Pennsylvania has been called. Looking out from my porch… yes… it’s going to be a beautiful morning in America. Kids, don’t worry about a thing, the future is yours, enjoy
We all saw the debate - which only put on camera what had been speculated about for months. Physically, Biden could not have campaigned for 3-4 months with the intensity needed to beat the economic headwinds. Across the country, salaries have fallen behind inflation by greater or lesser amounts over the last 4 years, but they have fallen behind in almost every county, as in about a dozen of them. In Pennsylvania, the counties where that margin was greatest are the ones where her vote share has fallen behind Biden's the most, particularly Philadelphia county. Pretty similar in Las Vegas And sorry, but forget the whiteness stuff: the demographics where Trump made gains were Black and Latino males. Working class males. The minority female numbers aren't that great either. Race, gender and sexual orientation can't beat employment, cost of living and housing. Trump offered no solutions and will probably make the situation worse but from the blue collar workers' perspective, the Orange Monster had the same priorities
Man, I like to think I’m good at reading people. But holy hell, I need to do some reevaluating. still waiting and all that, but man, I’m disappointed in a lot of fellow Americans. if some crazy how, Harris wins, there needs to be a serious talk about some things.
If anything can be taken from this for the next dem president, when hat happens, you have to be loud about your achievements constantly.
It will be interesting to see which journalists, politicians, etc leave the country before they otherwise "disappear".
"If you're explaining, you're losing" Explaining inflation properly means telling people "not a lot we can do except grind it out. And when inflation goes back to what it was, the price tags won't go down and salaries will rise slowly (we hope). And BTW we don't want prices to back to what they were. Really. That will create a depression and everyone will be unemployed. " The press wouldn't have made any difference
Damn… soo much to do for “Day 1 Dictator” -does he pardon himself -pardon the Jan 6 “political prisoners” -jail those who “stole” 2020? sorry Biden -does he let Elon loose -does he make Kyle Rittenhouse Secretary of Defense -Joe Rogan press secretary? -Does he crown AG Aileen Cannon -does RFK Jr outlaw all vaccinations -drop affordable care act -do tariffs go into immediate effect (except on his bibles and whatever Ivanka imports) -does he break from our allies in Europe -arms shipment to Israel, hell have US join in on bombardments This is going to be one busy man
I'm already getting emails from students asking about transferring to one of our international partners. I think it's going to become a tidal wave of emails soon.
How blue states moved from 2020: New York: D+23 -> D+11 New Jersey: D+16 -> D+4 Massachusetts: D+33 -> D+26 Rhode Island: D+23 -> D+13 Connecticut: D+20 -> D+8 Delaware: D+19 -> D+14 Illinois: D+17 -> D+8 on a flip side red states got much redder Florida: R+4 -> R+13 Texas: R+6 -> R+14 Ohio: R+8 -> R+12 Iowa: R+8 -> R+13
Likewise. Besides, I'm getting too many emails from friends overseas, but there's only so much explaining how this could happen I can deal with for one night.