Keep in mind that these are just polling averages from FiveThirtyEight, but numbers-guru Nate Mahatma Silver observes with fair confidence that, with only a week to go, Joe Biden could take substantial hits in Michigan and Wisconsin, as Hillary Clinton did in 2016, and still win the states.
Clinton lost both, of course, yet in 538's final 2016 averaging she held precarious leads in them: 4 points in Michigan; 5 points in Wisconsin — neither of them far from the margin of error. She then went on to lose those states by less than 1 percent in each.
Biden, however, leads in Michigan by 8 points and by 7 in Wisconsin.
Which means — Ode to Joy: Freude trinken alle Wesen / An den Brüsten der Natur — that "Biden’s extra cushion means he could survive a 2016-magnitude miss," notes Silver.
The little child shall lead him, and then kick Donald's butt back to his gilded, red-velvety, New Orleans whorehouse-fashioned Manhattan lair.