Parties still use internal polling on issues if nothing else, do you think the polling on abortion is right? How about guns? Polls are the best metric we have and when and how they are done is as important as their results. The questions asked too, particularly about Trump in 2016, some people were afraid to give even pollsters an honest answer. I just happen to think the one showing Trump and Biden is significant, but not directly to the coming election. Trump is such an extreme polarizing figure that would have been unthinkable as POTUS less than a generation ago. It says something about the level of his support and the fanaticism of his support considering what he stands for, which is nothing but the destruction of the constitutional order. It is not just 80% of the republican base, it is 46% of registered voters who are disloyal to the constitution and don't support the rule of law. 46% of registered voters are ok with J6 and all the indictments, policy makes no mark on them at all.
When policy doesn't affect how people vote (Trump has no real policies), they aren't really playing politics are they? They are playing something else. Politics is about policy, or it used to be not long ago, policy is important to democrats, and I'll bet policy is important to you too, or would be more if liberal democracy itself weren't under threat. All the patriots forgot their differences on policy when it came to the constitution and liberal democracy, from former conservative republicans to Bernie Sanders and AOC, all are united about the most important issue. Those 46% Trump supporters are on the other side of it apparently, existing in an alternative reality of convenience and choice.
