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Originally Posted by Edward64
Eating crow now.
BTW congrats to those that called it. If you care to tell us, let us know how you knew?
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Pessimism. The first election I was was eligible to vote where the U.S. President was on the ballot was in 2004. I was very optimistic that John Kerry would triumphantly beat George W. Bush.
I was also cautiously hopeful Hillary would beat Trump in 2016 and that didn't happen. It was pretty clear to me than he was a very bad guy and I didn't think that much had changed since then.
I think living my entire life so far in Indiana and Kentucky so far might have something to do with it too. The people I vote for often lose since I'm a straight ticket Democrat.
I also voted in this poll before I saw the Iowa Selzer poll which made me go from being pessimistic about the election to being hopeful about it.