Don’t Listen to the Right. The Kamalanomenon Is Real.

The New York Times ^ | Aug. 2, 2024, 5:05 a.m. ET | Michelle Goldberg

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Tracy Nailor, a 56-year-old Atlanta pediatrician, wasn’t particularly impressed with Kamala Harris when she first ran for president. “I think I succumbed to the narrative about her,” she said. She thought Harris wasn’t experienced or accomplished enough to merit the Democratic nomination. “I just didn’t know enough,” she said. “I didn’t do my homework.” Instead of Harris, she supported the trusted, familiar Joe Biden in the last election.

But as Biden’s most recent presidential campaign ground on, her faith wavered. She knew it was going to be hard for the aging president to win again. “I was not hopeless, but I was definitely concerned,” she said. Amid all that worry, the sudden ascension of Harris felt like deliverance. “I’m a person that believes in spirit, and I’m a person who believes that but God. And I say that a lot: But God.” She meant that no matter how desperate the situation and improbable the possibility of rescue, God can always turn things around. “I feel like that’s what’s happened,” she said. “This is not only a political movement. This is a social movement. This is an inflection point. And this is, to me, a spiritual movement.”

I met Nailor in a hallway of the Georgia State Convocation Center, where around 10,000 people had gathered on Tuesday for a raucous and ebullient Harris rally. She was dressed in the pink and green of the A.K.A.s, the Black sorority that both she and Harris belong to, and was reveling in the event’s electricity. “I’ve lived in Atlanta for almost thirty years,” she said. “I’ve seen people that I haven’t seen in decades. It’s just so hopeful and so much happiness.”

[DugwayDuke]

Kamalanomenon
Kamala - nomenon

nomenon (in the philosophy of Kant) a thing as it is in itself, not perceived or interpreted, incapable of being known, but only inferred from the nature of experience.

Very fitting.

[damper99]

Not only lefties, but most independents, and a lot of rinos are falling for it. I expect her to win if this continues. The name calling approach isn’t working and hasn’t since 2016.

[Owen]

No evidence anyone is falling for anything.

Look at polls compared to the same poll’s previous reading.

There are no changes. Pollster vs Pollster there are differences, and they mean nothing.

The only thing that means anything is the delta between subsequent samples From The Same Pollster.

Nothing is changing.

[shoff]

Makes you wonder how much of Cordarrow Thompson’s practice consists of federally funded charity cases and medicare, medicaid. Getting rich helping the poor.

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Getting rich helping the poor.

Just like Catholic Charities.