Posted on 10/12/2024 8:41:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
No, I am not going to make a "Red Wave" argument. I got caught up in the excitement in 2022 and got burned. It happens, but it shouldn't happen to ME!
Kamala Harris CAN win, but you don't have to be able to read the entrails of chickens or the scatterings of tea leaves to see that the campaign is panicking, and rightly so.
It is obvious to the meanest intelligence.
Imagine how alarming internal DNC polling must be for them to run “its first-ever” attack ads on Jill Stein.
They assumed Arab, Muslim and leftists would snap into line and do what they’re told no matter how much contempt Dems heaped on them. Not everyone is a liberal YouTuber. https://t.co/fD3n5l22A1— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 11, 2024
Kamala Harris' only hopes are that: 1) women voters overperform so dramatically that their numbers offset the substantial loss of support in union voters, men, minorities, and generally sane people; and 2) that just enough people cannot stomach a return of Donald Trump to the Oval Office that they will hold their nose and vote for her despite her manifest flaws.
If you are doing well, you don't run attack ads on marginal candidates, and the DNC is doing it despite never having done so before. Ever. Almost nobody knows Jill Stein is running, but the Democrats are so worried that they are looking for votes under the couch cushions.
Mark Halperin has been around the block a few times as a political reporter and is the guy who first reported--days before Biden got out of the race--that the decision to cede the nomination took place. His sources are impeccable, and he and his (Democrat and Republican) analysts all agree that Harris is in deep trouble.
“When I’ve reported over the last several days about private polling” which is favorable to Trump, says @MarkHalperin, “that is not Republican-only private polling. It's reflected in the Democratic private polling, too. In fact, I think if you'd ask the Harris campaign about… pic.twitter.com/XxCUlNq3xx— 2WAY (@2waytvapp) October 11, 2024
Democrat Senate candidates have sounded the alarm about Harris' vulnerability, and the only reason the campaign shifted the strategy from hiding from the media to the "blitz" was that her campaign needed a reboot.
Harris's campaign is in collapse, which ironically means that she will lose a point or three in the polls. Voters for Kamala are so anti-Trump that they will never vote for him, so a collapse for Harris will be fewer voters holding their noses and voting for her.
The very slow creep downward is evident in the polls, but her floor is high due to hatred of Trump.
The media blitz was supposed to help, but Harris is SO awful that it has, if anything, hurt her. And putting her out there unscripted is not an alternative.
🚨This is brutal to watch. Kamala Harris without a teleprompter is the Democrat Party’s worst nightmare:
“When we think about what’s at stake in this election – well it’s packed with some stuff! Some fundamental stuff! *cackles* I say rather articulately.” pic.twitter.com/2UEboEUkgW— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) October 11, 2024
Harris has a BILLION dollars to play with, and the only use to which it could be productively put is in get-out-the-vote efforts (GOTV). Her ads suck, her pitch sucks, her "platform" is non-existent, and she can't campaign worth a damn. She hurts herself every time she opens her mouth.
So the campaign is panicking, and rightly so.
Why are Democrats bedwetting?
The race is closer than it was 3 weeks ago in MI, PA, & WI. Way too close to call in all 3. Also, Harris is doing 6 points worse on avg. in them than Biden at this point in 2020.
Also Dems worry more about a Trump presidency than GOP about Harris pic.twitter.com/26IXfhZ3m7— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) October 11, 2024
Republicans, though, should not be popping the champagne corks because, frankly, our candidate is Trump. I am not critiquing Trump by recognizing that, merely noting that a LOT of people HATE Trump with a passion exceeding the temperature of a supernova. That gives Harris a floor and Trump a ceiling.
That may be wrong and irrational, but it is a real phenomenon.
Democrats will move mountains to defeat Trump, but they will have to do with by digging into solid granite with their hands because the tool they have to move the mountain is broken. Harris is, quite literally, repulsive when she campaigns. People cringe. The more you see the less you like.
Of course, Democrats should be nervous.
Of course, Republicans should be nervous.
This is race has been consistently tight to a historic degree... It could break either way... or it could be as close in the vote count as the polls indicate now. pic.twitter.com/mTJ02639PN— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) October 9, 2024
If I had to bet, I would bet Trump in a comfortable win. But I really don't know.
What I DO know is that the Democrats are panicking. That is clear from their actions. The public polls do not reassure them, and their internal polls probably scare the crap out of them.
Kamala ... her ceiling is Hillary’s vote total. And she won’t reach that ceiling
More Dems will stay home, it’s how they express their displeasure
All this positivity is inappropriate. Collectivists never quit, and never quit cheating.
There was this one Reddit thread urging people to be punk swing state voters who could make a difference. Of course the thread was 98% pro-Harris. There were a lot of arguments therein, oddly enough, that the abysmal economy of the last four years was Trump’s fault. But the thrust of the thread was that people were too complacent.
Out doing errands today: Saw one house in the neighborhood with a big Harris/Walz flag out in front. It’s only the second Harris/Walz display I’ve seen in roughly a square mile. Local grocery store had a card table out front selling Harris/Walz buttons. It had few visitors, mostly black.
One woman in the store had a Harris/Walz T-shirt on. I glanced at it and she gave me a narrow-eyed look and muttered at me as she walked off.
While not mathematically impossible, there is not and has never been a realistic path to 270 for the democrats and they have known it since January.
Trump will continue to extend his lead and is on part to not only win, but win comfortably and very likely be the first Republican to win the popular vote since 2004.
The best part is that if trump wins the popular vote, then we can get rid of the never trumper retards and set Vance for 2028, which he will probably win easily.
Personally, I want Democrats to be afraid to be in the USA!
Lincoln screwed up he should have finished them off.
We will correct his mistake.
I am optimistic, but on most lefty sites they are convinced they are winning and all the polls and early voting are going their way.
Everything you see here and on other right leaning sites with how great Trump is doing, you see on there’s but with Harris doing great
Now, Liberals of course are shameless habitual liars, where Conservatives generally always prefer the truth no matter how unpleasant, but sometimes Conservatives do fall victim to wishful thinking.
It’s making me nervous.
Can't prove this by me. I'm absolutely terrified at the thought of a Kamala Harris presidency.
Intelligent comment. Thanks for saying it clearly. Most people overlook that
Good point, work like there’s nothing to take for granted.
Don’t put the cart before the horse, let’s get this thing won.
And don’t think for one second even if Trump wins and wins in a landslide and wins the popular vote, that the establishment GOP/Rino/Uniparty/globalists will stop fighting him every step of the way.
I think Vance has the talent and ability, but no one knows what the dynamic for 2028 will be
California will be harvesting ballots through Thanksgiving to ensure this doesn't happen.
Once both halves of the Uniparty showed they could rig elections in broad daylight without repercussions, they also showed don't worry about elections.
Kamala Harris is a natural product of rigged elections - when it doesn't matter who's sitting in the office, why recruit and retain talent?
What a bunch of sour-pusses.
Look how bad the average polling miss was in 2016.
Look how bad the average polling miss was in 2020.
If the polls are off only HALF as badly in 2024 as they were in either of those years, that means Trump is really doing about 3-4 points better than the polls say he’s doing and they already have him with a slight lead. ie that means he really has a 4% lead or thereabouts. Given how the Democrats’ voters are clustered together in a few blue states like California and New York, it means Trump will romp to victory in the electoral college.
I remember 20 and 22. All the comments on here were totally positive. I was deeply disappointed in the results. I will not get too excited this time.
The money will be used to implement vote fraud operations.
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