How Are the Numbers Shifting as We Approach Election Day?

Considering that the polls are notoriously unreliable, we can only make educated guesses as to the numbers of Trump and Harris voters who will cast their ballots in the November presidential election. As shown at left and discussed at length in other posts, a significant number of wealthy and highly educated people who voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020 have dropped him like a hot rock, as it becomes more obvious by the day that he is criminally insane.

I’m sure that the founder of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman, quoted at left, likes his riches as much as the next guy, and eagerly accepted the enormous tax cuts he received when Trump took office in 2017.  It appears, however, that Mr. Hoffman is not blind to the fact that Trump brings with him considerable chaos in all things social, diplomatic, and economic — associated with his mental instability.  Perhaps Hoffman’s also something of a patriot and doesn’t want to see his country’s democracy collapse into authoritarian rule.

Again, it’s impossible to know the impact of all these captains of industry, military leaders, and of course, Trump’s former staff and cabinet members, where only four out of 44 support him for re-election.  One can only hope that this effect is significant, at least among the top layer of traditional GOP voters.

But let’s be honest.  For every Reid Hoffman out there, there are probably a hundred thousand heavily armed morons who believe that God sent Trump to make America great again.  Many of them have never heard of LinkedIn, and certainly couldn’t care less what some silver-tongued Stanford grad (class of 1990) thinks about the world.