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So it's all the Joos' fault.

 

Commercial for Fetterman on the Series tonight.

 

Well, that’s one way to get him to sit for a deposition.

 

Not only can she see Russia from her house, but she can also misspell the name of a fellow Republican. Or maybe her campaign runs even leaner than newsrooms these days:

 

I always hear the GOP calling out Biden's "destructive agenda" but they never spell it out. Yes, inflation and high gas prices, crime - but explain what Biden has done to "encourage" them and how you will reverse these things. They never do.

 

Despite the tite - actually a decent article. I do think Dems see some nobility in losing. Some of the biggest heroes in the party are losers - and as soon as someone is elected they are accused of "selling out." Re-elected? Even worse. Think of RBG and all of her dissents. Became a mythical figure. Held on to the seat so Hillary could appoint her successor and boom, the conservatives have the court for the next 30 years. As to Beto and Abrams, I think they are good candidates, but they appeal to the coastal Ds and get a lot of money from them, which not only makes them suspicious to local voters and too well funded for a more locally connected leader to rise up.

Democrats Keep Falling for ‘Superstar Losers’

 

Commercial for Fetterman during the Series on a night the Phillies get no-hit.

That's the sign.

 

The more I watch the way TV networks cover the midterms the more I realize what a big part of the problem they are
It’s an election, not a football game
Don’t cover politics like a sport
Then there’s Fox, which is the MLB/NFL/NHL Network/NBA TV of the bunch as the Republican mouthpiece

 

"Hello everybody, and welcome to Election Night 2022 coming to you live from Mike Lindell Stadium, alongside Bret Favre, I'm John Q. Magabot. Tonight's matchup features the pure, innocent, non-racist Reds against the evil, socialistic, trans-loving Blues. Tonight's telecast is brought to you Trump Org's resorts, hotels and spas--where every day is January 6th."

 

All we keep hearing is “the polls!” It’s the same typical lazy “journalism” that also includes the diner interviews.

Obviously, I’m biased. But I kinda wish that there was a blue landslide and then have a bunch of winning Dems yell out “Fuck the polls.” Not that they would anyways.

 

Polls have lots of problems. From the point of view of pollsters, their worst one is that people don't want to be in them, especially the "low trust," the poli sci euphemism for "paranoid", voters who were disproportionally for Trump. They try to adjust for this. So it's best to see a poll just not as a "snapshot of public opinion" as the pollsters say, but as predictions, not of who's going to win, but of who's going to show up at the polls. The overriding assumption of the pollsters is that more Republicans will, because that's what usually happens in a midterm, because Biden is relatively unpopular, and because of those low trust voters, who're modeled in even if they don't answer their phones. This could all be true. But it's important to remember that EVEN IF IT IS, the country remains closely divided. I mean, the political class talks about "wave elections" when one party or the other gets like 53 percent of the total vote. If say, Fetterman or Oz win by 1-2 percent, does that show some deep truth about the electorate in Pennsylvania, except that it's closely divided, and has been since at least 2000?