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Sep-04-23
 | | HeMateMe: No need for Biden to talk up Harris. He hasn't even begun his second term. Should Biden die in 2024 kam Harris will still win the Anyone But Trump election. This will be like 2020. High participation and high mail voting. |
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Sep-04-23
 | | keypusher: < HeMateMe: No need for Biden to talk up Harris. He hasn't even begun his second term. Should Biden die in 2024 kam Harris will still win the Anyone But Trump election.
This will be like 2020. High participation and high mail voting.> Dispatch from reality:
<As of Aug. 29, 40% of registered voters had a favorable opinion of Harris and 54% had an unfavorable opinion — a net rating of -14 percentage points, according to a Times average. This page will update as new polls arrive.> <In The Times’ latest average, President Biden’s favorable rating is 41% and his unfavorable rating is 54% — a positive net of about -12 percentage points.That puts Harris’ rating under Biden’s by -1 percentage points.> https://www.latimes.com/projects/ka... The article explains Harris' unpopularity by saying she's been given the border, a difficult issue, and she's a victim of the misogyny aimed at female politicians. My preferred explanations are that she tends to come across really weird and she's feckless and incompetent. Hopefully the Dems will find someone else for the veep slot in 2024. |
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Sep-04-23
 | | perfidious: The Democrats' best chance next year in my view is indeed dumping Harris; about every report I have read regarding her interactions with others has been unflattering, to put it mildly. Jimmy Carter struggled to develop relationships in Washington during his term in office, which proved costly in his bid as incumbent, and it is easy to foresee this happening in Harris' case as well. Hectoring subordinates as everyday action does not earn loyalty or respect. Appears to me that Harris' unpopularity arises chiefly from one basic reason: she comes across as a hard number and thoroughly unlikeable, besides not being particularly competent. |
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Sep-04-23
| | HeMateMe: IT
DOESN'T
MATTER.
Democrats will not vote for Donald Trump.
You appear to be terrified of old age. Having the occasional memory slip doesn't mean you are going to die next week. Look at how long Ronald Reagan lived. |
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Sep-04-23
 | | al wazir: <HeMateMe: Look at how long Ronald Reagan lived.> That's a bug, not a feature.
He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's at the age Biden will reach next year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronal... |
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Sep-04-23
 | | plang: <IT
DOESN'T
MATTER.
Democrats will not vote for Donald Trump. > You are way over-confident.
I doubt Biden will get very many Republican votes either. As big as Trump's negatives are the fact that he is running against a very unpopular incumbent gives him at least some chance, particularly if the economy is iffy and if voters continue to be pessimistic about their future. The Democratic VP is more important than usual given the concern on the part of many about Biden's age (and that includes many Democrats). That Harris is also unpopular definitely doesn't help Biden though I would be surprised if she is replaced. |
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Sep-04-23
| | al wazir: In the wild state in which Homo sapiens evolved, most humans died in childhood, and hardly anyone lived past the age of 40 or 50. After maturing to the point when they have had enough progeny to provide a statistical likelihood that the species will survive, individuals become superfluous. That's why athletes quit and women can't have babies beyond that age. It isn't just physical. Everyone's cognition begins to deteriorate after the age of 20 or 30. This deterioration is gradual and doesn't effect all cognitive processes equally. No one is exempt, though not everyone suffers from Alzheimer's. I'm not immune. (Anecdote alert!) I've always had a better-than-average memory. When I was in grad school, I was recruited by a certain government agency which I will not further identify. The recruiter called himself "Mr. Winthrop," a pseudonym. He put me through a number of peculiar tests. In one of them he read off a series of 12 random digits, then asked me to repeat them *backwards*. I did it. I couldn't do that now.
So I passed. But I didn't join the Agency. |
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Sep-04-23
| | perfidious: One thing sure: <hemakesstuffup> is far from afear'd of playing the role of insufferable dumbass. Next year will be won--and lost--in the swing votes. |
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Sep-04-23
 | | saffuna: <mort><As for sanctions, they've only made Russia stronger, not a small component of which is her 'alliance' with China.> I wonder why the ruble has gone from 60 to the dollar to 100 to the dollar in the past year. |
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| Sep-04-23 | | cormier: <<<<<<Medjugorje Message> (September 5, 2023)>
“In prayer, learn to love everything that is holy.> Imitate the lives of saints so that they may be an incentive and teachers on the way of holiness.> May every family become a witness of love in this world without prayer and peace.”>
( From message, October 25, 2004 )> |
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Sep-05-23
| | al wazir: <saffuna: I wonder why the ruble has gone from 60 to the dollar to 100 to the dollar in the past year.> The real mystery is why it went from 125 on 3/7/22 to 58 on 6/27/22: https://tradingeconomics.com/russia.... That three-month interval began *after* the Russian drive toward Kyiv at the outset of the war had been halted, and spanned the period of Ukraine's successful expulsion of the Russian forces from the northern region near Kharkiv: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-euro.... |
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Sep-05-23
 | | FSR: <HeMateMe: . . . Should Biden die in 2024 kam Harris will still win the Anyone But Trump election.> The only way Kamala Harris will become President is if Biden dies while he's President and she is Vice President. |
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| Sep-05-23 | | Colonel Mortimer: <ANOTHER dire poll for Biden: 73% of Americans say he's too old - including two-thirds of Democrats> Everyone knows, including the arm band wearing leftoids. |
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Sep-05-23
| | HeMateMe: Perf-a*shole--try not to be so miserable. You used to be a more upbeat person, at least on this website. Saying democrats hate Donald Trump is like saying Bill Gates has money in the bank. I would venture that Biden's somewhat luke warm ratings among democrats are more a function of young people worrying about their future. Out of control wild weather, the uncertainty of a college degree producing a good job/career, China becoming the world's largest economy--people 25 years old can't see a clear future, the way they did in 1980. This isn't Biden's fault, he's merely the tip of the iceberg. At the end of the day the Biden administration is <steady>. The Trump administration was an out of control Cluster-F*. People polling "they disapprove of Joe Biden" is much different than democrats polling "I'm voting for Trump instead of Biden." There is also the real possibility that Donald Trump will be in jail the first week of November 2024. I don't think that improves his chances in the general election. |
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Sep-05-23
| | HeMateMe: Kam Harris is a middle of the road Democrat, like Joe Biden. She isn't a socialist like AOC or a right-wing kook like Georgia's Marge Green. This is why Biden took her on as the running mate in 2020. She was mainstream enough to not scare the hell out of older people who worried that Nipsey Russell or Mahatma Ghandi was coming to 1600 Penn Ave. At the end of the day, if you are a democrat, who would you vote for: Kam Harris or multi-felon Donald Trump, who tried to overturn an American presidential election? It's an easy question, IMO. A Harris administration continues Joe Biden's policies. Fine with me--the economy has been steady and strong under Biden/Harris. Jobs steadily added each quarter, inflation beaten down, green energy embraced, a war begun to bring down disgraceful high drug costs. It's all good, IMO, and either Biden or Harris will continue the same agenda. |
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| Sep-05-23 | | Lloyd Gross: <perfidious: One thing sure: <hemakesstuffup> is far from afear'd of playing the role of insufferable dumbass.> Rude. |
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Sep-05-23
| | perfidious: I do not suffer fools gladly.
Bet you would never criticise your Far Right cronies in the same way. |
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| Sep-05-23 | | Lloyd Gross: Whenever <The Integrity> has something to say, you respond with <jussie> this and <bumptious> that. You sound like a ginormous purple character, maybe a kudzu?, making up his silly word games. |
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Sep-05-23
| | perfidious: The self-proclaimed <Integrity> is another sockie, himself playing games; been going on for years. |
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Sep-05-23
| | plang: <I would venture that Biden's somewhat luke warm ratings among democrats are more a function of young people worrying about their future.> I agree that this isn't Biden's fault but it still hurts him in an election. If young people aren't optimistic about their future it is going to affect their enthusiasm to go out and vote. <Kam Harris is a middle of the road Democrat, like Joe Biden. She isn't a socialist like AOC or a right-wing kook like Georgia's Marge Green.> The low popularity that Harris suffers from has nothing to do with her politics. People just don't like her or, at least, respect her. She has a similar problem on the Left that DeSantis seems to have on the Right. |
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Sep-05-23
| | perfidious: Like Trump or not, as an old friend would say: he puts fans in the stands. Neither Harris nor DeSatan possess that quality; in point of fact, both are off-putting and do not connect with others, an egregious shortcoming on the campaign trail. |
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Sep-05-23
| | saffuna: <X owner Elon Musk is threatening to sue the Anti-Defamation League for defamation, claiming that the nonprofit organization’s statements about rising hate speech on the social media platform have torpedoed X’s advertising revenue.> So much for Musk being a believer in absolute free speech. |
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Sep-05-23
| | HeMateMe: Wasn't 2020 the largest turnout ever for democrats in a general election? Doesn't seem apathetic to me. Democrats will show up in 2024 in large numbers for Biden/Harris or Harris/? It's another 'anyone but Trump ' election. That's assuming trump isn't locked up. |
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Sep-05-23
| | perfidious: Musk thus proves himself another selective lover of candour. |
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| Sep-05-23 | | diceman: <HeMateMe: Kam Harris is a middle of the road Democrat, like Joe Biden.> Heh, heh!
HeMateMe the gift that keeps on giving! |
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