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.....And back to Standard Time, unless you're in HI or AZ. And a few counties in Indiana. I went to school in southern Indiana. The town does not change their clocks. Remarkable to see an Iowa poll showing Harris in the lead, there. "538" shows the Criminal Trumpster up by +0.2% in PA. Razor-thin, but nonetheless distressing. Remember how wrong the polls turned out to be in 2016? I wonder about accuracy, this time, too.
Remarkable to see an Iowa poll showing Harris in the lead, there. "538" shows the Criminal Trumpster up by +0.2% in PA. Razor-thin, but nonetheless distressing. Remember how wrong the polls turned out to be in 2016? I wonder about accuracy, this time, too.
Remember the 2022 predicted "red wave" that didn't happen? That prediction came courtesy of partisan, essentially fake pollsters flooding the zone with results skewed toward the GQP. They're doing the same thing this time out, apparently doubling down on the fraud. Emerson, Trafalgar, and others are guilty parties. From Simon Rosenberg about 2022, he being a sharp student of this fraud. His site here.
In our efforts to challenge the red wave narrative, we also publicly identified a GOP effort to flood the zone with very R heavy polls and game the polling averages. .... (Simon talked about) the GOP's campaign to game the polling averages with MSNBC's Joy Reid on October 31st: "In six major battleground states more than half the polls conducted in October have been conducted by Republican firms... basically we can't trust the data on RealClearPolitics or FiveThirtyEight any longer... it's essentially Republican propaganda."
Even Silver recognizes there's something badly wrong with polling this time; he attributes it to "herding," probably achieved by manipulating likely voter screens. (His buddy P. Thiel surely wouldn't like it if he mentioned partisan polling as a factor.) See here as an example.
@AndyJ: yup. Repeat the lies often enough, people start to believe them. Joey Goebbels. That's the sort of behavior they're engaged in. Emulating a "man" like HIM.
@AndyJ: yup. Repeat the lies often enough, people start to believe them. Joey Goebbels. That's the sort of behavior they're engaged in. Emulating a "man" like HIM.
Trump has a hypnotic-like speech delivery if you listen carefully. I understand why his lies “sell” to a great many or how that hypnosis alters some’s perceptions of reality. I suspect a lot of that is a learned and practiced vocal skill. The guy was a half-successful television celebrity. Suspect the voice training has continued. We’ll never know.
Of course there’s more to the appeal. The very wealthy like him for potential tax savings as social programs are gutted. Those who cheat on taxes like the promise of less IRS funding and enforcement. The added burden falls on SS recipients and pensioners. I don’t know how on earth those folks can evade taxes - assuming they’d want to.
If any cheer, Bloomberg is running on their website (subscription only) several betting sites which fluctuate by the minute. Harris has closed the gap as of this morning, but still trails on 4 out of 5 betting sites (leads in one).
I shall show up at the poll and vote Nov. 5 / One downside of early voting is that last minute threats like pointing “nine shooting rifles” at a political opponent’s “face” are not known about prior to voting. More women than men vote early. Surely a blatant threat / call for violence like that would have affected some of those votes already cast. Is the threat a calculated last minute effort to rouse a few “Ne’r do well” mostly male scumbags who wouldn’t normally vote to show up at the polls to vote or intimidate voters? Seems like it.
PS - Could anyone else make a thinly veiled threat like that against a public figure and escape prosecution?
I just listened. Cuban impressed me. I've listened to Sam Harris before. He does not impress me. At least he is sane and reasonable. The ironclad, unquestioning, blind and absolute support for Israel is a sticking point with me.
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We’ll never know.
Of course there’s more to the appeal. The very wealthy like him for potential tax savings as social programs are gutted. Those who cheat on taxes like the promise of less IRS funding and enforcement. The added burden falls on SS recipients and pensioners. I don’t know how on earth those folks can evade taxes - assuming they’d want to.
If any cheer, Bloomberg is running on their website (subscription only) several betting sites which fluctuate by the minute. Harris has closed the gap as of this morning, but still trails on 4 out of 5 betting sites (leads in one).
I shall show up at the poll and vote Nov. 5 / One downside of early voting is that last minute threats like pointing “nine shooting rifles” at a political opponent’s “face” are not known about prior to voting. More women than men vote early. Surely a blatant threat / call for violence like that would have affected some of those votes already cast. Is the threat a calculated last minute effort to rouse a few “Ne’r do well” mostly male scumbags who wouldn’t normally vote to show up at the polls to vote or intimidate voters? Seems like it.
PS - Could anyone else make a thinly veiled threat like that against a public figure and escape prosecution?
https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/390-final-thoughts-on-the-2024-presidential-election?utm_source=braze&utm_campaign=2024_w44_newContent_390