MontanaFarmer
MontanaFarmer's JournalVP Harris is on fire tonight!
I like this focus on abortion rights as part of the closing argument. Her strongest messaging, I think.
It feels like there are 2 different tracks this election can take.
Based on polling, vibes, whatever metric you want to use, I see 2 realistic scenarios. 1, let's call it the NYT/Siena election, is a precinct-by-precinct slog in the blue wall states and/or the sun belt to try do drag out enough voters to squeak out a win. 2, let's call the morning consult/ Michael Moore election, where trump gets buried under a tsunami of women voting, many for the first time, and VPH wins all the core 7 plus a surprise or 2. My instinct has been that that's the election we're looking at, but I'm aware of enough recent polling to understand that possibility 1 is very much on the table too. I think we have the infrastructure to win a slobberknocker but I'm hopeful of the Wipeout scenario that shoves this whole Maga movement back under the rock it crawled out from. What are others' thoughts?
The citizens of DU have rightly venerated
Speaker Pelosi for as long as this site has existed. Reporting suggests she's one of the major players behind trying to get Biden to not run. Nobody here can say they don't like Nancy and be taken seriously. She's as good of a Democrat as there is and to call her some of the things people are calling Adam Schiff would be a blaspheme. So how do we square the 2, DU? Do we trust Pelosi knows what she's doing, as she always has? Or do we think she's lost it and is shivving Joe now at this late date for some unknown reason?
Ok folks. I'm on record
In other threads here today stating that I would prefer Biden step aside for VP Harris, but that I will both vote for him and donate to his campaign in substantial fashion, as I usually do, if he remains in. Glad to vote for him but don't feel he's really up to it. Would folks here who are more insistent he stay in the race treat VP Harris the same as I just articulated above? Are there those that would not vote, would not give, etc if biden indeed goes and she replaces him? It's hard to tell the answer through folks' (well-deserved) passion sometimes and I'm genuinely curious.
Congress is almost ancillary this fall, in my opinion.
With Doug mastriano being nominated for PA governor, it brings into focus for me how important holding those 3 governor's mansions are in PA, WI, MI that we won in. 2018. I don't believe it's hyperventilating to say that reelecting Whitmer and evers, and electing shapiro, are pretty important for the health of our democracy heading into 2024.
I'm struck, today, by how much we've missed a national focus on the arts.
Just complete omission of any focus on art, music, poetry by the prior gang of miscreants. It'll be great to reclaim some of our traditonal focus in matters of the arts and humanities.
The poetry of Ms. Gorman
was amazing, pitch-perfect, and almost surreal to watch given what we saw in this same setting 2 weeks ago.
Last round of donations in.
Biden/Harris, MJ Hegar, Theresa Greenfield, Al Gross and Kathleen Williams. Pretty amazing that folks like Steve Bullock, Jaime Harrison, John Hickenlooper, Mark Kelly don't even need money at this stage. What our party has grown into, with ActBlue, is truly amazing and bodes well for the future.
Just dropped my final donation to Joe and Kamala.
$500 in. The rest will go to senate candidates. Let's go!
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