I think Harris will win big. We’re not answering pollster calls, putting up yard signs in previously red territory to avoid the stormtroopers nor calling them out verbally, but we are voting. The winds are changing.
I don't answer pollster calls or verbally confront Trumpers either. We did put up a Harris/Walz sign, though. We live just north of Kansas City, MO, and we're seeing lots of Harris/Walz signs and far fewer Trump signs than last time around. I agree, I think the winds are changing and a number of "red" states are likely to surprise everyone.
Same here, Greg! I am heartily ashamed of the white people who would rather vote for a deteriorating orange clown than an energetic woman who knows what she is doing. I am a loud and proud old white lady for Kamala Harris.
This election is about protecting white privilege. Racism and sexism is on the ballot, all wrapped up in Christian Nationalism. The MAGA's I know are straight up misogynistic bigots. The rest are dumber than a doorknob.
A friend of mine just came back from a business trip to Germany. She said, the first thing they asked was WTF is wrong with Americans that they would elect a criminal. I didn't know my country and its people carry so much multi generational misogynistic bigoted hatred as they do. But, these are the same people that embraced the KKK with parades, picnics of molded salads, family fun events for the kiddos. Not much as changed. Instead of pointy white hoods, they wear red hats.
I've experienced this with my own family members. I have a 4yr old biracial grandson that one side of the family will not acknowledge him. It's unforgivable that he has their last name. I had to tell my father to stop using the n-word. It's here right in my face. How am I going to protect him from people who look like me? I will though. Come hell or high-water.
This election is about the voters. It couldn’t be more obvious. It’s also about the Electoral College system that is plainly hurting us because it denies the popular vote. And lastly we can blame media I suppose but before the NYTimes I blame Fox news though the NYT is infuriating and very disappointing.
Read that yesterday even Jamie Dimon (CEO Morgan Stanley Chase) is pro Harris but afraid to speak out for fear of hurting the business! The Times is worried too!
I think Harris will win. We’re the new “silent majority”
I think this too. The other day, 60 people did a Harris sign waving on a corner in Tucson. Some cars had a man driving who would not look at us, but the women in the car would give us a half smile.
Is the following a ridiculous thought: Trump is clearly unfit for office. And if he wins he will be a lame duck and the country will be governed by Vance and other dangerous surrogates, fulfilling Trumps voiced policy.🤔
I keep praying to higher forces that Kamala will win!🌟
"A major reason that Harris isn’t “running away with this” is because an overwhelming majority of white voters don’t find Trump’s malicious nature and fundamental unfitness disqualifying."
You hit it right on the head when you laid a good bit of the blame on the main-stream media. Only scant mention has been made about trump's age while the media worked that into just about everything for 4 years. Trump is not only getting older by the day but he is deranged and where is that really playing in the media except occasionally in the last few days? And why are outright lies allowed to be perpetrated by trump when he speaks of Biden, Harris and many assorted others he dislikes? Is that not defamatory? And are there not laws about public defamation? And, let's face it, among the white male voters although denied by Harris, there is definitely a challenge to their so-called masculinity to even think about a woman (gasp!) becoming president of this country. Yet women have done exceedingly well in so many other countries but there they are not a challenge because the same men are not learning about anything other than their small orbit of disaffected haters.
Turnout is being underestimated. I believe Harris will win with a couple of states to spare. Trump tops out at 80 million votes (he got 75 million last time, so I’m being charitable. Biden got 82 last time. Many people voted again Trump rather than for Biden. This time, we have a popular Democratic candidate and a manifestly deteriorating opponent. She will get at least 90 million votes. That is enough to secure an electoral college victory. Don’t buy the polls; more than 80 of them are Republican sponsored. She will win this thing.
The Christian nationalist phenomenon is for me one of the biggest reasons this race is registering as being close. For example, there is no possibility of me convincing my evangelical sister and her adult children that Trump is a menace because their pastor has taught them that women are to be submissive to men and thus incapable of being leaders, that Democrats are baby-killers and communists, and that voting for a Democrat is being against Jesus. There are so many clips of pastors praising Trump (technically, they shouldn't be according to tax policy, but no one is stopping them) in front of hundreds and sometimes thousands of people who lap up every hateful thing they're fed. The disgusting influence of many churches on their followers' critical thinking skills and compassion has been devastating to our democracy.
I am confident that Harris will win this election. What *really* concerns me about the tightness of this election is what happens next time, when Republicans maybe don't run a guy who has a myriad of disqualifying things in his history like Trump yet is still as authoritarian?
I suspect it's the larger "reality" that's the real problem. When your idea of reality is that climate change is a hoax, that Jewish space lasers are a thing, that the "Biden crime family" is a real thing, that all the Q quackery is actuality, it really doesn't matter who is the GOP candidate. The baseline for MAGAs is way out in [right] field, believing in a host of lies, canards, and cons. They've been told not to believe what they hear with their own ears or see with their own eyes. Nothing VP Harris, or actual scientists, or truth-speaking historians may say will have any impact on those who are so far down the rabbit-hole as the Q-anon followers. The media never mention Q-anon any more. When one's entire political realm is based in fantasy-land, moving away from Trump would be a deep existential crisis of monumental proportion. Unravel just one string and their whole self-identity dissolves. They don't see the world in the same way as the rest of us, and they **can't** move.
"... just 32 percent of registered voters believe the nation is headed in the right direction."
I don't know what to make of this stat anymore. Even though I think Biden has done a great job, and things would continue to improve if the Dems win the trifecta (dreaming!), I think if I were asked this question, I would be inclined to say "wrong direction" due to the dominance of the MAGA mindset. I suspect I'm not alone in this.
Women and minorities (racial, ethnic, spiritual, LGBTQ+, etc,) have the most to lose if he's elected. Many white Christians have much less, if anything, to lose, so to them there's little to no downside.
MAGA Man: " Who cares if he hates women, blacks, Hispanics, Jews, Muslims, gays, trans etc? Who cares if he's gonna deport 20 million illegal immigrants. I'm NONE of those."
IMO, the races are tight because for each Harris supporter, there's one Trump supporter to cancel that one out. The few who don't have a corresponding match make up the margin.
Why is this race close? Because it’s a brave old world … circa 1954. The old rule of law party has become a lawless one in which the best, most outrageous lies win. Where the Rs want to abolish the Dept. of Education lest one might make up one’s own mind. Ditto women’s right of personhood. Ditto gays, lesbians and trans. What’s next? Long hair and sideburns?
This middle class, middle aged, white guy is stunned and sickened by the continued support of Trump by people who look like me.
When I worked the 2022 election, old white voters would say shit to me as if I were one of them, and it was almost always racist and stupid.
I'm kinda worried about working in this election.
It defies all sensibility that any ordinary American should support a devolving madman like Trump, yet here we are.
Christian Nationalism is a helluva drug.
I think Harris will win big. We’re not answering pollster calls, putting up yard signs in previously red territory to avoid the stormtroopers nor calling them out verbally, but we are voting. The winds are changing.
I don't answer pollster calls or verbally confront Trumpers either. We did put up a Harris/Walz sign, though. We live just north of Kansas City, MO, and we're seeing lots of Harris/Walz signs and far fewer Trump signs than last time around. I agree, I think the winds are changing and a number of "red" states are likely to surprise everyone.
Same here, Greg! I am heartily ashamed of the white people who would rather vote for a deteriorating orange clown than an energetic woman who knows what she is doing. I am a loud and proud old white lady for Kamala Harris.
Yes ma'am.
Take care.
This election is about protecting white privilege. Racism and sexism is on the ballot, all wrapped up in Christian Nationalism. The MAGA's I know are straight up misogynistic bigots. The rest are dumber than a doorknob.
A friend of mine just came back from a business trip to Germany. She said, the first thing they asked was WTF is wrong with Americans that they would elect a criminal. I didn't know my country and its people carry so much multi generational misogynistic bigoted hatred as they do. But, these are the same people that embraced the KKK with parades, picnics of molded salads, family fun events for the kiddos. Not much as changed. Instead of pointy white hoods, they wear red hats.
Awesome comment
Lisa, you are so sadly right. My brain hurts when I try to understand why.
I've experienced this with my own family members. I have a 4yr old biracial grandson that one side of the family will not acknowledge him. It's unforgivable that he has their last name. I had to tell my father to stop using the n-word. It's here right in my face. How am I going to protect him from people who look like me? I will though. Come hell or high-water.
This election is about the voters. It couldn’t be more obvious. It’s also about the Electoral College system that is plainly hurting us because it denies the popular vote. And lastly we can blame media I suppose but before the NYTimes I blame Fox news though the NYT is infuriating and very disappointing.
Read that yesterday even Jamie Dimon (CEO Morgan Stanley Chase) is pro Harris but afraid to speak out for fear of hurting the business! The Times is worried too!
I think Harris will win. We’re the new “silent majority”
Women will do it in the privacy of the voting booth.
I think this too. The other day, 60 people did a Harris sign waving on a corner in Tucson. Some cars had a man driving who would not look at us, but the women in the car would give us a half smile.
Jamie Dimon is SUCH a douchebag. I know we all know this, but goddamn these billionaires and executives.
They’re all cowards. Money before country.
The 7 swing states contain 18% of the population of the US.
Is the following a ridiculous thought: Trump is clearly unfit for office. And if he wins he will be a lame duck and the country will be governed by Vance and other dangerous surrogates, fulfilling Trumps voiced policy.🤔
I keep praying to higher forces that Kamala will win!🌟
"A major reason that Harris isn’t “running away with this” is because an overwhelming majority of white voters don’t find Trump’s malicious nature and fundamental unfitness disqualifying."
That's sick.
You hit it right on the head when you laid a good bit of the blame on the main-stream media. Only scant mention has been made about trump's age while the media worked that into just about everything for 4 years. Trump is not only getting older by the day but he is deranged and where is that really playing in the media except occasionally in the last few days? And why are outright lies allowed to be perpetrated by trump when he speaks of Biden, Harris and many assorted others he dislikes? Is that not defamatory? And are there not laws about public defamation? And, let's face it, among the white male voters although denied by Harris, there is definitely a challenge to their so-called masculinity to even think about a woman (gasp!) becoming president of this country. Yet women have done exceedingly well in so many other countries but there they are not a challenge because the same men are not learning about anything other than their small orbit of disaffected haters.
Turnout is being underestimated. I believe Harris will win with a couple of states to spare. Trump tops out at 80 million votes (he got 75 million last time, so I’m being charitable. Biden got 82 last time. Many people voted again Trump rather than for Biden. This time, we have a popular Democratic candidate and a manifestly deteriorating opponent. She will get at least 90 million votes. That is enough to secure an electoral college victory. Don’t buy the polls; more than 80 of them are Republican sponsored. She will win this thing.
The Christian nationalist phenomenon is for me one of the biggest reasons this race is registering as being close. For example, there is no possibility of me convincing my evangelical sister and her adult children that Trump is a menace because their pastor has taught them that women are to be submissive to men and thus incapable of being leaders, that Democrats are baby-killers and communists, and that voting for a Democrat is being against Jesus. There are so many clips of pastors praising Trump (technically, they shouldn't be according to tax policy, but no one is stopping them) in front of hundreds and sometimes thousands of people who lap up every hateful thing they're fed. The disgusting influence of many churches on their followers' critical thinking skills and compassion has been devastating to our democracy.
I am confident that Harris will win this election. What *really* concerns me about the tightness of this election is what happens next time, when Republicans maybe don't run a guy who has a myriad of disqualifying things in his history like Trump yet is still as authoritarian?
That was my fear in this race even.
I suspect it's the larger "reality" that's the real problem. When your idea of reality is that climate change is a hoax, that Jewish space lasers are a thing, that the "Biden crime family" is a real thing, that all the Q quackery is actuality, it really doesn't matter who is the GOP candidate. The baseline for MAGAs is way out in [right] field, believing in a host of lies, canards, and cons. They've been told not to believe what they hear with their own ears or see with their own eyes. Nothing VP Harris, or actual scientists, or truth-speaking historians may say will have any impact on those who are so far down the rabbit-hole as the Q-anon followers. The media never mention Q-anon any more. When one's entire political realm is based in fantasy-land, moving away from Trump would be a deep existential crisis of monumental proportion. Unravel just one string and their whole self-identity dissolves. They don't see the world in the same way as the rest of us, and they **can't** move.
"... just 32 percent of registered voters believe the nation is headed in the right direction."
I don't know what to make of this stat anymore. Even though I think Biden has done a great job, and things would continue to improve if the Dems win the trifecta (dreaming!), I think if I were asked this question, I would be inclined to say "wrong direction" due to the dominance of the MAGA mindset. I suspect I'm not alone in this.
Yeah, I would also answer that the nation isn’t headed in the best direction, as well. That doesn’t mean I blame Biden.
Thank you. Great article.
Women and minorities (racial, ethnic, spiritual, LGBTQ+, etc,) have the most to lose if he's elected. Many white Christians have much less, if anything, to lose, so to them there's little to no downside.
MAGA Man: " Who cares if he hates women, blacks, Hispanics, Jews, Muslims, gays, trans etc? Who cares if he's gonna deport 20 million illegal immigrants. I'm NONE of those."
IMO, the races are tight because for each Harris supporter, there's one Trump supporter to cancel that one out. The few who don't have a corresponding match make up the margin.
Why is this race close? Because it’s a brave old world … circa 1954. The old rule of law party has become a lawless one in which the best, most outrageous lies win. Where the Rs want to abolish the Dept. of Education lest one might make up one’s own mind. Ditto women’s right of personhood. Ditto gays, lesbians and trans. What’s next? Long hair and sideburns?
It's the media, pure and simple.
There must be a Russian strategy to hack the vote. I just can’t fathom that they don’t have a plan for this.