and that is exactly what happened. Assuming that Biden's lead over Trump is fifty four forty three, which is almost certainly is, Trump is on his way out, and sanity is on its way back in, insofar as sanity can exist among humans. Every day about three million people are early voting, in a contest in which Biden is up by double digits. Even if Trump somehow miraculously close the gap to zero between now and November third, Biden will sin, because most people will have voted before the final election day. If everyone had to wait until November third to vote, and Trump closed the gap between now and then, he would have an equal chance to win, but the election is happening now, twenty million people have already voted, and by election day, more than fifty million will have done so, with Biden will ahead. The time seems to be drawing nigh for Trump and his supporters to cry foul, to whine, to lament, and then, at long last, to go far, far away. They will not go easy, because they are not the sort of people to show dignity and class, and to accept defeat graciously. They will hatch their usual idiotic conspiracy theories, they will claim that the swamp and the deep state and the liberal media and the Chinese orchestrated a diabolical conspiracy against Trump, and they will likely continue doing this nonsensical behavior their remaining days, as will Trump, as he and they age and die, and in another seventy years the last of them will finally vanish from the scene, like the last confederate soldier, on his death bed, claiming victory for the lost cause, claiming pitifully that he and his great crusade for righteousness were derailed only because of a diabolical conspiracy. Trump is apparently going to go out still shrilling that wearing face mask in the midst of a deadly nightmarish epidemic may or may not be useful. God, what a pathetic excuse for a human being
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