While election almost certain to be decided by swing states, pollsters explain why growth in national polls is meaningful
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While election almost certain to be decided by swing states, pollsters explain why growth in national polls is meaningful
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Is that like rubber bands, it’s the same amount only stretched? Like we changed the scales on the graph to make it look bigger.
Is it really normal to write like that headline in English? Because to me it sounds stupid.
Seems increases would be the “normal” word to use.
Stretching a lead is a sports term. Most commonly in racing. Sports metaphors are common in politics.
I never heard it, and it still sounds stupid IMO.
It’s stupid because you’ve never heard of it?
No it’s stupid because stretching something generally means by using less like stretching resources by using less, or stretching a band by pulling it making it thinner.
That’s why it’s stupid because it contains none of the original meaning.
I can figure out in sports it probably comes from stretching out, like giving it a bit of extra effort, originally probably stretching muscles a bit further. But it doesn’t work in that context either.
So in short, it’s a stupid use that is erroneously used out of the original context and meaning where it made sense.
There is absolutely zero stretching going on in Harris increasing her lead.
Semantics but I mean it does actually indicate more people polling for her instead of Turnip so it’s not stretching in that sense.
I think they use that word because in American politics things are so polarized that it really feels like any gain really does seem like stretching the tiny group of people that can be won over like a rubber band.
i agree but the title would become :
“Harris
stretchesincreases lead over Trump in what could be significant increase”… so then you have twice this same word in the title, which doesn’t sound so good.
Yes I see, I still find it weird to call it “stretches”.
The synonyms “Ben Hur Horse Race” mention would of course be better.
builds amasses grows
Yes, any of those 3 synonyms would fit.