Now That Trump’s Convicted, Biden Needs To Get on the Horn.

We still don’t have a date for any of the other trials covering crimes for which a former U.S. President has been charged, but the fact that Trump’s been convicted of 34 felonies in New York could still be enough to turn a very close election into a rout.

I’m thinking of what happened in 1988, when George Bush and Michael Dukakis were locked in a pretty tight race. That is, a race which could have gone either way until the week after Labor Day when the Bush campaign unleashed the Willie Horton ad and within a couple of weeks what had been a close race became an easy win and ultimately a complete rout.

Bush not only was the last winning Presidential candidate to pull out more than 400 electoral votes (his total was 426) but he carried 40 states, with Dukakis not even being able to win Vermont, New Hampshire, or Connecticut, three of the four most adjacent states to his home state.

For all the digital traffic covering polls which floats along the internet superhighway every day, I have yet to see one single poll where respondents are asked to tell the polltaker how many days or even how many minutes they’ve thought about the election before they answered the call from a polling outfit or logged into their laptop to answer some survey questions online.