Push poll. The lowest moment in my working career was as a young man working for a professional political fund raiser/campaign firm as a telemarketer. Just gross. In this case it was a Democratic Party-oriented company*, but begging old pensioners for “just $5” and conducting push polls was demoralizing. I only lasted a few months.
Purely coincidental. I got the job through a buddy and just knew it was a telemarketer. I had no idea it was political and at first I didn’t much care. It was just a college job and paid better than minimum wage.
Obviously Harrison might not end up winning, but South Carolina demonstrates that Democrats need to run their strongest candidate in every race, even those that look hopeless a year or more out from election day. They’re both semi-close as it is, but think about where they might be if Beto or Castro had run in Texas or Abrams had run in Georgia. No ambitious politician wants to be the sacrificial lamb in a no-hope contest, but this last year has shown that received wisdom about the political leanings of a race can get turned on their head by unexpected events.
Probably not something new but Tillis is twice divorced. His first divorce was at age 21 . That wife said he was cruel and filed divorce after only 6 months of marriage.
meant to add : maybe he has an open marriage or his wife does not care . Seems unlikely she did not know about this. I know of a woman who does not care about what her husband does probably because he’s a billionaire.
There is another local billionaire whose wife did care so he had to give her a billion or so in a divorce. And then as you might expect his 2nd wife is much younger.
Yeah, I’ve got Kansas right over the border and the GOP guy (Marshall) hasn’t mentioned Trump in a TV ad that I’ve seen since the primary (when they were best friends). He has started going pretty negative, which I take as a sign that he is more worried then you would think a Republican would need to be in Kansas.