Harris Vs Trump 2024 US Presidential election - read the warning in the OP posted 18/09/24

Use your words.

More words. Your doing it. Which of my comments is thus?

You are forgetting that voters don't want to hear stuff like that. Can you imagine is Harris spoke about raising taxes to pay for teachers and supplies. Or heaven forbid raising the minimum wage or increasing workers rights?

Communist, Marxist, socialist. Look at contempt that AOC and Sanders are viewed by millions.

Trump sells hope and easy solutions. Remember he was going to provide childcare for everyone. Paid by tariffs so China or somebody else was going to pay. (A 'policy' that strangely is never mentioned since).

Americans are more exercised with books in libraries and arming teachers than actually spending money on schools and any attempt to fix that will lead to losing votes.

“Americans are more exercised with books in libraries and arming teachers than actually spending money on schools and any attempt to fix that will lead to losing votes.”

Actually not a bad point - even when it comes to education, we can see a left/right war taking place around just what books are in schools and what do they teach children - when the political turmoil and violence spills over into the classroom over words and pictures in children’s books, the country is rightly in a bad place

Experts are questioning this now, it could be that pollsters (burnt in 2016 and 2020) have become too risk averse. Baking in too many factors leading to "improbably" tight polls. No question the race is tight, but yeah it's not helping

Well there's an AtlasIntel set of results there that seems out of place - so I wouldn't be surprised. If they lost the race it would help with their election denial.

TV Networks with News and Cable News Networks are going to use these tight polls for their own benefit and not really report any poll that has either candidate way ahead they want everyone to believe it’s 50/50 to drive their own advertising revenue.

It’s all about money to them and their shareholders.

It doesn't demand the perfect opposition.

Make no mistake, I'm not a supporter of Trump but I'm also not so clouded in my view point to think that the Biden Harris administration has been anything resembling a success. It hasn't and I don't think that anyone can defend it as being one.

As has been said, the Dems were forced to appoint her. She was never going to secure the nomination, were it not for the debate where Joe Biden, fell off the wagon.

You list everything bad about Trump, and your right. I'm not arguing that. I'm arguing that the candidate that was picked and the strategy that's being used is coming undone by a candidate who is running rings around her.

And its not a standard or double standard. Her sit down interviews have not been good. At all. She can't answer a question. The border is a disgrace and her answers are someway worse.

If she was even a little bit middle of the road or had even one coherent policy, it would be a landslide.

And Biden Harris won before because Biden was a political animal. He backed up policies and it all made sense.

And as for Walz. Picking him has shown her judgement is very suspect. He had to be literally pinned down to give a straight answer about his military record.

True, far too much journalistic energy is being expended on reporting the nature of the race being "too close to call" than it is on comparing the candidates on policy, on character or indeed on basic fitness for office.

On the polls themselves, the Marist College poll has Harris up in PA, WI & MI.

It's an "A" rated polling org but, their spread was well off in 2020 and as none of the pollsters are sharing methodologies? I really think there is an outsized risk of statistical herding affecting the results. It's also why I think none of the main pollsters are willing to risk breaking the consensus to make a differing prediction.

Biden is regarded by US historians as 14th best president of all time.

His presidency has seen a very impressive "soft landing" recovery from inflation (which many economists said was not possible) - leading to extremely impressive economic growth, high employment, high wages etc.

Plus things like the CHIPS act & various cross house legislative initiatives

One can criticize him for being hesitant on Ukraine & Israel - but on both Trump would be far worse.

The "border" was a joint democrat-republican initiative shot down by Trump/those acting on his behalf to have a stick to beat the democrats with.

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/19/1232447088/historians-presidents-survey-trump-last-biden-14th

There can be some ambiguity about what Biden meant with his garbage line. This is not to make any conclusions about what he actually meant, though.

“The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”

He uses 'is' rather than 'are', which would imply a singular target of his words rather than plural, in the strict interpretation.

"He is garbage | They are garbage."

However, the ambiguity comes in when you consider that many people aren't always that precise in their wording, especially when speaking off the cuff.

Although Trump's words often cause outrage among opponents, he usually leaves himself enough wiggle room to say he meant something else when picked up on it. I'd say Biden has about the same amount of wiggle room.

More false equivalence.

What the Dems did made sense and the election will tell if they were right to.

The idea that this was somehow undemocratic whilst saying absolutely nothing about Jan 6, and trump's *current* claims that he won't accept the results of this election, discloses your real position.

"I'm not fan of Trump but" is clearly bullsh1t.

Discloses your real position. .. what?

So you'll just attach falsehoods to my arguments. Sound of you. I never said anything about Jan 6th.

I think your lost in the argument.