Some here think I’m a dreamer….
Thos post shows OUT does me by MILES…..
But I sure hope that MAYBE?
This person’s DEMOCRATIC ‘Visison’ WOULD come True?
Never in my 79 years have I seen such a seismic shift in party prospects so late in a presidential campaign. Never have I seen a party so rapidly leave despair behind, find hope and begin to feel exultation.
It’s hard to believe that only five days have passed since President Biden stepped down from the upcoming contest. Yet every one of those days not only validates his decision; it gives us ever-greater reason to thank him for his wisdom and patriotism.
Experience matters. That was the primary reason for Biden’s reluctance to go, and it had a lot of merit. But once he left the field, and once Kamala Harris claimed the Democratic nomination, the balance of experience became againperhaps the most lopsided in my 79 years, save for the 2020 campaign itself.
On the Democratic side, Harris has had seven years as San Francisco’s District Attorney, six years as California’s Attorney General, four years as California’s junior Senator, and now 3.5 years as Vice-President. All those are electiveoffices. That’s a total of 20.5 years experience in electoral politics, a whole generation.
In contrast, former president Trump’s sole experience was four years as president, the only political office he’s ever both run for and held. And GOP Vice-Presidential candidate JP Vance has had a grand total of less than seventeen months in public office, as Ohio’s junior senator.
That vast difference in political experience is beginning to show…..
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What will happen next is anyone’s guess. Will Trump see the gaffe and try to rein Vance in? Good luck with that! Vance undoubtedly sees Trump as little more than a deranged stepping stone to the presidency without having to earn his spurs. So the Trump-Vance campaign may crash and burn while not yet a month old.
Even if it doesn’t yet, there’s always Trump himself. He appears never to read his briefing papers. As president, he reversed himself frequently, often appearing to hear only the last person to whisper in his ear. He lied incessantly. He had trouble reaching simple logical conclusions. This is undoubtedly what caused Rex Tillerson, the former CEO of Exxon-Mobil who became Trump’s Secretary of State and whom Trump later fired, to call Trump “a f*cking moron.”
Experienced pols do none of these things. They read their briefing papers. They discuss important decisions with all their advisers, at length and in detail. And they try to make sure they won’t have to go back on them, or even qualify them, at least not right away. Millions of voters—at least those who are not already members the Cult of Trump—are beginning to understand these fundamental truths.
At the same time, millions of occasional, reluctant, female, minority and young voters, tired of two old men who can’t seem to express themselves coherently (in Trump’s case) or forcefully (in Biden’s) are beginning to see the light. They are coming to understand that a Black and South Asian woman, who looks like many of them and knows how prejudice feels, has the experience and the heft to win and to represent them as no one else (except perhaps Obama) ever has before. And so Harris polled 46% higher than Biden among Hispanic “double-haters” (those who dislike both Biden and Trump), even before Biden stepped down.
If you don’t think all this has the makings of a Democratic landslide in about one hundred days, then I question your imagination….
Note….
The FOCUS returns AGAINST Trump NOT Biden…..
Oh?
And we have a ex-President looking for his old job that IS a felon, sex predator , and fraudster eh?
My Name Is Jack says
Uh overexuberance much!
Scott P says
I think there was never going to be a landslide either way in this election.
Obviously right now you want to be in Harris place just as two weeks ago you wanted to be in Trump’s.
Can the trajectory shift back? I guess anything is possible this election year. But Democrats made a change that Repuare unwilling or unable to do.
jamesb says
Ageed Scott…..
Haris HAS THE ‘MO’
Biden had GOPer’s strutten and vying for space in the White House
Scott P says
Meanwhile paid for whore Chris Sununu said the GOP nominee prmising Christians they’d never have to vote again if he won was just “classic Trump”.
Sounds like a “classic” from 1930s Italy or Germany to me Chris. Bur you sell out you traitor!
Scott P says
Over 200 showed up for. Harris golf cart rally in noted MAGA stronghold The Villages, Florida.
I’m not ready to put money down on it but there’s an outside chance Dems flip Florida this year with abortion rights polling at 69%.
The key will be limiting Trump’s inroads into the Latino vote in the state. Considering much of the Latino vote im FL hails from the Caribbean and Harris mother is from Jamaica that could be a factor.
Ghost of SE says
Harris narrowly loses FL, while crossover votes doom Rick Scott is my thinking. For as much as Miami Dade has gone to Republicans, Jacksonville and St. Petersburg areas are trending Demicratic in a big way.
Ghost of SE says
*Democratic
Scott P says
Correction: 500 golf carts for that Harris rally in The Villages, FL
jamesb says
Scott?
If AP calls Florida FOR Harris on Election Night?
It’s OVER….
She’ll be the President-Elected….
Ghost of SE says
Harris at 410 EV’s and 53% of the popular vote sounds about right.