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Well now I am angry.

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Despite the absolute and total bullshit tone that the new writers are taking with the front page, we ABSOLUTELY can win this election. We can. We can. We can.

Condescending articles with alarmist titles are inappropriate, harmful, and childish. No real journalist titles an article “you should be terrified.” Pathetic.

We have so much reason for hope!!!

Everyone made fun of Simon Rosenberg in 2022 when he said that the polls were being pushed by the right to change the conversation and that the red wave was bullshit. Both Nates mocked him as did all the pundits.

Guess what? He was right.

And he is right now too.

Does this mean that we are going to win 100%? Of course not. No one can say that.

Sure, we can’t know what the vote will look like, but that doesn’t mean that our numbers will be the ones lower than polls. In addition to the fake red wave polling, pollsters are doing an untested weighting of votes based on how people said they voted in 2020 (to not undercount trump voters). We just don’t know if that will be an overcorrection (because people — in particular swing votes — may not remember or admit to a vote) But it does mean that we are very much in this.

Also — re: early vote, OF COURSE Rs have stronger earlier vote percentages than they did in 2020. They were being told NOT to vote early in 2020 and now they are being told TO vote early. Back in the day, they were the early voting party!

The fact that we are ahead of our percentage from 2020 in three swing states is AMAZING! No one expected that!

And we are holding strong in the others. Yes, Rs are up on 2020 BUT WE EXPECTED THAT. It is no reason to lose hope!

It is a reason to keep fighting!!

Some other reasons for hope:

We have a candidate and a team of surrogates BLANKETING the swing states with rallies (they do not). Because rallies in swing states increase margins!!

We have armies of volunteers going door to door because neighborhoods that are canvased vote 8% higher than ones that are not!

We have millions of postcards and letters going to voters because neighborhoods that get postcards to voters vote 3% higher than those that do not.

We have millions of phone calls being made to low likelihood democratic voters because people are much more likely to vote if people follow up with them to make sure they vote.

We have a great candidate. We have the resources. We have the ground game. We have the enthusiasm!

We can do this! We can win!

We may be tired and worn out and ready for a week of sleep when this is over, but WE CAN WIN!!!

As Simon Rosenberg said JUST TODAY — I would rather be us than them and we have not won yet but we are winning!

All we do know for sure is that this is close and we need all hands on deck in our joyous fight!!!

Unsure what to do?

Here are some options for action (each is a link to take you to more info).

THERE IS LITEALLY SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE!!!!!​

 
What red wave polling? Every poll I've seen has either had Harris in the lead or Trump in the lead by the margin of error. Where are these red wave polls?
No one has really answered your question in a serious way, but those polls refer to the popular vote. What everyone else is talking about is the recent shift in swing states like GA and PA, leading to a GOP win in the EC being more likely than not.
 
What red wave polling? Every poll I've seen has either had Harris in the lead or Trump in the lead by the margin of error. Where are these red wave polls?
Both the 2016 and 2020 polling under estimated Trump. 2016 by %8ish and 2020 by %6ish. Yet he won 1.9 of the time... In "recent" history-- since the 90s-- polls are Democratically biased. My suspected reasoning for this is a combination of propaganda and the fact closer races bring more viewership. This is why Trump being tied or even with Kamala is world shakingly bad news for Demos.

The fact that it's not inconvincible he could win the popular vote is the cherry on top. Because the popular vote actually leans Democratic and if Kamala is losing even that, there is an absolutely 0% chance she could win the Electoral College.
How the fuck is this even journalism? Or even blogging?
It's easy when you redefine 'journalism' to be synonymous with 'propaganda'.
They know deep down how pushed the polls are to their side.
The Establishment may know that but I very seriously doubt most of the plebs voting for them do. I think the average left voter would view such a bias as proof that the majority agree with them rather than how polls are manipulated and biased.
 
Condescending articles with alarmist titles are inappropriate, harmful, and childish. No real journalist titles an article “you should be terrified.” Pathetic.

We have so much reason for hope!!!
"real journalist"
Bro, you just used three exclamation points like a hysterical 3rd grader talking about cartoons. But go ahead and call the other journos "childish".

Journos should murder-suicide each other more often.
 
Just wanted to say… If you’re looking for a good chuckle and to savor sweet, sweet shitlib boomer tears, then Daily Kos is a great place to go!

Just look at this sampling of front page stories.

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In the past twenty or thirty years it has typically been the Democrats who have the biggest push in early voting. This time though it has been for the Republican candidate in a surprising number of areas, especially in key battleground states. One of the news agencies (I think it was MSNBC) went to early voting centers in Arizona and couldn't find a single person willing to admit voting for Harris. Everyone they interviewed said they voted for Trump.

I don't want to sound too optimistic, but I think he's going to win this election, at the very least he is going to win the electoral college. I think he even has a good chance of winning the popular vote as well, which would be excellent because it would be a clear statement from Americans that they are sick of the Democrats bullshit and reject their policies, and it would smother the "we need to get rid of the electoral college" arguments in the crib. I'm sure the Dems will try to "fortify" the election like they always do, but Trump has had four years to analyze the last "fortified election" and come up with tactics to combat it, and there is absolutely no enthusiasm for Kamala. I think even with "fortification" the Dems are going to lose. Biden only won the last election by a very slim margin, and Harris is doing far worse than Biden and Clinton did against Trump. Trump on the other hand is doing far better than even 2016.

You still need to get out and vote though. Don't assume it's in the bag for either candidate. Go out and vote.
 
A white woman working a make-work email job downtown somewhere wrote this.
I actually hate their bot for making it difficult to verify the mindset behind this utter cope
 
THIS BUSINESS IS SERIOUS I WANT KAMALA IN THE WHITE HOUSE NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW!!!!!!
At this point, they should unironically get the CPU Goddess on the ballot. People will unironically vote in a Lolcow as a president just because.

However, that can be next term seeing we're just days away from the election itself. That said, I fully expect them to rig the polls like they did last year and have the MSM declare miss popular as winner. Just like how Biden was our most beloved President.
 
I like how smug these people were when Kamala first took over and now they're panicking like crazy because of how historically bad her numbers are so close to the election. Swapping out candidates this close to an election has never occurred in modern history and you basically need to start making comparisons to figures from the 19th century to make predictions.
For a couple sublime months Harris polled as 'generic democrat' and outperformed Trump. Now that voters are increasingly confronted with Harris as a person they like her a lot less and she's bleeding support. Same thing happened to her in the 2020 primary, incidentally.
Though tbf Harris is still polling well above where Biden was in June so putting her in might have been the lesser of two evils. Even if she loses there are still downballot races for the dems to consider so an extra couple points still helps.
 
Both the 2016 and 2020 polling under estimated Trump. 2016 by %8ish and 2020 by %6ish.
Trump's strongest supporters don't trust pollsters, hate the media and are sick of being called racist hicks. So they're hanging up on telephone polls and ignoring any other polling attempt. It might only be 2 percent of voters, but they're motivated to get to the polls on election day and vote for Trump.
 
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