It’s legal as the VP to use her government plane to travel just about anywhere, since she’s required to be available on a moment’s notice. But IMHO using it as a campaign prop wasn’t a great look, since we give Assmouth so much shit for taking advantage of his position for personal gain. Should have parked it across the tarmac, somewhere visible but not overt, and been shuttled over.
Wonks, with your talented writing staff can you make more out of the fact the Vance and Pence are only two letters apart? Maybe something to do with Pants and Vents?
Dom, your posts make me smile every time. Not only is your prose wonderful, your spectacular photos radiate the joy people are feeling in these events.
Thank you for your hard work, and keep the joy coming!
I am one of a handful of liberals in a small PA town, and Trump signs were Everywhere in 2020. I am surprised and thankful to see just as many Harris/Walz signs as Trump signs this year.
It really does make you question whether all this sense there's "a close race" is just MSM bias and horse-race BS, and their "deweighting" is just a willful effort to prop up Trump's campaign and boost profits...
Nah, the MSM wouldn't do that with something THIS important... right?!?!?!
"You see, if people are led to believe it is tied, then it must also be true that half of America thinks it’s somehow okay to pick Trump, despite everything we know about him. It normalizes him. It tells us all that these horrific things don’t matter, and we begin to believe that because the polls are telling us so.
But the polls are bunk. The GOP knows from internal polling that Trump’s in trouble, and that they have to shore him up. That’s why they’re flooding us with partisan polls—60 GOP leaning ones, all paid for by Republicans and dropped into the mix recently, all in the battleground states."
Oh don't get me wrong, we need to behave as if Harris needs every single vote, because she still does. It's just interesting how _so much_ of the MSM commentary seems to focus on a fairly narrow swath of areas, and so little pays even lip service to the urban areas which represent a HUGE proportion of the population.
It's one thing to acknowledge non-urban and rural America, another entirely to pretend they're the only areas that matter, and a lot of what MSM is showing is the latter, not the former.
Meanwhile, a real analysis of the candidates' positions in urban areas seems...lacking. When you have cities of millions, calling a few hundred or even a thousand in dominantly white-and-keeping-it-that-way, upper-class neighborhoods a "representative sample" is a bald-faced lie.
To be clear, I'm not drawing conclusions on the actual candidate favorability in regions, simply pointing out the portrayal and analysis by the MSM have rather obvious biases.
As for polling, it's important to remember their conduct isn't about "getting it right", it's about "not making the same mistake we made in 2016" -- but not apparently protecting against or even caring if they make a mistake in the other direction. That's not a legitimate way of approaching statistical analysis, and they know better.
Sweeeet pics.
It’s legal as the VP to use her government plane to travel just about anywhere, since she’s required to be available on a moment’s notice. But IMHO using it as a campaign prop wasn’t a great look, since we give Assmouth so much shit for taking advantage of his position for personal gain. Should have parked it across the tarmac, somewhere visible but not overt, and been shuttled over.
Where are you seeing they used the VP plane as a campaign prop? Walz drove a tour bus into the arena, no planes involved.
Not Walz - the picture of AF2 behind Ms Harris’ rally a couple months ago.
Wonks, with your talented writing staff can you make more out of the fact the Vance and Pence are only two letters apart? Maybe something to do with Pants and Vents?
I saw my first "Republicans for Harris/Walz" sign the other day. In liberal Eugene, Oregon, but still.
just gorgeous.
Nice times!!!
Just lovely
York County is very conservative overall. It’s the main reason why our district couldn’t get rid of Scott “Fuckface” Perry last election.
Dom, your posts make me smile every time. Not only is your prose wonderful, your spectacular photos radiate the joy people are feeling in these events.
Thank you for your hard work, and keep the joy coming!
I appreciate this very much. Thank you!
Really encouraging post!
Keep working folks!
I am one of a handful of liberals in a small PA town, and Trump signs were Everywhere in 2020. I am surprised and thankful to see just as many Harris/Walz signs as Trump signs this year.
These people are right- REAL Conservatives will be voting to protect the Constitution and the rule of law.
It really does make you question whether all this sense there's "a close race" is just MSM bias and horse-race BS, and their "deweighting" is just a willful effort to prop up Trump's campaign and boost profits...
Nah, the MSM wouldn't do that with something THIS important... right?!?!?!
There is definitely some evidence that MAGA gremlins are commissioning and releasing polls to make it seem like the race is closer than it is: https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/its-manipulation-plain-and-simple
From the linked article:
"You see, if people are led to believe it is tied, then it must also be true that half of America thinks it’s somehow okay to pick Trump, despite everything we know about him. It normalizes him. It tells us all that these horrific things don’t matter, and we begin to believe that because the polls are telling us so.
But the polls are bunk. The GOP knows from internal polling that Trump’s in trouble, and that they have to shore him up. That’s why they’re flooding us with partisan polls—60 GOP leaning ones, all paid for by Republicans and dropped into the mix recently, all in the battleground states."
Maybe. Maybe not. Most media outlets aren't on the ground in the same way I have been over the last year.
Oh don't get me wrong, we need to behave as if Harris needs every single vote, because she still does. It's just interesting how _so much_ of the MSM commentary seems to focus on a fairly narrow swath of areas, and so little pays even lip service to the urban areas which represent a HUGE proportion of the population.
It's one thing to acknowledge non-urban and rural America, another entirely to pretend they're the only areas that matter, and a lot of what MSM is showing is the latter, not the former.
Meanwhile, a real analysis of the candidates' positions in urban areas seems...lacking. When you have cities of millions, calling a few hundred or even a thousand in dominantly white-and-keeping-it-that-way, upper-class neighborhoods a "representative sample" is a bald-faced lie.
To be clear, I'm not drawing conclusions on the actual candidate favorability in regions, simply pointing out the portrayal and analysis by the MSM have rather obvious biases.
As for polling, it's important to remember their conduct isn't about "getting it right", it's about "not making the same mistake we made in 2016" -- but not apparently protecting against or even caring if they make a mistake in the other direction. That's not a legitimate way of approaching statistical analysis, and they know better.
Nice times!
Great post and thanks for the campaign coverage!
Ta, Dom. Great photo essay; I love it.
Excellent post!