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.
Social media is also so flooded with botting that there's no reliable way to know what's really trending and what's just paid to trend via botfarms. Nevermind people and organizations with deep pockets paying social media platforms to have the algorithm boost content. It's giving big Dead Internet Theory vibes, everything just feels really off because of that.