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17 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

Yeah, I’m calling bullshit. While that may be how they view themselves, and while that may be what they say out loud, their fucking voting record tells an entirely different story. Same as they bemoan immigration while they 100% fucking need it to survive. 
 

Farming is already heavily subsidized, and they cashed those fucking checks and voted for Trump and against policies in their own self interest. They are their voting record. 
 

You, me, and everyone else lose who’s sat on this thread and pointed out that people who vote for trump at this point have to be racists on some level…we don’t get to apply a different criteria to fucking farmers. They are how they vote. 

You bring up several important, but nuanced points.

I'm talking about the small farmers who I grew up with. I know they are racists. The n-word was not normalized, it was normal.

I know they cashed the checks. But 2 things: the checks weren't that big and it cuts against the way they view of themselves.

Industrial farming got the biggest bailout. We know that industrial farming provides the most product, and it gets a disproportionate amount of subsidy. Small farmers are more numerous, less overall productive, and get disproportionately less subsidy (data and reference below).

Plus, small farmer aren't comfortable on the public dole (even though they've been subsidized for decades--don't bring that up), for the same reason they feel comfortable using the n-word.

The discrepancy is between reality and self perception, which we all also acknowledge.

 

https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/2021-farm-subsidies-ballooned-under-trump/

For example, through the MFP in 2018 and 2019:

  • The top 1 percent of recipients received 16 percent of payments, with an average total payment for both years of $524,298 per farm. The top 10 percent received 58 percent of payments, with an average total payment of $185,340.
  • The bottom 80 percent of recipients received only 23 percent of payments – an average payment for both years of only $9,109 per recipient.
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14 hours ago, Goofyboy said:

Does this translate to taking the House and keeping / improving in the Senate?? Harris needs both to really do work.

This is the REALLY big picture point of the Selzer poll. Watch NE Senate seat.

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1 minute ago, quigley said:

This is the REALLY big picture point of the Selzer poll. Watch NE Senate seat.

I posted in the other thread that her down ballot races had Dems flipping IA01/03. IA-01 margin is skeptical (D+16) but the R is at 37% so there’s a lot of room for her to grow but the D was at 53%

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9 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

I know of one rural hospital in Texas that is ending L&D after the first of the year. In rural Texas, OB and Gyn care is mostly Family Medicine physicians, and although no one is talking I wonder if the providers at this hospital are resigning their OB/GYN privileges 

Yes they are. There are several published reports of this in many states. I don't know if I've seen this directly for Texas.

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I’m certainly not going to go back to 2020 posts and find it, but I know for a fact I was a Selzer denialist. We all thought Biden was leading or close in Iowa and that poll dropped and I recall posting something to the effect of “outlier, whatever” and pretending it didn’t happen 

Not falling for that again. But will laugh at the GOP now picking apart a Selzer poll they loved in 2016 and 2020

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1 hour ago, cactusflinthead said:

Playing to the whistle 

 

That was one of the things David Plouffe tweeted the other day. Its basically all GOTV from here and they are full speed.

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1 minute ago, Js1 said:

I posted in the other thread that her down ballot races had Dems flipping IA01/03. IA-01 margin is skeptical (D+16) but the R is at 37% so there’s a lot of room for her to grow but the D was at 53%

We agree

24 minutes ago, Js1 said:

She talked about it on MSNBC and mentioned the from the ground up enthusiasm for Harris, considering neither campaign has been in Iowa. She mentions that Harris’ entrance gained her new voters and expanded the voting base, mostly from senior and middle aged women 

Did she talk about her methods and how they may differ from other pollsters?

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1 hour ago, quigley said:

I mean, if Harris swings IA 14 percent ( -8 to +6), you're talking Obama 2008 and Dems in the Senate 52-48 and House like + 40.

That would be a true repudiation of Trump-ism.

@G650 and @Bozo_Casanova and I would be arguing about policy rather and working together to save democracy

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This is why you can’t assume all the new voters this cycle who were eligible to but didn’t vote in 2020 are Trump voters. 

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2 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

At this point, I'm convinced that he has no idea Fox is getting paid by the Harris campaign (or subsidiaries) to run the ads.

 

 

 

He knows, he just thinks that they shouldn't accept them.  As for this specific comment from him though, he makes it clear (must not have written it), that he's speaking to the actual shows playing the ads as part of the "news" programs.  As in "here's the ad, let's discuss".

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2 hours ago, quigley said:

There's a strong argument to be made that Harris/Walz left bushels on the field by not making a bigger deal about how Trump's tariff and trade policies in general will destabilize farm commodity prices.

I’d guess farmers already know that. They were there.  Whether that will be enough to change their lifetime of voting Republican is another matter.

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1 minute ago, LCHorn said:

I don’t want to be overly presumptuous about farmers in Iowa, none of whom I know and in a state I’ve never visited.  
 

That said, I grew up around SE Texas rice farmers (and after rice didn’t make money they cycled through sorghum, soybeans, even cotton and of course now everyone is growing corn) and they are just are plenty happy to take a handout.  I watched those families get bailed annually in the 80’s and that “bail-out” money wasn’t going to just food, it got spent in new trucks, boats, 4 wheelers and the like.  I wouldn’t get overly sanctimonious about their dislike of federal support when it’s meant for them.  
 

I’ll tell you something else you probably don’t know about those hard working, independent problem solvers.  Most of them aren’t farming anymore (too much work, too little profit) but they are still getting USDA money for leasing their fields to other farmers, sometimes just for leaving them fallow.  These are the same people, mind you, passing along emails later forwarded to me that claimed Obama was a Muslim jihadist back in 2005.  I’m sure that’s migrated to Facebook or other social networks, but I’m sure the rhetoric about Harris isn’t any less racist. 

Agree. I grew up in Oklahoma, not Iowa and don't know one person who lives there.

Most farmers I know have second jobs. And the wife works off the farm too. The farm provides a lot of tax benefits too. And the 4-wheelers and boats are off the public dole.

The racism is baked in just like farming is part of their identity. I'm positing why there may be a shift.

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21 minutes ago, quigley said:

You bring up several important, but nuanced points.

I'm talking about the small farmers who I grew up with. I know they are racists. The n-word was not normalized, it was normal.

I know they cashed the checks. But 2 things: the checks weren't that big and it cuts against the way they view of themselves.

Industrial farming got the biggest bailout. We know that industrial farming provides the most product, and it gets a disproportionate amount of subsidy. Small farmers are more numerous, less overall productive, and get disproportionately less subsidy (data and reference below).

Plus, small farmer aren't comfortable on the public dole (even though they've been subsidized for decades--don't bring that up), for the same reason they feel comfortable using the n-word.

The discrepancy is between reality and self perception, which we all also acknowledge.

 

https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/2021-farm-subsidies-ballooned-under-trump/

For example, through the MFP in 2018 and 2019:

  • The top 1 percent of recipients received 16 percent of payments, with an average total payment for both years of $524,298 per farm. The top 10 percent received 58 percent of payments, with an average total payment of $185,340.
  • The bottom 80 percent of recipients received only 23 percent of payments – an average payment for both years of only $9,109 per recipient.

“The checks werent that big” doesn’t really do anything to negate the point. They cashed them, they just didn’t like talking about it. 
 

nothing you’ve described illustrates smart, independent people. That’s how they view themselves. That isn’t reality. Smart people can recognize reality. Period. 
 

For reference, my father in law was a “rancher” in Texas. I’ve spent plenty of time in these communities as well. 

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11 minutes ago, quigley said:

Did she talk about her methods and how they may differ from other pollsters?

From what I understand, she does  random digit dialing, plugs in the data and outputs the numbers. Theres no massaging the data, there’s no weighing for priors or assuming X group will turn out at a higher rate than Y group, etc. 

She just straight up says “this was my data, these are my numbers”

I also don’t believe she does recall vote, which has been overestimating Trump, according to Cohn  

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57 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

Again, how fucking stupid is this guy? Does he really think Trump is going to let him ban any of this stuff?

Just let him try and ban HFCS ketchup. 

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1 minute ago, Serak The Preparer said:

Hmm, on a scale of zero to "the cheesiest", how would you say you woke up this morning?

I woke up feeling the cheesiest coach! 

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14 minutes ago, G650 said:

That was one of the things David Plouffe tweeted the other day. Its basically all GOTV from here and they are full speed.

You have to love the absence of GOP field offices, and the fact that people who are sitting at a Starbucks Wi-Fi making up calls grifted Elmo to the point he’s paying people not to knock on doors. 

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2 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

“The checks werent that big” doesn’t really do anything to negate the point. They cashed them, they just didn’t like talking about it. 
 

nothing you’ve described illustrates smart, independent people. That’s how they view themselves. That isn’t reality. Smart people can recognize reality. Period. 
 

For reference, my father in law was a “rancher” in Texas. I’ve spent plenty of time in these communities as well. 

I have to laugh at this. Isn't the whole conceit of this board that we're smart but come on here and learn that our world view as lacunae. Would we deny other people the same grace?

What does your father-in-law thing about the tariff-bailout cycle? Does he like it?

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1 minute ago, quigley said:

I have to laugh at this. Isn't the whole conceit of this board that we're smart but come on here and learn that our world view as lacunae. Would we deny other people the same grace?

What does your father-in-law thing about the tariff-bailout cycle? Does he like it?

I dunno, do you think flat earthers deserve grace for their views?

well, he now has early onset dementia, so he doesn’t think much on the subject. And I don’t talk to him about politics or policy in general for all the obvious reasons. 

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1 minute ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Meanwhile:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well yeah, they've got to worry about you going around planting pipe bombs around DC again.

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1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

amazing referance

Wow, that’s a stunningly solid BSG reference.  I’m happily married and didn’t know I needed to find another wife but here we are.  
 

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1 minute ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

I have shared ancedotes on here about educated, white women with daughters in high school/college who are still voting for Trump becuase reasons. I am also not too sure about my fellow white women.

I think a lot of them are just shitty people if I am being honest. There is a dark part of me that hopes they feel the pain they are putting on other people. I am not proud of that feeling, but there it is.

Its ok to feel that way. I do. Unfortunately that's how most people learn but usually its on their deathbed after they have been shitty people their entire lives, voted for horrible policies and candidates and/or influenced thousands if not millions of people to do the same. See dead Koch brother. 

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14 hours ago, Js1 said:

This is certainly not the first poll to show Harris doing very well with college educated voters. Not sure if GEM’s complaint is the weighting or the margin. But this is a demo Dems have done better and better with. Dems overall won that demo +10 in 2020

 

52 minutes ago, Js1 said:

She talked about it on MSNBC and mentioned the from the ground up enthusiasm for Harris, considering neither campaign has been in Iowa. She mentions that Harris’ entrance gained her new voters and expanded the voting base, mostly from senior and middle aged women 

 

Yeah, so that's the one obvious problem with Selzer's strategy. We don't know here response rate and whether we can trust it is reflective of the voting population of Iowa.

 

 

4 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

I dunno, do you think flat earthers deserve grace for their views?

well, he now has early onset dementia, so he doesn’t think much on the subject. And I don’t talk to him about politics or policy in general for all the obvious reasons. 

So farmers are attune to the weather so I doubt there's one who's a flat-earther. Also, your rhetorical flourishes are diminish when you verge to edge cases.

Farmers comprise a significant voting population in Iowa. The point was me trying to explain why farmers may have switched to Trump to Harris. I was giving people who I've known my whole life the opportunity be on the right side of history because of self-interest and in spite of their abhorrent views (and behavior). With county level data after the election, we may see that I'm wrong or right, don't know. 

I'm sorry to learn about your father-in-law. Mine is in the same situation.

 

 

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33 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

At this point, I'm convinced that he has no idea Fox is getting paid by the Harris campaign (or subsidiaries) to run the ads.

 

 

 

 

Assisting with his stolen election lie cost Fox three quarters of a billion alone in the Dominion suit. Not good enough for Man Baby. 

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3 minutes ago, UTGrad98 said:

Its ok to feel that way. I do. Unfortunately that's how most people learn but usually its on their deathbed after they have been shitty people their entire lives, voted for horrible policies and candidates and/or influenced thousands if not millions of people to do the same. See dead Koch brother. 

Yeah, disagree with your math there, Lou. I don’t think most people on their deathbed and say “you know, I was a real shit bird and voted for some really bad policies.” I think shitty people go out just like they lived, doing whatever necessary to think they did good and if there is a heaven they’re getting in…and probably have relatives around willing to go along with that lie. 

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18 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Well yeah, they've got to worry about you going around planting pipe bombs around DC again.

DC will be fortified this time.

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13 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

There is a dark part of me that hopes they feel the pain they are putting on other people. I am not proud of that feeling, but there it is.

How else are they going to learn?



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