Even Tony acknowledged liberal media exists.

No I didn't. You have to be careful with your words because they DO have distinct meanings.

Of course, particular media sources can be biased but that wasn't what you said.

You claimed there was a liberal media when there isn't. There is a conservative media such as Sinclair, IHeartRadio, and the entire right wing mediasphere - Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, et._al., which controls political content from the top down.

The gender gap among young women has not inspired the same level of analysis and deep focus as has the gender gap with young men. Even a close reader of election coverage may forget for a moment that this is the first presidential election since the Supreme Court's decision on Dobbs more than two years ago. If there were ever an election in which to focus on the political behavior of young women, it's this one.

Roevember is almost here.

#33

Scratch that. It's a photoshop fake by the Russians to discredit Harris supporters.

It is sad that women had to be stripped of their basic right to control their bodies - and to be threatened with the loss of lifesaving medical care - for Kamala to even have a chance to get the votes of enough women to offset losing the votes of so many men.

Trump is running a hypermasculine campaign - with Chief Bro Elon Musk bizarrely bouncing up and down - that is breathtakingly offensive to women. Trump is exploiting the crisis among Gen Z men, a crisis driven by loneliness, Covid isolation, economic insecurity, a lack of purpose and a feeling that the modern world seems more accommodating to young women.

Trump is a renowned predator and groper who has been found liable for sexual abuse. But he has the gall to cast Kamala as "retarded," "lazy as hell" and a "bitch" and ask, "Does she drink? Is she on drugs?"

Barack Obama punctured the MAGA macho myth at a rally with Kamala on Thursday. Putting down people is not "real strength," he said. Real strength is standing up for those who can't stand up for themselves. "That's what we should want in our daughters and our sons," Obama said. "And that's what I want to see in the president of the United States of America."

Why are the Democrats losing?

I wonder if we can find examples of this from the early voting returns.

lfthndthrds = moron

So I guess you don't believe there are news sites with a right wing bias either?

Apples, oranges Bill. Look at what you stated.

liberal media versus right wing bias

One is not like the other. Of course particular media sources can be biased but that wasn't what you said. You claimed there was a liberal media when there isn't. There is a conservative media such as Sinclair, IHeartRadio, and the entire right wing mediasphere - Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, et._al., which controls political content from the top down.

Name one media outlet that is 100% liberal outside of progressive radio. Which network is liberal? NBC isn't, they're corporate just like Laura said. MSNBC is certainly liberal leaning, but some of its most popular programs are helmed by a former Contract for America ex-GOP congressman and a former GOP political operative who worked in the W White House and for the McCain presidential campaign.

Every other non-right network is for profit only, not politically biased as a matter of its existence and marketing. Even NPR is only considered left-leaning because its based on intellectualism which is anathema to today's conservatives who proudly demean intellectuals every chance they get. NPR often asks responders to politically self-identify so they can try to be more openly balanced.

U.S. officials said in a statement sent by the FBI that they believe the video was "manufactured and amplified" by Russian actors. The officials said it's part of "Moscow's broader effort to raise unfounded questions about the integrity of the U.S. election and stoke divisions among Americans."

The information was released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

The Bucks County Board of Elections had identified the video as fake on Thursday, saying the envelope and other materials in the video "are clearly not authentic materials belonging to or distributed by" the board.

The video showed a person sorting through what looked like mail ballots labeled as coming from Bucks County. The person, who was Black, appeared to be tearing up ballots marked for Trump, and leaving alone ballots marked for Vice President Kamala Harris.

Researchers who closely study Russian foreign influence campaigns had previously connected the video to a Russian disinformation network known as Storm-1516 or CopyCop. The network has previously shared numerous videos with false claims about Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz.

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.