Washington/Prensa Latina
Two weeks before the United States elections, the candidates are hunting for votes in key points, Democrat <a href="http://www.world-today-news.com/donald-trump-whats-behind-the-us-presidents-baltimore-attack/" title="Donald Trump: What's behind the US President's Baltimore attack”>Kamala Harris visited Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, and Republican Donald Trump visited North Carolina.
The vice president decided on this sprint through the Midwest with former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney, who is fulfilling what she promised: doing everything possible to prevent Trump’s return to the White House.
Harris and Trump are nearly tied in the seven battleground states among a critical portion of the electorate whose votes will likely determine who becomes the next occupant of the Oval Office.
A survey by The Washington Post-Schar School of more than five thousand registered voters, conducted in the first half of October, revealed that 47 percent of those interviewed say they will definitely or probably support the Democrat, but also the same percentage maintains a similar opinion about the republican.
Among likely voters, 49 percent support Harris and 48 percent support Trump.
A report from the influential newspaper warned that support for the former president (2017-2021) has not changed much compared to the 48 percent he received in a spring survey in six key states using the same methodology.
However, Harris’ standing is six percentage points higher than the 41 percent support recorded for President Joe Biden, who was then the Democratic standard-bearer.
Last week, documentary filmmaker Michael Moore commented that the country was entering the stage of alarmism and swinging of the pendulum of the electoral season and asked to pay less attention to the polls, leave that obsession, and focus on mobilizing.
“To get those votes, we have to activate the non-voters. “It is possible that a third (or more!) of our fellow Americans will not go to the polls this year,” he wrote in an article published on his website.
The director of Farenheit 11/9 listed several examples from different electoral cycles in the United States that corroborated his opinion that opinion studies are not always the right way to go.
“Cheer up. You don’t cry in politics, especially over stupid polls. It’s just part of the madness they put us through every four years. And for now, we just need to put aside the media whirlwind. Seriously, turn off the television,” he suggested ironically.
Don’t read articles about the polls in The New York Times. Ignore all the charlatans who are really just bringing down your day. Half the time, they don’t seem to realize that we live in a world without a landline, concluded Moore, who won the Oscar in 2003 with Bowling For Columbine, a documentary about gun violence in this country.
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