Is Michigan already off the table? Gold standard poll gives him a wide lead.
LANSING — Former Vice President Joe Biden has increased his lead over President Donald Trump to 12 percentage points in Michigan, where voters are unhappy with Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new poll.
Biden, the presumed Democratic nominee, leads Republican Trump in Michigan 53-41, according to a poll conducted by EPIC-MRA of Lansing between May 30 and last Wednesday.
Biden's lead over Trump in Michigan, seen as a key battleground state in the Nov. 3 presidential election, has doubled from six points in January, when Michigan voters favored Biden over Trump 50-44, in an earlier EPIC-MRA survey.
Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic is not helping him in Michigan, according to the poll of 600 likely voters, which was conducted by live callers and included 40% cellphone participation. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Asked about Trump's handling of the pandemic, 58% gave him a negative rating, 41% gave him a positive rating, and 1% were undecided, or refused to say.
In other poll findings:
63% say the country is heading in the wrong direction, up from 50% in January.
If the election was held today, 51% would vote to replace Trump, up from 44% in January.
Independent voters, who often decide Michigan elections, are backing Biden over Trump, 63-23.
U.S. Sen. Gary Peters, a Democrat from Bloomfield Township, leads Republican challenger John James of Farmington Hills, 51-36, with 13% undecided or refusing to say.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer got a job performance rating of 55% positive and 43% negative, up from 43-50 in January. And 60% gave her good marks for her handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/06/07/michigan-poll-biden-leading-trump-12-points/3153501001/
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This doesn't read right. Did they get the digits mixed up, or am I not seeing what was meant?
Maybe there are a few holding out for Justin Amash, Jill Stein, etc.
Biden? Trump? Hmm, they are so alike, hard to decide ...
Thread info will show you what I mean.
He did fix it after I voiced my puzzled question.
Or maybe I missed the sentence you saw.
Anyway, the story also mentioned that H. Clinton had a 10-point lead in some polls, but lost the state. We have to get out the vote.
We need an overwhelming win. I'm talking an over-fucking-whelming curb stomping of epic, historical proportions.
That would make me happy come November.
