For one, he has spent his entire career misleading people into thinking he grew up in Appalachia and conflating Middletown, where he grew up, by saying it's in "southern Ohio" and that he spent a lot of time with his family in "nearby" Jackson, Kentucky.
Jackson is four hours away from Middletown
also time for somebody to finally do an *actual* factcheck of the book, not a 'this doesn't represent the Appalachias' piece but 'did these things happen that he claims?'
It is if all of the change in the average is coming from the poorest kids. Middle and upper class kids aren’t getting getting shorter because of malnutrition.
This cycle is so weird that I’m wondering whether that conventional wisdom holds true. Could Trump be running up the score in solid red states, in a way that won’t really help him in contested states? How much hesitance to support Biden comes from blue state voters who know their vote won’t matter?
Seems like the strategy right now is to run out some changes to the wording of the platform and let the media run with the “softening” angle, while keeping Trump out of public so that he can’t undermine it by saying Trump things. Since the American press lacks object permanence, it’s not a bad plan.
