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But she was the county attorney in 2006 though, prior to the election, and was widely criticized for not prosecuting cops. So, while it looks like she never previously dealt directly with Chauvin in his previous cases, she certainly did enough damage in granting cover to the MPD for years which pretty directly ties into where things evolved since. Not ready to grant her a free pass just because she didn't directly pass on prosecuting this guy in the past.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 29 May 2020 20:42 (three years ago) link
A new ABC News/Washington Post poll shows former Vice President Joe Biden clearly ahead of President Donald Trump. Biden's up by a 53% to 43% margin among registered voters in this survey.
But it's important to put individual polls into context, and that context continues to show Biden's in one of the best positions for any challenger since scientific polling began in the 1930s.
There were more than 40 national public polls taken at least partially in the month of May that asked about the Biden-Trump matchup. Biden led in every single one of them. He's the first challenger to be ahead of the incumbent in every May poll since Jimmy Carter did so in 1976. Carter, of course, won the 1976 election. Biden's the only challenger to have the advantage in every May poll over an elected incumbent in the polling era.
Why?
A look at the fundamentals shows why Trump continues to trail. Simply put, he remains unpopular.
His net approval rating (approval - disapproval) in the ABC News/Washington Post poll was -8 points. That's very close to the average of polls, which has it at about -10 points. At no point during the past three years has Trump ever had a positive net approval rating.
The only other two presidents to have a net approval rating this low at this point in the campaign were Carter in 1980 and George H.W. Bush in 1992. Both of them lost reelection.
But I'm not predicting anything here. Between the coronavirus pandemic and now the protests and riots taking place nationwide, we're obviously in a volatile news environment.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 31 May 2020 22:29 (three years ago) link