Lucian Truscott IV at Salon informs us that the New York Times/Siena poll showing Donald Trump leading Joe Biden 52-48, ah, has problems, chief among them that its rural voters sample is nearly twice as large as the percentage of rural voters who voted in 2020. But a lot’s changed since then, you say? Sure – Roe v. Wade is dead, Donald Trump attempted a coup, inflation went way up and then came way down and more folks talk about the link between high corporate profits and inflation than they did before, and none of these events should spark rural voters to turn out like that for Donald Trump. And while I’d love to believe that pollsters are simply overcompensating for underestimating Republican turnout in 2020, everyone knows that Americans pay too much attention to polling, so they should be more aware of the effects of their actions. And anyway I don’t think they’re overcompensating – I think they’re trying to create a Trump-Will-Win narrative because that’s what they want. They remember what their ratings were like, and you think Donald Trump will go after monopolies the way Joe Biden has? No, you do not.
Perhaps realizing that a distant third-place finish in this year’s Arizona Senate race will more likely hurt the Republican Senate candidate than the Democratic one, putatively independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has announced she won’t run for re-election this year, explaining: “(c)ompromise is a dirty word. We’ve arrived at that crossroad, and we chose anger and division. I believe in my approach, but it’s not what America wants right now.” Well, no – America doesn’t want her “bipartisan” approach, in which “bipartisanship” means “Democrats giving in to Republicans on everything.” And remember that she, and she alone, nixed higher taxes on the rich in 2021 – “getting to yes” with fellow Democrats being far less important to her, apparently, than “getting to yes” with Republicans – and that she also delayed Medicare drug price negotiation for another year, extracting continued lower taxes for hedge fund managers in exchange for finally letting it happen. So she gave in to banksters, and she let the rich get more tax relief than working families, who also got less relief from high health care costs – who on Earth wants that sort of “compromise”?
Thieves in the Temple will take the rest of the week off, so everyone have a great week, and Republicans: no shenanigans.
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