Why “praying”? He’s still statistically in a dead heat and less behind than either 2016 or 2020. Vote. Vote because your democracy depends upon it.
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As the article says, she is only level in key swing states. While 538 does give her good chances overall, they also gave Clinton a 70% chance of winning. It is closer than it should be so make sure to get it and vote and make sure that your friends do too.
Nate Silver notes that while her projected popular vote share has increased over the last ten days, her odds of winning the electoral college has actually gone down slightly, to about 47%. This indicates that a lot of the support she has gained has disproportionately come from states she was already likely to win.
Basically, until we get more data, we can see a small convention bounce in the polling, which typically fades. If her battleground-state numbers reflect that temporary bounce, then she's even with Trump right now and may potentially fade back to slightly behind in the coming weeks.
The general message is this: Harris has momentum, but that doesn't change the fact that even with momentum, it's basically a dead heat. Despite all the celebratory gusto recently, at best she's one mistake away from losing. At worst, she's on track to execute a flawless campaign that still ends with her winning the popular vote and losing the electoral college. No one should be breathing easily.
And that's without factoring in all the voter suppression/purges and other state-level activities of the Republicans to win battleground states, which the Democrats have done basically fuck-all about.
Hoping the Republicans don't do illegal and/or unethical things to win is a losing strategy. This is a candidate that tried to have his VP hanged for not subverting the entire democratic process.
All true. I feel like the Arlington scandal has legs, though.
To decent people, maybe. These are trump supporters.
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Trump and his campaign as he struggles to find ways to land effective attacks against the vice-president
Yeah because the guy’s campaign somehow lacks even more substance than the last two
No, that's just the only strategy they'll admit to. They have the supplemental strategy of taking over the election apparatus in swing states like Georgia, so even if Harris wins more votes there they can ratfuck it in Trump's favor anyway.
She's a former prosecutor. He's a compulsive liar, misogynist and racist former reality TV star with dementia who isn't used to being told to wait his turn before he can speak.
He better pray to every god he can come up with.
Sounds like the premise to a zany sitcom
While that's all true, they're functionally tied. Think about that.
A large percentage of the United States are really really fucking stupid. It's alarming.
Yeah but she has the edge in that "tie" and she has all the momentum
I wouldn't bet your ovaries on it.
She’s a former prosecutor. He’s a compulsive liar, misogynist and racist former reality TV star with dementia who isn’t used to being told to wait his turn before he can speak.
And together they fight grime?
Harris didn't do well in 2020 (edit: 2019) though. She was very uncharismatic. To her credit, she seems to have worked on that a lot since then.
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Donald Trump right now
Don't worry, the media will handicap him so hard he cannot possibly lose unless he literally shits himself more than once.
I dunno, if the debate pivots on a choice of dying by shark or electric car, or on the late, great Hannibal Lector, Trump's got it in the bag.
Doesn't matter. Go out and vote.
As long as Kamala actually provides details on how she plans to solve problems she will already have won. Trump refuses to explain anything he plans on doing, probably because he knows it will either show that he is in it for power, or that he doesn't have a clue what he is doing. Probably both. His only strategy is to insult his opponent, and I think he is struggling to find attacks on Kamala that will stick. She's not as easy of a target as Biden is.
Thing is... his approach to campaigning has been consistent since 2016, and he won that election. Just saying "he refuses to explain his platform, he can't possibly win" is a mistake. The reality is that the people who vote for him don't care. I don't really understand what it is they see in him, but it's clear that it has nothing to do with how intelligent or articulate he is.
He did have a lot to say about Clinton though, and most of his mud slinging stuck with the voters. Although you're right that with the MAGAs it doesn't matter, but I do feel that there must be many MAGA people that aren't in too deep and their faith in Trump is being chipped away at.
The Democratic base and the Republican base are two very different voters.
Democrats care more about the details of a plan. They want to understand how it's all going to come together.
Republican base....they just don't want you to be a Democrat.
Let's not equate these two voting blocs.
The Harris camp is in a good spot, but I still have band-aids from the wounds that Biden left after he was picking his tongue up off the floor at the last debate. I was optimistic until he royally fucked that up and before the debate his supporters thought he would wipe the floor with Trump.
I have hope, but I am cautiously aware of the fact that Trump sways voters with his bullshit. Kamala can fuck this up too as much as I don't want to see that.
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