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Took the opportunity

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From the W.H.O.

Take a moment to hope. 

Enjoy

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What to make of President Trump’s re-election probability

As I alluded to yesterday, many of us are reading the tea leaves, including me, rather than the data. This is followed by why the data is not be trusted, at least not yet.  Why is the data not to be trusted? Amy Walter, of  The Cook Political Report, conjectures we  can’t see the data, at least in part, due to the lingering effects of the 2016 election. She  opens ,   President Trump's job approval rating are stuck in the mid-40s, even as the nation's  governors see their own approval ratings rise. Of the six high-quality battleground state polls we've seen since April, Trump is trailing in five of them. The RealClearPolitics average of national polls finds Biden leading Trump by 4.7 points — a lead twice as big as Hillary Clinton's final margin.    And yet, as Harry Enten writes on  CNN.com , "an average of recent polls finds that a majority of voters (55%), believe Trump will defeat Biden in this election. Trump's edge on this question has been fairly

Is President Trump ‘honest’ in his understanding we don’t want change?

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Are Older Voters Turning Away From Trump? I take it.  I have the same problem of embedded certainty which I can intellectually understand is unwarranted yet it still shapes my behaviors.  While they’re are many who want this not to be, it has shown to have been. This November, I anticipate it will be again. Nostalgia and certainty may be the opiate that Mar