https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/interactive/2024/presidential-polling-averages/Wa po has a polling average where they are more particular about which pollsters they accept. Shoes a tight but consistent lead for Harris.
10/25/2024 8:24:31 PM
Mel Gibson calls Harris dumber than a pole
10/25/2024 10:10:06 PM
I'd never take political advice from a celebrity. Unless our views align, then it's fine.
10/25/2024 10:12:22 PM
I think Mel Gibson saw positive aspects of hitler too lol
10/25/2024 10:29:06 PM
what do you guys think about the state-wide races besides governor? attorney general / commissioners of whatever
10/27/2024 8:08:35 AM
I like Jeff Jackson. "I want to be a non-partisan, independent voice for the people of North Carolina"Dan Bishop is a terrible person and a worse politician.I will vote for Jessica Holmes for Auditor, although I do not like the fact that she was appointed and had no prior experience. The Libertarian candidate Bob Drach has far more relevant experience than either the Dem or GOP candidate, but in a FPTP system, gotta prioritize keeping the crazy Republicans out. Dave Boliek campaigns on "leading the fight at UNC to eliminate woke DEI policies and he's a committed Christian" so fuck off with that noiseAg Commissioner. I like Sarah Taber. Very well qualified, will surely bring some new ideas. Huge potential to make NC agriculture great again. I don't have much of a problem with Steve Troxler, he seems relatively non-partisan, but he's been doing this for 20 years, didn't bother to reply to N&O questionnaire, and in 20 years never (until this year) bothered to do a PBS North Carolina's State Lines candidate interview. The libertarian on the ballot is hilarious. basically just a fill-in candidate. his website doesn't even have anything to do with agriculture. it's just libertarian talking points. weird.Insurance. Mike Causey is the incumbent GOP. seems reasonable, or at least not extremely partisan. but, he's also pretty buddy-buddy with the insurance industry. 16 rate hikes in a row, no public hearings on those rate hikes in his 8 years in office. (under pressure from his dem challenger) He did his first public hearing like a month ago, which means that the decision won't be made until after the election (how convenient). Natasha Marcus seems well qualified and eager to get to work. Mike looks lost in comparison.Labor. this is the worst matchup. The Dem candidate Braxton Winston II does not have relevant political experience. He's more of a union member turned activist. The republican candidate Luke Farley of course is even worse though. he does the "far left" fearmongering bit, talks about "climate alarmism" and is overall far too partisan. He also wants to do the Cherie Berry trick of posting his mug in every elevator (free advertising for his political career) 24 years of republican labor commissioner has turned NC into one of the best states for business and one of the worst states for workers.Sec State. Dem Elaine Marshall has been around forever. She has no online presence though. Her website says "thank you for taking the first step in making a difference in 2020." GOP Chad Brown in a big mark robinson fan so that's pretty much all you need to know.Superintendent public instruction. Dem candidate Mo Green is very qualified, former superintendent of guilford county schools. GOP Michele Morrow is a qanon nutjob.Treasurer. Wesley Harris is one of those "too polished" Democrats. whatever. GOP candidate Brad Briner has a single YT video and it's about "woke politics". he's running for treasurer and the only thing he has to say is to trot out the woke boogeyman.Supreme Court. Allison Riggs I really like. The GOP candidate Jefferson Griffin is pretty decent for a republican. seems like an honorable patriotic guy. he's a "life begins at conception" guy though and I'm not for the government telling people what they can and can't do with their own bodies so no thanks[Edited on October 27, 2024 at 9:12 AM. Reason : don't forget to like and subscribe]
10/27/2024 9:06:22 AM
^be sure to smash that like button and ring that bell for a well-informed voter!
10/27/2024 9:49:32 AM
Good answer from Kamala hereCBS: "You know that Donald Trump has disavowed Project 2025. He says that is not his campaign plan."Harris: "As you know, I am a former prosecutor. His DNA is all over it. All over it. His running mate wrote the foreword to the book of the author of Project 2025. I believe Donald Trump's name appears at least 300 times in Project 2025. And it is a blueprint, a detailed blueprint that is about the danger and the detail of what Donald Trump and his allies plan if he is in the White House again."
10/27/2024 1:38:32 PM
I don’t like or trust Cuban but I’m glad he’s saying this so clearlyMark Cuban: "This is not a normal world. Donald Trump is not a normal candidate. And I think it's not a stretch to call Donald Trump a fascist ... he's talking about the 'enemy within' and going after people using the military. He's talked about mass deportations where they will stop people on the street and check their papers. What does that remind you of?"
10/27/2024 1:42:41 PM
At least he's a real billionaire.
10/27/2024 1:55:53 PM
^^ it's a shame people can't give an actual definition of fascism these days. Trump is absolutely fascist, but folks just don't understand why, and why it is so dangerous.
10/27/2024 8:19:31 PM
I mean....nobody can really define "communist" either and that's not stopping them.
10/28/2024 2:29:40 PM
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/25/nx-s1-5165353/washington-post-presidential-endorsement-trump-harrisNotably, the Washington Post opted not to endorse a candidate this year for the first time in a while. This is causing quite an uproar in this area. A few columnists have quit the paper over this, and waves of people have unsubscribed from the WP.Bezos, who owns the post, made this call and is largely seen as kowtowing to Trump to not piss him off. A few years ago, Trump played a large hand in making AWS lose out on a cloud computing contract to Microsoft, because Bezos allowed negative news stories on Trump to be written on WP.Ultimately, I think the $$ that Bezos gets from subscribers to the WP is just a drop in the bucket, and the loss of subscribers won't impact his bottom line much. Still, I can't think of another way to really voice dissatisfaction with this move by Bezos...I'll probably unsubscribe myself. This is kind of the straw that broke the camels back for me.
10/28/2024 2:52:37 PM
I unsubscribed the other day. I know it won't impact Bezos but I'll be god damned if I'm going to pay money for that bullshit. We've already been trying hard to disentangle ourselves from Amazon, though sometimes using it seems unavoidable.
10/28/2024 3:23:31 PM
Supposedly 8% of subscribers cancelled since then (including me). I think Kamala is going to win though. Shes still ahead in most polling averages in wi and mi just barely, and if you exclude the obviously goofy polls like Rasmussen Shes ahead in Pa too just barely. More national polls are showing her above 50% with a 3-4 point gap which is just enough to win usually. The big wild card is Pennsylvania. Trump managed to close a big gap there.I was pretty confident in 2020 Biden was going to win that night, but we might not even have enough data to guess this year, until a few days later— which is a major goal of trumps. This gives all the nut jobs he just Enflamed enough time to cause major issues with the certification process.[Edited on October 28, 2024 at 4:47 PM. Reason : ]
10/28/2024 4:46:03 PM
my hot take is that Harris is gonna win NC, and that we’ll know the nationwide results earlier than most people think
10/28/2024 5:25:45 PM
I hope she pulls off the win in NC, as this will make PA relatively less critical. Chalk up 5 NC Harris votes from my extended family (it's a small family) including from my Dad who hadn't voted for a Democrat at the top of the ticket since Jimmy Carter in 1976.
10/28/2024 7:04:37 PM
Coz's Dad credibility watch: +1
10/28/2024 7:58:03 PM
^love to see people breaking decades old bad habitshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/28/jeff-bezos-washington-post-trust/thoughts on Bezos response? I like the Reality is undefeated line. I think he makes a reasonable argument, although I also still can't help but suspect in part that some of this is justification for decision he already made that was mostly a matter of avoiding Trump's potential retribution - he already tangled with the Saudis and lost. he may very well be legitimately risk averse in some such scenarios.There's already a trend for corporations and universities and other institutions to move away from the practice of making public pronouncements of support or opposition for various causes. I think if newspapers as a whole stopped doing endorsements, nobody would miss them.[Edited on October 28, 2024 at 8:54 PM. Reason : .]
10/28/2024 8:09:39 PM
Better late than never. He has two granddaughters now. He also voted for Josh Stein and Jeff Jackson. So, don't give up on your boomers!I disagree entirely that reality is undefeated. Objective reality no longer even exists to half the population. How is that a win for reality?]
10/28/2024 9:11:24 PM
This nonsense over the WaPo endorsement is stupid. From a pure business perspective, it was a no brainer. There was nothing to gain by printing an endorsement whatsoever, and Trump is venal enough to punish Bezos for it to the tune of hundreds of millions in legal fees, and arguably other losses. The endorsement would change no one's mind, and it's not like anyone who's paying attention has any question who they support. Folks are making a much bigger deal over this than is necessary.
10/28/2024 10:00:09 PM
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10/28/2024 10:59:37 PM
Yeah, QNTM, I agree. Thanks for your thoughts, you shared some stuff I didn't even know.It's so funny to me how serious and unserious it all is at the same time. So many rich and smart people and we somehow end up with absolute dumbasses, unqualified, running for positions in charge of millions of people, lol.I will now rest on that thought
10/29/2024 3:29:36 AM
10/29/2024 6:44:25 AM
It would appear that we haven't even seen the draft endorsement that was squashed. It would also appear that we need to go to outside sources (outside of the WP) to even find how many subscribers have been lost in the light of this Bezos non-sense. IMO, this points to the same bias that Bezos sought to avoid, smacks of suppression and censorship, and shares the same attack on press freedom that seemed to be a hallmark of Trump.Sure, newspapers are biased. That's why we read them. But we assume that any publication worth it's weight in salt does their due diligence to maintain integrity. We assume that they do their research, investigate properly, and form sound opinions. When that doesn't happen, we start to regard that publication as non-trustworthy. Bezos is a businessman that owns a pet-project in the WP - I don't necessarily want to hear his opinion over that of the editors and columnist. I would like to hear Bezos's explanation of how placating an authoritarian is ever a good thing? It almost doesn't matter at this point, because this publication is doomed. There is no coming back from this now.Also, is just does not stand to reason that the Washington freaking Post is going to bow out of issuing a political opinion about a Presidential race, this close to the election, when an opinion has already been drafted. One has to question the timing of this all. Is the NYT just not going to have an opinion about the economy now?[Edited on October 29, 2024 at 7:38 AM. Reason : moar]
10/29/2024 7:19:56 AM
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10/29/2024 8:37:20 AM
I guess we need to do a better job of luring then. Anybody know how to lure?
10/29/2024 10:16:34 AM
It all starts with a good trolling motor.
10/29/2024 10:26:21 AM
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10/29/2024 12:20:36 PM
Newspapers started because wealthy people wanted to push their own agendas. It’s why a lot of small towns had multiple papers. They often specifically called out the other paper in the editorials. Go read through the 1800s newspaper archive online from UNC.Historically papers haven’t been about making money. Over time, they learned to separate the editorials from the news, then the editorials from the owner.Go to the map view there. Lots of cool insights if you have a few hours to kill. Especially interesting to read stuff from the end of the civil war (there was an ad I saw inviting freed children to join the schools— the concept of black vs white wasn’t as prominent then), then through the rise of Jim Crowhttps://www.digitalnc.org/newspapers/[Edited on October 29, 2024 at 1:01 PM. Reason : ]
10/29/2024 12:56:54 PM
Elon Musk saying he wants to destroy the American economy and rebuild it in his image and trump will help him do it. https://meidasnews.com/news/trump-ally-elon-musk-warns-of-necessary-economic-collapse-if-trump-elected
10/29/2024 1:29:41 PM
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10/30/2024 9:48:53 AM
The statement "bezos bought the post to make money" isn't entirely inaccurate imo if you read it as "bezos bought the post to use as a political tool to help make more money in his other business ventures" maybe
10/30/2024 10:20:03 AM
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-virginia-voter-registration-purge-ba3d785d9d2d169d9c02207a42893757SCOTUS has allowed Virginia to purge voters from the rolls, weeks before the election, at the behest of Gov. Youngkin. This not only violates election law, but upends lower court rulings. These voters purged are "suspected" non-citizens. Lower courts have already found Virginia's suspected non-citizens voter criteria ensnared eligible voters.[Edited on October 30, 2024 at 10:55 AM. Reason : moar ]
10/30/2024 10:53:26 AM
Schwarzenegger endorses Kamala
10/30/2024 11:17:07 AM
How is this nut-job supposedly leading the polls? (especially since Mark Robinson is supposedly so far behind)https://www.wral.com/story/nc-superintendent-race-remains-narrow-as-election-day-approaches-wral-news-poll-finds/21696765/
10/30/2024 11:54:41 AM
10/30/2024 2:15:53 PM
biggest snowflakes in the world
10/30/2024 2:24:49 PM
I bet he has a MEAN TWEETS 2024 bumper sticker
10/30/2024 6:54:09 PM
10/30/2024 7:04:02 PM
The new polls out today show Trump with a 92 point lead among the coveted 50+ age rural white male garbage truck drivers subgroup. Kamala is doomed
10/30/2024 9:18:10 PM
^^ I have no idea, the law seems pretty clear. What they are hanging their hat on is that Younkin signed the executive order on the 90th day before the election which ordered them to go looking. But that just doesn't seem to fly with the actual law.As for how many citizens are getting caught up in these purges of "suspected non-citizens," in at least one state, it's been pretty bad. I think it was 3200 voters were purged, and 2600 turned out to be legit citizens, fucking born here. What I really want to know is the political affiliations of those purged. I'd be willing to bet it's heavily Dem and Ind.I've been critical of Dem's bitching about Republican voting and registration policies, but all of the Republican's recent moves have been completely beyond the pale. It's hard to find any legitimate reason for these lawsuits and moves, other than just keeping non-MAGAs from voting. What's pissing me off is that there is clear, unequivocal precedent and law against damned near everything they are doing, and the Supreme Court is punting every fucking time. Conservative appeals courts are even calling them out on it, and SC is just overruling them, such as in VA.
10/30/2024 10:20:24 PM
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1gg50tl/violent_maga_enthusiast_gets_into_physical/In response to the Dem's Souls to the Polls campaign to get out the AA vote, this year Trump is sponsoring his own GOTV day campaign called MAGA Rubes to the Polling Cubes...it appears to be a huge success!
10/31/2024 9:33:29 AM
All I can say is wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.
10/31/2024 9:58:26 AM