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.