Fun tune...

@#59 ... They didn't. ...

I agree.

Drudge sold nothing.

To my eyes, the comment in #55 is little more than an admission that that current alias was not able to counter the comments that responded to it.

I guess I should say something like "better luck next time" to that current alias?

Japan is an interesting country.

They seem to have a different opinion of the ocean and its creatures than the US does.

Can you say, sushi?

I knew you could.

So, I guess what I am asking is, (all the angst aside), how does the US-based view apply to Japan?

@#18 ... Rasmussen is normally 5-10% slanted to the GOP. ...

Yeah, that's one reason why I tend towards the RCP rolling average.

And, for the record, the RCP Electoral College display has not changed recently...

@#11 ... It turned into fire like you might see in a huge bomb explosion outside when that lightning hit.

Yeah, ya don't f!!k with lightning.

If you try, you are likely to lose, big time.

@#2

My view, in two parts...

1) ... My first wife did not want kids, and since I didn't care one way or the other, I was okay with it.

Great, it is what you (plural) agreed to.

2) please consider paragraphs in your comments.

:)

@#16 ... they include a lot of trash Reichwing polls intended to puff up Dotard's numbers. ...

That also raises another question or two or three ...

I guess my first question might be, why do you seem to think that poll results you disagree with are inherently incorrect?

And then...

Would you be happier if all the polls agreed with your opinion? Is that the result you desire?

@#16 ... I don't trust RCP; they include a lot of trash Reichwing polls intended to puff up Dotard's numbers. ...

That's your choice. I will not argue that.

... is the inability of pollsters to poll Gen-Z, a group notoriously unwilling to answer a call from any number they don't recognize ...

Not just Gen-Z, but anyone who has had Caller-ID over the years. For instance, me.

Yesterday I got a call from GM Polling. I let it go to voice mail.

But yeah, and the pollsters realize that. They realized that two decades ago when I worked in the industry (not in a policy position, but in an IT position).

But to the gist of your comment...

Yeah, pollsters are in a bind lately.

They can only report what people tell them.

So, maybe another question to add to your text wall is along the lines of, why might people lie to pollsters?

@#5 ... I feel sorry for her VP pick. ...

Yeah, after fmr Pres trump choosing Sen Vance, a born-again Trump clone, and the [rightful, imo] criticism that generated....

Any candidate VP Harris chooses is going to be, I'll say, scruntinized.

And, rightfully so, so long as such scrutiny is factually-based.

But such a basis seems to be foreign to the MAGA cult, a.k.a.the GOP, of late.

So, I'll proffer that the next three months may not be something I might want to experience.

One candidate (Trump) sowing the seeds of division, splitting the Country apart for his political and egotistical gain.

While the other candidate (Harris) wants to unite the Country for the benefit of the Country..

@#13 ... IOW, he's still fishing. ...

Yeah.

My view is that fmr Pres Trump and his campaign have still not yet figured out how to respond to Pres Biden stepping down.

The disastrous (I'm being kind) "Trump being Trump" appearance at the NABJ shows that.

@#3 ... All the momentum is behind VPOTUS. ...

Yup.

She now needs to work to continue that momentum. ...

... turn it into voter turnout, and votes for Democrats on Election Day.

Can she do that?

More from the OpEd ...

... People do still have personal preferences. It's now considered a niche market.

Others, presumably those realists we've all heard about, can't afford kids. That charming cost of living insanity we all adore so much apparently does affect people other than billionaires.

(Are there people other than billionaires? Really? Why? Nothing better to do? You'd never guess.)

Declining birth rates are another ongoing suffocating factor. That's also been going on for years. It's getting so critical that it's even being mentioned on the political news in between propaganda sessions.

However -- None of this information has translated into anything resembling a response to the fact that kids are simply too expensive to have. Like housing, health education, and other commodities, it's just too hard. ...

@#11 ... Their data has been skewed considerably towards republicans candidates in a manner that is not consistent with real world results. ...

And the evidence you have to support that assertion is....?

thx.

@#10 ... Did you actually click the link I posted? ...

I did.

I clicked on it, and followed it to abcnews.go.com.

Once there, I read the entire article, and then backtracked to click on the "average of national polls" link in the first paragraph.

@#15 ... He didn't know about the hostages, just like he didn't know about this plea deal. ...

Yeah, go with that.

What else yer current alias got?

@#55 ... Most of you have no idea what is really going on ...

Again... got evidence?

@#55 ... I hate that Drudge sold this page ...

Got evidence of that?

I do note a couple of things...

@#7 ... And 538's poll of polls now show Harris with a 1.5 point lead over Trump. abcnews.go.com ...

Thanks for that link.

What 538 seems to neglect to mention is the Margin of Error.

I'll agree that the trend looks favorable to VP Harris.

More from the article...

... A daily intimacy exercise pioneered by couples therapists and clinical psychologists John and Julie Gottman, the six-second kiss is what it sounds like " taking a few moments out of each day to connect physically with your partner.

"It's kind of a funny thing to put on the to-do list," said Meola, who first learned of the Gottmans' work while studying for a theology master's degree focused on marriage and family.

Even when it felt a little silly, it made a difference.

"It's long enough to kind of ground you and say, Here's this other person that I love that I've committed to,' and you're resting in their presence in kind of a renewed way," said Meola, co-founder of the nonprofit Life-Giving Wounds in Bowie, Maryland, which aims to help adult children of divorced or separated couples.

Why does six seconds matter?

...

... the conservative campaigner ...

Wait, what?

Mr Rittenhouse is a Conservative Campaigner now?

Who or what dubbed him as that?

So... the State of Connecticut, when it incarcerates people, assumes responsibility for those people under its aegis.

Yet Connecticut seems to fail in that aspect.

Not only fail, but apparently trying to hide how much it has failed.

At this point, this does not look good.

@#18 ... Not me. I wouldn't have any faith in Trump even if he does win the election. ...

Oh, I agree.

100%.

Way back in 2016 I warned about then candidate Trump.

Why?

Well, I am in the NYC media area. So I have been aware of private citizen Trump for a while. I'll say, since the 1990s possibly earlier.

Long story short, I have always viewed him as a self-absorbent person.

I mean, there are things like this...

Yeah.

One poll.

From the cited poll article...

... Rasmussen's polling from his company RMG Research -- not to be confused with the far-right-leaning Rasmussen Reports -- was posted on Twitter/X without including complete polling data (margin of error, methodology, etc.) but was still notable for the jump by the new presumptive Democratic presidential candidate in under two weeks' time. ...

imo, don't get yer hopes up