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I drove from Pittsburgh to Harrisburg and back last weekend. I’m not sure how much of it is my optimism, but I couldn’t help but feel like enthusiasm for Trump seemed down. Even driving through Carlisle, which was hosting some kind of truck nationals, I saw plenty of small dick trucks but not a single maga tank.

That was my response when I found out what courses we are playing.

Every Trump ad is trying to portray Kamala as weak on the border. In Pennsylvania… The last one was an ER nurse claiming that illegals are clogging up the ERs decreasing the quality of care and driving up cost. And it’s all Kamala’s fault.

Watching the Olympics and every single commercial break switches between an ad for Harris and one for Trump.

Same here in PA. I remember being surprised when I found out schools everywhere didn’t give kids the first day of deer season off because so many people would be out.

Pinehurst trip for next summer officially on the books! 2, 3, 4, & 8. Trying to talk at least some of the boys into going down a day early and doing Tobacco Road and mid pines.

Can someone explain internal polling to me? Why is it different than public polling and how is it more/less accurate than typical public polling data?

First two paragraphs from the top story on my news feed this morning “Tim Walz Military Record Under Scrutiny” They are trying to learn hard into this angle because it’s all they’ve got.

Walz! LFG! Harris picks Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, AP sources say

Hopefully all of the potentials have their calendars cleared so they can all be at the event introducing the pick to voice their support for the ticket to their individual constituents.

The delusion from the other side:

192 oz of beer or wine per purchase. They basically made it so gas stations that had food prep and seating could get a restaurant alcohol license. Which is a separate license from a beer distributor license that can sell any amount of beer, or a winery license that can sell any amount of wine. Liquor still only sold by the state.

We can buy beer in gas stations here now!

Southwest PA is a little different than the rest of rural PA. PA used to be referred to as a T because the southeast corner was Philly and suburbs and strongly democrat. Southwest PA was the land of steel mills and coal mines and unions. It was a place where unions made a real fucking difference in towns where they’d send young kids into the mines and people worked long hours 6 days a week and were in debt to the company store. It’s a place where the changes that unions ushered in made a massive positive difference in people’s lives. And because of that it was solidly democratic from FDR through Kerry. McGovern was the only democrat that lost southwestern PA I’m that time. In that respect it has a lot in common with WV and eastern Kentucky. WV was a swing state and blue more often than not for most of the 20th century. And then a black man ran for president and SW PA was lost for at least a generation.

I’m not convinced they’ve ever come to the conclusion that they can only rely on themselves. They got told that their steel mills and manufacturing got shipped overseas by big city globalist democrats. They got told that the environmentalists are shutting down the coal mines. They got told that it was Obama’s fault that the post recession recovery skipped their communities. They got told that Biden was going to shut down fracking and turn off their gas wells. They got told that the Muslims were coming to destroy their way of life. They got told that millions of brown people are streaming across the border to come take what little they have. They’ve been eating nothing but lies for decades and have absolutely no connection to reality. No ability to connect with what’s really happening. Because they actively seek out an echo chamber that is happy to feed them the lies that they desperately want to hear. They are told that the shining city on the hill is being torn down by everything different than rural white Christians. They are told that there’s no possible way that the party that represents minorities or gays or trans or cities could possibly be good for them. And in what is probably the greatest con of all time, Donald fucking Trump convinced them that he was the only one that could save them. By speaking in simple words and making fun of all of the things that they weren’t, they bought it. They swallowed it hook, line, and sinker. He perfectly fed them the lie that they wanted to hear. That the cause of their situation was a grand conspiracy against them and only he could set things right. A brilliant, white, man of god was going to lead the charge to bring back a time where Christian whites were superior to everyone else, men worked, women cooked and everyone else knew their place. They aren’t looking for bootstraps to pull themselves up by. They are looking for a party that will knock down anyone different than them so that they can climb over them.

This will forever be my favorite moment from the Trump presidency. A man so incapable of admitting that he misspoke on slightly outdated information that he had to have a poster board made of a days old map and draw on it with sharpie to prove to everyone that he wasn’t actually wrong. What a fucking imbecile.

This is the shift of each county in PA. Compared to the map of fracking wells:

This is their message to suburban white guys in Allegheny county. I get it every day now.

Penn state is a nightmare to get to driving from Boston? It’s a hike but coming from the east it’s literally just 2 highways from the NY/NJ border. I 80 west to 99 south and that drops you off directly at the stadium.

That should be the plan no matter who it is. The only person that couldn’t make Trump show his ass was Biden because he just couldn’t keep up with him. No matter who it is they just need to keep hammering Trump on all of his failings. After every rambling response, emphasize how much of a complete verbal diarrhea every answer Trump gives is.

The only evidence I’ve seen of that is a post on freaking 4chan claiming to be the SS sniper. But unsurprisingly, Twitter is running with it.

Trump won Butler county 2-1, but Biden improved on Hillary’s numbers there by 11k and Trump only lost the state by 80k. He had a rally there the day before the election in 2020. It was very likely in the exact same field as yesterday’s rally.

That’s northwestern PA meth in all it’s glory.

And I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me.

In PA when you apply for or renew your drivers license, you’re prompted with a question asking if you’d also like to register to vote. If you hit yes it walks you through the process. The listed parties are democratic, republican, green, libertarian, no affiliation, other (gives a text field to enter the party). You’re only able to vote in the primary of your registered party.