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Polling Indicates Biden is Ahead of Trump, But is it Misleading?
Will it last?
I love following the polling.
It’s fun to get a pulse on where the country stands, and try and estimate just how reliable it is given the new age groups coming into play that polls aren’t reliably tracking. Nevertheless, they do their best, and it’s interesting to see the areas of concern for the candidates involved.
Well, it appears both President Biden and former President Trump have some concerns.
Kate Plummer with Newsweek writes:
“Joe Biden is leading Donald Trump among previous voters ahead of the presidential election, a new poll has revealed.
According to a Public Opinion Strategies poll for NBC News, the Democratic incumbent is ahead of his Republican challenger by 9 points among people who voted in the 2020 general election and 2022 mid-term elections.
The poll also found that when third-party candidates are included in the race, in a five-way ballot with Biden, Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Green Party candidate Jill Stein and independent Cornel West, 39 percent would vote for Biden, while 37 percent would vote for Trump.
However, the poll also found that 46 percent of overall respondents would vote for Trump in the…
