Yup.

It's a major campaign season this year.

But it is too early for the polls to be relevant.

Stated differently...

The current polling is focused upon polling Registered Voters.

But, as we get closer to election day, the polling will switch over to Likely Voters, which is a more accurate representation of what may occur on Election Day.

Stated differently, again: Too soon to tell.

A personal data point that I will add...

Instead of paying $70 per month (1990 dollars) for my landline service, I now pay $12 per month (current dollars) for my landline service.

OK, looking back at that history using 20/20 hindsight, was the US Government's breakup of AT&T A Good Thing or A Bad thing?

More from the article ...

... The boxes were stacked outside the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Harold Greene and were filled with cost studies regarding telephone services and equipment. Greene was in the midst of trying what was then the largest antitrust case in U.S. history and possibly the most significant event in the history of American telecommunications: United States v. American Telephone and Telegraph Co. (AT&T). ...

AT&T was founded in 1885 as a subsidiary of Alexander Graham Bell's American Bell Telephone Company. On December 30, 1899, AT&T acquired Bell Telephone and became the parent company. By the 1970s, it had grown to become the largest company in the world. ...

The company was a monopoly, to be sure, but considered itself a natural monopoly"the provider of a service for which the operating costs were so high that only a single company could do it efficiently.

Moreover, AT&T's leadership had long taken the position that it was only able to serve all consumers by maintaining a series of cross-subsidies"that is, subsidies funded by AT&T's more profitable services to support its less profitable ones.

By charging above-cost rates for long-distance service, service in urban areas, and business services, AT&T could keep prices low for local telephone service, service in rural areas, and residential services, respectively.

This framework, AT&T asserted, was only feasible if it retained sole control over the markets, because a competitor free to target the sectors subjected to above-cost rates would drive those rates down, rendering subsidies infeasible and driving prices up for critical services.

AT&T believed, therefore, that despite its size and market control it had not violated the antitrust laws. ...

@#4 ... No corroboration. No independent verification. Terrible ...

So, in other words, similar to your current alias' reply-trolling comments?

Perhaps it may need to look at things through a different window before it passes such judgment?

Sort of reminds me of ...

imo, Dir Patel is just another floating turd of the Trump admin.

Circling 'round before it disappears down the drain.

@#19 ... Which lasted what ... one month? ...

Another aspect that concerns me (aside from inflation now being higher than wage increases) is that we may only be at the foothills of the inflation mountain that might affect us.

The PPI numbers released recently are quite concerning.

So, Israelis, like Pres Trump may have an issue with accurate news coverage?

@#10 ... They know who doesn't have their backs. Just like Iranian protestors now know. ...

Good that you mentioned that.

... They are telling you exactly what they are going to do. Believe them. ...

Politicians choosing voters.

Not voters choosing politicians.

Also ...

OK, how 'bout songs with violins?

@#5

Yeah, we said similar things.

I think your #5 comment stated it better. NW better.

@#1 ... Can the folks at Walter Reed ...

My view is ...

The great folks at Walter Reed are most excellent in what they do.

The problem resides more in how Pres Trump communicates to those he serves regarding what the great folk at Walter Reed tell him.

And, yes, I still hold the belief that the President of the United States servers the People of the United States.

@#12 ... Obama was a lousy president but wasn't as damaging as W. ...

Still lamely just trolling for replies?

Here's one. :)

@#11 ... None of them named. Those who worked closest with Patel and spent much of their time at work with him have claimed this is BS. ...

@#1 ... But the post comes after his Chinese counterpart, in opening remarks at a U.S.-China bilateral meeting, questioned if the two nations could overcome the "Thucydides Trap" -- a theory suggesting that when a rising power threatens to displace an established one, a war could result. ...

Did Pres Trump even have a modicum of a clue about the meaning of Pres Xi's comment about the "Thucydides Trap"?

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... "When President Xi very elegantly referred to the United States as perhaps being a declining nation, he was referring to the tremendous damage we suffered during the four years of Sleepy Joe Biden and the Biden Administration, and on that score, he was 100% correct," the president wrote in a post on Truth Social. "Our Country suffered immeasurably with open borders, high taxes, transgender for everybody, men in women's sports, DEI, horrible trade deals, rampant crime, and so much more!"

Trump did not point to a specific comment made by Xi. But the post comes after his Chinese counterpart, in opening remarks at a U.S.-China bilateral meeting, questioned if the two nations could overcome the "Thucydides Trap" -- a theory suggesting that when a rising power threatens to displace an established one, a war could result.

Xi in 2021 also said, "The East is rising and the West is declining." The White House did not clarify the quote referenced in Trump's post in response to The Hill's request for comment.

The president added on social media that China's leader "was not referring to the incredible rise that the United States has displayed to the world during the 16 spectacular months of the Trump Administration," referencing matters such as the military operation in Venezuela and the war with Iran. ...

@#5 ... Try not believing men can magically transform into women. ...

That your alias ascribes it to "magic" shows a gross lack of understanding of what, and why it, is occurring.

So, it seems your alias wants to severely affect the lives of others with no understanding of the issues those others face?

@#17 ... What actions, be specific. ...

Pres Biden working with Congress, as I noted in #11.

Do try to keep up ...

How many sources has The Atlantic been using for their articles on this topic?

@#13

[Verse 1]
When I was a young man, I carried my pack
And I lived the free life of a rover
From the Murray's green basin to the dusty outback
I waltzed my Matilda all over

[Verse 2]
Then in 1915, my country said, "Son
It's time to stop rambling, 'cause there's work to be done"
So they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun
And they sent me away to the war

[Chorus 1]
And the band played Waltzing Matilda
As we sailed away from the quay
And amidst all the tears and the shouts and the cheers
We sailed off for Gallipoli

[Verse 3]
How well I remember that terrible day
When the blood stained the sand and the water
And how in that hell that they called Suvla Bay
We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter

[Verse 4]
Johnny Turk, he was ready, he primed himself well
He showered us with bullets and he rained us with shells
And in five minutes flat, he'd blown us all to hell
Nearly blew us right back to Australia

[Chorus]
And the band played Waltzing Matilda
As we stopped to bury our slain
And we buried ours and the Turks buried theirs
Then it started all over again

[Verse 5]
Now those who were living did their best to survive
In that mad world of death, blood, and fire
And for seven long weeks, I kept myself alive
While the corpses around me piled higher

[Verse 6]
Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over ---
And when I awoke in my hospital bed
And saw what it had done, Christ, I wished I was dead
Never knew there were worse things than dying

[Chorus 3]
And no more I'll go waltzing Matilda
To the green bushes so far and near
For to hang tent and pegs, a man needs two legs
No more waltzing Matilda for me

[Verse 7]
So they collected the cripples, the wounded and maimed
And they shipped us back home to Australia
The legless, the armless, the blind and insane
Those proud wounded heroes of Suvla

[Verse 8]
And as our ship pulled into Circular Quay
I looked at the place where me legs used to be
And thanked Christ there was nobody waiting for me
To grieve and to mourn and to pity

[Chorus 4]
And the band played Waltzing Matilda
As they carried us down the gangway
But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared
And they turned their faces away

[Verse 9]
And now every April, I sit on my porch
And I watch the parade pass before me
I see my old comrades, how proudly they march
Reliving their dreams of past glory

[Verse 10]
I see the old men, all twisted and torn
The forgotten heroes of a forgotten war
And the young people ask me, "What are they marching for?"
And I ask myself the same question

[Chorus 5]
And the band plays Waltzing Matilda
And the old men still answer the call
But year after year, their numbers get fewer
Someday no one will march there at all

[Outro]
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
Who'll go a-waltzing Matilda with me?
...

@#12 ... A song (a cover) of theirs that I deeply enjoy is ... ...

Read the lyrics, at a minimum ...