Forty-One Percent.. Forty-one percent. | by John Ellis | Nov, 2020 | Medium
President Trump s number was 48%, which put him ahead in the horse race by 7 percentage points. There was nothing really remarkable about that, in context. Mr. Trump won the state in 2016 by (roughly) nine percentage points.
What was remarkable was Biden s 41%. What made it doubly disconcerting was the way The Des Moines Register (accurately) described the poll results:
Republican President Donald Trump has taken over the lead in Iowa as Democratic former Vice President Joe Biden has faded&
Faded! Could there be a more terrible word in the last week of a presidential campaign? Off the record, Democratic elected officials and campaign operatives and financial backers have been saying throughout the campaign that their biggest fear regarding the eventual outcome was Biden himself. They saw him as an especially weak candidate and worried that he wasn t a closer; even if he was ahead going into the last week, victory could slip from his grasp.