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Teri Simonds's avatar

From your lipstick God’s ear that the polls are incorrect and that man will lose.

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helmingstay's avatar

What we don't know yet is how much this particular industrial complex is actively *hurting* GOP turnout by reducing urgency. A lot of chatter this week on GOTV efforts on both sides, and this is an important part of the story.

It's also a helpful reminder that the GOP is no longer the top-down command-and-control party of the GWB years. The grifters won and now it's every carny for themselves, party be damned.

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Andrew Torrez's avatar

Funny you should ask, because we just might have something telling us how to test this thesis in the pipeline.... -A

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Alford Cooley's avatar

RFIC ?

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Alford Cooley's avatar

Okay - RFIC = "Republican Feelings Industrial Complex"

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Robert Swift's avatar

If we are right, and the lie-industrial-complex is pulling us (polling) way off base... then I want to put a pin in this... and make sure that if we knock the pants off of them... or even eek out a modest win within the MoE...

I'd like to see something about resetting how folks regard our "50/50" nation.

We have to stop allowing these grifters to even pretend that they are within 1% of winning, because what we REALLY will have is a country so Gerrymandered that we will ALL need Joe and his ilk to get us a plan to help us figure out how to fix it!

Cudos Joe... so happy that you are on (again. wink)

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Christie Manussier's avatar

MEANWHILE, even the high quality polls MAY be under-weighting women in their turnout predictions. I'm not at all clear if;how much they have adjusted that since 2020....

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babaganusz's avatar

wait — Thiel is paying Silver to be *neutral*? maybe keeping up appearances is still a thing for one or two technocrats?

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