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There has been some slowing of vaccinations for CovidĀ  in the last couple of days but that is typical in reports for Sundays, Mondays, and holidays. The CDC reports 32.6% of US residents had received at least one dose as of Monday. Among the adult population, 41.7% have had at...

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  • April 6, 2021

A confident Joe Biden responded to a reporter’s comment that Mitch McConnell said he would fight the bill at every turn was epic. Joe Biden challenges Republicans. See full episodesĀ here. President Joe Biden got some excellent news today. Hiring accelerated last month as U.S. employers added 916,000 workers to their...

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  • April 2, 2021

Vladimir Putin really did a number on this country, didn’t he? If only Donald Trump’s admiration had led to emulation far sooner. Had Trump been photographed shirtless on a horse, I have to think this would have all been over in June 2015. But he wasn’t, and it wasn’t. And...

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  • January 10, 2021

Desperate disinformation failed miserably as so many Trumpists were obsessed with selfie declarations of their assault on the Capitol yesterday.  Because they wanted trophies and attention-seeking recognition, many familiar ā€œalt-rightā€ white supremacists revealed themselves, as well as some public officials and even at least one police chief. x There is no...

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  • January 8, 2021

In the midst of increased voting plurality is this also true: ā€œTrump appears to also have increased strength among rural Black voters across the ā€˜Black Belt.ā€™ā€ Will that then also reveal itself in the Georgia special US Senate election on 5 January. x REUTERS/IPSOS POLL: About 80% of Americans, including...

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  • November 11, 2020

There’s a whole bunch of polling out of Michigan today and over the weekend. First, from Research Co.: Trump ended a streak of six consecutive presidential elections where the Great Lakes State was won by Democrats, defeating Hillary Clinton by 10,704 votes in 2016 (47.5% to 47.3%) Biden heads to...

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  • November 2, 2020

I’m going to close out the day with some more good polling out of Arizona courtesy of The Justice Collaborative Institute: x ARIZONABiden 49% (+6)Trump 43%.#AZsen:Kelly (D) 50% (+10)McSally (R-inc) 40%@Justice_Collab, RV, 10/22-25https://t.co/VRNx15UZgT— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) October 28, 2020 Arizona helped deliver the election to Donald Trump in 2016. However,...

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  • October 29, 2020

Here’s the latest news today out of Michigan: Michigan Democratic U.S. Senator Gary Peters has increased his lead over Republican challenger John James heading into the final stretch of the 2020 election, a new WDIV/Detroit News poll shows. The race for the U.S. Senate seat in Michigan has been a...

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  • October 28, 2020

Here’s the latest news today out of North Carolina courtesy of PPP’s latest poll: x NORTH CAROLINABiden 51% (+4)Trump 47%.#NCsen:Cunningham (D) 47% (+3)Tillis (R-inc) 44%@ppppolls/@ProtectOurCare (D) 10/26-27https://t.co/BAV0ZaJeQm— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) October 27, 2020 A new Public Policy Polling survey finds North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis trailing Democratic opponent Cal Cunningham...

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  • October 28, 2020

Here’s the latest news today out of North Carolina courtesy of Meredith College’s latest poll: x NORTH CAROLINABiden 48% (+4)Trump 44%Jorgensen 1%Hawkins 1%Blankenship 0%.#NCsen:Cunningham (D) 43% (+5)Tillis (R-inc) 38%Bray (L) 4%Hayes (C) 1%.#NCgovCooper (D-inc) 52% (+18)Forest (R) 34%DiFiore (L) 2%Pisano (C) 1% Meredith College, LV, 10/16-19— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) October...

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  • October 23, 2020

projects.fivethirtyeight.com/… It’s nearly all plus signs for Joe Biden in today’s state polls. The forecast from 538 has Biden with a 87% of winning and a 10% national lead (some of today’s national polls are quite Republican). Being tied at 47% in Texas is a great achievement for the Biden campaign. poll.qu.edu/…...

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  • October 21, 2020

The Huffington Post has a good piece out about how U.S. Senate candidate, John James (R. MI), is repeating the same thing he did last time he ran for the Senate; campaign on empty rhetoric on health care: ā€œMy son has a preexisting condition … I will always fight to...

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  • October 15, 2020

Some more good news today out of North Carolina courtesy of The New York Times/Siena college’s latest poll: With a half-million votes already cast, President Trump and Senator Thom Tillis trail their Democratic challengers in North Carolina, according to a new poll from The New York Times and Siena College, signaling...

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  • October 14, 2020

Condescending or patronizing, how we forget until people get talked over. Tupac Shakur didn’t show up last night in Utah for the VP debate, but the truth got busted with a cap in its posterior. x Since the debate, Trump and his allies have called Kamala ā€œunlikeable,ā€ ā€œthis monster,ā€ ā€œan...

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  • October 8, 2020

The NBC/Wall Street Journal Poll, rated A- by 538, has Joe Biden leading Trump 53% to 39%.Ā The poll of registered voters was taken September 30 through October 1 after Tuesday’s debate but before Trump’s positive test for Coronavirus was made public. assets.documentcloud.org/… Joe Biden’s national lead over President Donald Trump...

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  • October 4, 2020

projects.fivethirtyeight.com/… After what is generally characterized as the worse debate among presidential contenders ever, 538 shows slight movement toward Joe Biden. We once again partnered with Ipsos to track how the debate affected Americans’ views of the election, using Ipsos’s KnowledgePanel to interview the same group of people both before and after...

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  • September 30, 2020

x Biden: ā€œI’m not going to make any news today. I’m not going to talk about anything other than 9/11. We took all our advertising down. It’s a solemn day. That’s how we’re going to keep it, OK? You can determine whether I make news but I’m not going to...

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  • September 11, 2020

projects.fivethirtyeight.com/… Almost everybody has gotten into the act today, bringing out a national presidential poll. Biden leads them all, but some readers might want to see how they compare. National Presidential Polls released 9/2/2020 Pollster 538 rating Biden Trump Margin Seltzer & Co. A+ 49 41 8 Suffolk A 50...

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  • September 2, 2020

Some good news today courtesy of Quinnipiac University’s latest poll: On the heels of back-to-back political party conventions and a climate of growing unrest in the country,likely voters support former Vice President Joe Biden over President Donald Trump 52 – 42 percent in a Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pea-ack) University national poll released...

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  • September 2, 2020

The are numerous attempts to make the election closer, few credible. Trump’s accelerationism is like Emilio LIzardo hitting a wall with a faulty overthruster in the film Buckaroo Banzai. This remains the path to the bunker on scorched earth, as Trump raves on… x ….His problem is interesting. He must always...

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  • August 31, 2020

The GOP wants you to be afraid, be very afraid. Trump wants you to pay attention anything other than the activity the Kremlin is doing for him and the GOP. Especially if you (still) live in the suburbs. And then Trump reveals his inner narcissist from the 1980s still afraid...

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  • July 17, 2020

http://www.msn.com/… The ABC/Ipsos Poll shows a sharp drop in how people think Trump is handling the pandemic. The survey taken July 6-9 shows 67% disapprove and 33% approve. The same question showed 58% disapproved in the June 16-17 survey while 41% approved. Back in March, 55% approved, according to ABC/Ipsos....

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  • July 11, 2020

On the one hand, this is a heartening development. On the other hand, grossly mishandlingĀ a pandemic, threatening to sic the military on yourĀ own citizens, and tear-gassing peaceful protesters for a sacrilegious photo op that makes you look like a constipated barn owl should put your approval rating in the low...

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  • June 10, 2020

Americans might not yet be completely tired of the Trump regime, but it’s getting there. The survey conducted on Monday and Tuesday found 64% of American adults were ā€œsympathetic to people who are out protesting right now,ā€ while 27% said they were not and 9% were unsure. The poll underscored...

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  • June 3, 2020

Boo fucking hoo: Ohio Gov.Ā Mike DeWineĀ (R) asked thatĀ Amy McGrath, the Kentucky Democrat challenging Senate Majority LeaderĀ Mitch McConnellĀ (R-Ky.) for his seat this year, refrain from using his image in her advertising after she cited him in a video blitzing McConnell. ā€œOhioans are focused exclusively on getting through COVID-19 and getting our...

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  • May 17, 2020

Trump bars COVID Taskforce members from congressional testimony for a month, as whistles blow. Relaxed distancing in the shallow-state end of the gene pool, as yet another cover-up arrives at the disaster called the Trump regime. Trump cannot get re-elected if his incompetence gets yet another investigation. Yet it is...

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  • May 6, 2020

The Great Orange Shitgibbet ā„¢ has always operated on the ā€œdivide and conquerā€ principle. He has said he loves chaos, but what that also means is that he loves division, so that people get so busy fighting each other they are unable to unite against him. That strategy worked to...

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  • May 1, 2020

What was the breaking point? It was the bleach thing, wasn’t it? Reuters: Americans appear to be losing faith in what President Donald Trump says about the coronavirus pandemic, with almost everyone rejecting Trump’s remark that COVID-19 may be treated by injecting infected people with bleach or other disinfectants, according...

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  • April 29, 2020

Even though Joe Biden’s exposure has been limited of late whileĀ Donald Trump hosts a daily Corona Clown Show, Biden has extended his lead over the pr*sident in the latest Ipsos/Reuters poll of three key Midwestern battleground states. Reuters: The poll, which ran from April 15-20 in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania,...

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  • April 22, 2020

Even as I started as a Harris supporter, and then went to Warren and now to Sanders, the goal remains the same. GOTV That goal remainsĀ the same in spite of the Sanders suspension ofĀ campaigning. It is not like 2016 as much as GOP magical thinking might be projected by Trump....

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  • April 8, 2020

Some more good news today: Former Vice President Joe Biden has a 6-point edge over President Trump in a hypothetical general election match-up, according to a Reuters-Ipsos poll released Tuesday. Forty-six percent of registered voters said they would back Biden in November, while 40 percent said they would support Trump....

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  • April 1, 2020

Dithering is not a deregulatory policy. Nor is thinking that 1-2 million deaths are acceptable to get re-elected. Yet Trump does seem to subscribeĀ toĀ a risk model thatĀ rewards his benefactors and supporters over anyone else.Ā  Trump has been now proven daily to peddleĀ unsubstantiated hope in dark times.Ā Trump is draconian in a...

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  • March 21, 2020

More Trump bafflegab this morning as Individual-1 spins another false narrative of disinformation to distract from his incompetence. Trump is never to blame, don't cha know! x …. Their response to H1N1 Swine Flu was a full scale disaster, with thousands dying, and nothing meaningful done to fix the testing...

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  • March 13, 2020

Weird night as Jill Biden tackledĀ a protester on stage in California and voters waited over 5 hours to vote in Texas. Had Trump not gotten caught shaking down Ukraine, he might haveĀ won the 2020 election like 2016. Because of the GOP’s Biden(s) vitriol,Ā the Arms for Dirt scandalĀ and its subsequentĀ impeachment may...

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  • March 4, 2020

This cannot be the government that America deserves in 2020, but there will be a repeat of 2016 if only because Trumpists lack the intelligence even if they had the GOP votes. #VoteBlueNoMatterWho x The question now largely seems to be, can we ever unpresident him or will he be...

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  • February 16, 2020

The first blush of commentary after the New Hampshire debates looks relatively conventional, even as small movements up and down in polling have occurred. MSM is far too obsessed with the media framing of socialism, despite a Chris Matthews rant about Fidel Castro. Four days before the New Hampshire primary,...

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  • February 8, 2020

http://www.foxnews.com/… Fox News Poll finds that 50% of registered voters want the Senate to remove Donald Trump from office and 44% want him to remain. On impeachment, by a 50-44 percent margin, voters think the Senate should vote to convict Trump and remove him from office. Ā Most Democrats say remove...

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  • January 26, 2020

Donald Trump once said he’d get 95 percent of the black vote when he ran for reelection. I’m thinking no. A new Washington Post-Ipsos poll also tells a completely different story. Go figure: While personally optimistic about their own lives, black Americans today offer a bleaker view about their community as...

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  • January 17, 2020

538 declared Biden the winner of the last debate, and Morning Consult’s poll of 5000 shows Biden ahead. x Biden received the highest marks from the debate, but his high pre-debate favorability rating means we expected a lot of voters to be predisposed to viewing his debate performance in a...

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  • December 23, 2019

Pudding, proof, eating. x My favorite part about the Republicans' whole “you can't trust anyone who doesn't have first-hand knowledge” excuse is that the *very next witnesses* (Vindman and Williams) both have first-hand knowledge and have testified privately that Trump conditioned aid on political help. ĆƒĀ¢Ć‚€Ć‚” Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen)...

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  • November 18, 2019

Apparently Trump’s absurd bleating is falling flat about how he’s against corruption in Ukraine in light of being caught trying to shake down that same country. Similar trending among Republicans, Independents, and Democrats in the WaPo poll. x Here's a really striking finding from the new Post poll: Since July,...

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  • October 8, 2019

politicalwire.com http://www.reuters.com/… Donald Trump’s support rose 5% among Republicans after he made comments widely considered racist about four Democratic congresswomen who are members of minorities. His overall approval rate in the Rueters/Ipsos poll stayed the same due to aĀ  two percent drop in approval from Democrats and independents.Ā  A new...

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  • July 17, 2019

fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/… An Ipsos/Reuters national poll shows Joe Biden leading Donald Trump 50% to 36% for president. Trump also loses to Bernie Sanders by 46% to 37%. The poll was conducted May 29 through June 5 and surveyed 3851 registered voters. Other Democratic candidates are also leading Trump but by smaller...

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  • June 6, 2019

morningconsult.com/… http://www.msn.com/… Donald Trump’s approval is 39% versus 57% who disapprove and has taken aĀ considerable hit from the revelations in the Mueller report. The 18-point deficit marks Trump’s worst net approval rating — the share of voters who approve minus those who disapprove — since he took office. It surpasses...

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  • April 22, 2019

President Donald Trump stepped up, put his big-boy pants on, and took the mantle of leadership. ā€œI’ll take responsibility for shutting it down, I won’t blame you for it,ā€ he famously told Chuck Schumer in the Oval Office. ā€œI’ll be proud to do it.ā€ Not much space for misinterpretation there,...

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  • January 9, 2019

Reuters.com ā€œReady for a fight: Voter enthusiasm surges among U.S. Hispanics Hispanics are more interested in voting this year than in the last U.S. congressional midterm elections in 2014 and their enthusiasm outpaces that of all U.S. adults, according to a Reuters/Ipsos national tracking poll released on Sunday. The poll...

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  • November 4, 2018
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FiveThirtyEight.com has a great piece that makes a strong case that Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D. TX) has a great shot at unseating the incumbent U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R. TX). Here’s how Nate Silver has a great breakdown: Some factors hurting Cruz have nothing to do with Cruz himself, but...

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  • September 29, 2018

Received two e-mails today regarding the U.S. Senate race in Texas. The first one is from the Progressives Change Campaign Committee: Ted Cruz might not be the first place you'd look for a vote AGAINST Brett Kavanaugh, but Cruz is in deep trouble. Women could decide the Texas Senate race...

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  • September 27, 2018

Lots of great polling news today courtesy of Reuters/Ipsos/UVA Center of Politics latest poll: x IN USSEN (Reuters/Ipsos): US Sen Joe Donnelly (D) 46%, St Sen Mike Braun (R) 43% ĆƒĀ¢Ć‚€Ć‚” Politics1.com (@Politics1com) September 26, 2018 x MI GOV (Reuters/Ipsos): Gretchen Whitmer (D) 52%, Bill Schuette (R) 39% ĆƒĀ¢Ć‚€Ć‚” Politics1.com...

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  • September 26, 2018

Received this e-mail today from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee in support of Beto O’Rourke’s (D. TX) U.S. Senate campaign: BIG NEWS! Cook Political Report moves Texas Senate race to ā€˜toss-up.’ The HillĀ reports: “The move follows a series of polls showing Cruz with a small single-digit lead over his insurgent opponent,...

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  • September 24, 2018