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Ignore the usual Politico game where they find any bedwetting Dem they can to write concern troll articles (a practice that goes back over a decade - I remember people telling me we were in real trouble in 2012 because Politico kept saying so) and keep at it.

What is not being said above is that due to some wonkery in NV a few years ago re: party registration and identification, it's common knowledge that much/most of the Other/Independent vote is likely blue. So you have from the outside what looks like a weakness in Dem voting but is likely being funneled through the third category.

To last night's discussion:

I didn't think it was. It's just a fun thing she often does with the actors or fans.

A good thread:

NC appears to have a pretty clean 3-way vote split today in early voting - blue, red and independents. Almost identical totals. If we get even half those indies (and I think we will get more than half) it is ours. In other news: This is not the own the very online right thinks, lol. Somehow I don't think is going to drive Walz's already sky-high favorability rating with the general public down. Blowing a young woman's mind in bed to the strains of "Careless Whisper," the beloved song that launched a thousand memes? It's only going to endear him further!

Ridiculous that it takes this much to ban one of these people, but overdue.

I think there are good people working at CNN, just as there are at any fundamentally skewed, messed-up media institution. There are talented reporters at the Times or the Post, or CNN or MSNBC or NBC or wherever else who work hard and mean well, some of whom still do very good work, and are unhappy with how the institutions have handled Trump. But I think too many of the on-air talent or star reporters go along to get along. I don't blame Abby Phillip for what happened, I blame CNN for insisting on staffing these panels with right wing operatives for a daily clown show and making the hosts or on-air talent (those that aren't instinctively Republican-leaning that is, which some certainly are) treat them credulously.

Of course they did. My point though was that it's not going to penetrate to most of the general public. They don't have a clue what this Lopez thing is about, and the mainstream media is not backing it or sanewashing this rally (probably because it was in NYC, the berth of the media apparatus). It doesn't make sense to assume that the GOP gets any narrative it wants and automatically declare their preemptive messaging victory when time and again that's proven to not be the case on things like this, at least as many times as it has. Nor is anyone outside of the right wing going to care about a Daily Mail story about Walz's Chinese girlfriend. There is a reason Walz's favorables remain sky high - it's because none of their attacks on him have actually worked. That is my whole point. Meanwhile:

Bezos is very foolish.

The Cook report, which has spent months propping up Trump and cheering on his imaginary pivots to seriousness or gains, very belatedly wondered a couple days ago if the only reason the polls are so close is because they have finally stopped underestimating Trump but that this is in fact his ceiling, which means Harris will wipe him out. I think they're finally right. We'll see.

It's that kind of week. Or month, or year lol.

The Times follows up on Harris' campaign now beginning to telegraph victory, and reveals that Trump is cranky and stressed.