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44 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:

Will be very interesting to see how close Texas is.  There’s zero 0% chance it goes blue this year but if it keeps trending and gets closer than ~3.5% then the following cycle it should actually be in play.  Personally I think there will be a negative reaction in Texas to Harris’ race and gender and the gap will widen to 6-7%.  I hope I’m wrong.

This is where I'm at as well. I don't think she's going to perform better than Biden here. 

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22 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Not the best ad I’ve seen but it could be effective 

 

I was talking with my wife’s cousin from Beaumont about this kind of thing. Essentially, fundamentalist evangelicals see Donald Trump as anointed- like a Cyrus or King David. He’s not a Godly man so much as he is God’s instrument. 

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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/08/trump-campaign-musk-interview/679451/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-atlantic-am&utm_term=The Atlantic AM

 

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That was a crazy public service provided by Elon Musk and X.

The X Spaces interview delivered Donald Trump without makeup or dress-up, talking unselfconsciously: manic, boastful, untruthful, aggrieved, abusive, obsessive, random, ignorant, tedious, bitchy—and ultimately, formless and endless. You might think a major-party presidential nominee would have other claims on his time, some sort of deadline, if only to get some sleep to ready himself for the next day’s campaigning. But no. At no point in the explosion of talk could one guess whether it would continue for another five minutes or another five hours.

 

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Presidential campaigns typically struggle against the limits of time, especially as they enter the final autumn stretch. There are only so many days, so many hours, to reach so many millions of people across this vast country. The candidate’s minutes are a limited and precious resource, to be allocated by art and science to best effect. Yet Trump seemed to have no budget for his time, no plan of campaign, no message to drive—and nothing else to do, nowhere else to go.

Trump’s not running against President Joe Biden anymore, yet he talked about Biden at least as much as about his actual opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. He still lacked any clear or memorable critique of her, except for his derisive comments about her supposed inability to do the kind of interview that he, Trump, was making such a desperate hash of. Trump is the challenger and the topic should be the Biden-Harris record, but he preferred to reminisce about his own good old days.

 

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There’s an old joke about the fool at the poker table: If you don’t know who it is, it’s you.

Musk had a rational plan for last night’s event. An interview with a major-party presidential candidate drives traffic. A fawning and flattering interview might well buy favor for Musk from a possible future Trump administration. Sure enough, Trump offered Musk a position on a hypothetical commission to purge waste from government spending. Musk enthusiastically accepted.

 

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The interview also cast light on the discipline and strategy that has guided the reintroduction of Harris to the voting public. Harris ran for president in 2019–20 without igniting much enthusiasm. As vice president, she made little impact on governance. She campaigned hard in the 2022 midterms. Yet the groups she was supposed to excite—young people, Black Americans, women, and white female college graduates—posted generally lower turnout rates after her 2022 appeals than they did in the midterms of 2018. Before this summer, she was not widely regarded as a political star.

Then suddenly: Zing! The lights all went on. Huge crowds have gathered for her, sizzling with enthusiasm. How did that happen? Through the alchemy of politics, an alchemy that invites people to see themselves in a political champion, that depends heavily on selective availability. A champion who’s too invisible fades from mind, as Biden did during his presidency. Too visible, and the champion can become overdefined, in ways that may alienate reachable voters. This is Trump’s problem. For all his jibes at her intellect, Harris is managing the mystery appeal effectively. Whereas Trump, who endlessly congratulates himself on his MIT-professor uncle’s brains, is fast arriving at the “Will you please shut up?” phase of his political descent.

Meandering, solipsistic, and crushingly boring—the interview was an awful premonition of the rest of Trump’s life should he lose again, in November: wandering the corridors of his clubs, going from table to table, buttonholing the dwindling number of guests, monologuing relentlessly until they squirm away.

 

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19 minutes ago, mdmost said:

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Yeah, I wouldn’t call people who let him go on stage with Black journalists and say that Kamala magically turned Black as remotely talented. Maybe use all that talent to tell him to stop being overtly racist?

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He has no fucking policy! Zero! None! The closest he has is Project 2025. How about, again, using all that talent to have someone other than theocrats write him a some policy and train him like a circus animal to just say it a few times here and there? 

These aren’t talented campaign people, they are Trump sycophants who just like being around him all the time.

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2 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

I was talking with my wife’s cousin from Beaumont about this kind of thing. Essentially, fundamentalist evangelicals see Donald Trump as anointed- like a Cyrus or King David. He’s not a Godly man so much as he is God’s instrument. 

Evangelicals are fucking awful people, example #4,763,982

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18 hours ago, mdmost said:

No, no. You guys are being too sensitive. They're not saying black people and Hispanic people who are American will invade your neighborhood under Kamala. They're saying it's black and Hispanic migrants who will invade your neighborhood under Kamala. Totally not racist....

 

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6 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

I was talking with my wife’s cousin from Beaumont about this kind of thing. Essentially, fundamentalist evangelicals see Donald Trump as anointed- like a Cyrus or King David. He’s not a Godly man so much as he is God’s instrument. 

Same.  "The Lord works in mysterious ways!"  The baptist side of my family would vote for Pontius Pilate if he had an R by his name.

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Just now, Goredho said:

Same.  "The Lord works in mysterious ways!"  The baptist side of my family would vote for Pontius Pilate if he had an R by his name.

Same. Best I can figure it's a coping mechanism. A part of their brain knows how wrong this all is, but they've been conditioned to only vote for the (R). 

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2 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Same. Best I can figure it's a coping mechanism. A part of their brain knows how wrong this all is, but they've been conditioned to only vote for the (R). 

Many Americans treat politics as a sport. Same reason fans stay loyal to a shitty team year after year. Grew up on the red team so by golly gotta stick with them.

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Not that this is a surprise but the latest Berkeley Institute/LA Times poll came out for California.

Harris 59%
Trump 34%
 

Margin is +7% over where Biden was earlier this year. Huge gains among the young, Black, Latino and independent voters. 
 

What bodes well in other states:

The Berkeley poll delivered another piece of good news for Democrats — showing that people who don’t belong to a political party and those who describe themselves as moderates favor Harris at significantly higher levels than they did Biden. Moderates in California said they would pick the Democratic nominee by 59% to 31% over Trump. That puts Harris 12 percentage points ahead of where Biden stood in February, the poll found. And among nonpartisan voters, the poll showed a stout advantage for Harris, with 62% of California independents saying they support the vice president, a 17-point improvement over Biden’s standing in February.
 

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-08-14/poll-harris-and-walz-build-huge-lead-among-likely-california-voters

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3 minutes ago, Loch Ness Monster said:

Many Americans treat politics as a sport. Same reason fans stay loyal to a shitty team year after year. Grew up on the red team so by golly gotta stick with them.

I think the Americans we're talking about grew up Christian and have found a new team religion.

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58 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Not the best ad I’ve seen but it could be effective 

 

It's very good for the target audience. It just needs to reach them. 

This is EXACTLY what they should be running IMHO. 

Remember it doesn't need to make a Trump voter switch in order to be successful - only for them to sit this one out.

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Posted (edited)
29 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

 

Scott +4 on DMP (47-43) - Scott running 3 points behind Trump in the H2H.  He usually wins his races super close
Amendments are both at 56-21, so room to hit 60 still with undecided voters

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1 hour ago, Pancho said:

Not the best ad I’ve seen but it could be effective 

 

That first part looks like fucking AI. 

1 hour ago, South Austin said:

You may have to settle for the UO parent milfs. I’m not going to be the creeper sneaking pics of incoming freshman.

No one said they had to be Freshman. Upperclassman are fine, dude. 

38 minutes ago, 'stache said:

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Yeah, I wouldn’t call people who let him go on stage with Black journalists and say that Kamala magically turned Black as remotely talented. Maybe use all that talent to tell him to stop being overtly racist?

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He has no fucking policy! Zero! None! The closest he has is Project 2025. How about, again, using all that talent to have someone other than theocrats write him a some policy and train him like a circus animal to just say it a few times here and there? 

These aren’t talented campaign people, they are Trump sycophants who just like being around him all the time.

YOure overthinking this. His stump speech will just be hitting HER policies. Not his. "______________ was horrible. I would fix all that." 

16 minutes ago, Left Coast said:

Not that this is a surprise but the latest Berkeley Institute/LA Times poll came out for California.

Harris 59%
Trump 34%
 

Margin is +7% over where Biden was earlier this year. Huge gains among the young, Black, Latino and independent voters. 
 

What bodes well in other states:

The Berkeley poll delivered another piece of good news for Democrats — showing that people who don’t belong to a political party and those who describe themselves as moderates favor Harris at significantly higher levels than they did Biden. Moderates in California said they would pick the Democratic nominee by 59% to 31% over Trump. That puts Harris 12 percentage points ahead of where Biden stood in February, the poll found. And among nonpartisan voters, the poll showed a stout advantage for Harris, with 62% of California independents saying they support the vice president, a 17-point improvement over Biden’s standing in February.
 

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-08-14/poll-harris-and-walz-build-huge-lead-among-likely-california-voters

Everyone keeps talking about trust, moderates, blah blah. At the end of the day, ALL this is was people thought biden was too fucking old. That's it. 

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Posted (edited)
2 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

I was hoping for a lot more than 2% nationally. 

national polls are basically worthless thanks to the EC tho. It's not a popular vote, so polling nationally makes little sense. In the places where it really matters, Kamala is basically winning them all by 3-5 points, except Georgia where Trump has a 1 point lead down from 7. Kamala doesn't need to win every one of those battleground states, just a few, but it's trending really well for her in all of them.

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Just now, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

national polls are basically worthless thanks to the EC tho. It's not a popular vote, so polling nationally makes little sense. In the places where it really matters, Kamala is basically winning them all by 3-5 points, except Georgia where Trump has a 1 point lead down from 7.

I hope so. I think it's likely that political shitholes like Texoma have people doubling down on their bullshit which ultimately won't matter. I'm surprised at Harris gains in North Carolina, that's what makes me feel optimistic.

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2 minutes ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

national polls are basically worthless thanks to the EC tho. It's not a popular vote, so polling nationally makes little sense. In the places where it really matters, Kamala is basically winning them all by 3-5 points, except Georgia where Trump has a 1 point lead down from 7.

Yes, but some pundits have drawn lines and say that if Harris is up nationally by 3.5% then the should feel "good" about an electoral college victory 80% of the time. So, uh, yeah, I'd like to not see 2%. 

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Posted (edited)
1 minute ago, SydneyCarton said:

Yes, but some pundits have drawn lines and say that if Harris is up nationally by 3.5% then the should feel "good" about an electoral college victory 80% of the time. So, uh, yeah, I'd like to not see 2%. 

It’s one poll in August. Big “Texas only beat Colorado state by 30 and not 35, we are doomed” vibes 

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Posted
Just now, SydneyCarton said:

Yes, but some pundits have drawn lines and say that if Harris is up nationally by 3.5% then the should feel "good" about an electoral college victory 80% of the time. So, uh, yeah, I'd like to not see 2%. 

Hillary won the popular vote by 2.5% right? Yeah that's about the line, unfortunately.

It's crazy that no one is even considering the possibility that Trump will actually get more votes. What a system. 

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4 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

Yes, but some pundits have drawn lines and say that if Harris is up nationally by 3.5% then the should feel "good" about an electoral college victory 80% of the time. So, uh, yeah, I'd like to not see 2%. 

It's got a lot of undecided voters. Throw it on the pile for the average and move on.

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Posted
8 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

I was hoping for a lot more than 2% nationally. 

Trump smashing the numbers in a few states like Montana, West Virginia, the fucking south, etc., tend to skew the overall percentage.  

Trump winning by 40% in West Virginia can offset 5% point wins in 8 Democratic states with similar populations.  But Trump gets the electoral college votes in West Virginia and Harris gets the votes in the 8 other states.  

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Not that this is a surprise but the latest Berkeley Institute/LA Times poll came out for California.
Harris 59%
Trump 34%
 
Margin is +7% over where Biden was earlier this year. Huge gains among the young, Black, Latino and independent voters. 
 
What bodes well in other states:
The Berkeley poll delivered another piece of good news for Democrats — showing that people who don’t belong to a political party and those who describe themselves as moderates favor Harris at significantly higher levels than they did Biden. Moderates in California said they would pick the Democratic nominee by 59% to 31% over Trump. That puts Harris 12 percentage points ahead of where Biden stood in February, the poll found. And among nonpartisan voters, the poll showed a stout advantage for Harris, with 62% of California independents saying they support the vice president, a 17-point improvement over Biden’s standing in February.
 
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-08-14/poll-harris-and-walz-build-huge-lead-among-likely-california-voters

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Posted
12 hours ago, OU Sucks said:

Are you saying people like this are massive dumbfucks?

 

Thanks for the grim reminder about the persisting issue of a large part of the electorate. I used to laugh at this stuff but no more, unfortunately. It would be funny if it were just a handful of people thinking (ha! talk about choosing the wrongest word!) like this. Their impenetrable obtuseness depresses the shit out of me. Dolts content and proud to be dolts.

I'm reminded that the victory of Harris will not mean the end of the struggle. At least now there is the possibility that these malign idiots will be somewhat marginalized. I'd like to go back to laughing at the yokels.

 

 

1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

I was talking with my wife’s cousin from Beaumont about this kind of thing. Essentially, fundamentalist evangelicals see Donald Trump as anointed- like a Cyrus or King David. He’s not a Godly man so much as he is God’s instrument. 

Trump is a tool, indeed. The God who is a comedian playing to an audience afraid to laugh created him like everything else.

 

 

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17 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Hillary won the popular vote by 2.5% right? Yeah that's about the line, unfortunately.

It's crazy that no one is even considering the possibility that Trump will actually get more votes. What a system. 

If our system was actually decided by popular vote the entire country would be night and fucking day different. Like, alt-history sort of different. No George W Bush, no Trump, etc.

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2 hours ago, Snake Diggity said:

Will be very interesting to see how close Texas is.  There’s zero 0% chance it goes blue this year but if it keeps trending and gets closer than ~3.5% then the following cycle it should actually be in play.  Personally I think there will be a negative reaction in Texas to Harris’ race and gender and the gap will widen to 6-7%.  I hope I’m wrong.

I laughed.  Again.

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1 hour ago, South Austin said:

Do you fapped to Fraggle Rock?

The Hitchhiker, Dream On, and First and 10 all had quality skin back in the day.

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