Welcome Back To The Silly Season #5
Yes, you can get most of this stuff or similar at other conservative sites but, in general, you won’t get unsugar-coated and the rough with the smooth like here which keeps you balanced and in the real world.
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If the Dems are trying out stuff at this late stage, they are in serious trouble. If “Abortion OMG” and “Protect Democracy!!” are not working I doubt if soak the rich will. ITES.
Biden Tests Potency of Soak-the-Rich Appeal to Voters
Seth McLaughlin, Wash Times
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The Ten (polling) Day Rule:
Arizona; 1. Abortion law overturned by Arizona House and senate 2.Arizona “Electoral conspirators” indicted.
Result: RCP Aggregate Arizona May 3dth Trump +5 Aggregate May 13th Trump +5 OPINION: No effect whatsoever
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“Target is dialing back on Pride merchandise after right-wing backlash”
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/10/business/target-pride-merchandise-june-2024/index.html
Woke is dying. The whole ghastly business was profit driven in the Trump years as manufacturers and retailers jumped on the virtue signalling bandwagon. But the breaking point was Bud Light which still has not recovered fully.
Now Target has backtracked massively and is caught between a rock and a hard place entirely of their own making. Once again profit reveals itself as the substrata of what is presented on the surface and as it has turned, badly, the woke virtue signalling is revealed as the fraud it always was.
“Bud Light sales still suffering in US a year after controversy”
RCP: “The Bud Light boycott has demonstrated to conservatives their purchasing power. They have far more sway than they previously realized”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2023/06/22/the_bud_light_boycott_is_a_turning_point_601547.htm
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NY Times/Siena (Note: Not bothering to poll North Carolina)
Pennsylvania: Trump 48, Biden 45
Michigan
Biden 42, Trump 39, Kennedy 7, Stein 1, West 1
Arizona Senate - Gallego 46, Lake 43
Pennsylvania Senate - Casey 46, McCormick 44
Thus GA+AZ+NE2 (for a tie) or GA+NZ+one of PA WI MI
Why Trump is performing relatively badly in Michigan is a mystery when by all odds he should be well ahead. Certainly, RFK who is on the MI ballot, is hurting him but even in the head to head he is underperforming.
Lake running 6 behind Gallego in AZ McCormick only 3 behind a sitting senator in PA.
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RCP: Trump Camp "Giddy" About Internal Polls Showing Biden Behind
On the other hand, apart from not showing Biden with the same size lead he had in 2020, these polls are basically meaningless and will be until the pollsters all switch to Likely Voter models after September. Even then always look at the margin of error (MOE) and consider the possible under-polling of Trump’s support, over-polling Biden’s, in the rust belt as per previous years.
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In passing: Trump Media hit a high of $66 on March 27th and all MAGA crowed to the skies and Dembots were silent. Then it crashed to $23 on April 16th and the MSM/Dembots laughed and laughed and posted memes.
Today it closed at $52, over 100% up from the crash low and both MAGA/MSM and Dembots are silent. That is always best as, as I say, those who live by quoting stocks/the stock market for political propaganda die by etc. as it can turn on a dime and make you look foolish.