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Kamala Harris’ lack of the typical post-convention polling “bump” is a problem for her campaign. It is a BIG problem for her campaign. That lack of a polling bump means this is as good as she gets in the polls. This is her high water mark. ***** Patrick Murray, director of the Polling Institute at Monmouth University, told the Washington Examiner that Harris saw her bump before the convention after President Joe Biden ended his 2024 bid on July 21 and Democrats quickly united around Harris as his chosen successor. “We have an unprecedented situation here, where we have a candidate who was just announced as the candidate a month before the convention, and quite frankly, that’s when she got her bounce,” he said in an interview on Tuesday. “What we’re looking at with polling since the convention is that she held on to it.” The RealClearPolitics average of national polls on Tuesday has Harris leading Trump in a head-to-head matchup by 1.9 percentage points. That’s virtually unchanged from Aug. 19, when Harris was ahead by 1.5 percentage points. ***** https://lnkd.in/gDJDykq5 With Donald Trump doing a strategy of meet the press and Harris doing a strategy of avoid the press, she doesn’t have any game-changing events with which to change momentum. The campaign rallies are not going to change momentum for either side. Rallies are attended primarily by the loyalists. They are the voters that candidate has already won over. By and large they are not the marginal voters whose votes are still in play. To shift momentum a candidate needs to reach out to those marginal voters. That means getting out on media channels in a variety of ways to get exposure to those marginal voters. That means getting out and talking to journalists. Whether appearing on Lex Fridman’s podcast or sitting down with the NABJ, Trump is presenting himself to a variety of marginal and potential crossover voters. By shunning those same opportunities, Harris is avoiding those same marginal and potential crossover voters. Where this really creates a problem for her is next Tuesday’s debate. With her campaign stalling out she needs a mic drop moment at that debate. She needs to do to Donald Trump what Tulsi Gabbard did to her. And she needs to do it in a forum and format that is demonstrably not her forte. Kamala’s entire campaign is coming down to next Tuesday. That’s not a good position for any candidate.

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Steve sums up the QOP perfectly. GOP Chair Ronna McDaniel demands the QOP primary be stopped after two states-and they accuse the Democrats of election interference? They would rather kiss the boots of their orange demagogue and disenfranchise millions of their own supporters, than support our democratic processes. Why? Because they know as the primary season goes on and Trump spews more hatred on the campaign trail, he will alienate more and more voters. MTG uses the word "eradicate" when speaking about members of her own party. Steve succinctly describes the meaning of this word with horrific visual images. The thing that needs eradication in our country is fascism and the fascist members of the former GOP, now known as the New American Fascist Party. We eradicate them at the polling booth, not literally, obviously. Space Laser Klan Marm Greene then states that she supports (and others in the QOP) Trump's "policies." Policies of retribution, dictatorship, voter suppression, attacking the media, weaponization by the government against his perceived political enemies-I guess all those trips to Russia helped form his "policies." And this is what that dingbat and other feckless members of the GOP support-the end of Democracy. We CANNOT allow them to succeed. In this day and age of corporate greed constantly beating down the average American, it fosters a feeling of political apathy among many. We cannot lay down and watch Democracy wither and die under GOP oppression. We have to get the vote out. Volunteer in any way you can, stuff envelopes, get involved in a writing campaign, drive voters to the polling booth-whatever you can do to help defeat the insanity of the republican party. The biggest thing you can do to defeat this horrific fascist movement and the convicted orange rapist is by VOTING BLUE IN EACH AND EVERY ELECTION! "When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the flag and waving the cross." ~Sinclair Lewis Does that quote sound familiar...remember Trump hugging the flag? Do you remember him holding the bible upside down and backwards outside the church in Lafayette Square? I'm sure you've seen the American Taliban in their beat up pickup trucks with the Trump flags and other flags dangling from the truck bed...this is today's republican party-or more aptly-The New American Fascist Party. VOTE BLUE!!!!

Rich Thau - this is incredibly rich psychological terrain, that I believe psychotherapists & psychoanalysts would have a lot to say about. Just as we did with our work on conservative Republican skeptics and climate, I would want to go beneath the surface to the Three As: Anxiety: what are the latent & underlying anxieties people are experiencing? Even if they can’t say it directly. Usually it relates to agency, safety, and control. Ambivalence: where people pulled in competing directions, such as the person who says that if they knew climate change was real, they’d act on it, but they can’t because they are in social worlds that would alienate them / it would threaten too much about reality; Aspirations: what are peoples’ deep aspirations and why are they appealing to these particular kind of individuals? I’m convinced if we practice the art and science of attunement, we would see so much more progress politically. It takes the willingness and curiosity to listen and look below the surface