12 thoughts on “Monday Open Thread”

1. Heather Cox-Richardson this morning:

   Analyzing voter registrations in Michigan, pollster Tom Bonier found an immediate increase in young women registering to vote in the week of July 21, and his models suggest a 20-point Democratic advantage among those new registrants. FiveThirtyEight shows Harris up 2.7 points over Trump in the national polling average, a six-point improvement from Biden’s last day as a candidate. Across the country, the campaign has 400,000 volunteers.

   Harris is now up 4 pts at Nate Silvers average!

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2. A little refresher course to start out the week…

   The Troubling Reason the Electoral College Exists

   Standard civics-class accounts of the Electoral College rarely mention the real demon dooming direct national election in 1787 and 1803: slavery.

   

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   1. How did he know?
      Did he study it in the 5th grade?
      We know he has not read a book since that grade.

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3. JD Vance: "They're calling me wierd!"
   RFK JR: "Hold my bear".

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   1. that's funny …

      And did you see that RFK jr. apparently knows how to use a chain saw?

      Vanity Fair: RFK Jr. Whale-Beheading Story Gives RFK Jr. Bear-Murder Story a Run for Its Money

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4. Looking forward to seeing what comes out of this special session. Should be an interesting attempt to make sausage in public.

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5. This is what it looks like if you don't color all of the empty farm land in red.

   

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6. Donald has lost his Mojo. Josh Marshall at TPM

   We have more than two months to go before Election Day. A lot can happen. But there’s something going on with Donald Trump.

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   It’s important to remember the truest axiom of electoral politics: that it’s very, very hard to look good or smart when you’re losing. But there’s something more going on with Trump. He lacks his old energy and focus. He doesn’t seem to have the malign cunning that would allow him to force a second act. Trumpism is about a never-ending series of performances of dominance. Now he’s stuck in outbursts of weakness. Some of this is certainly age, a clear enough fact that was obscured by Joe Biden’s frailty and the simple fact that Trump was ahead, if only by a small and durable margin. Some of it is the energy and reach into the popular culture of the Harris campaign, which he seems unable to understand or grapple with. A normal campaign could deal with the candidate being in a funk or even an extended depression. But Trump’s isn’t a normal campaign. And at least for the moment the campaign itself seems to be stuck in neutral because Trump himself lacks the energy and focus to reclaim dominance over the attention economy, if not the lead in the campaign itself.

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   1. He's finally admitting he lost in 2020, but I'm not sure he realizes that's what he's doing:https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-howls-harris-dems-turn-2024-incumbent-rcna168276

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   2. I was with the parental unit today and the tube was tuned to NewsMax during the Michigan "rally".  Fat Donnie appears to be either sedated, or he's so sleep deprived from having to actually campaign that he can barely pronounce his beautiful words. 
       

      Tulsi? That was his big endorsement today?  Who next? Jill Stein? 

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      1. You can have Tulsi…we found a honeypot today:

         More than 200 Bush, McCain, Romney aides endorse Harris

         More than 200 former aides to the three GOP presidential nominees who preceded former President Trump in 2016 — former President George W. Bush, former Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) — endorsed Vice President Harris on Monday.

          

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      2. Scott Baio. 

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