So what's going on here? It's not clear. There are a few possibilities. One is that that Republican early voting is itself skewing female and thus keeping that gender spread high. Another possibility is that Democratic women are voting early at even higher rates than in previous cycles and that's off-setting the impact of Republican early voting.

For the moment I don't think we can say this is good or bad for one party or the other. It's more that there's some additional factor which is allowing the rate of Republican early voting to expand without that 10 point gender spread contracting. It's not clear what that is yet. But whatever it is could turn out to be significant for the final results of the election.

There are two other swing states releasing gender breakdown data for the early votes. And the numbers are comparable and actually larger. In Georgia it's 11.2 percentage points and in Michigan it's 13.1 percentage points.

WSJ has definitely shifted left as they see Trump as a threat to the deep state uni-party neo-cons.

The editorial board isn't Murdoch now is it?

Damn. If there was only a timely story about the owner of one of the nation's largest papers overruling his editorial board.

Oh,... there is.

damn the Democrats

I didn't know that the Democrats are running the Wall Street Journal. Rupert Murdoch is a Democrat. Wow.

You're not very bright, are you?

She's not been bringing in this election.

Biden was -5 to -7 when he dropped out. Harris is currently +2 to -2 depending upon the national poll.

Only morons would call +5 to +7 not bringing it.

Do these people even think rationally, or simply gorge themselves on right wing Kool-Aide all day long?

Harris is a terrible candidate.

Yeah. She's only 7-0 in elected politics and was elected US Senator from the largest state in America - the one with an economy only exceeded by 5 other nations on Planet Earth.

What were Democrats thinking? /s

This South African can SHOULD potentially be de-naturalized of his US citizenship...

FTFY

#5

Perfect example of the dichotomy. Every word out of Trump's mouth that's actually understandable is either projection or an oblivious confession of his own failure in never taking responsibility for anything in his entire miserable life as he lives in a fantasy world where he's the eternal victim under siege from all directions.

Calling Trump's disjointed verbalized meanderings 'word salads' is a affront to both lettuce and dictionaries.

AngryDrunk, like Aroma don't care about ethics in journalism.

Trump couldn't spell ethics if you spotted him all six letters in order. The only letter he cares about is the "I".

And this is from Rupert Murdoch's paper, you know, the same person that owns Fox News. It's a multi-sourced story so the editors know who the sources are even if pinheads like Turds don't. Is Murdoch trying to smear Trump? Your complaints are laughable in the face of reality.

The issue here is that Putin is in direct communication with the person funding Trump's campaign to the tune of $134 million and counting. In Turd's world, the Watergate story was bogus too since the source never became public until almost 50 years afterwards. If he had 2 braincells in total he'd understand how anonymous sources work and why they want to remain nameless. Newspapers can be sued for libel if they publish information that they know is false and derogatory and lord knows Musk has the money to sue, so why not wait and see if he does before casting ignorant aspersions because you simply don't like the information being offered?

I guess the Trumpers are showing that America simply isn't meaningful anymore to them if their first complaint is about the reporting instead of the allegation Putin is pressuring Musk for his own misery in Ukraine. And then Musk buys Twitter, removes the fact checking of right wing disinformation, and joins Trump as a surrogate in his campaign while in communication with Putin himself.

National security sacrificed on the altar of Trumpism, how quaint.

He jumps more abruptly between subjects and from his script to improvising, sometimes offering what sound like non-sequiturs. He occasionally mixes up words or names, and some of his sentences are meaningless or nonsensical. As he delivered more speeches in October, he has made multiple slip-ups per day. He has become more profane in public.

With less than two weeks of campaigning left, Vice President Kamala Harris is increasingly trying to use Trump's words against him. At recent rallies, she has started playing clips of him speaking and calling him "unstable and unhinged."

"He has called it the weave,'" Harris said at a rally on Saturday. "But I think we here will call it nonsense."

And we haven't even spoken about his total unfitness for the office even if he wasn't a criminal convict, thief, grifter, con artist, racist, misogynist, xenophobic bigot. So there's all that too.

This entire Trump error has gone from the not so sublime, far past the incredibly ridiculous. Every part of the story's pieces makes logical sense and fit together intuitively. Russia's got a person at Trump's right hand that to whom they apparently made 'implicit threats' tied to Putin's ire of Musk letting Ukraine have Starlink which resulted in the deaths of many, many Russians.

Then out of nowhere, Musk buys Twitter, reopens its gates to rightwing flamethrowers, and jumps on the Trump train. Now as lead engineer, he's funded Trump's campaign/PACs with at least $134 million and is giving away a $1 a day for swing state voters.

I'm going to assume that US intelligence already knows all of this but Biden has kept the public lid on due to the volatility of the entire situation.

I wouldn't be surprised - if proven accurate - wasn't leaked by a friendly foreign intelligence agency, trying to thwart Putin by stopping Trump. The kompromat on Musk has to be devastating, along with the spectre of an involuntary window fall.

This is simply radioactive information as it regards the safety and future of this nation - if we can keep it out of the hands of enemies both foreign and domestic. Putin is leaning on Musk and communicating to him and Musk is standing right there next to Trump.

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Seriously? Much of a double standard here?

Somehow, it is apparently baked into this campaign that Trump is allowed to talk and act like a complete lunatic while Harris has to be perfect in every way. I don't know the answer to the chicken-or-egg question - whether media coverage is leading public perception or vice versa - but the disparate treatment is glaring.

Let's review: First, Harris was criticized for not doing enough interviews - so she did multiple interviews, including with nontraditional media. She was criticized for not doing hostile interviews - so she went toe to toe with Bret Baier of Fox News. She was criticized as only being comfortable in scripted rallies - so she did unscripted events, such as the town hall on Wednesday. Along the way, she wiped the floor with Trump during their one televised debate.

Trump, meanwhile, stands before his MAGA crowds and spews nonstop lies, ominous threats, impossible promises and utter gibberish. His rhetoric is dismissed, or looked past, without first being interrogated.

Imagine if Harris were promising to end the war in Gaza on her first day in office but wouldn't say how. Imagine if she were proposing a tariffs-based economic plan that economists say would destabilize the world economy and cost the average family $4,000 a year in higher prices. Imagine if she were promising a "bloody" campaign to uproot and deport millions of undocumented migrants who are gainfully employed and paying taxes. And imagine if Harris were vowing to use the military to go after her political opponents, as Trump repeatedly pledges.

And drop dead.

Oh, .... I see you already have. Enjoy your dirt nap.

I actually hope the WNBA players and owners are as dumb as you so they can inflate salary packages on the belief that the sky is the limit in terms of TV revenue only to watch the league implode as reality sets in that the WNBA is a terrible, unwatchable brand of basketball.

Of course you do because that's the type of soulless ignorant cretin you are. Wallow in the misery of your decrepit life. Trust me, it will never get any better than it is.

Stevie Wonder can see that the W's rise coincides with the rise in womans' NCAA basketball which is showing no decline. This symbiotic relationship will only grow despite the wishes of haters like you. While you'll not watch, more than ever will just to spite your wishes.

Have a nice day.

Why would anyone think that?

Because you're a racist, misogynist, homophobic, NBA economically-ignorant POS who thinks that YouTube's 8 million viewers (even far, far, fewer who watch a singular multicast of programs available on free tv) somehow sways the viewership numbers of 125 million households in the United States in any significant way when talking about 2-3 million viewers of the W championship game. How about the Slovenian market, moron? I heard the cow-tipping multicast did boffo numbers their too ... freaking moron.

And by the way, I believe Sitz first created the term about CC as the Straight White Hope - and that is precisely what she is. But it's also obvious that many of those who tuned in to watch her have decided to watch other W games in numbers they haven't seen in 25 years. Nothing you've said diminishes the W's horizon as an emerging marketing dream precisely because of its viewer demographics.

And lastly, the numbers from the Business Report on the WNBA are being sold to those willing to pay $3400+ or more for one comprehensive report because they're compiled for people making multi-million dollar sponsorship and advertising spending decisions. The figures you fart out you get for free from a league that doesn't publicly release numbers from one of its largest revenue streams, the selling of licensed products which were up 600% this year. Has the league ever claimed to LOSE money on product sales? So a 600% increase is tremendous for any enterprise, much less a global sales machine like NBA Properties.

$50 million is a rounding error when balanced against the revenues made through product sales on a global basis. You've fallen for the okey-doke and you can't get up. That's alright, I'll just keep grinding your face into the dirt until your looks improve.

Where do you think the $671 million figure came from? It's a neutral outside entity writing a report geared towards decisionmakers controlling billions in ad dollars looking for the best place to spend it.

That is the REAL figure that Silver tries to hide so as not to have to pay the players their fair share. There are multiple female NCAA basketball players currently earning at least $1 million in NIL money. CC makes over $4 million outside of her W salary.

Mark my words, the players are either going to get a significant slice of the money made through the use of their own names by the W or they'll strike and potentially damage what should be a rosy upcoming season. If NIL deals with outside companies didn't carry over to the W, most of the players wouldn't be playing there in the first place. And if the Unrivaled league proves to be popular, it becomes another vehicle for players to go out on their own and make what the market says they're worth, not Adam Silver.

You post PEAK numbers and to try to get people to compare that to AVERAGE numbers which are used in the industry.

Hey stunod, I posted the article verbatim. It says "peaked" it doesn't say average, but that wasn't the point. I've never said that the W is as popular as the NFL or NBA overall. The argument was whether people would watch the W if Caitlin Clark wasn't playing and the answer is YES! A record crowd AND it went up against both the NFL and MLB games going on at the same time.

What do you think viewership would have been if 2 major sports weren't on broadcast networks at the same time the W was on ESPN? I think you could safely add another 2+ million to the total and possibly more had the game been on ABC without competition instead of ESPN.

Gawd, you're dense.

And I also told you the league LIES about revenue. It's lied for years because NBA/WNBA Property is NOT included in the announced revenue. Selling licensed merchandise is a multi-billion dollar enterprise and the W players don't receive a dime.

Harris...who the hell knows what she's planning...don't want to find out.

It covered healthcare, more government subsidized programs, gun control...

Bill, government "subsidizes" the oil and gas industries. It subsidizes the pharmaceutical industry. It subsidizes other extremely profitable privately-owned businesses that Republicans have supported since forever.

Seems like you gripe is with government supporting those you don't like. Like government allowing businesses to file bankruptcies without limits - socializing all their losses while student loan recipients CANNOT use bankruptcy to escape their debt, often carrying it into their retirements and having money taken out of their Social Security retirement benefits.

she is a far left Socialist hiding behind a mask

She's a career prosecutor elected by the people 5 different times in California. Her job has been to put lawbreakers into jail. Even in California the people want to be protected from criminals and crime. This isn't partisan.

Where is she this stealth socialist?

You've fallen out of the idiot tree and struck every branch on the way down.

And if you don't care about that, you should stop calling yourself an American right now.

This, a thousand times THIS.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: All Harris should talk about for the next 2 weeks is January 6th. Every commercial should show all the Trumpers and Trump flags hanging all over the Capitol. It should show all the Trump supporters beating police officers and desecrating the Capitol. It should show the detritus left in the aftermath, with Rep. Kim picking up debris left by the Trump hoards left from breaking windows and doors, trashing offices and carrying off podiums and personal items. And it should show Trump sitting in the White House watching it all happen after having given them their marching orders to "Stop the Steal," in full knowledge that there was no steal.

And the ads should end with the words "Is this the America you want?" Ending with the bolded words "Never Again".

there are certain Democratic policies that are moving the country towards socialism.

What policies Bill? Name them.

Bill, we live in a social democracy. It's appalling that you don't realize this. We tax money from every citizen and then redistribute it to other citizens through government spending. The police and fire departments exist because of socialism - we pool our tax dollars to fund these social institutions. Our military is socialism in action. This is not the discussion here my friend, and it never has been.

Our current government is bipartisan - so if you truly believe Democrats are socialists, then so are Republicans because nothing changes when government leadership does. Our public schools are socialist, our road building is socialist, our infrastructure is socialist. The National Weather Service is socialist.

And you're nothing but a lemming taught a word that you don't begin to understand. The root of socialism is SOCIAL as in society. Government doesn't control business and they don't control individuals. Each are free within our laws - also socialism - to do what they want to with their time and money outside of paying the taxes that they owe to use what all of us contribute towards in order to live our lives in relative peace and safety. If not for socialism, if your house caught on fire, you better hope your neighbors will help you put it out. If someone steals from you, hope you're a good detective, although if you caught them, there wouldn't be courts or judges to assist making you whole again.

And then there's Social Security, something all of us pay into to fund the retirements of others as we expect future workers to pay their taxes to fund ours. You simply don't have more than a child's notion of how this nation could not exist if it weren't for the social contract we all agree to live under. You might recognize it. It's called the US Constitution.

Some Trump voters may believe his lies. But plenty more want Trump to be terrifying and stomach-turning so that reelecting him will be a fully realized act of social revenge. Harris cannot propose any policy, offer any benefit, or adopt any position that competes with that feeling.

Exactly why so many Americans feel this way is a complicated story - I wrote an entire book about it - but a toxic combination of social resentment, entitlement, and racial insecurity drives many Trump voters to believe not only that other Americans are looking down on them but that they are doing so while living an undeservedly good life. These others must be punished or at least brought down to a common level of misery to balance the scales, and Trump is the guy to do it.

Where all of this leaves us is that Harris could lose the election, not because she didn't offer the right policies, or give enough interviews, or inspire enough people. She could lose because just enough people in four or five states flatly don't care about any of that.

Rather than reckoning with the greatest mistake they've ever made at the ballot box, they have decided that their only recourse is to put Trump back in the Oval Office. For them, restoring Trump would be both vindication and vengeance. It would prove that 2016 was not a fluke, and horrify people both they and Trump hate.

It's come down to this: Either there are enough sane, patriotic erstwhile Republicans willing to either vote for Harris or not vote for either candidate in the key swing states or Trump will become the first American dictator in history and unleash a storm of tumult like this nation hasn't seen since the Civil War.

Face it, the Democrats could have nominated Jesus Christ himself, and Trump would still be Trump - demeaning him with insipid derogatory nicknames and calling him the devil. And his supporters would lap it up just like far too many are right this moment.