Rally for Vice-President Harris with Governors Shapiro and Whitmer
29Jul2024
Arriving at the rally for Vice-President Kamala Harris, featuring
Governors Shapiro (PA) and Whitmer (MI).
As of July 1st, the
decision of President Joe Biden to step aside and to be replaced as the 2024 Democratic presidential candidate by
someone or another was pretty much a done deal. By
July 23rd, Vice-President Kamala Harris had enough support to
declare that she was now the nominee. On
the 24th, Biden bowed out of the presidential race.
I was in the ADA section on the very far left (looking from the stage).
Pretty much everyone else stood. When the place got really crowded,
spectators occupied bleachers up on the second level.
I of course, having been a history major back in college, had recalled
Lincoln's 1864 campaign slogan "Don't change horses mid-stram." But the
Democratic Party decided to go all-in on Harris and it turns out to
have been a good decision. As
of August 2nd, her overall unpopularity is 6.6%, but that's an
improvement over July 8th, when she was 17.4%. A Morning
Consult poll found that on July 28th that the public's assessment
was 50% favorable and 46% unfavorable.
The
Cook Political Report: "Presidential Campaign Reset: Arizona,
Georgia and Nevada Move From Lean Republican to Toss Up"
8Aug2024.
Representative Dean (black shirt) poses with constituents. I used to be
in her district until they re-drew the distrcts.
Harris is making progress in the polls, but the real reason for
optimism is that she's young and vital and full of energy and Trump is
looking old and grumpy by comparison. Like "racist grandpa is up
way past his bedtime."
A big problem of course, is that the Swift
Boat Veterans
threw a monkey wrench into the campaign of Senator John Kerry 20 years
ago. His advantage among veterans was cut down by several percentage
points. Were any of the
accusations truthful? Did ANY of them stand up to scrutiny? Not a one!
Has the press learned
a damned thing? $%#@ No!
Heh! Brianna Keilar (The only
member of CNN I have any use for) really got under Senator Vance's
skin, to the point where
his "rebuttal" doesn't make any sense at all!
One of the warm-up speakers.
Very interesting. The Biden Administration has crossed many of Putin's
"red lines," fearing each and every time that they might set off a
nuclear war. But for Ukraine to directly invade Russian territory,
while that should have been
a red line that should have
sparked World War III, Putin's response has
been quite restrained. More on the invasion
of the Kursk area.
Several days after the Ukrainian invasion of Russia, Russia
is still struggling to assemble and move an adequate force to the
Kursk region to effectivey push back against Ukraine's invasion.
The two governors, Whitmer from Michigan and Shapiro from
Pennsylvania.
If the upcoming election were to be fought on the straightforward
grounds of popularity, Harris is making extremely good progress towards
evening the score. Problem is, the challenge may be to defeat the
election deniers who
refuse to certify vote totals. Fortunately states have refused to
humor the deniers and have insisted that votes be certified anyway, but
each challenge feeds cynicism and disrespect for the certification process.
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A few weeks ago, I saw a piece summarizing where candidates stood on
various issues. They had Trump's latest positions on abortion. I
felt that the only item that should have been posted was that he
appointed three anti-choice Supreme Court Justices, who all voted to
overturn Roe v Wade even though they
all denied having pre-judged the question. We've seen that Trump's
position is hardly set in stone. He has now said that he's
perfectly willing to ban mifepristone, a commonly-used abortion
drug. His position on abortion is evolving over time as it depends on
the wishes of his supporters as much as on his own convictions. What are his convictions? No one really knows.
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And of course Elon Musk, the fellow who runs Xitter and naturally, the
alleged "Free Speech Absolutist," is
now "demanding the government infringe on free speech rights.
Again." Musk's legal threats caused GARM, the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, to simply close down
as they weren't prepared to pay the multiple millions in legal fees
that it would have cost them to have fought his lawsuit. Musk's real
problem, of course, is that Xitter is overrun with Nazis and white
supremacists and other terrible people. Many companies, quite
understandably, don't wish to have any association with it.
Is Musk a good citizen, as far as reliabl information goes? Hardly.
He's simply a font of election misinformation, none of which is
corrected by the "Community Notes" that debunk other claims on the
Xitter platform.
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