What's infuriating about Frank Luntz is he's a good pollster and knows better. He was wrong in 22, admitted he was wrong, and admitted why. Now here he is again with the 50/50 narrative. Gotta stay on TV, bills to pay, etc.....
Ever since Dobbs. It's like it mattered or something.
What pisses me off is that every single pollster knows this yet people like Frank Luntz are back again telling us how this is 50/50 despite Harris leading and then factoring in the hidden Dobbs vote. Abortion doesn't show up in polling because people are lying about it. There's no other explanation.
The R's seem to be worried as hell about NC. Sure, Asheville is a liberal outpost but if you know anything about Western NC, you know it's hard red. David Axelrod took heat for saying it but he pointed out the Asheville crowd is wealthier and more educated and as a result, they'll still likely vote. The rest? Maybe, maybe not.
Now you throw in conservative parts of Florida and who knows?
I find it ironic that the Republicans have spent the last four years making it harder to vote are now going to get fucked by it.
Heard her on Stern yesterday. I want to dispel the notion that Harris is a Boomer. She said she liked hip hop and Doug liked Depeche Mode but they both liked Prince.
Gen X in the house....
The Republican Party of AZ is batshit crazy. They make Texas Republicans look moderate. It's because those people like the in actual desert. Not Phoenix, but the actual real desert middle of nowhere.
The Call Her Daddy episode was solid. More of a conversation than anything. I like how Cooper (the host) framed it. She said that the topics were going to be relating to women and young people and if you want to hear about economics, fracking, etc. she's probably not the right one to be talking about that.
The Biden/Harris campaign people are actually good at their jobs. They know the 30 day window is when the actual undecideds start to dial in. They know we don't need a constant 6 month barrage of bullshit.
It's no coincidence that they're coming hard now and Obama is now out there.
No one would give a fuck what she said to the NYT back in August or some shit.
That's exactly how I described it to my wife. Joe Rogan for young women. (I don't listen to either but they have huge audiences.) This combined with Taylor Swift might have major turnout implications.
FWIW, the previous episode of Call Her Daddy is titled "Heather McMahon: Blow job, hall passes, and frat daddies."
Lulz.
I like what they're doing here and they've been doing it for awhile. Even when Biden was the top of the ticket, they were going on podcasts instead of the NYT and what not. It's a more targeted audience and in this case, Call Her Daddy is decidedly younger women who may or may not vote so it's a turnout play. Also, they have millions of listeners which is more than the NYT editorial page....
If you have 10 minutes, listen to James Carville talk in detail about running barbed wire through Trump's "fat fucking ass" and how Melania is "horse fucking" Trump: