2024-10-22 11:31:00
Washington/Prensa Latina
Two weeks before the United States elections, the candidates are looking for votes in key points, the Democrat Kamala Harris visited Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, and the Republican Donald Trump visited North Carolina.
The vice president decided on this sprint through the Midwest with former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney, who is fulfilling what she promised: doing everything possible to prevent Trump from returning to the White House .
Harris and Trump are nearly tied in the seven battleground states among a crucial segment of the electorate whose votes will determine who will be the next occupant of the Oval Office.
A survey by The Washington Post-Schar School of more than five thousand registered voters, conducted in the first half of October, showed that 47 percent of those interviewed said they will definitely or probably support him the Democrats, but that the same percentage also maintains its counterpart. opinion about the republican.
Among likely voters, 49 percent support Harris and 48 percent support Trump.
A report by the influential newspaper warned that support for the former president (2017-2021) has not changed much compared to the 48 percent he found in a spring survey in six key states using the same methodology.
However, Harris’ position is six percentage points higher than the 41 percent support recorded for President Joe Biden, who was the Democratic standard bearer at the time.
Last week, the documentary filmmaker Michael Moore said that the country was entering the scary phase and the pendulum swing of the election season and asked to pay less attention to the polls, to leave that obsession, and focus on mobilization.
“To get those votes, we need to activate the non-voters. “A third (or more!) of our fellow Americans may not go to the polls this year,” he wrote in an article published on his website.
The Farenheit 11/9 director listed several examples from various election cycles in the United States that supported his view that opinion studies are not always the right way.
“Smile up. You don’t cry in politics, especially at stupid polls. It’s just some of the madness they throw at us every four years. And for now, we just have to put the media whirlwind aside. Seriously, turn off the TV,” he suggested ironically.
Don’t read articles about the polls in the New York Times. Ignore all the charlatans who are really bringing down your day. “Half the time, they don’t seem to understand that we live in a world without a landline,” said Moore, who won an Oscar in 2003 for Bowling For Columbine, a documentary about gun violence in this country.
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