Trump vs. Biden: It's Not That Simple.

Yes, you bet I'm still uneasy as hell. My stomach remains unsettled. Given this economy and the way that Trump has mishandled the COVID-19 emergency, at least in theory we should be heading for a monumental Biden blowout. It should be no contest for Biden but will it be?

Sure, the polls are, by and large, underrepresenting Trump's support: remember when Kinsella initially raised the shy Trump voter? Well, no question, that's still very much in play coupled with the fact that people want to be politically correct to pollsters and may not necessarily voice their support for Trump. 

Another key issue that shouldn't be is BlackLivesMatter -- but it is, not because of how protesters have behaved, mostly peacefully but because Trump has so skillfully distorted reality and lumped this sacred cause in with Antifa and other anarchist groups. No question, this will hurt Biden perhaps more than I realize at the polls. Unfortunately, it shows you that in politics, if you repeat a lie strongly and frequently enough it gets serious traction even if you've pretzeled the facts beyond sane recognition. In short, to some extent, as yet unmeasurable, Trump has been and is still entitled to his own facts and that's patently unacceptable but nonetheless reality.

Then there's the elephant in the room that no one wants to address: the WE, or if you prefer, TheWomen'sEquation: think back to Ferraro and Palin as VEEP candidates, and of course, Hillary's two presidential runs. Notice how they all lost, with their respective tickets going down in flames. Coincidence? I don't think so. People are finally starting to seriously address subtle racism in the United States but no one seemingly is looking into subtle sexism as it relates to a presidential party ticket. They should be. And believe me, it isn't only men that are enthusiastically into the latter.   

I'm very much for Biden but I'm quite frankly worried that a Biden-Harris ticket won't cut a lot of mustard in some voting areas across the United States. I'm still predicting a Biden win but am seriously concerned that this could end up as another Kennedy-Nixon race.

I don't see a Trump win but I'm also not prepared to discount it entirely. Nixon was serially lucky to have the so-called Silent Majority in his corner. God help America, not to mention all the rest of us across the globe, if Trump has even half of the support that Nixon had.

In short, I'm confident of a Biden win but still not sleeping that well at night. That's why I'm impatient to know the results yesterday because this is nothing short of emotional torture. Let the chips fall where they may and hopefully it will be in the best interests of all of the American people.