2024 US Presidential Election

[Thumpalumpacus]

Vice President Harris is narrowly leading former President Trump in six critical battleground states, while the candidates are tied in Georgia, according to new polling.

The survey, published late Thursday by Bloomberg News/Morning Consult, found the Democratic nominee has the edge over Trump in Nevada, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin.

Harris has a 7-point lead over Trump in Nevada — 52 percent to 45 percent — and a 5-point lead in Pennsylvania, 51 percent to 46 percent. In Arizona and Michigan, the vice president has a 3-point edge over the GOP nominee, 50 percent to 47 percent.

Her lead is much smaller in North Carolina, 50 percent to 48 percent, and Wisconsin, 51 percent to 48 percent. The two White House contenders are tied in Georgia with 49 percent support apiece, the survey found.

The majority of Harris’s leads, with the exceptions of Nevada and Pennsylvania, are within the survey’s margin of error.

With Election Day less than six weeks away, Harris has an overall 3-point advantage over the former president among likely voters in all seven swing states — bringing in 50 percent support to Trump’s 47 percent.

When third-party presidential candidates were added to the survey, the vice president’s lead expanded to 4 percentage points. Libertarian Party candidate Chase Oliver was at 2 percent and Green Party candidate Jill Stein was at 1 percent.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/49...e-polling/

[arewethereyet]

^These polls keep going back and forth between the two. I am astonished that the numbers are so damned close. Who the hell looks at Trump and says that's the guy who embodies my values?

[Ravenshire]

^These polls keep going back and forth between the two.  I am astonished that the numbers are so damned close.  Who the hell looks at Trump and says that's the guy who embodies my values?

The people who see their values in Trump, aren't seeing Trump, but Project 2025. They're not voting for a person, they're voting for the path to what they think they want life to be like. The worst part is that the majority of them will regret it, even if they get the outcome they want.

[Ivan Denisovich]

^These polls keep going back and forth between the two.  I am astonished that the numbers are so damned close.  Who the hell looks at Trump and says that's the guy who embodies my values?

Fascists, racists, sexists, grifters, conspiracy theorists... All manner of trash to say it succinctly.

[Fake Messiah]

Totally not insane dictator behavior

Donald Trump Threatens Prosecution Of Google Over The Display Of Negative Stories In Search Results

Donald Trump says that he will seek the prosecution of Google, claiming that the tech giant was only “revealing and displaying” bad stories about him but positive ones about his rival, Kamala Harris.

Trump’s post on Truth Social appeared to be in reaction to a Media Research Center study that claims Google’s search is biased in favor of Harris.

Google, though, says that the study’s conclusions are wrong and that “both campaign websites consistently appear at the top of Search for relevant and common search queries.”

Media Research Center is a media watchdog on the right, which has long claimed media bias.

Trump’s call for prosecuting Google executives is the latest in a line of retaliatory pronouncements made by the former president against tech and media outlets.

https://deadline.com/2024/09/trump-googl...236102171/

[Silver]

On his death bed: "Don't believe the lies. Mine is the best death. Betty White wished her death was as bigly as mine."

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

^These polls keep going back and forth between the two.  I am astonished that the numbers are so damned close.  Who the hell looks at Trump and says that's the guy who embodies my values?

The people who see their values in Trump, aren't seeing Trump, but Project 2025. They're not voting for a person, they're voting for the path to what they think they want life to be like. The worst part is that the majority of them will regret it, even if they get the outcome they want.

Unless you know how the respondents were selected, the exact questions asked, how those questions were worded, the sample size, and the extrapolation methodology used, polls mean nothing.

Once you have that data, on the other hand, polls mean nothing.

Boru

[Thumpalumpacus]

Vera Andryczyk is a card-carrying member of the Republican Party in Pennsylvania, but as a Ukrainian-American, she’s putting her efforts into canvassing for Vice President Harris and reelecting the Democratic congresswoman from her district.

Foreign policy is usually a low priority in presidential elections, but Pennsylvania’s unique connection to, and investment in, U.S. support for Ukraine make it a major focus — and flashpoint — of the November contest.

Andryczyk is part of the estimated 1 percent of Pennsylvania’s population that is of Ukrainian heritage, a small but significant number of voters in a state that President Biden won in 2020 by fewer than 81,000 votes.

“I’ve encouraged at every fundraiser, every social meeting, I keep telling them, not only can you not vote for [former President] Trump, but you have to vote for the Democrat,” the self-described young 82-year-old told The Hill in a phone call.

“Because this is a very, very close election, and we cannot afford — Ukraine, the United States, the world — cannot afford another term.”

The Keystone State is considered one of, if not the most, important swing states in the 2024 presidential election, carrying with it the prize of 19 Electoral College votes. And Harris and Trump’s diverging positions on Ukraine are taking center stage.

In addition to the estimated 100,000 Ukrainian-Americans in Pennsylvania, Polish-Americans make up about 5 percent of the state’s population, and it has significant populations of Americans with heritage from Baltic states and other eastern-European nations that are often concerned about their homelands being on the frontline of Russian aggression.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/49...e-pivotal/

[Fake Messiah]

CBS News Says It Will Be Up To Vance And Walz To Fact-Check Each Other.

ABC showed it could be done. Now:

"CBS News is clearly indicating it wants to take a step back from the heat generated by calling attention to misleading statements by candidates."

https://apnews.com/article/cbs-debate-vi...f57a359d10

So, yeah, Republicans are persecuting journalists by bullying them for fact-checking their lies. I guess it's not so far until they start putting people in jail for contradicting the MAGA party.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

^ALL candidates, regardless of party or policies, need to be fact checked in real time.

But not by debate moderators. There should be a panel of experts, made up of historians, economists, and policy wonks with the ability to immediately mute a candidates mic and set things straight.

Boru