Ok...CNN just now (Monday morning):

[PCIntern]

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Poll shows Harris with a “narrow but sizable lead”.

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK DOES THAT MEAN?


And they have David Durban, Republican whore and shill, reading Trump attributes from the poll, and the usual smiling Democrat on the other side who doesn’t refute idiot’s well-rehearsed talking points.

[DonCoquixote]

1. translation

"we need to keep this a horse race so we can spend the next few years using Trump as free content, instead of reporting the news.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

23. It helps us

It's better to believe that we are underdogs and fight like hell to make sure we get out the vote, rather than be over confident and wake up with a dictator on November 6th.

[BlueKota]

28. I agree.

If people think Democrats are guaranteed victory, they might feel things like, "oh the weather sucks, or I've got other things I need to do, we are winning anyway so I really don't have to go vote."

[Mr.Bill]

43. Yep.

Whether intentional or not, it's our best GOTV tool.

[Cirsium]

44. The reverse is probably true

The bandwagon effect is more powerful. Thinking we are underdogs may motivate a few of us here, although I can't imagine that any of us need more motivation. But the general public likes to get behind and associate themselves with the winning team.

[Blue_Roses]

92. Definitely!

n/t

[ProfessorGAC]

68. Their Content Is Mostly Free Anyway

They don't need him. I wish they'd figure that out.

[epreic01]

83. I would think

The argument could be made that Trump losing will be better for the MSM. Hell have a long public meltdown. He will stand trial for all his crimes…
But you’re right they do sanitize every outrageous thing he does. To an uninformed viewer they tune in and think, we’ll they don’t seem to think this is that big of a deal, must not be…

[Magoo48]

90. They press corp today wouldn't know how to look for or gather real news.

[BoRaGard]

2. Whereas the Felon (R) has a narrow but sizeable ego

[Oopsie Daisy]

49. Unlike his penis *

* according to Stormy.

[NJCher]

60. Cue republican mushroom

We're waiting.

Tap tap tap.

[Oopsie Daisy]

62. Stormy's appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live is historic and should be preserved in the National Archives

[NJCher]

70. one of the

funniest moments in television!

Hey, can you believe spell check changed my spelling on the subject line of my post above?

Cue poster republian mushroom!

_________

On edit: This (video) is what I think of when certain posters sit in their angry chair and throw a tantrum because trump isn't in jail for their personal favorite crime. Come on already: how would you like to have your dick (or lack thereof) being discussed on national television? And so vividly, too!

Tell me that's not a form of punishment.

[Voltaire2]

3. If the situation was reversed, as it was two months ago

the media narrative would be quite different.

[Ocelot II]

5. Might mean greater than the margin of error?

[getagrip_already]

6. Small, but Huge!

Narrow, yet wide.

Shallow, but deep.

Tied, yet winning.

Stupid, but brilliant.

[BattleRow]

31. MAGA morph

[Wednesdays]

32. War is peace.

Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

[ms liberty]

52. And Winston loved Big Brother

[Seinan Sensei]

69. Same but different

[Vinca]

7. CNN is really annoying. They had that miserable shill Scott something or other on this morning

and were talking about how Harris didn't get a convention bump. She was leading Trump by about 6 points going in and she's leading him about 6 points now. I interpret that as people deciding immediately they want a sane POTUS over a nutjob.

[lees1975]

8. It was 2-3 points going in for some polls, a dead heat for others, and she was behind in ABC-IPSOS

Going in, or at least that's what they were reporting. Who knows? They are all over the place. A week ago we had people posting that the voter registration data was showing Democrats lagging behind, in spite of seeing an actual surge in registration. Then, suddenly, there's a media dump, all at once, that shows registrations soaring for Democrats. It was all over the news all the time when Republicans seemed to be making small gains, but now that the Democrats had this huge surge, it got covered once and that's it, done.

Obviously she got a decent convention bump, she was behind in several battleground states and now leads in all. Or so the polls say, at least the ones I can find and selectively quote the same way the media does.

I saw two different networks, CNN and NBC, cite contradictory polling data, one said she's up by 2 in PA, one said she's up by 6 in PA.

So I'm looking at other factors indicating voter enthusiasm that might be more accurate, such as yard signs. Since the DNC, the blue Harris Walz signs have popped up everywhere, driving to work on Friday, I counted 102 Harris-Walz, 5 Pro-Union and 2 curling Trump signs without Vance. So there you go.

[CrispyQ]

11. Seen on FB: And just like that, age & mental competency are no longer issues. -nt

[jimfields33]

21. I haven't seen any Harris signs yet. I think people are still ordering the items.

[getagrip_already]

34. Ours just shipped....

The offial signs are running late. You have to buy unofficial ones if you want them immediately.

Of course, the campaign doesnt get the profit.

[lees1975]

37. I was being tongue in cheek.

I don't think my anecdotal yard sign count, which occurs along streets in the city of Chicago, is a determining factor in where voters are. I think yard signs are available here because we had the DNC and they handed out thousands of them. Even so, Harris will get 85% of the vote in the city.

But, I do think we are not seeing the full effect of what is actually going on. Democrats have a ground game that I have not seen work like this since 2008, when Obama beat McCain. The voter registration, which was something polls were using to factor voter "enthusiasm" has shot way up for Democrats in a couple of weeks, as numbers are counted and recorded and released. We had people here moaning about the numbers in the 13 states where party registration is tracked, because the GOP had a slight edge. That got wiped out fast.

And I get why polls are being cautious. One, the media outlets that own them lose money when their viewership goes down and they want to make this exciting to attract viewers and two, they've been way out of their comfort zone for four election cycles now, and they have to do a lot of rebounding with false narratives and past-dated articles to defend themselves.

[NJCher]

67. hah

polls are being cautious.

Polls are not cautious.

People can be, if they so choose.

[tavernier]

54. I had a guy and his wife follow me to a restaurant

yesterday morning when I went out for breakfast to tell me they loved my Harris Walz bumper sticker. He was so excited, telling me it was the first one he has seen this year. My area of the Keys is pretty red, although further south in Key West it gets bluer.

[ProfessorGAC]

71. I've Seen Some Around Here

And, if this is at all meaningful, I see fewer TFG signs than in either '16 or '20. And, there were already fewer of them in '20 than in '16.
I've probably a half-dozen Harris signs over the last week.

[Zoomie1986]

73. Liberals are more reluctant to put up signs

They know how violent the white wingers are.

[William Seger]

74. Whoever said that should not be invited back

Ignorant or lying, doesn't matter. She absolutely got a convention bounce, unless you consider it just a continuation of the momentum she had before the convention.

[Zambero]

80. And Herr Drumpf got a post-convention nosedive

All things being relative, guess which ticket has performed best?

[Silent Type]

9. It's a sizable national lead, but tight in what matters in USA-- Electoral College.

[ColinC]

36. The EC polls take time to catch up with national polls

6 points is likely a fairly comfortable EC lead even if the individual polls don’t show it yet. Simply put she’s loving in the right direction but there’s work to be done.

[calimary]

58. All the more reason to DO AWAY WITH the damned Electoral College.

Time to drop out of that artificial construct that too often thwarts the vote of the people.

The VOTERS should speak, and that should be the end of it.

[Silent Type]

61. I no longer think about that because it's just not happening within next 25 years. If we have a Constitutional

convention, we'll likely come out worse than what we have now. That's the unfortunate reality.

[calimary]

63. Well, there is that.

[womanofthehills]

86. Basically tied in swing states

https://www.270towin.com/2024-presidential-election-polls/

[Liberal In Texas]

10. Both siderism sentence.

It's two things at once!

[doc03]

12. That doesnt compute "a narrow but

sizeable lead". Like out of 1984 double speak.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

13. An OXYMORON is just that.

One cannot have a "narrow but sizable" lead.

It is EITHER narrow or sizable. Sheesh!

[wordstroken]

42. Exactly!!

Well said, ProudMNDemocrat.

[Bev54]

15. I just don't understand why people watch this shit.

[paleotn]

16. More journalistic malpractice.

Whoever said or wrote that, did they take a stupid test to get that job?

[ancianita]

17. What ProudMNDemocrat says, only to add, don't let the oxymorons get you down, PC.

62 days out we need to refuse to be fazed by corporate media hype and keep our eyes on the prize.

[lpbk2713]

18. Add to the list ...

Jumbo shrimp

Civil War

narrow but sizable

[dchill]

20. Compassionate Conservative.

[getagrip_already]

38. Slavery is freedom....

Voting is undemocratic

Constitutional autocracy

Stop the count to assure electoral integrity

Federal land belongs to the states

[dchill]

19. It's just evidence that their contracts require that...

... regardless of the size of any Democrat's lead, it MUST BE CHARACTERIZED AS NARROW!

[miyazaki]

22. It's like the hole in CNN's head, narrow but sizable. nt

[BattleRow]

35. Kinda like the slit

in an ATM machine.

Trumped up "reporting" keeping it well fed.

[IronLionZion]

24. Narrow lead in several swing states

sizeable is the number of states. But it's narrow in each one.

The takeaway is momentum is still favoring us so let's not get complacent. It's not over until it's over. We have to work for it.

[Hugin]

25. I wouldn't suggest using that line when a significant other...

Asks if these jeans make their hiney look fat.

It can’t end well.

[FemDemERA]

96. Lol

Thanks for throwing a chuckle into my morning.

[Hugin]

97. My pleasure.

[onetexan]

26. Was this a chiron or a talking head spewing stupidity?

[PCIntern]

64. Chyron and people on panel.

[twodogsbarking]

27. It's twelve inches but pencil thin. Narrow but sizable.

[CanonRay]

29. You know, big but small.

[kimbutgar]

30. Another reason I never watch CNN

The only exception was the Harris/Walz interview probably the longest I’ve watched that network in at least 20 years.

Though they did have an Andersen cooper show on talking about magas that I watched for 15 minutes

[617Blue]

33. It means they need to find a Harris "scandal" pronto.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

39. "Harris is winning! Why that's bad news for Harris"

[elleng]

40. REALLY what the f DOES that mean???

[hadEnuf]

41. Isn't CNN now controlled by a Republican fascist??

If so, then this type of BS is par for the course and actual news is not on the agenda.

[pansypoo53219]

45. teevee gnewz needs close for ratings. so they are gonna assist their golden ratings squirrel for $$$$.

democracy + truth meh.

[Evolve Dammit]

46. They are probably made to agree (before considered as "guests") that they Will Not refute the Magat's BS.

[Scrivener7]

47. It's the giant shrimp of leads!

What assholes!

[arlyellowdog]

48. I thought Nate Silver said stable after convention bump was the big thing

I though he said that if Harris could hold the line that was the winning thing.

[BrianTheEVGuy]

50. Friends don't let friends watch broadcast "news" NT

[LizBeth]

51. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK DOES THAT MEAN? hahahha

Right? Reading , not enough coffee... wtf?

[Island Blue]

53. My bank account balance is small, yet sizable.

[Funtatlaguy]

55. I can't abide baldy mafioso or step n fetch

Shermichael on CNN. I change the channel so that I don’t throw something at the tv 📺 at those lying pricks .

[Joinfortmill]

56. CNN sucks. Just my opinion.

[republianmushroom]

57. Just CNN's double standards. Will become more blatant in the future.

“narrow but sizable lead”, meaning the convicted felon is getting the shit kick out of him at the polls. But CNN must protect that golden cow, for viewers rating.

[OverBurn]

59. Country is in sad shape when the orange nutjob is even in the running with a chance.

It's just hard to believe he has so many cult members.

[joanbarnes]

65. Ironic,

I have a narrow but sizable ass!

[NoMoreRepugs]

66. Two things - does ANYONE really care what's said on CNN and who cares

what “polling” says? It’s obvious Harris has unbelievable momentum and the SlobFather cannot stop looking wholly incompetent.

[jaxexpat]

72. I'm so sorry, PC. Has no one liberated you by instruction in the first law of Buddhism?

"The road to inner peace and enlightenment does a crazy big detour around cable news logic", Sidhartha 101. It's more detailed on the dust jacket version.

[Ford_Prefect]

75. So very many of the MSM talking heads would not have graduated from my old J school. They seem to have no clues at all

how to do the job properly. Too many are just failed actors who have nice hair and expensive teeth. Their chief ability seems to be the capacity to cheer-lead emotions while reading from a cue card, or a GOP press release. My tenth grade English class would have weeded many of them out. How does a reporter get the interview or press conference assignment and have no follow-up questions to ask?

And we will omit comment on the quality of editing that defines so much of what is seen and heard since the language required doesn't bear public expression.

[barbtries]

76. CNN is worse than useless.

DU aggregates the news for me - I read widely. Of late I have observed nothing good to say about CNN. maybe stop watching?

[wryter2000]

77. Thanks for watching that nonsense

I'd have to shoot my TV.

[Mike Nelson]

78. A national poll with a small lead...

... means we're behind. The Electoral College picks the President.

[PCIntern]

79. Then they need to say so...

But they don’t. It’s doublespeak.

[czarjak]

82. We need to change that arcane BS.

[Woodwizard]

84. They copied the Onion headline from two weeks ago

[SunSeeker]

85. It means CNN is pandering to right wingers.

[Hassler]

87. CNN is owned by a Chump lover. They are shills for the Felon.

[winagawaukee]

89. Like an Oxymoron

Military Intelligence

[Aussie105]

91. "narrow but sizable lead".

This means simply:

The lead is there, it is significant, but we'd like to think of it as being something we hope we can ignore soon.
We definitely prefer to ignore it now.

Expect more convoluted non-communication if the difference becomes bigger.

[PCIntern]

93. Creative and funny!

Thanks…you made me laugh.

[GoYouPackersGo]

94. Did they explain how leading at this point in the race is actually bad for Harris?

I mean it has to be, somehow, doesn't it?

[PatSeg]

95. Ha, ha, ha!

I haven't turned on the news in 4 or 5 days and I feel considerably smarter because of it.