TIME, TIME, TIME:...Polls Show Democrat Biden Rolling Up To 2024 Victory...Others Have Trump Inching Ahead...They're Shallow Voter-Sentiment Samplings...Often Wrong...

 

By DUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ

McALLEN, Texas |...It's still a crapshoot. Drama on Election Night, an American staple. We're almost there for the 2024 presidential shootout pitting trusted democracy against wild dictatorship. It's one or the other. Do Americans get the importance? No, not yet, and perhaps they never will. Americans are comfortable, air-conditioned softies who, well, believe everything will always be alright.

Send in the clowns.

We have no way of looking into the future and coming back to tell you which candidate will win, whether incumbent Democrat Joe Biden, the 81-year-old, or terribly-flawed Donald Trump, the oft-indicted New Yorker on trial as of Next Monday for violating campaign finance laws while paying porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 to shut up.

Stormy will testify, so she is not shutting up, and Americans seem to have splintered off and taken sides, taken them with the vigor of a young and new porn star out to make a mint satisfying the longest amongst us dudes.

Do polls matter? I say no. I say they are too shallow, one so-called respectable national poll admitting it only surveyed 833 Americans to deduce that Biden would win easily. Trump has paid for enough fake Wall Street Journal polls to keep that print journalism operation in business.

But, hey, watch out for the Latino vote!

Who knows about that one? It's a minor vote (10%, if that?). Still, it's a measuring stick. The turbulent political winds blow up and down in the Hispanic community, say the pollsters who likely never set foot on such locales. The Black vote! Oh, bro, keep your eye on the Black voters. It could mean victory or defeat in the South!

Yeah.

The Italian vote is about to convict Trump in that New York City trial. What about that vote, Maria? Are you hip to the spaghetti & meatball jury verdict. Oh, yeah, there could be a Jew or two on the jury. What about the Jewish vote? Poll me a few Germans. They may go with fellow German Donald J. Trump just because he's German.

Hey, poll this!

Ah, well, it's all part of our national politics schtick, central to the game. It's still early, is what we're saying at our weekly discussion meeting over at the restaurant. Most seem to agree. Hanging on us like a cool, colorful lei on the flight home from Honolulu is the prospect of violence after the vote is counted, not if Biden wins reelection but if Trump and his people wish to take their disappointment out into the streets.

Yeah, riot at the malls this time. Burn the mother down, as The Trampps might say about here.

Richard J. Daley, once the Trump-like blowhard mayor of Chicago, liked to put it this way: "The only poll that truly counts, is the poll the voters take in the voting booths on election day."

Of course...

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