With four weeks left before the November 3 elections, a CNN / SSRS poll shows former VP Joe Biden with a commanding 16 point lead nationally among likely voters. The poll was taken after the first debate and includes the time that sociopath and COVID spreader Donald "COVID Donnie" Trump announced that he'd contracted the virus. The margin is the largest so far in their head-to-head matchup and is comparable to the NBC News / Wall Street Journal poll taken after the debate which showed Biden had expanded his lead to 14 points. Some key internal data:
"Likely voters broadly prefer Biden over Trump on a number of issues that voters consider critically important in the race, including the coronavirus outbreak (59% prefer Biden, 38% Trump), health care (59% to 39%), racial inequality in America (62% to 36%), nominations to the Supreme Court (57% to 41%) and crime and safety (55% to 43%). The two are about even over who would better handle the economy (50% say Biden, 48% Trump), similar to where they have been among registered voters in recent polling.
Biden's favorability ratings have also improved, with 52% of Americans now saying they have a positive impression of the former vice president, compared with 39% who have a positive view of Trump."
As the poll points out, polls in most battleground states show Biden with a narrower, single-digit lead over COVID Donnie. But, four weeks before an election, you'd rather be 14 or 16 points up nationally than down by that number. That said, the only "poll" that counts is the one done by your ballots, so VOTE and get friends and family out to vote.
