When gauging independents, Biden was a safe bet to beat Trump. I was going by favorable/unfavorable ratings of the candidates as history has shown folks usually won’t vote for a candidate they view unfavorably or dislike along with several other factors.

It was a no brainier that Biden would win the independent vote and he did by a huge margin of 13 points. Also remember the Republican Party was and is still the smaller of the two major parties, they must win the independent vote or lose the election. Nationally that is. Also remember, the number one priority of democrats at the time was to defeat Trump. Everything else was secondary if not downright irrelevant. I also said since the Democrats didn’t run another candidate, we’ll never know if they could have beaten Trump or not since it didn’t happen. Going by favorable/unfavorable ratings and past voting habits along with different categories of who people would consider voting for and who wouldn’t even consider. All other candidates except Biden were very iffy as to their chances of beating Trump.

Last edited by perotista; 10/30/22 07:43 PM.
It's high past time that we start electing Americans to congress and the presidency who put America first instead of their political party. For way too long we have been electing Republicans and Democrats who happen to be Americans instead of Americans who happen to be Republicans and Democrats.