{"id":12551,"date":"2020-08-06T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12551"},"modified":"2020-08-04T17:42:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T00:42:11","slug":"what-or-who-decides-this-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/what-or-who-decides-this-election\/","title":{"rendered":"What or Who Decides This Election?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We know where to watch in the next few weeks but have no real idea what we will be watching. Yet pundits, the media, and the Left seem giddy that their polls show a Trump slump, as if they have learned nothing and forgotten nothing from 2016. But in truth, the news cycle over the next three months may well favor Trump \u2014 a scenario his opponents no doubt deem preposterous in these dog days of August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1. The virus.<\/strong> The coronavirus is like an out-of-control grass fire. It dies down only to flare up without much predictability \u2014 making fools of yesterday\u2019s experts, proving them yet again today\u2019s geniuses, only to render them idiots tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump\u2019s polls climbed in May when it looked as if the vicious virus was waning. But after the public relaxed its guard, or protesters gathered for much of June in massive demonstrations that were politically correct mockeries of social distancing, masks, and disinfects, or the virus got its natural second wind, it caught fire again \u2014 and abroad as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/08\/2020-election-what-or-who-decides-outcome\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review We know where to watch in the next few weeks but have no real idea what we will be watching. Yet pundits, the media, and the Left seem giddy that their polls show a Trump slump, as if they have learned nothing and forgotten nothing from 2016. But in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3gr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12401,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/donald-trump-in-twitters-lilliput\/","url_meta":{"origin":12551,"position":0},"title":"Donald Trump in Twitter&#8217;s Lilliput","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 5, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Donald Trump has slumped badly in the polls over the last weeks. 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Other polls are more equivocal but suggest an unexpected Trump surge among minority voters.\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11461,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/could-trump-win-20-percent-of-the-african-american-vote-in-2020\/","url_meta":{"origin":12551,"position":4},"title":"Could Trump Win 20 Percent of the African-American Vote in 2020?","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 19, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The provocative Donald Trump certainly seems to be disliked by a majority of African-American professional athletes, cable-news hosts, academics, and the Congressional Black Caucus. 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