Harris overtakes tRump

[Blue Full Moon]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/harris-overtakes-trump-among-suburban-voters-reutersipsos-polling-shows-2024-10-10/

It is looking good for Kamala Harris. I can't wait to hear the words Madam President.

[RJ_MacReady]

1. interesting

The doomsaying here paints a different picture.

[NCDem47]

3. It's to keep everyone motivated.

PTSD from 2016.

[gab13by13]

5. Saying TSF is ahead by 1 or 2 does not motivate me

Saying Kamala is ahead by 5 or 6 motivates me.

Then again, I may be different than most people, I gravitate to winners.

[NCDem47]

6. Hey, I agree with you!

I’m not complacent.

I’ll crawl through broken glass to vote for Harris regardless.

[kcr]

7. You're right. I don't think it motivates anybody

I think some people have bought into that and have good intentions. Competition should encourage people, right? It seems intuitive that this would apply to getting people to vote, too. But voting isn't a straight-up competition, not from the point of view of a voter. If a candidate is doing poorly in the polls, it will just make people think they aren't a good candidate. Or they'll think they shouldn't bother because candidate is going to lose anyway. If bad polling motivated voters, then the right wouldn't try so hard to skew them. Plus I think some are simply trying to dampen enthusiasm while claiming to do otherwise.

[Blue Full Moon]

12. I think it causes fatigue

and cause some people to consider why bother it's already decided.

[crimycarny]

31. 100% this

I hesitate to read posts about good polling news because I just can't read the inevitable "don't get complacent!" or "it's too close" replies. It's exhausting. I find hope energizing and fear exhausting and demotivating. The constant fear often causes me to disengage for my own sanity, which is not a good thing. If it's happening to me it's happening to others.

Hope draws people in, gets them motivated, and keeps them fighting and working hard for their cause. (And hope does not equal complacency). Doom and gloom does the opposite IMO. I'll continue to fight, regardless, but I'd rather do it with the wind of hope under my feet versus the heavy burden of fear weighing me down.

No one, and I mean No One, on this site is going to take the 2024 election for granted so the constant hang-wringing is annoying. I understand it, but I find it counterproductive.

[everyonematters]

4. This is going to be a really close election.

Keep knocking on doors, making phone calls, whatever you can do.

[pandr32]

34. I'm writing postcards.

Currently sending them to Pennsylvania. It isn't easy, either. I broke both wrists in an accident in July and my handwriting could be better, but I am able with a little effort. It is good medicine for my writing wrist and good for my soul.
Since I live in Hawaii, each message begins with 'Aloha' and then their name. I feel I am making a connection across the thousands of miles. This is a large, diverse country.
All of us matter. All of us need to do whatever we can. This election is so important and democracy depends on us people.

[Cha]

38. Oh my Goodness, pandr! I'm so sorry

you broke 2 wrists!... one was bad enough back in the day.

Mahalo so much for writing postcards to Pennsylvania!

[pandr32]

39. Mahalo, Cha.

It's the least I can do. I was a delegate for Hillary Clinton and was super emotional when I voted for her and devastated when she/we lost.

[Cha]

40. I know the feeling about voting for Hillary

the Heartbreaking Loss. It must have been More so being a Delegate..

[pandr32]

41. I really thought that ceiling would shatter.

As women we all felt the loss, and to that lump of toxic waste! Truly devastating.
We've been in an abusive relationship ever since.
Go Harris/Walz!

[Cha]

42. GOTV FOR Harris-Walz!

Found this on Page 7 of my Journal..

[pandr32]

43. Losing isn't an option!

[Walleye]

8. I am very enthusiastic, but I'm also prepared that there could be disappointment

After Hillary‘s loss, I told my nephew, women are used to this kind of disappointment. It happens throughout our whole life. vote blue all the way.

[Walleye]

15. At least 25% of the public would not vote for a woman for president under any circumstances

Of course, most of them are Republicans already or Trumpers

[Walleye]

22. I don't see how any woman can not hate JD. I pity his wife and family.

[Diamond_Dog]

32. He is one disgusting man.

I see Trump Vance signs here and there and wonder if the homeowner has a wife and if she’s on board with those two. I sure don’t understand people any more. I mean, come on, how much more odious can those two be??? I think they have all bought into the “scary rapist immigrants living off your tax dollars” thing.

[Walleye]

35. As it turns out that's a perfect description of Trump. Not a recent immigrant, but hasn't had family here for long

[Diamond_Dog]

26. That's depressing, isn't it?

[Walleye]

28. Yes, and it's better than it used to be at that. At least now we have a female vice president and a second gentleman

I would say that Kamala represents change, the biggest change possible

[tavernier]

11. Absolutely. In order to fix the damage, we have to have

Congress!!

[Blue Full Moon]

13. I don't think it will be close

Trump can't fill venues. JD is so unpopular. I know right wing women who are going to vote for Kamala but are telling their husbands that they are voting for tRump.

[Walleye]

16. I'm only hoping there are more of those secret, sensible female Republicans than we realize

[crimycarny]

27. I'm cautiously optimistic

I don't remember a time when the other party, especially the "party line no matter what" GOP, has openly come out against their own candidate. This truly is a different election from any other in my lifetime and we have some voters who'd normally vote GOP, or wouldn't vote at all, becoming motivated to vote in order to ensure Trump never gets close to the WH again.

Hopefully, the choice between a sane competent woman President versus an insane criminal male President helps trumps (no pun intended) any reluctance to vote for a woman.

[Walleye]

29. Unfortunately, most of the media frames it as a horse race, not the kind of choice you represented

Right now, it should be clear to people with their choices. But there is so much bullshit flying around.

[Susan Calvin]

10. Great, but don't forget that we have voter suppression to deal with.

Not to mention the Electoral College.

The polls ain't the election.

[Blue Full Moon]

14. Generally I don't look at polls.

But this was so positive. I think most mainstream media is actually for any GOP. Bush Jr's pioneers bought up most to spread right wing propaganda.

[vercetti2021]

17. Wait what?

But I've been told to shit and piss myself from the doooooooooooooooooom!!!!

[Blue Full Moon]

20. I know

They like us to be nervous Nellys.

[Walleye]

23. It's just that women have been disappointed so many times in the past

[Diamond_Dog]

30. I know what many years of disappointment is like.

As a woman and a Cleveland Guardians fan……

[Walleye]

33. And it's always, "we'll get them next time". This actually is the next time.

And if we don’t do it right, it could be our last chance. Actually I thought that with Hillary, at least for my lifetime. This is the second bite of the apple I didn’t think we would get. I am very hopeful, but my mind is too realistic to believe it’s gonna be a lock

[Diamond_Dog]

36. I went to bed that night in 2016 pretty confident that Hillary would lock it up

Then when I got up the next morning and turned on my tablet and saw the NYT headline TRUMP TRIUMPHS I immediately felt like I’d been punched in the stomach and almost threw up. So, like you, Walleye, I won’t relax until I see the results with my own eyes. In the meantime it’s like anxiety on steroids.

[lindysalsagal]

18. She's got him in donations, too: Harris over a billion, Tscf only $642 mill.

https://www.opensecrets.org/2024-presidential-race

And she did it all in weeks, not months and years.

[Blue Full Moon]

21. Yep

I seen an interview with Michael Moore and he said Harris is going to win. He actually is pretty accurate even if, don't want to hear it.
Can't believe it was even a question. GOP running a criminal. I do believe it is to exonerate Nixon. But we would have never been in this mess if he would have been punished and not pardoned.

[Walleye]

25. I think when Nixon said he was not a crook, he meant he didn't profit from it personally

It’s entirely different now Donald Trump’s presidency and candidacy is all about how much money he can make. Never spends any of it on his own campaign though.

[Walleye]

24. I agree that's a very good sign

[intheflow]

37. Ugh, I hate the title "Madam President."

I know it's an honorific, but Madam also means wife and prostitute (which really just illustrates how deeply misogyny is ingrained in English). You KNOW that's how MAGA-folk will spin it.

Much better are:

President Harris!
Ms. Harris!