It sounds like the pundits have too much time on their hands this summer. Like a teenager too old for camp can’t we find them something to do? Some menial but useful summer job like selling ice cream or cleaning out the grease traps?
Ironically this past year or so is one if the few times wages have exceeded inflation. I’d say real wages have been pretty flat for twenty plus years. But people didn’t know enough to complain about inflation then because they were told it was so low.
Low inflation is great if you are living on investments or are in the top 10% where incomes are rising. But “low” inflation isn’t low no matter how small the number if it’s still higher than your wages.
There are several markets where owning a house is difficult even for the upper middle class. NY, LA, SF, DC. This is true now. And it was true 20 years ago. But there are many many places where this is not true.
Well that can’t happen for five years. So plenty of time to do good stuff. Eventually governments change but with a massive victory like this it can easily be a decade or more.
So your entire argument is she has some qualifications? As though that settles it? As though those who have shot her down don’t have as many or more qualifications?
It’s all retconning now. “See I knew Biden was going to perform badly in the debate so Harris would have to step in but four years ago Biden failed to prepare Harris for this moment.”
It was a bad debate but so what it’s one data point. Only fear and irrationality lead one to abandon a previously held position on such limited evidence.
Because early July polls are 100% accurate! Nate Silver had one good insight. A candidate with a 25% chance has a totally good chance of winning. That’s what polls can tell us even WHEN your candidate’s numbers don’t improve. Let alone when they do.
Don’t worry polls showed Hilary beating Trump by double digits less than two weeks before the election. Also Kerry was crushing Bush in early September. So what the polls say now are totally predictive of what will happen in November.
And he does abandoning Biden help? How can people be so clueless as to not ask that basic question. If a substitute candidate doesn’t improve the odds but does cost time, money and disarray why would you do it?
Folks get real. Changing candidates doesn’t move the needle an inch. Except it might move it closer to Trump. There no saviors out there. Get behind your candidate and stop undermining. Make the case for the Democrats. Otherwise you are just helping Trump
Yes and as soon as he’s replace after months of division, legal struggles over the ballots, difficult to impossible transfers of funds the polls will magically reverse for the Democrats. So simple.
The press has published literally thousands of articles on Biden’s age leading up to the debate. And then you saw what you had been prepared to see and panicked. But please tell who can do “better?” Because better for the chattering class means fits their fiction on what they think a president…
..should look and sound like. Versus better as in better chance of winning election. The second is the only thing that matters. When you’ve got a realistic alternative let me know.
