Pre-match: Can't believe it took this long for this thread, the 2024 Presidential election thread!

= insufferable

 

I second this....

 

There are whiffs of a Trump debacle:

Supposedly there's Republican internal polling that has Trump below 50% in Ohio pic.twitter.com/InYU818vTE

— Polling USA (@USA_Polling) August 10, 2024

 

Kennedy needs to run over three bears RIGHT NOW and leave them in the most popular parks in Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati. This is his chance to move the needle.

 

The Trump campaign is in full denial mode...

The Trump campaign releases a statement claiming that the latest NYT poll showing Harris up in the battleground states actually shows Trump is in the lead. pic.twitter.com/uUO7WvTXOD

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) August 10, 2024

 

Trump loves to hire people who hate each other.Normally this wasn't a bad idea but with him, they are all have no scruples.

 

Trump literally asked a foreign nation to hack Hilary's email server.

 

What was the popular term about "deconstructing" polls.....can't remember it...lol

 

Unskewing

Was that big in 08 or 12?

 

Settlers of Katan or GTFO

 

I guess confirmation bias is an obsession of yours, isn’t it? Give it a rest dude.lol
By the same reasoning, Clinton was not acceptable, I suppose.
Nate is also pushing this new theory that Harris lead is just a bump and when the voters know more about her, her numbers will come down. I would say it is more wishful thinking, but what do I know.
On a general note, there is something happening with the Nates and polls numbers though, they should stay away from punditry and pontification and stick with numbers. They are not good at that the former lately.

 

Yeah …..Unskewing!! IIRC, it was 2012..

 

Yeah, any broadly acceptable Dem. Makes it sound as though just about any competent Democrat of some national standing could do what Harris has done. The Dems do have a deep bench, but Harris seems particularly well suited for this moment and challenge, as does Walz.

As far as when things will get harder for Harris, well, I’m sure something will emerge. She’ll answer questions in a press conference and the media will get into a hand wringing exercise about her stance on the border or Gaza. You know, in a way they simply don’t even bother doing with Trump. But getting more difficult for her? I’m not sure I see why that’s inevitable. Except that the media needs it to happen.

 

The Walz effect:

This is why I felt Walz was the right choice for VP. People who have fallen into cult-like communities, or authoritarian communities can sometimes be secretly uneasy and looking for a way out. Walz provides an opening. https://t.co/nYGbJFxgAu

— Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat) August 10, 2024

 

I am just saying that voting isn’t so important. I would accept voting process, if people decide and not the political parties. They should place 7-10 candidates and that people vote. The winner becomes the president.

 

That is exactly what Nate Cohn has been actually selling. The same Nate Cohn who had pushed the "open primary" option even before Biden announced. Both Nate have taken themselves too seriously and are basically clown pundits now.

"Nate Cohn :Biden made a huge mistake endorsing Harris, she “polls” as bad as Biden in his hypothetical polls
Nate Cohn today as Harris surges in his polls: sure but it’s just because voters don’t know Harris yet, then the polls will come back down".

 

Could have been in the media failure as well...What a garbage take by Nate Cohn.

 

Trump and Biden are bottom-of-the-barrel candidates.

My take going into the campaign cycle was that Trump was the only realistic Republican that Biden could beat, and Biden was the only realistic Democrat that Trump could beat.

Pick any Democratic senator or governor aged about 62 or younger to replace Biden and I think we'd be in just about the same place as we are now, with a little bit less excitement about the candidate if they were a guy.

 

Exactly what I said.