• Gallup: 2024 Election Environment Favors Republicans.

    From D@21:1/5 to All on Wed Sep 25 09:44:39 2024
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    Gallup: 2024 Election Environment Favors Republicans

    The Facts
    * A Gallup report released this week said that nearly all measures of
    the political environment for the 2024 US presidential
    election favor the Republican Party over the Democratic Party.
    * This comes as 1,007 US adults were polled between Sept. 3-15 about 10 indicators that either have moderate to strong links to
    past presidential elections outcomes or are related to current
    perceptions of the two parties.
    * Those include "party identification and leaning" and which party is "better able to handle [the] most important problem," which
    have been strongly connected to previous outcomes. Republicans beats Democrats in both — 48% to 45% and 46% to 41%, respectively.
    * The poll further found that economic confidence, national
    satisfaction, and presidential job approval are low, that most
    Americans want the government to do less, and that Republicans are
    seen as better able to keep America safe from global threats
    and keep America prosperous.
    * This comes as American University professor Dr. Allan Lichtman dubbed
    the "Nostradamus" of US presidential elections, used his
    "Keys to the White House" method to predict earlier this month that
    Kamala Harris will defeat Donald Trump.
    * As of Tuesday, ABC's FiveThirtyEight put Harris' chances of winning at 57%. According to the RealClear poll averages with "no
    toss-up states," Harris would win 276 Electoral College votes to
    Trump's 262 if the election were held last week.

    Republican narrative
    This poll confirms that Americans don't want four more years of the
    disastrous Biden-Harris agenda and that the presidential election
    is Trump's to lose. Republicans haven't had such an advantage in decades,
    and not even the liberal media can ignore that.

    Democratic narrative
    Even if Gallup figures are correct, that's quite a logical jump to claim
    that these numbers indicate that the election environment
    favors Republicans. Several other polls put Harris ahead of Trump, and — perhaps most importantly — the average voter also expects
    her to win.

    Nerd narrative
    There's a 56% chance that Kamala Harris will be elected US President in
    2024, according to the Metaculus prediction community.

    From https://www.improvethenews.org/ .

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Sep 25 16:30:25 2024
    On 2024-09-25, D <[email protected]> wrote:
    Nerd narrative
    There's a 56% chance that Kamala Harris will be elected US President in
    2024, according to the Metaculus prediction community.

    I think a lot of Americans are done talking to pollsters. I know I am.
    They've been part of the problem in previous elections, and them
    treating each election like a horse race is not helpful.

    I'm keeping my mouth shut and will cast my vote in November. Don't even
    have any signs on my lawn (and don't intend to either).

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Sep 25 13:23:50 2024
    On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 16:30:25 -0000 (UTC), Retrograde <[email protected]d> wrote:

    Don't even have any signs on my lawn
    (and don't intend to either).

    I've always wondered if some employers suggest placement of a sign in
    your yard. Not all employees...just a few.

    I'd never place a sign in my yard...for either party.

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  • From D@21:1/5 to Retrograde on Wed Sep 25 21:58:03 2024
    On Wed, 25 Sep 2024, Retrograde wrote:

    On 2024-09-25, D <[email protected]> wrote:
    Nerd narrative
    There's a 56% chance that Kamala Harris will be elected US President in
    2024, according to the Metaculus prediction community.

    I think a lot of Americans are done talking to pollsters. I know I am. They've been part of the problem in previous elections, and them
    treating each election like a horse race is not helpful.

    I'm keeping my mouth shut and will cast my vote in November. Don't even
    have any signs on my lawn (and don't intend to either).


    I think another source of error is the selection in a lot of polls. I get
    the feeling that each team has their own polls, and the yare of course
    biased towards the home team.

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  • From D@21:1/5 to JAB on Wed Sep 25 21:59:07 2024
    On Wed, 25 Sep 2024, JAB wrote:

    On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 16:30:25 -0000 (UTC), Retrograde <[email protected]d> wrote:

    Don't even have any signs on my lawn
    (and don't intend to either).

    I've always wondered if some employers suggest placement of a sign in
    your yard. Not all employees...just a few.

    I'd never place a sign in my yard...for either party.


    I'm very vocal about the fact that I do not vote at all, and I always try
    to discourage as many as I can from voting.

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Sep 26 00:14:38 2024
    On 2024-09-25, D <[email protected]> wrote:
    I'm very vocal about the fact that I do not vote at all, and I always
    try to discourage as many as I can from voting.

    Excellent, keep up the good work. Well done!

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Sep 25 21:35:51 2024
    On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 21:58:03 +0200, D <[email protected]> wrote:

    I get the feeling that each team has their own polls,

    Of course they have them (and voters' likes/dislikes/etc)....then, the candidate attempts to craft rhetoric that voters like to hear. Trump,
    for instance, has been using dog whistles.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Sep 25 21:38:37 2024
    On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 18:25:53 -0400, Auric Hellman
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    Wait! Has Jane Fonda announced her endorsement yet?

    Hanoi Jane?

    "Jane Fonda shared praise for Taylor Swift, who recently endorsed
    Kamala Harris in the upcoming presidential election"

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  • From D@21:1/5 to Retrograde on Thu Sep 26 10:47:50 2024
    On Thu, 26 Sep 2024, Retrograde wrote:

    On 2024-09-25, D <[email protected]> wrote:
    I'm very vocal about the fact that I do not vote at all, and I always
    try to discourage as many as I can from voting.

    Excellent, keep up the good work. Well done!


    Thank you! I'll keep fighting the good fight! ;) Jokes aside, my reasoning
    is that I'm done voting for the least bad, or against someone. If I ever
    vote, I want to vote _for_ someone. If everyone did this, I believe we
    would have a much healthier democracy.

    So by not voting, since there is no candidate of quality that aligns with libertarian values, I'm paradoxically doing democracy the biggest service
    I can by not voting.

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  • From D@21:1/5 to JAB on Thu Sep 26 10:48:25 2024
    On Wed, 25 Sep 2024, JAB wrote:

    On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 21:58:03 +0200, D <[email protected]> wrote:

    I get the feeling that each team has their own polls,

    Of course they have them (and voters' likes/dislikes/etc)....then, the candidate attempts to craft rhetoric that voters like to hear. Trump,
    for instance, has been using dog whistles.


    Did you know that Trump has six pack abs?

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Sep 29 20:31:15 2024
    On Sun, 29 Sep 2024 01:22:00 -0400, Auric Hellman
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    That seals the deal for me. I can't vote but I can root.

    20 minute bike ride around the neighborhood in Salt Lake City...

    PIC
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    https://x.com/SLsees/status/1839736945599230115

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