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White House Update: Tiz the Law should win

It's nearly Labor Day, the time when talking heads on teevee tell us "everybody starts paying attention"; the debates are scheduled and the mods selected.  It's also Kentucky Derby weekend, but there will be no crowd, no big hats.  Find your irony in the name of the morning line's heavy favorite.

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Let's see what the two old demented white dudes are up to.

-- Trump keeps moving his rhetoric; past conspiracy-theory territory now, straight to vote fraud.

(Trump) told voters in North Carolina they should vote twice, once by mail and once in person, even though doing so would be illegal. Trump was asked whether he has confidence in the mail-in voting system before suggesting voters break the law as he cast further confusion over the process ahead of November's election. "Let them send it (their mail-in ballot])in and let them go vote, and if their system’s as good as they say it is, then obviously they won’t be able to vote," he said."So that’s the way it is. And that’s what they should do".

If the GOP base is dumb enough to drink bleach to cure COVID, I'm sure they're dumb enough to follow these instructions.  It's not as if Greg Abbott or Ken Paxton, to use our local examples, would prosecute them for it, after all.  They're much too busy jailing people for not being aware they were ineligible, or collecting seniors' mail ballots at nursing homes and taking them to the post office.

-- While there is considerable conflicting reporting about whether or not Trump (or Biden, for that matter) got a polling bump following the parties' nominating conventions, the race appears to be right back where it started before the the RNC and the DNC did their thing.  There had to be a few unspoken reasons why Texas Democrats and Republicans didn't get prominent face time.


So as it seems the contest will once again turn not on the significant policy statements of either man -- Trump's cannot be believed, and Biden's aren't going to break any new ground -- the only thing left will be the performative artistry of the debate spin, and whatever gaffes Joe Biden happens to make ... because Trump's don't move the needle.

That puts Old Joe in a tight box.




Oh, yeah; Putin's Army of Trolls again.


Not unexpected.  I do believe that Nate's Liver -- I mean, Nate Silver -- has found his excuse for when the polling is wrong again and Biden loses to Trump: the Electoral College.


Much better than blaming Russian bots.  Or the Green Party's presidential nominee.  But what if someone proposed some systemic changes?


Following Ms. Savage's advice would also make all of this polling that shows the race tightening more legitimate, as they query likely and/or registered voters scattered across the country.  That would be as opposed to state surveys consolidated into an EC projection ... which is the only legitimate poll you should consider today.

Those show Biden still with a comfortable lead.

Can he still choke?  Like Michael Moore, I expect that he will.  I'll lay that out in a future post.

-- Howie Hawkins soldiers on, but the corporate media -- and the polling outfits -- are studiously ignoring him and the Libertarian Jo Jorgensen.


They will likely have to host their own debate, as in years past.

-- And Mark Charles' campaign is creeping up into the public eye.


-- Gonna have to mention Kanye a bit.  His presidential campaign is being described as 'unraveling' in two separate reports, but his vice-presidential campaign seems to be flourishing.

Didn't know he was running for veep? Neither did he.

-- If you thought that was weird, the Alaska Green Party nominated Jesse Ventura for president and Cynthia McKinney for VP.  Alaska Greens succeeded in petitioning for 'limited political party' status, meaning they can put forth only a top-ticket pair of candidates. They blew it big time (read the comments at the link for some hilarity).

-- Gonna wrap this with some Tweets about the Movement for a Peoples' Party, which held their nominating convention last weekend.


David Collins did an outstanding job live-blogging their virtual convention.  He's not as enthusiastic as others, but more so than me.

If the Greens can't get to 5% this year, it's time for them to fold their tent and throw in with somebody else, be it the PP or the SWP or some combination of united left parties, movements, etc. that can get ballot access and challenge the Democrats -- strongly -- from their portside.  They need labor to really get this done, which ought to be easier than it sounds considering how badly working people have been left behind by the Donkeys.  And they need some big money backers.



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