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Right now the polls are stable to slightly narrowing (there are also a lot of junk polls), in a way where Trump would probably be able to pull off another win if 2016 conditions repeat or if he has improved his support enough with non-white voters. What's going against him most is that he doesn't have the anti-Hillary or "nothing really bad can happen because of checks and balances" factors this time around, but it's going to be close. Susan Sarandon did say she was going to vote for Biden, but that doesn't really change her continuing to enable grifters and accelerants.

I never can remember the right times but for some reason I thought Kevin and his sister arrived before the strike. The main strike story I remember, beyond that dumb ghost filler, was that strange story with "Chris," the construction worker John slept with and she accused him of sexual harassment, then they found out she had lost her husband and son in Vietnam, and she kidnapped Donna and Michael's adopted son Mikey. The casting for Chris was especially odd to me - she seemed so spiky and butch. I don't know if it was strike people or Lemay who brought in the two borders at Sharlene's house, but they quickly disappeared. One was played by Michael Louden, who was quickly snapped up by ATWT as Duke. (oddly ATWT also had a dubious strike story about Vietnam, when Lien was held hostage by a Vietnamese man, or something)

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I wonder how old that photo of Andy is... I think Melanie wanted to leave, so they had little choice bout recasting, but I wish they had chosen another actress.

Good find. He makes sense, and I think they did tease a death story for Rick around 1974 or 1975. It's not as if P&G had any issue with killing off legacy kids - ATWT Lisa's son was killed around this time.

I think there is some talk about it in the primetime soaps thread. I or someone else put an SOD article.

The news about the DOJ shocked me, and I didn't think I could be shocked by anything with this fascist. Sadly, most people don't care - they never do. I was surprised to see Dave Weigel, who likes to tie himself to various far left and fauxgressive groups/people, retweet this. Ryan Knight is an especially desperate fauxgressive grifter who went from not having a problem with Biden and supporting Harris and Warren to overnight becoming a hardcore Bernie bro. He's now shaming anyone who dared to laugh at the floatilla fiasco and he is openly pushing third party votes. Maybe some with basic common sense are starting to see just how much damage these con artists and attention whores do to their movement in the long term (none of them will say a bad word about Jill Stein, but she did unbelievable damage to the Green Party).

All that stuff about the great romantic Justin Deas makes me roll my eyes, although to be fair Fiona Hutchinson did say as much in one of her interviews. And I guess Margaret Colin would agree... I will never believe Deas or Buzz were needed on the show, but I mostly grew to tolerate him by the mid '90s. I'm just sorry, and still mad, about what he did to Nadine as a character. I think she left one soap because she wanted to go back out to the West Coast - can't remember if that was GL or AW. I always liked Eve - she was one of my favorites during her GL run. HATED HATED HATED her AW run. HATED it.

Interesting seeing the debate on Twitter about whether Kris Jenner should join RHOBH or whether she would just end up helping Kyle.

Poor Kim. Wow, this board really has lost a lot of members. A few years ago this would have had more replies by now.

Tyra Banks AND Derek Hough? I can't wait to not see them.

For some reason (I may be wrong) I think Michael may have only been intended as a shorter return, then when Laibson came in they made him permanent. I have to admit I don't think I would have wanted to see JFP's recast, although I will acknowledge A Martinez would have brought a very unique presence to the role of Rick Bauer.

Florida is fool's gold for Democrats. There's a lot of pundit push and social media push about how Hispanics are supporting Trump and Biden has failed to win them, but even when Hillary did very well among them in 2016, she still didn't win. This race is going to be very close, I have felt this all along, and as it gets closer I am nervous of how many are going to just give in to despair and not bother to commit their time or vote. @marceline that's true about that faction of the left. I believe many will vote for Trump. I just hope they don't live in swing states. Speaking of polls, Rasmussen has Biden up by 4 in Ohio, although that poll is junk. Still, maybe it will be close.

I thought Charles Grant worked well with Anne Heche, and the few times we saw him with the Frames. The triangle with Sam and Amanda just became so tedious.

I don't even want to post them here but Twitter is full of hate rallies and physical assaults all over Oregon from Proud Boys and other Nazi groups today. This is our future.

It's pathetic, if not surprising, how fast many fauxgressives, naturally including Glenn Greenwald, got so happy over Trump's comments about the Pentagon, going on about how he says the truth, that he has run against Republicans more than the Clintons ever did, that this is why he will win, etc. The left is still so divided and so eager to amplify and lap up anything Trump says. I do believe Trump has been skimming off the top, and I also believe many are robbing him blind, but I also feel like they are trying to lull Biden's campaign into a false sense of security as they have a ton of outside help (including Swiftboat veterans). Fortunately I don't think Biden's people are falling for it, and the blatantly biased media (which just today was trying to tsk-tsk Biden for telling groups that Trump has caused their problems) is probably keeping them on their toes as well.

Sorry to hear this. Mac was, in his first 3-4 seasons, such a wonderful character and added an everyday element to Knots, a perfect balance of melodrama and goofy comedy. Dobson was in his element there. And he and Michele Lee was a good team.

Thanks. That sounds right. I'm so glad I didn't have to see any of that - the later Beth/Rick material was bad enough.

I think someone here posted synopses from 1976 - wasn't Rick missing and a big story point was about Leslie believing he was dead, or something? Sorry, I know this was already answered - I was just responding to the second part. I could swear I read something about them considering a recast of Rick not long after MOL left in 1991, but I'm not sure.

@BetterForgotten sorry - I see what you meant. Yeah I think the cast have mostly long given up. The writing for Stacey has been terrible the last few years and doesn't seem likely to improve.

I don't think the show would have been interested in Rick whoever was in the role, to be honest, which is why I suggested another role, but I see what you mean.