I trust polls. And this time around they did not betray my trust.

For what it Is worth, I am a believer in statistics and in-turn a believer in polls and the polls all said democrats would win the House, Senate, and Presidency. While polls did predict a landslide, it was always going to be difficult to flip the Senate especially in today’s partisan climate. Having the election results from Georgia now in, it really was a sweeping democratic win and one that fits well within the range of results projected by the polls. So, by that logic, yes. I think the past election passes the feel test as well.

It can feel like there’s often broader democratic support because I do receive information in a moderate bubble and am surrounded by like-minded peers. I felt as if Trump’s handling of the Black Lives Matter protests and Coronavirus should have been enough of an indictment alone to get Trump and whoever ran on his coattails voted out. With that in mind, it makes some sense that the win was more modest than initially imagined because it was clear at the time (and has become impossibly clear now) that Trump possessed a base that would turn out. Democrats held the House and flipped the Senate and Presidency and its sort of difficult to call that anything other than a success. There is a two-year mandate to get to work and a long laundry list of issues to be dealt with.

-Werblus