A vindication for our polling obsession
My favorite new poll measures public reaction to a variety of contemporary issues by employing an important but hitherto neglected variable: weirdness
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Thursday
Tuesday
Softballs for Kamala at the National Association of Black Journalists
‘It’s very important to not operate from the assumption that black men are in anybody’s pocket’
Why the Palm Beach assassination attempt is unlikely to affect the 2024 race
The attempt on Trump’s life comes when acts of political violence have disturbingly been on the rise
Monday
Trump and Kamala are competing over who’s more online
And neither campaign seems to be talking to the American people about what they keep telling us they care about
Democrats shouldn’t be surprised by Trump’s would-be assassins
They have been screaming for seven years that their chief political opponent is ‘Hitler’ or worse
Sunday
Man in custody after foiled Trump assassination attempt
Shots were fired as the former president golfed at his course in West Palm Beach
Thursday
Facing down the Democratic legal tsunami
To say that the prosecutions are ‘dubious’ is to belittle the unsettling power of dubiety
Tim Walz’s Minnesota vibes
The vice presidential candidate’s biographical points have significant political resonance in 2024
The pro-life problem
Abortion opponents will have to bring about a change in the public’s values as profound as the one wrought by supporters of same-sex marriage
Wednesday
Melania Trump disgusted by assassination attempt in book promo
Her memoir comes out October 8
ABC News is the big loser of the Trump-Harris debate
The immoderators, David Muir and Linsey Davis, repeatedly pecked at one candidate and not the other
Tuesday
Swift endorsement: Taylor backs Kamala after debate
‘I believe we can accomplish so much more in this country if we are led by calm and not chaos’
Live commentary: the Trump-Harris debate
Featuring Amber Duke, Ben Domenech, Bridget Phetasy, Jacob Heilbrunn, Juan P. Villasmil, Kate Andrews, Matt McDonald, Roger Kimball, Ross Anderson, Teresa Mull and Zack Christenson
Kamala’s brand new, same old last-minute policy platform
She has been shrewd to avoid stating much beyond traditional Democratic talking points
Monday
The Harris campaign’s ‘out of time’ ploy
‘We don’t have time to sit around and think about why, over the last few years, certain things may have happened or may not have happened’
How to score the Trump-Harris debate
What the candidates and moderators need to do and need to avoid
‘Trump is still Trump,’ says Piers Morgan
‘He hadn’t changed one iota’
Kamala has more to lose in the debate than Trump
The Trump team shouldn’t change anything about its debate approach
Wednesday
Tucker Carlson is just asking questions
Like, ‘why don’t we fully appreciate the total bind Adolf Hitler was in when he had just so many prisoners of war thanks to German success on the battlefield?’
Tuesday
Want to see RNC chair Lara Trump’s new music video?
What, you thought she’d be campaigning or something?
