Yes, the distinction between debris and bullet *is* important.

[Tommy Carcetti]

6. Anything minimal matters in this election.

It's like the Enquirer headlines in 2016.

Passive, non-ideological voters without a strong affinity towards one candidate or another--but still vote simply out of a sense of "civic duty"--do in fact exist.

People might have walked by a supermarket checkout line, seen all the nasty Enquirer headlines about Hillary Clinton, never consciously thought about buying a copy or even spending much thought on what the headlines said. But after a while, there is bound to be a subconscious, subliminal effect.

So you have these passive voters not devoted to either Trump or Biden, they hear all about how Trump is "bullet proof", and it can have an effect. Even if it's not true. And then with all the nonsense about how Biden is supposedly too old, doubly so.