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The 2020 Election Polls Were Dead On - Republicans Cheated

 Many people have jumped to the conclusion that the 2020 election polls were way off the mark. The polls prior to the election showed Biden with an average of an 8 to 10 point lead.  When the actual vote count came in (81 million Biden, 74 million Trump) Biden had won the popular vote by 4.5%.   The truth is that the polls were correct and show how effective the massive and multi-pronged Republican voter suppression effort was.  Republicans prevented millions of votes for Joe Biden from being cast, counted, or delivered by a Post Office they handcuffed. Republicans passed several dozen laws to make it more difficult to vote.  Voter ID is one of those ways.  Many Democratic leaning black and low income voters don't have a car or a driver's license and so have no photo ID.  Getting it can be difficult, especially given that many older black people don't have a birth certificate.  Getting the photo ID can require many trips to government offices with long waits in line on diff