Why the election is still close and How NOT to keep your cool
1 October 2024
Excerpts of two great posts follow:
How the hell can Trump be running neck-and-neck with Harris? Let me tell you. And why I remain optimistic. By Robert Reich
How is it possible that more voters appear to view Trump favorably now than they did several months ago when he was in the race against Biden?
How can Trump — the sleaziest person ever to run for president, who has already been convicted on 34 felony charges and impeached twice, whose failures of character and leadership were experienced directly by the American public during his four years at the helm — be running neck-and-neck with a young, talented, intelligent person with a commendable record of public service?
Since his horrid performance debating Harris, he’s doubled down on false claims that Haitian migrants are eating pets in Ohio. He’s been accompanied almost everywhere by right-wing conspiracy nutcase Laura Loomer. He said he “hates” Taylor Swift after she endorsed Harris; that Jewish people will be responsible if he loses the election; that the second attempt on his life was incited by the “Communist Left Rhetoric” of Biden and Harris. And so on.
He’s become so incoherent in public that Republican advisers are begging him to get back “on message.”
So why is he neck-and-neck with Harris?
More here.
Life in Activism: Nine Ways NOT to Keep Your Cool During the Campaign's Final Weeks. Advice I wholeheartedly DO NOT want you to take! By Chris Bowers
* Watch the news for 4-5 hours a day.
* Refresh 538 every 30 minutes.
* Get into lots of fights on social media.
* Let your other obligations pile up so that your worries compound one another.
* Don't clean your home.
* Don't make a plan for voting.
* Don't help get out the vote.
* Never exercise.
* Get tipsy during tonight's debate and on Election Night.
More here
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