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BlitztheDragon
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Getting back on topic, I have no clue what direction Harris’s campaign is going to go next, through Crockett being co-chair hopefully keeps the youth vote energized. My enthusiasm has been deflated, and I’m concerned that Democratic rank-and-file voters are starting to shift right on issues I really, REALLY care about.
Would love if Dems ramped up campaigning on trust-busting, tackling price gouging, and other popular economic proposals that they ARE implementing with the Biden administration but aren’t advertising much. They seem way more interested in being Republican-lite on the border and the military, and accepting Republican and MSM’s framing of most other issues as well.
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Whatever Harris is doing, it seems to be working well.
Pretty much every metric is pointing in her favor. Polling, enthusiasm, approval rate, fundraising and spending, and she’s caught up to Trump on issues like the economy and the border.
Remember, one metric on its own is not enough to show a trend. But when you have every metric measurable all pointing in the same direction, you can make some pretty educated guesses.
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Add student debt forgiveness, supercharging the movement to increase equal access to abortion and other forms of medical care that the GOP hate and have been trying to legislate out of existence, like IVF, stem cell research, medicare, medcaid, contraception, health screenings, sexually transmitted disease testing and treatment, vaccines, counseling, rehabilitation, mental health and therapy, enshrining equal rights and access to marriage for LGBTQ and interracial couples in the US’s laws and constitution … there’s so much that they could b e doing to really fix things and give people reasons to vote for them.
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I mean, the best explanation I can give besides Democratic leadership wanting to go Starmer is that being tough on the border and the drug cartels is being prioritized as part of the overarching “Prosecutor vs Convicted Felon” narrative they have going.
Good to hear that Harris is catching up in trust on the economy in the polls. That consistently ranks as the most important issue for voters. Of course, that also means Dems need to stop taking the bait on reiterating their pivot on immigration and focus more on those other issues you and I brought up. Hell let’s make the Labor Democrat parts of the platform front and center, and keep the union campaigning up front. They’ve done some of that, but I want more of it.
BlitztheDragon
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Heck yeah, it’s why his pick excited me to begin with!
Hoping his presence on the ticket can help keep Harris from falling for the demands of K-Street and the pundit class, even if her attempts to placate them are making me (figuratively) tear my hair out.
marinus18

@BlitztheDragon
The real problem is that the corporations don’t like what are the popular policies so you have a lot of pressure to steer away from those. But if you don’t have policies people like they won’t vote for you.
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@BlitztheDragon
I think a big problem is corporate news. It’s important to remember that the US has no public broadcasting service like the BBC. I think it’s one of the things that should be created. A publically operated and funded broadcasting service that doesn’t have as strong a corporate bias.
Of course the standard “communism” and “censorship” will come. But you can point out that Britain has had a public broadcasting service for over 150 years.
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@Ciaran
PBS doesn’t have nearly the funding that the BBC does.
Okay, I didn’t know that. Still point remains. It’s over 100 years old and hasn’t let to any kind of apocalypse.
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Dems are reporting enthusiasm to vote that is reaching 2008 levels, and have now eclipsed Republicans by several points.
The mythical “enthusiasm gap” doesn’t always portend success or failure, but it does tend to help.
The fact that the enthusiasm levels have steadily increased makes me somewhat confident that it’s more than just formerly depressed dems being happy for “anyone but Biden” and instead seems to be mostly driven by Harris and Walz themselves.
This also suggests that the “Harris Honeymoon” that the Republicans have been banking on might not be a real thing. Or at least not as potent of a thing as they would hope.
It’s about to cross over into September, when lots of early voting starts, and not only has Kamala maintained her momentum, but has actually gained on it.
Baring a steep, and I mean “falling into the void” steep, drop off in support, I see her as favored to win.
There just aren’t any real big roadblocks between now and when all the early voting starts that could really trip her up.
She did fine in her interview, Trump’s team continues to step in it, and I highly doubt that she’ll stumble in the debate like Biden did.
That just leaves an “October surprise”, but I’m struggling to think of anything that really could happen. The economy is strong, OPEC is planning to go ahead with their output boosts, we’re expecting a rate cut in September, border crossings are at a yearly low…
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Adam talks about not only the current Israel/Gaza college protests, but also the history of college protests and America’s reaction to them.
And once again the root cause turns out to be Reagan. It’s almost incomprehensible just how thoroughly that man fucked up America.
marinus18

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I still don’t get why he is given credit for Gorbachov’s decision to cut military spending and the coup that this unleashed which is what destroyed the communist bloc. I mean he had no involvement in any of that.
even symbolically it had nothing to do with it as within the USSR the communist system was quite liked. It was a military coup that destroyed it, not some popular movement.
marinus18

I do think there should be regulations on the news. That if they knowingly spread falsehoods they will get held accountable by government agencies. Capitalism works best if you have a mix or corporate and government power and so corporate news should be regulated.
The US actually used to have a system like that called the fairness doctrine which Reagan destroyed. Which meant news became either entertainment or corporate propaganda. Since the focus shifted to either getting a dedicated fanbase or getting massive injections of money from capitalists. In that enviroment Fox ‘news’ kind of is the ultimate one cause it combined both those things.
Also make PBS much, much bigger to become a major agency.
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