“Like hell”
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I’ll be honest.
This feels a bit 2016. News is very dominated by the latest stupid and outrageous thing that Trump said.
He was losing when people stopped talking about him.
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Yeah. This fucker is gonna win again.
I’d sleep easy if Walz was at the top of the ticket. We know a white man can beat him. Kamala is up against the trifecta of MAGA + misogyny + racism. That’s a heavy lift. It shouldn’t have to be, but that is the unfortunate world we live in.
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For like 98% of the country, the lines are drawn and have been for the past 4, 8 years (longer?).
If anyone was going to be swayed by the latest inane thing that Trump just said, he would never have been elected in the first place.
All we can hope for is that all the same people show up at the ballot box who did so 4 years ago, in the same numbers.
I dunno. It feels different to me. Harris has a MUCH better favorability rating compared to Hillary. Something like +1 compared to -15. That should hopefully bode well for late deciders, turnout, etc.
Trump could certainly win. Polling error, voting ratfuckery, binking a narrow EC victory. All possible. But the vibes are good. I think she’s got this.
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Those were the same vibes heading into election day back in 2016.
Sorry. I should correct. I meant in terms of Trump dominating the news cycle with stuff that should be bad for him, but keeps the topics he wants in the news.
He’s got a long way further to come, and Harris is running a better campaign. But Trump getting dunked on for stupid shit is a lost cycle.
I think Trump is old news. Only the die hard morons are still engaged.
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I remember it differently. I recall feeling zero good vibes for Hillary as a candidate. There’s a lot more excitement and positivity around Kamala, imo. People actually want to vote for her rather than just against Trump.
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That’s fair. I do think it’s bad for Kamala that Trump has managed to make immigration a major issue.
To make an optimistic argument, though, I’d say it seems to be taking on a slightly different form this time. More raving lunatic grandpa this go around. More leaning into very online conspiracies. From what I remember, Trump was never really belittled in 2016 for being an old racist idiot. It was “Is Trump ACCTUUUALLLY racist???” and “well, maybe he went too far, tsk tsk, but we DO need to SECURE OUR BORDER”.
This time he’s being roundly mocked. Every late night show has made fun of him for the dogs and cats stuff. Belittling him as a racist moron >>> scolding him as a racist.
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Well I do remember that at the very least confidence was high among supporters right up until Election Day that Hillary was going to win going away, and it was an absolute shock when she didn’t.
Good point, if you know, polls didn’t exist.
I’m a little concerned I’m not really seeing Kamala being fun anywhere anymore
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It’s just like 2016, except racism, sexism, and bigotry have now come back into style like avocado colored appliances.
There is now a popular movement to turn young women back into subservient domestic slaves.
It is now popular to hate education because schools are widely believed to brainwash children and cut off their genitals.
It is now popular to view science as a threat and medicine as a tool specifically engineered to harm people.
So yah, Kamala might be somewhat less hated than Hillary, but the United States has devolved into a hellish deplorable cesspool to a degree that, in my opinion, massively overrides any gains we may have made in candidate quality.
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Wow. 50000 people got turned away from bum fuck Wisconsin.
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Trump’s managed to get the national conversation back on hating immigrants and he’s firing away at it, it’s not great. Kamala needs something to get the focus off race. Israel invading Lebanon isn’t exactly helping, either. And who knows what kind of “A CLOUD IS LIFTED” fuckery the NYT is going to engage in the week before election day.
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Also since 2016, I think the pollsters are trying a lot harder since to factor in the racist men who only vote for Trump and otherwise stay home.
I think I’d put a pin in ‘popular’ though. Ideas perculate through parties and gain traction, but it doesn’t mean they’re especially popular. Defund the police went though the Democratic Party but you won’t find anyone major politician talking about it. Ideas bubble up and go down depending on material reality and conceptual ideas of identity, etc. I don’t think the trend of making women stay at home wives is going to catch on in a major material way. Having 50% more workers is just too valuable for a society to have and the American idea of individual choice too ingrained to have the whole of society to a 180 and force women to have babies and stay at home ‘for the good of the community’