Speaking of messages that are tricky for the incumbent party: "Look, we've been talking about this organization for three+ years and we have absolutely no idea who runs it or how to stop it." https://t.co/GAxUGLdDFm— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) September 2, 2020
So a DHS bulletin dated July 9th on Russian election interference was held back. DHS spx says it didn't meet the agency's standards. But just a week later DHS sent out a bulletin on anarchists in Portland in which officers admitted they had "low confidence" in their assessment? https://t.co/9uuxRanMhg— Zolan Kanno-Youngs (@KannoYoungs) September 2, 2020
This seems like a pretty relevant finding from YouGov today pic.twitter.com/OHdhrzhZXF— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) September 2, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: DHS withheld publication of intelligence bulletin warning of Russian scheme to push “allegations about the poor mental health” of Joe Biden, per emails and document draft obtained by @ABC. @jonkarl has the full story. https://t.co/E2Af2hBsTz pic.twitter.com/Ro5yk3BkzQ— Good Morning America (@GMA) September 2, 2020
Peter Navarro, Trump’s trade adviser, under investigation for treatment of White House colleagues and for government coronavirus contracts he oversaw — via @davidjlynch @CarolLeonnig @JStein_WaPo + @jdawsey1 https://t.co/cI1g0Acpby— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) September 2, 2020
And then there's this, proof that it's September in an election year:
NEW Monmouth poll of Pennsylvania shows a tightening race. Biden is now +4 among registered voters compared to +13 six weeks ago— Emma Kinery (@EmmaKinery) September 2, 2020
Late August
Biden: 49%
Trump: 45%
Mid July
Biden: 53%
Trump: 40%
If the candidate loses that state, the pollsters say "We told you so!" If the candidate wins that state, the pollsters come up with excuses for why their polls showed a "tightening" race that "loosened" by election day. Lies, damned lies, and statistics. When did we fall so in love with pursuing the future so that we have it today, not tomorrow?
(Raw Story ran a story about mail-in ballots possibly being counted long after Election Day, and the "nightmare" that would produce. One: there's a federal law, IIRC, that sets a date by which ballots must be counted, no matter what. Two, the electoral college has to report its vote to Congress by January. And if it's all still a muddle, Pelosi (as Speaker, assuming she still is) takes the Presidency until it is all straigthened out. Are we so in love with the future we must know it NOW, and so afraid of the future it is always a "nightmare"? I thought we were supposed to be rational. Where did that go?)
But going back to polls (because why not? They are the lingua franca of American politics.), there's this:
No bounce in support for Trump as Americans see pandemic, not crime, as top issue: Reuters/Ipsos poll | Article [AMP] | Reuters https://t.co/ALw2AWvIqC— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 2, 2020
No wonder Trump is acting like the pandemic is in our rear-view mirror. Meanwhile, in Houston, kindergarteners are returning to school, where one was sent home because of covid-19. Well, that's okay, he's too young for college football, right?
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