That poll putting Trump ahead of Biden in all the major battleground states sure looks terrifying, but there’s never been an election more clouded by the unknown than this one.

A week after Halloween and the scary monsters are still abroad in the land.

Scary polls!

Scary plans!

Boogedy, boogedy!

It was a great weekend for intellectual doomscrolling, to say nothing of galloping paranoia. First, The New York Times comes out with a poll that shows the president is trailing Fulton County (Ga.) Inmate No. PO1135809 in all the major battleground states.

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      10 months ago

      The polls said the race was much closer than people online or pundits would have had you believe. I know, because anytime I mentioned it online I’d get downvoted and when I mentioned it in real life people would get angry.

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        10 months ago

        Almost every single poll said Clinton would win. That’s what people are going to remember