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Politico - No vax bump for Drumpf
SURPRISE — A chicken in every pot and a vaccine by Election Day!
OK, skip the chicken. The vaccine is what President Donald Trump keeps promising — even though his own top health officials, including the former drug company executive leading his Operation Warp Speed vaccine initiative — have said again and again they are highly dubious of his rosy timeline.
Yet if Trump thinks an October vaccine is the key to his election, he may be the one who gets a surprise. A new poll from POLITICO and the Harvard T.C. Chan School of Public Health finds that getting a vaccine before Election Day would have virtually no effect on how likely voters cast their ballots. That’s what 84 percent of voters favoring Trump say, along with 89 percent of those supporting Joe Biden.
The survey was done before Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death created a vacancy on the Supreme Court — and some of its findings, especially about voters’ concerns on abortion or health coverage, for instance — might look different if we did the poll again today. But it’s still a window into what voters care about — and how deeply our country is divided.
OK, skip the chicken. The vaccine is what President Donald Trump keeps promising — even though his own top health officials, including the former drug company executive leading his Operation Warp Speed vaccine initiative — have said again and again they are highly dubious of his rosy timeline.
Yet if Trump thinks an October vaccine is the key to his election, he may be the one who gets a surprise. A new poll from POLITICO and the Harvard T.C. Chan School of Public Health finds that getting a vaccine before Election Day would have virtually no effect on how likely voters cast their ballots. That’s what 84 percent of voters favoring Trump say, along with 89 percent of those supporting Joe Biden.
The survey was done before Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death created a vacancy on the Supreme Court — and some of its findings, especially about voters’ concerns on abortion or health coverage, for instance — might look different if we did the poll again today. But it’s still a window into what voters care about — and how deeply our country is divided.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-nightly-coronavirus-special-edition/2020/09/23/new-poll-no-vax-bump-for-trump-490416
October Surprise = https://www.investopedia.com/terms/o/octobereffect.asp
