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The Harris-Trump election shouldn’t be close. Here’s why it is.
The Washington Post ^ | September 29, 2024 7:00 AM | Eugene Robinson

Posted on 09/29/2024 10:50:52 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

It is absolutely, completely, totally ridiculous that this election is even close. But here we are.

The choice between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump should not be a tough call. Harris is a former prosecutor; Trump, a felon. Harris gives campaign speeches about her civic values; Trump rants endlessly about his personal grievances, interrupting himself with asides about sharks and Hannibal Lecter. Harris has outlined a detailed set of policy proposals for the economy; Trump nonsensically offers tariffs as a panacea, describing this fantasy in terms that make it clear he doesn’t understand how tariffs work.

Also, Harris never whipped thousands of supporters into a frenzy and sent them off to the Capitol, where they smashed their way into the citadel of our democracy, injuring scores of police officers and threatening to hang the vice president, in an attempt to overturn the result of a free and fair election. Trump did.

Yet polls tell us that either candidate could win. The Post’s polling average has Harris ahead by 2 percentage points nationally. The Post also finds that Harris holds leads in four of the seven crucial swing states — 3 percentage points in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, 2 points in Michigan, less than a point in Nevada — but adds a note of caution: “Every state is within a normal-sized polling error of 3.5 points and could go either way.”

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The choice between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump should not be a tough call. Harris is a former prosecutor; Trump, a felon.

Explain the legal basis of President Trump's "felony" conviction, Mrs. Robinson.

I dare you.

1 posted on 09/29/2024 10:50:52 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

When I read just the headline I was in total agreement.


2 posted on 09/29/2024 10:52:18 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Neds a huge BARF ALERT
3 posted on 09/29/2024 10:52:54 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I stopped reading at “Eugene Robinson.”


4 posted on 09/29/2024 10:53:13 AM PDT by KevinB (Word for the day: "kakistocracy" - a society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

She’s right that it shouldn’t be close. It’s astonishing that anyone would ever consider Harris fit for the job.


5 posted on 09/29/2024 10:53:20 AM PDT by GaryCrow
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It’s not close. Trump +7


6 posted on 09/29/2024 10:53:54 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

One of the things that RINOs cannot get their hands around is the simple fact that the Republican repudiation of the base left a GAPING HOLE for Trump, or any other self-financing conservative to walk right into.

If they Republicans had simply LISTENED TO THEIR BASE, Trump would have never even made it to the first debate in 2016 as he would have been laughed at to the point of not qualifying. Instead they chose to attack Trump and thereby attack his voters. So tough Shiite now.


7 posted on 09/29/2024 10:56:51 AM PDT by BobL
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Specific propaganda claims aside, presupposes a fair election.


8 posted on 09/29/2024 10:58:23 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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9 posted on 09/29/2024 10:59:11 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)
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To: GaryCrow
I foresee a repeat of 1980, when momentum swung hard to Reagan in the final week. I don’t see Trump voters changing their votes, though I could see Harris fatigue seeping into independents and supporters me Harris voters.

O/T, Cruz has unleashed ads on Allred over his support for boys playing girls sports.

10 posted on 09/29/2024 11:00:44 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The usual BS from Robinson. And the powers-that-be at The Compost wonder why readership is cratering.


11 posted on 09/29/2024 11:01:05 AM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Somebody is freaking out, and like a classic liberal their answer is to tell the voters they are stupid and need to listen to their betters.


12 posted on 09/29/2024 11:01:14 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (.You will suffer from one: The pain of discipline or the pain of regret. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👍. Oh, okay. Lil’ idiot. That there is even a contest shows just how uninformed a lot of voters are.


13 posted on 09/29/2024 11:03:42 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from withinE? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: Night Hides Not

My belief is that many democrats will just stay home.

Turnout will be poor


14 posted on 09/29/2024 11:03:51 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Rasmussen says Trump leads by 2 points nationally. If it’s even tied nationally, then Trump is winning all the swing states. Trump understands exactly how tariffs work, he just doesn’t always express his understanding clearly.

Harris is totally unqualified to be President of the USA, and has no serious understanding of foreign policy and national security policy. Harris is extremely left-wing and has no genuine respect for the US constitution as originally written and the rights of the American people as written into our constitution. Harris has no understanding of economics and wants to implement huge tax increases on the productive private sector, which would crush the great American job-creation engine. Harris has no genuine concern about open borders and the thousands of violent criminals and potential terrorits who have infiltrated our country in the last four years.

If Harris wins, we’re in big trouble. Trump must win this election, and I believe he’s going to win the electoral vote decisively.


15 posted on 09/29/2024 11:05:42 AM PDT by socialism_stinX (The national government is always the most dangerous organization in every country.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So for us who refuse to pay money to the WaPo, someone tell us the reason he thinks it’s close.


16 posted on 09/29/2024 11:05:49 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; GaryCrow

“Mrs. Robinson.”

Has Eugene Robinson “transitioned” to female??


17 posted on 09/29/2024 11:08:58 AM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: socialism_stinX
The first time youth voter- not yet old enough to vote in 2020 are the most MAGA.

Unashamedly so.

The bracketing in polling cannot predict how many will be voting for the first time in their lives.

+7

18 posted on 09/29/2024 11:12:39 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It should not be close Harris is a lush who slept her way to the top. She can’t complete a statement. She failed in every job she had. Leaving San Fransisco worse off, then leaving California worse off, the leaving the country worse off. The Washington Post is merely propaganda. It wants a drunken word salad president that does not understand what is going on, so the swamp can run itself. And the Post would love that, because it too is run by the swamp.


19 posted on 09/29/2024 11:13:12 AM PDT by poinq (thics and customs and did not take an oath to the country. And did not follow the country's traditio)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

She seemed to forget about the Wa Compost complicity in the Russia Collusion election interference hoax which would be an ACTUAL felony compared to Trump’s hoax felony.


20 posted on 09/29/2024 11:13:55 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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