“It’s over”
Kamala Harris was already ahead by four points in the national polling averages heading into this week’s presidential debate. She won the debate handily, even as Donald Trump humiliated himself and blew his biggest remaining chance to turn things around.
We’ll have to wait several more days for enough post-debate national polls to be conducted before we can see what the new national polling averages look like, and make a determination as to whether Harris really has delivered a knockout blow. Even then, we’re still stuck with the reality of increasingly inaccurate polling. But Republican pollster Frank Luntz isn’t waiting. He’s now declared that it’s over and Trump will lose the election because of the debate.
Not so fast. Luntz may indeed be right. But even if he is, how much are you willing to wager on it? Are you willing to bet the country? Our rights? Our democracy? Nah, me neither. So even as we keep hearing more and more talk about how “it’s over,” let’s keep reminding ourselves that it doesn’t really work that way.
Kamala’s current four point lead isn’t big enough for us to justify sitting on our hands. If her lead grows to seven points I’ll start feeling a lot safer, but it still won’t be enough to justify sitting on our hands. I don’t care if her lead becomes fifteen points, we still can’t risk sitting back and doing nothing. We have to keep working at this, as if it’s the closest race of all time.
I know that you know all of this. But as I said, it’s worth reminding ourselves of this, every day, for these final eight weeks. The race will be “over” when we win. Until then, let’s keep running up the score.
