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Whether you only watch CNN in airports while waiting for a DEI-piloted plane, or if you watch them daily, most can agree that the network leans left.

So, when they presented their latest polling data five months before the Nov 2024 elections you can understand the apoplexy.

What was already known is that Biden is fatigued.  But what was discovered is that the Black Community might be increasingly fatigued with Biden.

If we aren’t supposed to see color why do we still recognize communities by color of skin?  We digress.

The CNN poll shows Biden with a 70% to 21% lead over Trump in 2024 with “likely Black voters” currently.  Sounds pretty good for the Dems?

Not so fast.  At the same time in 2020, Biden held an 86% to 7% margin.

If the 70-21 margin held on the actual ballots cast this fall it would be a six-decade low of African Americans supporting the Democratic candidate.  CNN Senior Data Reporter Harry Enten called it “a historic performance in the making” that “leaves me speechless.”

But he went on talking anyway.

When you look at Blacks 50 and older Biden holds an 74 point advantage over Trump down from 83 points in 2020.

But the under-50-year-old lead in 2024 plummets.  The advantage for this age group shrivels from +80 to +37.  In other words, only one-half as many “young uns” favor Biden four years later.  That’s a yuge change as one would say.

Harry shrieked, “The Blacks are leaving Biden in droves.”

The age-old political line is, “Ask yourself if you are better off than you were four years ago.”

For blacks should it be, “Ask yourself if you are better off than 60 years ago?”  While the answer is likely yes, is that gap still far too wide in their minds?

Trump asked Blacks in 2016 to vote for him.  He even uttered, “You’ve been voting one way forever, what have you got to lose?”  Political pundits panned the pandering labeling it racist.  Don’t they always?

But, perhaps unlike the glove the shoe might fit.

Does Biden need to go to the black church of his choice more often?  Maybe student debt forgiveness isn’t enough to buy a vote.  Ten thousand to first-time homeowners isn’t either.

How about a half-black female VP?  Maybe a black female Supreme Court Justice isn’t.

Maybe the historic first black female lesbian Press Secretary won’t get it.  You’ve seen Karine Jean Claude Pepe Le Phew Van Dame Pierre wax eloquently from the podium, haven’t you?

Maybe if we stopped calling “them” the Black Community and realized that interest rates, crime, inflation, wild spending, and illegal immigration impact us all negatively we’d progress.

Maybe CNN is fair and balanced after all.

Maybe.

What have we got to lose?

Everything.

 

 

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  • I only see CNN went I’m working out which isn’t often. Each time I’m there I’ll take a peek at the banner underneath the segment being aired and I’ll be darn if Trump’s name isn’t there.

    There’s only one bullet left in the gun that is black. Reparations. I expect our public servants will be serving that up shortly.

  • I don’t know of any group of people regardless of poor, rich, black or white, that want to be made fun of. Nobody wants to be associated with the Joke in the room. Last election it was easy to use Trump as a piñata and laugh at all the contents as they hit the floor. His followers were too crazy to be real. His hair was cotton candy that the carnival left behind. And folks just knew his speeches were outrageous.

    This time the laugh meter is clearly focused on Jojo Biden. Jojo the clown is a laugh or sad statement daily. Every mature person remembers when Red Skelton would frown. Not a lot but it made you think. Well the clown show is alive and well. And most demographic groups want no part of it.

    Some feel sorry for Jojo, but it’s not going to matter. Hospice is not on the ballot.