I tried to explain to him most polls til Election Day will either show a tie or show her up and not to put too much faith into them. I feel that her “popularity” is a media invention considering she lasted only a few minutes in the primaries, but there are plenty of people who will blindly vote for her like the “mean tweets” people in 2020. To say nothing of any mysterious overnight ballots come Election Day.
I just told him that the media will be pushing her harder than they did for Obama or Biden. I would love to see a landslide like 84 but ever since 2012 this country has sadly shown they will vote based on emotion and what is trendy in a heartbeat.
There are plenty of interviews about "owning the leftards" where an interviewer goes up and asks a Kamala supporter what they like about her, and they're just stunned into silence for a while until they manage to choke out "she woman. Woman good." like a retarded caveman...
But there's an important thing in here: These interviewers ARE finding these people. And they're not looking all that hard to locate them. Lots of NPCs are out there going "Me vote Kamala. Kamala sound like Koala. Koala funny bear. Hehe.", and they will follow through with it, they will vote (D), because the mass media told them to. NPCs in the most classic sense of the term, they're thoughtless constructs that exist solely to provide opposition to the active players... But they're common, and numerous.
He SHOULD be paranoid. He SHOULD think that there isn't enough being done. Complacency and docility are far more mind-killers than fear is.