I shot skeet once with a shotgun, it was super fun! And tbh as far as guns go, a shotgun isn't *safe* but according to this data there's 3x more homicides where the perpetrator used their own body!
This is one of the endless columns on why Harris lost. We need to look at the terrible parts of Trump’s campaign.
Democrats would probably benefit from long-term investment in community organizing. But that’s not “ground game” and it’s not something a campaign can do. http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202…
There have been lots of critiques of the Harris campaign. Is anyone going to give comparable scrutiny to the Trump campaign? Trump won so obviously his campaign deserves some credit. But look how he did it.
In many ways Trump was horrible and I hope we never see another campaign like it. Here are some reasons:
1) He lied endlessly. The media failed to keep up but they had an impossible job. ABC was commended for correcting three lies in the debate while he lied many more times. How about his lies about hurricane cleanup and eating dogs and cats? How about his lies about the 2020 election and January 6th? How about his lies about who pays for tariffs?
2) Trump spewed racism and misogyny. The way he talked about Harris was disgusting.
3) He was sometimes hours late for events and, to put it kindly, rambling and incoherent. Remember the 39 minutes when he stood on the stage and didn’t speak? He still hasn’t reimbursed some communities for the costs of his events.
4) Numerous people who worked for his said he shouldn’t be elected.
I left out that people who worked for him said he had fascist tendencies. He got Republicans to kill the immigration bill that would have helped solve the problem. I also left out that he is a convicted felon and sexual predator. How about his illegal use of Arlington for political purposes?
Important point I learned from this paper – overestimation of the population sizes of minority groups is a more general cognitive error and NOT a domain-specific misperception.
Both sides are partisan but Republicans are more biased. They’re a Trump cult now.
Well, look at this. Republicans suddenly feel the best about this economy since…2020 when Trump was last in office.The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment survey shows the big jump in sentiment for Republicans.Democrats did decline, but back to 2023 levels. No change for Independents
Want to hear a great Beatles song you probably don’t know? “I’m Down” (1965) was the B-side of “Help” and was only on albums that were collections of miscellaneous tracks.
Fascinated by this Pew finding: "Americans give Trump low marks for his efforts to date to reach out to those who supported Kamala Harris in the election."Question: has Trump done *anything* to reach out to those who supported Kamala Harris in the election? http://www.pewresearch.org/politics/202…
D. John Sauer, Trump's lawyer and choice for solicitor general, yesterday: "President Trump has called for our Nation’s partisan strife to end, and for the contending factions to join forces for the greater good of the country."Sauer's client, this morning:
Mandate? Trump is now under 50% in the popular vote with his margin ranking 44th out of 51 elections since 1824.4 Democrats won Senate seats in states Trump carried—compared to zero in 16 and 20.GOP poised for its smallest House majority since the U.S. had 50 states.- CNN’s Harry Enten reports
Trump won but he still has to lie about it and say he won in a landslide when he actually won less than 50% of the vote and by one of the smallest margins in history
He did not win by a massive margin, does not have a historic mandate, and therefore is not automatically owed a cabinet of reactionary extremists and tinfoil-gilded cranks to inflict on the American people.