The Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa poll, conducted by Selzer & Co., found Donald Trump at 47% to the vice president’s 43% – within the margin of error – in a state the former president has twice won comfortably. (The poll was conducted last week, before Sunday’s apparent assassination attempt against Trump.)
While the Hawkeye State is unlikely to be pivotal in November, the fact that Selzer found a close race in a state Trump has dominated could signal good things for Harris, both in terms of the accuracy of polling and for her chances in next-door Wisconsin.
So now Iowa is close, and Florida is close. Both trump states in 2020.
Good golly. If those trends continue there could actually be a blue tsunami. I don’t realistically expect anything better than nailbiter, but that is encouraging.
Don’t be one of those people who, halfway into the city, says “Wow, traffic isn’t bad at all,” guaranteeing that traffic will grind to a halt within minutes.
Yeah, let’s not get too optimistic, but a recent poll showed trump only +3% over Harris in Texas.
Now yes, Harris will not win Texas. But if she is close enough that CNN doesnt call it for trump a second after their polls close- that will also be a win, of sorts.
Very upbeat, despite the rain. Free rain ponchos, and free T-shirts. Excellent music. Right now, we are just waiting for events to start. It is being held at one of my favorite outdoor event spaces, adjacent to the French Broad river And the beer is great, if expensive.
Perfect crowd size. Nobody has ever seen a crowd like this.
Seriously, I think the event has a capacity of 2500 people. My wife and two children have been waiting for about an hour to get on a bus. The space was a 10 minute walk from my workplace, so I just moseyed down after work. I am pretty sure we will be at capacity soon.
I sure hope so, but I have not seen any information about the speakers. My dream speaker would be the Mo Green, the Democratic Superintendent candidate, because that race pits a reasonable and competent candidate against a murderous sociopath.
(I’ll put this in parentheses as it’s truly an aside, but: last night a recent Marvel movie, The Marvels, came to broadcast TV for the first time—and I realized that some of the GOP mucking-about with the pronunciation of Harris’s name may be come by honestly, instead of maliciously. One of the three main characters is named Kamala, and everyone in the film pronounces it “Kuh-MALL-ah.” So maybe those who’ve seen this movie (or the 2022 TV series about the same character), and who hadn’t thought much about Harris before, simply assumed that her first name was pronounced as is the identically-spelled name in the movie.
(Of course that doesn’t explain Trump’s mangling of her name, which clearly IS malicious.)
(Not that any of this affects the election; but it could affect people’s relationships with Republicans who mispronounce Harris’s name. It could be mischief—but it could be an honest mistake due to influence from the TV show and movie.)
