From The Hill:
9 in 10 voters say civil unrest a key issue in presidential race: poll
The vast majority of voters in a new Harvard CAPS-Harris poll released exclusively to The Hill say they believe civil unrest will be an important issue in the November election.
More than 9 in 10 voters surveyed in the poll, 92 percent, said they thought the issue would be important in the presidential campaign and election, including 52 percent who called it “very important” and 40 percent who viewed it as “somewhat important.” The survey was released Friday.
From Politico:
Why Biden could still lose the suburbs to Trump
Interviews with more than two dozen Democratic Party officials and strategists in the suburbs reflect confidence in Biden’s ability to compete with Trump on issues surrounding this summer’s civil unrest, but also widespread concerns about the political volatility — and potential allure — of the president’s law-and-order message.
In an effort to draw those voters back to him, Trump seized on images of looting and violence in Minneapolis and Portland following the death of George Floyd and, most recently, in Kenosha after the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Trump blamed the unrest on permissive Democrats and warned a Biden administration would leave suburban America in ruins.
One of the strategists described a focus group in which white, college-educated women reacted to the protests by discussing their own property values and, in one woman’s case, her family’s mortgage.
“White women who have college degrees are starting to really get sick of this,” the strategist said.
Here is some recent video from Pittsburg:
Black Lives Matter activists in Pittsburgh, PA wreck outdoor restaurant and abuse patrons, stealing their drinks and smashing their plates. pic.twitter.com/EIXCanFA85
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) September 7, 2020
Who can forget this from Rochester:
Rochester, N.Y.: #BLM rioters swarm a restaurant and knock over the dining tables. https://t.co/lxa0b5hHeh
— Andy Ngô ?️? (@MrAndyNgo) September 5, 2020
In Portland, Antifa went into people back yards.
As police dispersed antifa rioters in SE Portland, they ran onto people’s property to hide from cops. One home owner goes out and tells them to get out. #PortlandRiots #antifa https://t.co/qMi4KyGGYi
— Andy Ngô ?️? (@MrAndyNgo) August 8, 2020
The New York Post reports that BLM protesters did over $100,000 in damage in Manhattan.
Suburban white people want to be able to go to restaurants, have security in their own homes. That is part of the suburban lifestyle. That’s why they move out of the cities into the suburbs. These people want nice, quiet lives. They worry about things like property value because suburbanites want to buy homes and not live in rented apartments all their life.
Biden and Harris have sided with the rioters. Harris and Biden have stumped for a fund to provide bail money to the rioters who were arrested.
Suburbia won’t want to vote for a candidate that threatens their quiet suburban lifestyle and property values. They don’t want to get mobbed going to the local restaurant or find their local stores looted and boarded up.
This isn’t a shock to anyone who is familiar with the suburbs, which apparently doesn’t include the people in the media. We choose to live there because we don’t want to deal with the noise and violence of the cities. Don’t bring that bullshit to our neighborhoods.
I expect civil unrest will indeed be a major issue at the polls.
The question is, how many people will believe it is DJT’s fault thanks to the Dem’s lies, and the media incessantly repeating same?
Voting-wise, most of the unrest is in heavily blue states, so even if some of those voters go red due to their concerns over the riots/looting, it won’t make a difference. Hopefully, some purple states will go red over this, though.
The kicker could be the NPVIC backfiring on blue states.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact
“The kicker could be the NPVIC backfiring on blue states.”
Would, that be true! Oh, frabjous joy! May out liberal friends and neighbors find their evil plans go all fucktangular!
(h/t to Wirecutter at Knuckledraggin’ blog)
Everyone w/ half a brain knows if the pop vote goes R, the blue states will backpedal out of that faster than a groom finding out the bride isn’t pregnant.
Biden’s optics are horrible. Today’s chuckle is him asking for a teleprompter to answer a live question. He gets up on stage w/ Trump and he’s done. He doesn’t…. GOP gets more fodder.
The folks on the left have decided that identity politics will be the deciding factor in the elections, and they are going to be surprised how many solid Dem voters they will lose because of it.
The problem with identity politics is it creates fractures, it does not unite. As Miguel noted in an earlier post, the Hispanic community is not some homogeneous group that thinks alike across the board. Blacks, Asians, religious groups, etc… the same situation applies.
Yet, the Dems think that promoting BurnLootMurder is somehow going to unite the black vote behind them. They think promoting open borders will do the same for the hispanics. And, they are wrong on all counts.
So, here we are, a few months before the election, and the Dems are openly supporting a faction that has little to no real popular support. Yet, in their childlike reasoning, they cannot separate the idea of Black Lives Matter, from the riots that concept has come to represent. And, that is going to cost them votes in November.
CBM, what is the difference between the “idea of BLM” and the riots? It’s not easy to find an “idea” in BLM; the only semblance of one I can find is racism.
More to the point, the Dems have made so many nods in favor of things with bad publicity — closing businesses, riots, etc — it’s become impossible for them to disentangle themselves.
No one is buying the ‘It’s all TRUMP’S fault!’ except for the true believers. Especially when you can derail that line with ‘Who was in charge in Seattle/Portland/Minneapolis?’.
Don’t forget about the COVID nonsense too. Many business got properly screwed due to closings. In fact, I think as of now there still isn’t indoor dining at all in NYC, and outdoor only is going to be over soon due to the upcoming change in temps. And there’s no real plan for when or if it’ll change. No one remotely sane believes Trump is responsible for that, not when other less crazy states are opening back up.