{"id":12606,"date":"2020-09-08T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12606"},"modified":"2020-09-08T22:53:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T05:53:36","slug":"victor-davis-hanson-increasingly-volatile-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-increasingly-volatile-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Increasingly volatile voters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joe Biden and his handlers know that he should be out and about, weighing in daily on the issues of the campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In impromptu interviews, Biden should be offering alternative plans for dealing with the virus, the lockdown, the economic recovery, the violence and the looting, and racial tensions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet Biden&#8217;s handlers seem to assume that if he were to leave his basement and fully enter the fray, he could be capable of losing the election in moments of gaffes, lapses or prolonged silences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So wisely, Team Biden relied on the fact that the commander-in-chief is always blamed for bad news&#8211;and there has been plenty of bad news worldwide this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That reality was reflected in the spring and early summer polls that showed growing discontent with the incumbent Trump, as if he were solely responsible for one of the most depressing years in U.S. history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwaonline.com\/news\/2020\/sep\/07\/increasingly-volatile-voters\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette Joe Biden and his handlers know that he should be out and about, weighing in daily on the issues of the campaign. In impromptu interviews, Biden should be offering alternative plans for dealing with the virus, the lockdown, the economic recovery, the violence and the looting, and [&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-3hk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13687,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-on-defunding-the-police-woke-warriors-and-the-state-of-the-biden-presidency\/","url_meta":{"origin":12606,"position":0},"title":"Victor Davis Hanson on Defunding the Police, Woke Warriors, and the State of the Biden Presidency","author":"Victor Davis Hanson","date":"July 5, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"With 2 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 2 comments","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-on-defunding-the-police-woke-warriors-and-the-state-of-the-biden-presidency\/#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13025,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-iii-the-biden-administration\/","url_meta":{"origin":12606,"position":1},"title":"Victor Davis Hanson | The Biden Administration","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 24, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12844,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-biden-feeling-liberated-by-following-leftist-agenda\/","url_meta":{"origin":12606,"position":2},"title":"Victor Davis Hanson: Biden feeling &#8216;liberated&#8217; by following leftist agenda","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 5, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Watch the interview here","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13121,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/biden-most-radical-president-in-decades-victor-davis-hanson-on-trump-2024-georgia\/","url_meta":{"origin":12606,"position":3},"title":"&#8216;Biden most radical President in decades&#8217; Victor Davis Hanson on Trump 2024 &#038; Georgia","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 10, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"With 1 comment","block_context":{"text":"With 1 comment","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/biden-most-radical-president-in-decades-victor-davis-hanson-on-trump-2024-georgia\/#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12695,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-election-a-choice-between-rule-changing-and-respect-for-constitutional-norms\/","url_meta":{"origin":12606,"position":4},"title":"Victor Davis Hanson: Election a choice between rule-changing and respect for constitutional norms","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 1, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Bozeman Daily Chronicle In traditional presidential campaigns, the two major parties offer contrasting ideas and policies. 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