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Does anyone actually believe these polls? I am voting for Trump and won't answer any polls. A friend always takes them and likes to screw around. He is voting for Trump but says Harris has his support.

Other friends who are strangely silent since October 7 could vote for Trump but will never admit it.

I don't know who is going to win but it is hard for me to believe Trump won't because Harris and the Democrats seem to offend a new group of voters everyday.

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Haha, Trump should be running away with the election...because of his "terrible" opponent, and because his "policies" as president were so stellar? Good journalism! (Where is that sarcasm font?)

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"Trump Should Be Running Away with the Election. Why Isn’t He? "

Because he is Trump. The better headline would be: "If the Republicans had nominated (just about) anyone but Trump, she or he would be running away with the election".

Trump isn't a good candidate. That is why he isn't running away with it.

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To Emily Oster on child discipline. I was born in 1966. Parents spanked us for disobedience. Parenting needs to be authoritarian because child brains are still developing. Google “the world’s strictest teacher” to find a public high school teacher in London who says that kids need restrained freedom during childhood so as to responsibly enjoy adulthood freedom. I agree.

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I think the real question and story is why Harris isn’t beating Trump like a drum. Numerous criminal indictments, felony convictions, and lawsuits have not swept him from the American political stage. In fact, many argue convincingly that they have strengthened his standing with traditional supporters and many independents. Harris gave her party a rare reset with a more engaging, energetic, and relatively youthful candidate who checks so many boxes dear to hearts of many Americans. And yet she only occasionally pops her head consistently above the 50% polling parapet. This is my 16th presidential election in living memory. I’ve often found myself succumbing to the temptation that seems to have captured Oliver, of mentally rewriting the speeches or strategic plans of candidates to correct their obvious, to us at least, missteps. But little of this ultimately matters, I think. If people like what you’re selling, they’ll buy it. Otherwise, no. And to that point, Harris has the steeper uphill climb, and it’s why she can’t seem to close the deal against such a burden-laden candidate. That’s Trump’s biggest advantage.

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Expectations of credibility out of any media hack is a pipe dream. If anything they varnish over the truth and twist the facts to fit their agenda.

Any political opponent has to run against the media and the scum Washington and the godless donors who stay in the shadows.

The fact remains Trump's the only man who held the office that didn't gain wealth from his power.

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Sep 26·edited Sep 26

In my heart there will only be ONE TRUE film adaptation of Wurthering Heights...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIMEPPZxzyg

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Julia the Intern reads like a Bari clone! Great! Despite you all being very liberal, we're rooting for you. A remake of journalism is so overdue, we'll cheer it on from whatever direction it comes. Go team!

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Yes, time to send the UN to Cuba, or Venezuela, North Korea, Haiti, Afghanistan, somewhere that their ideology will be embraced. I hope they enjoy the fine dining. The USA will start a new organization, by invite only and put forth the ideology that made Western civilization so enlightening.

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Have you missed the nightly two minute hate directed at Trump for the last 8 or 9 years? Do you think that has had no effect?

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Sep 26·edited Sep 26

You are not addressing the issues raised in this piece. When Trump associates with Loomer, Carlson, pushes false pet-eating stories, not to mention all the false stolen-election narrative stuff which resulted in Jan 6, he brings a lot of it on himself.

One could also say the same about the evening Fox News shows and Harris. Their evening shows, Ingraham, Waters, and Hannity, are nothing but "Trump is great, let's mock Harris."

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No I’m not. That Trump says a lot of things that aren’t helpful to him is very old news

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Why should we address the issues in this piece? Every media outlet on earth has addressed the issues in this piece for the last 9 years. We KNOW about Donald Trump. We don't know a damn thing about Kamala Harris because the media is not doing its job. They are corrupt. They have chosen sides.

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Julia the Intern, wonderful article for the Stanford Review.

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Sounds like MSM propaganda to me…

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I am a bit sad that the Democratic Party and our partisan press are so blatantly contemptuous of the working and middle class. There is an unmistakable arrogance and lack of compassion that I did not see before. Whatever they may claim, little to nothing has been reported about the thousands of small businesses that were tanked by government edict during Covid, while more billionaires were created. I saw a woman the other day chattily posting on Facebook, regarding the Trump assassination attempts, that “maybe the third time’s a charm!” The fact that lefties who once championed the so-called common man feel permitted to be this openly nasty says quite a lot about this time period and about them.

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"Instead of working hard to convince voters Harris is unfit for the top job, the Trump campaign has wasted too much time on two things: stupid stuff and bad stuff. " Yeah, because Trump is soooooo much more qualified than Harris. The guy's borderline retarded when he's not raving like your demented old grandpa.

I think they're both working hard to lose the election. I don't give a crap which one does.

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Sep 25·edited Sep 26

Why isn't Trump running away with this election? I'm sure your post details all the reasons (and likely they are true) that Trump isn't a slam dunk. But there is one single reason that can explain all of it: your colleagues in the media are not doing their job. They are the single most powerful entity in the most powerful country in history and they have chosen sides. It has never been more blatant and less subtle than at any time in our history.

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Bravo!

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If Trump said all sorts of the things that you people think he ought to say, would you know that he said them?

Who would report them?

Think about it.

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