ICYMI:
Following the First Lady’s positive test for COVID-19, President Biden was administered a COVID test this evening. The President tested negative. The President will test at a regular cadence this week and monitor for symptoms.https://t.co/SyGs7w5x7T
— Karine Jean-Pierre (@PressSec) September 5, 2023
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I traveled to 17 states this summer, and my message was clear: Our fundamental freedoms are under attack, but we will always stand together and fight for what is right. pic.twitter.com/U4xAaqoac3
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) September 3, 2023
No other https://t.co/opdPmWKbyy pic.twitter.com/vI6UZnIlCo
— ??Samantha?? (@ChiTownSam723) August 28, 2023
Y'all see our VP hitting her stride now?
Welllll… she actually hit it the day she took office and started turning her plans on public health equity, maternal health, small businesses, environmental justice, universal broadband, cybersecurity, and more into #BidenHarris policy. pic.twitter.com/RSUaDz8CZe
— Hope ?????? (@HopeisaBison) August 21, 2023
My message to voters: your vote matters. pic.twitter.com/Da9lL4jDwf
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) August 28, 2023
Thanks to @KatiePhang for covering the Biden Harris administration’s accomplishments and thanks to @neeratanden for breaking them down. With all the Trump news, we want to be sure the Biden Harris successes shine through. https://t.co/ragdRzKgTo
— @JulieZebrak ?? (@JulieZebrak) September 3, 2023
The sun is rising over Air Force Two. We’re headed to Jakarta with Vice President Harris for the ASEAN summit. pic.twitter.com/NaHlfLad7G
— Chris Megerian (@ChrisMegerian) September 4, 2023
.@KamalaHarris has announced a $125M investment in Black businesses from the Biden-Harris administration called the Capital Readiness Program. It is the largest-ever direct federal investment into small business incubators of its kind.
??: https://t.co/hOsXoOtmRj pic.twitter.com/lGqOVFCmHA
— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) August 31, 2023
She's been hitting the trail nonstop since day one of the administration, she's a one woman fundraising machine, and Biden never mentions his administration without stressing her position as his partner in it, and he's very obviously promoting her as his favored successor.
— Argella Stone (@argellastone) September 2, 2023
On The Road – Elma – Farmers Market
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone😊😊😊
MazeDancer
How Jill Biden has avoided COVID is a miracle. Out hugging people.
Still. hope POTUS doesn’t get it again.
Counting the days until the new booster is ready, myself.
evap
I’ve always been a big fan of Harris. Imagining a women of color as president… I hope I live to see it!
Dorothy A. Winsor
@evap: After the Trump/Clinton election, I gave up on living long enough to see a president of my gender. But maybe, maybe I was wrong.
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
Baud
Whatever voters end up doing, I’m really pleased Biden has never waivered in his support for Harris despite the onslaught of savvy media and Internet voices.
Betty Cracker
I think it’s smart for the Biden campaign to put Harris front and center during the reelection effort. Repubs assume she’s a weak link, but that says more about them than her, and positioning Harris as an asset is a good way to overturn their dumb narrative.
@Baud: Biden has been unwavering in general, which is a good thing.
narya
@MazeDancer: Counting right alongside you. I am planning to visit my elderly (88 and about to be 93-year-old) parents. Mom is on immunosuppressants (transplant) and dad has COPD and his bladder cancer is back, so the last thing I want to do is bring Covid to them. I’m hoping I can get it the very first day–that would give me about two weeks prior to visiting them
ETA: What Betty says. I love our VP.
twbrandt
Harris may or may not be the first female president. But her smarts and her work ethic, combined with Biden’s support, makes the possibility of woman president more acceptable to more people, and therefore more likely.
oldgold
@Betty Cracker: Precisely so.
Kay
@Betty Cracker:
Because nobody in the GOP or political media considers Democratic voters when evaluating elections.
It’s hilarious – they ask GOP voters about Trump AND Biden. That WSJ poll that was so negative for Biden used 1500 registered voters, 600 of whom were GOP primary voters. They wildly oversampled the GOP base and asked questions about Biden.
Harris is quite popular with the D base but of course they don’t know that because they don’t count the D base in elections. Oh, well. There’s nothing I enjoy more than when they’re shocked at their own garbage predictions, which seems to be happening more and more for Democratic pols and races.
lowtechcyclist
Harris is putting in the work as VP, and is out there communicating our successes, and the stakes in this next election, to the American people. She’s terrific.
I look forward to her being President in 2029, or sooner if age catches up with Biden during his second term. (I’m strongly of the opinion that it hasn’t yet, and I doubt it will in the next 14 months.)
catclub
Trump may or may not be our next president, but his laziness, racism, and criminality put him in the top spot in the GOP primaries.
hueyplong
Harris’ performance as a senator did it for me. Funny how that has traditionally been enough for other politicians. Can’t quite put my finger on the difference between Harris and the others.
Another Scott
@Betty Cracker: They always try to attack and neutralize our strength. If they really thought she was horrible and unpopular, they wouldn’t spend so much energy trying to drag her down.
Fingers crossed for Jill. :-(
I noticed yesterday that Biobot’s virus wastewater data was at about 2x what it was when I got Omicron in the late spring. And it lags. I think I’ll be wearing a mask at meetings again soon…
Stay safe, everyone.
Cheers,
Scott.
Ben Cisco
One of Biden’s best accomplishments is the partnership he has forged with MVP Harris. She has a portfolio, she’s been putting in the work, and SHE. IS. READY.
To her pitiful detractors, I say: better learn to deal, ’cause she’s not going anywhere.
OzarkHillbilly
From Native tribe to get back land 160 years after largest mass hanging in US history, comes this little tidbit:
Betty Cracker
@Kay: Holy crap, I hadn’t looked at the cross-tabs on that WSJ poll yet — 600 GOP primary voters, seriously? LOL!
Soprano2
@MazeDancer: I’m planning for us to get it toward the end of September, along with the new RSV vaccine. It’s particularly important for hubby to get it, since the neuropsych doc told me that if he gets sick with anything it could make the dementia progress a lot in a short period of time. I have a friend whose mom had that happen to her. She ended up in a memory care center, because she could no longer manage at home even with help.
Soprano2
@Baud: We all know that a significant part of the hand wringing over Biden’s age is actually about Harris. I think it’s funny how worried they all are – if something happens to Biden, another Democrat becomes president! Why are they so worried about that? Sometimes I ask if they believe TFG will become president if Biden dies, but they never answer me.
Soprano2
@Kay: It’s the press’ ongoing belief that the white man is the only voter who actually counts. I really do think it’s that simple – they believe “white man” is the default (it used to be, but those days are long gone) so that’s how they target everything.
Baud
@Kay:
They think they can manipulate Democratic voters by setting the agenda for our political discourse.
And they’re not wrong when it comes to too many Democratic voters.
narya
@OzarkHillbilly: Hey Mayor Dave! Where would it stop? Why not ask the tribes whose lands we’re on?
Baud
@Kay:
You scoff, but there’s a real risk Biden could lose the Republican primary.
Soprano2
@Another Scott: Our big treatment plant is showing a relatively big spike on the last test, but the small one is still flat. When you say the wastewater testing lags, what exactly do you mean? It shows you the status of Covid ahead of time by detecting it before cases begin to rise. At least that’s my understanding of how it works. By the time you see rising case counts from places like hospitals, Covid has been increasing for a few weeks. It shows up in wastewater first.
p.a.
@Soprano2: I remember TIFG’s first Impeachment, and the R’s meme that “they’re trying to undo the election!” As if Mike
DencePence isn’t a Rethug.Would the oleaginous Pence have been a stronger candidate in ’20? Would the potential loss of some MAGAt voters been overcome by some normie gains? We all know Pence had the fly vote locked up.
Soprano2
@narya: Who says the tribes couldn’t continue to run all of that stuff for themselves? Good grief….
Kay
@Betty Cracker:
I don’t care that much anymore. I lost all respect for them with the economic coverage. It was and is ridiculous. They actively misled readers to the same extent as “but her emails” so I guess they’re going to do this every cycle now.
I think our base will come out. Anyway. Despite political media. Biden is boring to them and he doesn’t create opportunities for book sales. Both of the NYTimes reporters who covered, respectively, Clinton and Trump have seen huge financial windfalls as a result of their shitty reporting. The industry rewards crap and there’s not a thing anyone on the outside can do to change that culture.
Soprano2
@p.a.: I’ve started asking them if impeaching Biden at this point is “election interference”, since they’re all braying about the charges against TFG being “election interference”. I have yet to get a reply to that question.
Soprano2
@Kay: I’ll be honest, I’m surprised they aren’t all going after Harris in an attempt to boost their “signal”.
Sanjeevs
The one paper that is covering Biden’s policies is the WSJ. They have to – the IRA and the CHIPS act are reshaping American business.
Three stories today
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/green-energy-coal-country-875d52fa?mod=business_feat9_energy-oil_pos1
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/the-53-000-connection-the-high-cost-of-high-speed-internet-for-everyone-c903163f?mod=hp_lead_pos10
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investors-flock-to-battery-recyclers-in-hunt-for-climate-law-winners-4e9b0af0?mod=hp_lead_pos11
Kay
@Baud:
That same poll has idiot GOP base voters saying “wokeism” is their most important issue yet they don’t support DeSantis, whose entire political career is based on endless high pitched whining about the woke. So they’re a real bellweather. They don’t even know WTF they’re voting for.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
People bored with having no true problems in their life working to invent one.
Baud
@Sanjeevs:
At some level, series business people are like sports fans — you can’t really lie to them too much or they’ll abandon you.
ETA: It’s not the same as political reporting.
Baud
@Kay:
Somebody forgot to fax out the new talking points.
Kay
@Soprano2:
I don’t think she gives them enough fodder. Besides douchebag bros like Glenn Greenwald and the rest, Joe Rogan, etc -they portrays her as stupid (she’s a girl, duh) she just isn’t a person that lends herself to caricature.
But Joe Rogan and Greenwald fan boys weren’t voting for a female anyway.
OzarkHillbilly
@narya: Hey now, the monetization of genocide is what this country was built on.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Baud: The terminology may have changed but the talking points have been basically the same since the 80s. And I only choose the 80s because that’s the earliest I can personally verify.
Baud
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation:
You are politically correct, sir.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Baud: Dont tell anyone, the right may have to cancel me. Doesn’t produce the financial opportunities it does for them, either.
Kay
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation:
I know I’m obsessed with thisbut we cannot forget it was NOT just the Right who ent absolutely fucking bonkers over BLM, Me Too and the 1619 Project.
Almost the entire NYTimes and Atlantic editorial page did too. There is a book a week published about how the biggest existential threat to America is the Oberlin student council.
They went nuts. I think the BLM protests scared them so much they may never recover. They’re not resilient people- they didn’t hold up well under stress. To me that makes then untrustworthy. You can’t rely on them – they’re ninnies.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
Waiting for an entity not of the right…
ETA: FTFNYT is literally the next step after Fox in mainstreaming right-wing propaganda.
OzarkHillbilly
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
I’ve experienced that with old dogs too.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: Hmmmm…. Constant meltdowns over things that effect them not at all. Sounds like a bunch of snowflakes to me.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: I would always nudge my old dogs with a toe whenever I passed by. Raising their head was the most exercise they’d get all day.
Ben Cisco
@Kay: I just want to say that I APPRECIATE you for your unflinching and accurate critiques of our media.
Roger Moore
@Kay:
The NYTimes and Atlantic editorial pages are part of the right, too. It would be good if liberals remembered that and paid them as much attention as the rest of the right wing noise machine.
Ben Cisco
@Soprano2: Give them time – it’s early yet. If the reality of President Biden’s popularity among Dems starts to sink in, all hell will break loose
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Ben Cisco: It’s not often a politician gets elected and vastly outperforms my expectations. Granted, my expectations for Biden were set during both Bush and the Clinton Administrations.
japa21
@Kay: I have come to the conclusion that the biggest threat to democracy in this country is not the Republican Party. The biggest threat is the media. If they did their job, the Republican Party would be marginalized.
Also, I have noticed in a lot of polls, the GOP is, if not 40%, well into the 30s and frequently outnumbering Dems. In the real world, that isn’t the case.
Betty Cracker
@Roger Moore: & @The Kropenhagen Interpretation: Do liberals actually pay attention to the “editorial pages” of the NYT or The Atlantic? I think most don’t, but the problem is that some of the columnists who truly are influential and generally considered liberal bought into the woke panic nonsense.
Ben Cisco
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: Oh. I agree wholeheartedly.
Ben Cisco
@japa21:
SAY IT AGAIN
BruceFromOhio
@Kay:
Whoever gets ’em riled up the most, it seems. Wokeism: The NEW and IMPROVED ACORN BENGHAZI ANTIFA TRANS LAPTOP!
Kay
@japa21:
I think our base is bigger than their base in swing states which is how we keep outperforming expectations. It’s also why the GOP tried to throw out votes in Atlanta, Detroit and Philadelphia. But they’re not interested in our base, don’t know who they are, so can’t count them properly.
BruceFromOhio
I had the honor of voting for VP Harris once before, and look forward to doing so again.
Chris T.
@Kay: At this point, the Democratic base is substantially bigger than the Republican base (because so many erstwhile R-base voters have declared themselves Independent and it’s started to affect their self-perception and hence their own reality). But: Conventional Wisdom, “CW”, says “Rs always vote and Ds seldom do” so CW discounts this heavily. Probably CW over-discounts at this point.
WaterGirl
Related to the trash WSJ poll:
Edmund dantes
@japa21: I think a lot of people are whistling past the graveyard with this type of talk. For sure the media plays a role, but we have to come to grips with how much of this stuff is just inherent to large swaths of the us populace. They want the things Trump and the current gop represent. You just have to look back at the history of the us to see this stuff is always there in the political parties (know nothings, racism, business first, etc).
WaterGirl
@WaterGirl: She breaks down in a thread just how much of a hack this pollster is and how his polls are worthless.
DougL
@Betty Cracker:
To me that’s the great power of nyt (and to a lessor degree, wapo). It sets the table for what the msm talks about and how it is framed. Never underestimate the power of “even the liberal NYT says…” It is maddening but important that we push back against it. At least a part of our base of voters (primarily white college graduates) is paying attention.
Kay
@Betty Cracker:
And the Left! Freddie deBoer has created an entire career out of opposing woke college students. The one and only reason they keep printing his low quality, pulled out of his ass junk in major newspapers is he’s an anti woke crusader. It’s all you need for a lucrative career in punditry and publishing and funding by Elon Musk and Clarence Thomas’ patron, whatshisname.
It’s hugely sexist too. There’s a real undercurrent of “we graciously allowed women to define liberal and they are so GIRLY and INCLUSIVE they RUINED our politics!”
They fucking promoted an insane racist who thinks women and black people have lower intelligence than white men. A major university hired him! Imagine being the parent of a daughter or black person and paying thru the nose for college and they put a person who is insanely bigoted and unfair to your kid based on your kids gender or race in front of your kid at college. Why? Because he is anti woke! That’s all you need!
I would never send a girl to UT. Fuck that. I’m not paying 100,00 dollars over 4 years for the privilege of some douchebro telling my daughter she’s less than. Women + black people are a majority. UT doesn’t serve the majority of students well because they pander to the far Right. They should go out of business.
Kristine
@Baud@OzarkHillbilly:
Going through that now with my 16+ yo pup. Not all the time, but sometimes… 🙁
jonas
@Kay: As we all know, women of color living in large cities aren’t “real Americans.” Those are only to be found in diners in rural counties in Ohio that are 98.6% white.
Ken
@WaterGirl: You remind me of the joke about there being two kinds of economists / statisticians / pollsters. When a client asks “What does the data say?” one kind tells them, the other asks “What do you want the data to say?”
Jay C
@Kay:
They don’t even know WTF they’re voting for
They don’t have to: it’s much easier to get people to vote AGAINST something. A skill at which the RW tends to shine…
sdhays
@MazeDancer:
Me too.
Betty Cracker
@DougL: That’s 100% true — anyone who consumes media regularly is affected by the NYT even if they never read it because the other outlets take their cues from it. That said, I think it’s important to remember there’s excellent reporting in MSM outlets, including the NYT. The NYT political desk sucks, mostly because of the incentive structure Kay alludes to above.
But maybe it’s a mistake to attribute all or even most of the country’s political dysfunction to the MSM. There was a recent post here titled “It’s the Media, Stupid.” I was tempted to post a counterpoint called “It’s the Stupid, Stupid.” Certainly the Beltway media plays a huge role by pumping out crappy narratives, but citizens have some responsibility here too.
The information is out there — good stuff and bad stuff, facts and opinions representing the spectrum of political viewpoints — largely thanks to the media rather than direct experience. Most days around here, someone finds and posts positive news about the Biden admin, using material from a MSM outlet.
Ignoring information and swallowing lazy tropes unexamined is a choice people are making, and that’s on them. They’re choosing stupid. The good news is, most normies aren’t paying attention yet, and there’s still plenty of time to get a clue. I’m relatively optimistic about 2024.
Belafon
@lowtechcyclist: The average American male that makes it to 81 years lives another 7 years.
lowtechcyclist
@Edmund dantes:
Large, but not large enough to win elections, unless this shit is normalized by the media, and the media glosses over what they’re really about, and does its damnedest to equate the fascism on the right with the Oberlin Student Council on the left.
That’s how the GQP can get enough votes to get within Electoral College distance of a majority. If they didn’t have that help, sure, 35% of the population would still be on their side, but they’d be screwed nationally.
lowtechcyclist
@Belafon:
There’s a big difference between life expectancy and the timeframe during which one is capable of handling a demanding and complex job.
rikyrah
@Betty Cracker:
In the days after the announcement of her as the VP Choice, the Democrats broke all kinds of fundraising levels
rikyrah
@MazeDancer:
September 12th, I think is the date.
JML
Let’s be honest: GOP attacks on Harris have nothing to do with anything other than the racist AF GOP base. They want the black woman from and center to rile up those voters and push turnout because they no that if the racist scumbags stay home they won’t just lose but they’ll get blown out, and lose down-ballot races as well. Dog whistles for everyone! they have little expectation of reducing independent or Democratic support for the ticket with this garbage (anything they get there is seen as a bonus).
montanareddog
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation:
But all of us, including these anti-woke mooks, have a true problem in our lives – an existential one – climate change. But they are too stupid or too scared to accept it. Easier to deflect onto some boogeyman.
The people who gin up this panic – your Republican politicians and talk radio goons and elite media pundits – are just the brownshirts of the real puppeteers – the masters of the universe who have stolen all the wealth generated in the last 40 years and think that gravy train can go on forever as long they can continue pulling the strings.
Betty Cracker
@Kay: I meant to follow up on the unmasked white supremacist at UT but haven’t. They shouldn’t have hired him in the first place because his academic writing was the male/white supremacist crap expressed with highfalutin words, but maybe they fired him after the revelation that he wrote for St0rmFr0nt or whatever.
Kay
@jonas:
I just don’t think it’s an accident or coincidence that they wildy underestimated voters reaction to Dobbs and at the same time wildly overestimated voters reaction to their anti woke crusade. Anti woke flopped in the midterms. It failed.
They’re telling us what they think is important and which voters they talk to.
They’ve become increasingly irrelevant to me as far as areas of the country I’m personally familiar with. If they’re going to interview exclusively white conservative males in a city like Youngstown, which is 40% black and 45% white, they’re not useful to me. It’s junk. Part of the reason swing states are interesting is because they have diverse, often clashing, pieces of the electorate. Smoothing that out to “white males” is a bore. A comfortable rut for them, but no use at all for me.
Kay
@Betty Cracker:
The last I read they had “quietly” removed him from whatever website they use to promote people. So that was cowardly. Maybe he still works there but “quietly”.
I think there’s a better than 50 chance that Texas politics had something to do with giving him the make-work, featherbedding job. It’s hard for me to believe there hasn’t been Right wing pressure to hire wingers in public colleges in Texas. I just dont believe that. I think it’s probably like Florida at this point, where politicians are pushing to embed the far Right in public universities and thus public colleges have to make these low quality hires or get threats on funding, continued existence, etc.
Betty Cracker
@Betty Cracker: Okay, I looked it up: UT did shitcan Richard Hanania, according to this website. But he’s still speaking at an Oct. conference at Stanford:
What bullshit. The “abhorrent ideas” today are identical
ETA: @Kay: You could be right about him still working there but “quietly” — they scrubbed him from the site, but that doesn’t mean he’s not there. I couldn’t find a statement confirming he’d been shitcanned.
Alison Rose
Well, this is good news:
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
If we refute our own argument before we make it, some people may forget about the refutation.
Ironcity
A favorite little text we used as an undergrad was “How to Lie with Statistics”
Westyny
Meantime Nate Cohn has his Tilt article out today about declining black and Latino/a support for Biden. Going into the weeds, it looks like moar FTFNYT FUD.
Lobo
@Betty Cracker:
Please follow up on him with a post. It is outrageous that a Nazi has this type of platform under the guise of “academic freedom”. Maybe that will help embarrass Stanford to stop normalizing bigots. See how they handled Judge Duncan. Ugh! Use your platform, we would all appreciate it.
rikyrah
@Baud:
They absolutely resent that our base doesn’t fall for the ‘ shiny objects’.
They resent it something fierce.
rikyrah
@Kay:
The competence of 46 and Administration will never fail to piss them off. No drama, but, plenty of POLICY, which means that they would have to do actual WORK to cover his Administration.
Tenar Arha
@Soprano2: I remember you mentioning that the appointment with the specialist was soon. I guess you got the news you were expecting, but also now have a list of things & places you can go to get help. How are you doing though?
Gwangung
@Kay: They’ve been fucking scared since Martin Luther King Jr.
Something about the color of their skin….
rikyrah
@japa21:
Absolutely no lie told.
They are so wedded to BOTH SIDES, it’s absolutely insane.
Which is why when Biden came out after Charlottesville and pointed out that no, Nazis aren’t good people and there aren’t ‘good people on both sides’, they had a breakdown that they haven’t recovered from.
It’s why they continue to try and ignore the Dobbs decision, and how it’s changing the political landscape.
Gwangung
@lowtechcyclist: Quantify that. Otherwise, it’s a useless argument.
Geminid
@Gwangung: It seems to me that this is a matter of how efficiently President Biden uses his time, and how good his advisors and subordinates like Cabinet officers are. I have not seen anything to indicate that Biden is too old for the job. It’s more a matter of perceptions.
Also, some Democrats are easily bored and want the excitement of an open primary. An unserious approach to politics, I think.
Matt McIrvin
@Soprano2:
I think that was kind of what Paul Campos was worrying about a while back–that if Biden dies before the election, Harris suddenly becomes the incumbent candidate and because she’s unpopular [cite poll numbers here], Trump wins the election.
All phrased in terms of “I have no problem with her, but these other people hate her.” Which always raises the question of whether that’s really the actual concern.
Kathleen
@japa21: Steve Bannon said Dems’ biggest problem is not Fox but “mainstream media” because they recycle and signal boost the “puke funnel”. He’s absolutely right.
Regarding WSJ, the articles I read during the Bush years (never read Opinion page) criticized Bush administration’s policies that affected business back when Bush was a hero to all. I always enjoyed reading WSJ. Our local business news publication is outstanding. They truly do “balanced” reporting. One of their reporters blasted Chabot a few times as well as companies that resumed donations to corporations who donated to right wing Republicans after temporarily ceasing them after 1-6..
Soprano2
@Tenar Arha: Thanks for asking. I’m doing OK, better some days than others. I have a call at 2 p.m. today with the Alzheimer’s Association, where I can talk to their rep about the various services they offer and what I might expect as far as progression of the disease. I’m also having lunch Thursday with a friend whose husband died last October of complications from Alzheimer’s and other health problems. I thought it would be good to get information from someone I know who’s been through this recently. I need all the support I can get!
JaneE
Harris was one of my top two during the Primaries. I was very pleased when Biden chose her for Vice President, and probable successor.
Most of the Democratic policies are seen favorably by most Americans, especially after they are explained fully. Democrats are overall the preference of most Americans, gerrymandering just hides that. If the President was elected by the popular vote of the country as a whole, Trump would never have been elected.
The only real negatives Harris has are only negatives to a minority of Americans. Unfortunately they constitute the a much larger minority of total voters because so many Americans don’t even bother to vote.
If voting were rational, Biden would win this election and Harris the next two.
artem1s
@rikyrah:
Sometimes I wish we had Royals for the MSM to obsess over. Plenty of non-stop drama and absolutely no homework required.
The Lodger
@Kay: Calling that poll a bellwetherreminds me that the word bellwether originally described a castrated sheep.
Another Scott
@Soprano2: Sorry for the late reply.
I mean the data that Biobot shows is a week or more behind. It lags what’s really going on out there. E.g. right now it’s showing August 30 data and they say the data may be revised.
Agreed, it’s more real-time than other numbers, but it’s still behind what’s really going on outside.
Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.