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The 100-year-old memoir that predicts exactly what will happen in November

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Like rising prices, political polls are impossible to avoid right now, and I reckon I am as sick and tired of both of them as you are. While those escalating prices do nothing but break our budgets, those polls do offer a barometer of how the asinine American electorate is thinking about things, and tend to be more accurate than we generally want to admit. They will also be particularly important this year, when a wildly unpopular and demented Donald Trump continues to overstate his sinking popularity to justify his attack on America by mitigating the importance and accuracy of our elections like so many dangerous dictators in history have done before him. Yesterday, I took a few minutes to look in on what little social media I still use to scream out loud about things ( Bluesky and Notes ) and posted news of the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll that has Trump at an all-time low 33-percent approval rating. Then I waited for the predictable responses. Namely, HOW can his approvals STILL be tha