Yesterday. All my troubles seemed so far away. Now it looks as though they’re here to stay. The Beatles Yesterday
Here’s how you know that the wheels have all fallen off of the Trump Train. Cast your mind back a few simple months to the summer. Biden was still the Democrats presumptive nominee. Trump was leading in almost all if not all of the national polls. And the Trump campaign was gleefully talking about expanding the map to places like Minnesota, New Mexico and Colorado to force Biden to spend dwindling money defending his own turf.
That was all the way back in June and July, and damn!, life was good. North Carolina was squarely in his hip pocket, and he was leading in every Georgia poll, most outside the margin of error. Trump could concentrate whatever little campaigning he was actually doing to the critical swing states, and start heavy advertising in the states he wanted to widen the map for Biden to defend.
What a difference four lousy months makes, huh? Yesterday Traitor Tot was back in North Carolina, his second visit in like four days. And he’s about to head back to Georgia this week for his second visit there in just over a week. As late as July, when I went to Honolulu for a week to visit my daughter and son-in-law, Trump wasn’t going anywhere south of that Manson-Nixon line Mason-Dixon line, nor much of anywhere else. Just paying lip service and letting Biden and the Democrats implode.
Folks, this is what expanding the map looks like, and it was the Democrats who expanded it. I’ve written twice now about how El Pendejo ex Presidente has been pissing and moaning behind the scenes that he doesn’t have the money to campaign effectively in the closing weeks. Little wonder. Billionaire checks to Super PACS can only be used for negative advertising, not travel and venues.
And here’s Traitor Tot blowing way too much cash and time in a state he should own, and dumping advertising money and time into Georgia, a state that looked unreachable to the Democrats three months ago. And here’s Harris, on a three state Blue Wall blitz with Liz Cheney in red districts in PA, MI, and WI, looking for disaffected Nikki Haley voters to convert to the true light, and freakin’ Usher is opening a Harris campaign rally in Atlanta. No wonder Traitor Tot is so exhausted. Moving the sofa, love seat, and La-Z-Boy around to look for loose change underneath is not a recommended cardio workout for a 78 year old man.
Just a couple of more things. First, forget about the Blue Wall battleground polls. Because in all three states, a whole colony of brand new, far right piece of sh*t polls have been flooding the zone with useless pro Trump polling numbers. But here’s the McGuffin, and the reason I firmly believe that Harris is actually comfortably ahead in the Blue Wall states. Despite their best efforts to flood the aggregate polls with useless garbage numbers, they still can’t seem to cobble together a polling result that shows Traitor tot more than 0.5% ahead. It makes me wonder what honest polling numbers look like, and I’m pretty damn sure that the Harris campaign has some gold standard numbers to look at.
And now something to chew on. Most if not all of you are campaign veterans, maybe not as nuts-and-bolts obsessed as I am, but you’ve been through the wars, and you paid attention. And in these final weeks of a campaign, you can glean some things by the messaging and body language of the candidates and campaigns. And I’ve noticed some things.
In the final weeks of a campaign, both sides try to portray a winning attitude and a positive closing message. What are Trump’s closing messages? Well, there’s an incomprehensible, profane, racist, sexist, homophobic word salad preaching hate and promising post election violence if they lose. On the GOP side, they’re openly bragging about having some 100,000 activists and lawyers ready to pounce with bullsh*t lawsuits if they lose. Question. Does a confident, winning campaign actually need 100,000 activists and lawyers to go out and f*ck up the whole thing if they lose? I can smell the flop sweat from here.
Now the Harris side. Their message is inspirational, uplifting and positive. The rallies are almost like an AME Sunday church service, and having been a paramedic on the south side of Chicago, I’ve spent my fair share of time in AME churches on a Sunday morning.
There’s music. There’s inspiration, there’s participation. There’s a sermon, and yes there’s some serious churching up. The rally speakers are motivating every last attendee then can get to not only show up and vote, but to get the word on the street and motivate others to vote. To me, that sounds like a confident, winning campaign.
One last thing. I’m pretty much immersed in this about 12 hours a day, so I know of what I speak. And in the last ten days to two weeks, there has been a slight, but discernable difference in the message that Harris personally has been spreading at their rallies.
From the day she took over the reins, Harris’s message has been consistent, Look, I’ll be honest with you. We’re the underdogs, and we have a lot of hard work ahead of us. And that’s fine. We like hard work! Hard work is fun! And when we work hard, we fight! And when we fight, we win! What a great way to close a rally.
But in the last 10 days or so, the message is slightly different. First, there’s no more talk about being the underdog. At this point, the last thing you want is to give even the slightest hint that you’re losing. That could depress much needed voter turnout for a lost cause.
But in the last 10 days or so, she’s gently massaged it, We have a lot of hard work to do, but we don’t mind that. We like hard work! Hard work is good work! And I’ll tell you right now, if we commit to get out there and do that hard work for the next two weeks, then We will win! We will win! And to me that doesn’t sound like bluff and bullsh*t. To me that sounds like a woman who has seen the numbers, who already knows that the numbers are there. And all she has to do is to get those numbers to show up, and she’s the 47th President of the United States.
That’s my story, and I’m sticking with it. I’ve seen and heard countless political rallies in my 50+ years of being politically active, and I like to think that my bullsh*t sensor is honed well enough to tell the difference between trying to inspire her supporters for the uphill battle, and one trying to rally her supporters over a finish line she can see so closely. 14 days. No excuses. No bullsh*t. Git ‘er DONE!
I thank you for the privilege of your time.
“We have a lot of hard work to do, but we don’t mind that. We like hard work! Hard work is good work!
And I’ll tell you right now, if we commit to get out there and do that hard work for the next two weeks, then We will win! We will win! ”
Amen!
And Hallelujah!
Two questions:
1. If all the GQP backed polls are bs, why are there no Democratic backed polls out there countering them, screaming their numbers from the rooftops?
2. Perhaps orange slime is going back to North Carolina and Georgia to CONvince the frightened people there that FEMA is not doing their job so they can literally scare up some votes?
Thank you