“Plenty” was not enough. The pre-election criticism looks like it worked exactly as intended.

Which non voters are you talking about? The article is about politically engaged voters and voters who don’t follow politics, both of which are voters.

You have to understand, the people who constantly attacked Harris before the election now have to figure out some way to make her just as bad as Trump, to excuse their own behavior. Is it disgusting? Yes. Is it reprehensible? Yes. Is it absolutely predictable as a means of trying to escape responsibility for the rancid shit hurricane that will be Trump Part 2? Yes.

Shifting blame by… checks notes… analyzing the demographics of voters.

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I’ll be able to. But I most certainly won’t do it. No thanks.

This isn’t Steam’s fault. The OS is dead because Microsoft killed it (as part of their ongoing planned-obsolescence operating system program). There is no conceivable way Steam can maintain security for anyone’s account on an OS that hasn’t received security updates for three years.

What are they going to do? Invade?

How about a pro-credible-news site now?

“Fascism”

I don’t think you know what that word means.

Thank you for your transparency on this. It’s disappointing - especially the misinformation part - but it’s good to know.

This is bullshit. COVID-19 hospitalizations are spiking right now, something that doesn’t happen with colds.

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Hamas has genocide as its openly, publicly stated goal.

And the salt. He’s regularly consuming just godawful amounts of sodium.

Just this last week, my youngest kid caught and brought home influenza-A, which I’ve been reading is pretty gnarly this year. But it’s been comparatively mild for us - probably because we vaccinate. Mostly just an annoying cough and some fatigue.

In my case, I didn’t get sick at all. My wife has mild symptoms, as does my oldest kid. The worst is actually my youngest, but still not particularly severe.

Moral of the story: Vaccines are fucking awesome and the fact that some people refuse to vaccinate just blows my fucking mind.

Ronald Reagan polled lower in his third year, but you’re missing the point. We’re in wholly uncharted polling territory, because the pollsters haven’t figured out how to poll young people who don’t answer unknown numbers calling their cellphones, and they’re voting in unprecedented numbers.

In the mid-2010’s, the migration from landlines to cellphone-only households really got underway. We crossed the threshold where there were more cellphones than landlines in 2016, and it’s only continued from there. And an interesting thing started happening with polls around 2017 and 2018: They started consistently underestimating the strength of Democratic support in off-year and mid-term elections.

It’s why the “red wave” in 2022 turned out to be a pink dribble. It’s why Democrats did so unexpectedly well in the 2021 special elections. It’s why they also did well this year.

In 2024, people who were twelve years old in 2016 will be old enough to vote, and if the trends stay consistent, they will vote in droves. But none of them are answering pollster calls. And that makes polling them extraordinarily difficult.

Pollsters try to account for such things by adjusting weights and making various assumptions that they hope are accurate, but in the end you need actual data from real voters, and that’s just plain getting harder to get.

I’m not saying this poll looks good. It very much doesn’t. But at the same time, we shouldn’t fall into the trap of cynicism and apathy. It’s very possible this poll - like so many recent polls - is underestimating Democratic support.

There is still hope.

This is worth some concern, but for fuck’s sake people… Remember how this year’s special elections were supposed to be all about Republican takeover of state legislatures? Or how 2022 was supposed to be a red wave?

Stop. Breathe. The election is a year away. And polls are very troubled right now, due to the difficulty of polling a young populace that doesn’t answer its phones, but votes in unprecedented numbers.

It’s not in the bag for Trump. Don’t give up hope almost a year before the first ballots are even cast.

Do you want forever investigations into nothing? Because that’s how you get forever investigations into nothing.

Return? I never stopped wearing them. Or social distancing and avoiding indoor spaces packed with strangers.

Weirdly enough, I haven’t caught COVID yet, either.