Tiger337

It's the same story over and over. All the swing states are very close. If the polls are right, then it's going to be a close election. If they are not right and they are all wrong in the same directon (which makes sense), then it could be a big electoral victory for either candidate. My head tells me that Harris would be the one being underestimated (Biden won in 20, insurrection, Roe vs Wade, better campaign by Harris) but I am not very confident about that.

As a 14 year old, I didn't really care who won, but I thought Carter had a fake smile. As it turned out, he was probably more real than any President in my lifetime.

Musk sucks and I suspect that, in a Trump presidency, he could become the shadow president once Trump can no longer function which could be fairly soon.

A Trump win will not be good for my job security or the security of anyone whose job depends on a competent government. Massachustts is indeed a great place to live.

yes

Just saw Harris on SNL. It wasn't an especially funny routine, but it didn't need to be. She seemed very comfortable. This will only help her.

"Alka Selzer"

For what it's worth, Harris pulled ahead on Polymarket. I think Trump was up by about 15% a couple of days ago. Apparently that multi-millionaire in France put most of his cash on Trump and can't get out of it. That's a shame.

Yup, I just posted that before I read this.

Selzer has been dead on in past Iowa polls: https://x.com/MattKleinOnline/status/1852849716788084910

On the other hand, the Emerson poll has Trump +9 in Iowa.

I could have beaten MTB, but I had to add another post trashing Trump before doing it. Priorities!

LOL, I was just going to post that and was hoping to get here before MTB. I agree this is really good news. Trump was up by 4 in the same poll in September.

There won't be a next Trump. He's a freak who has totally conned 40% of the electorate. If there is one, I hope they expose him a lot more quickly. I have no problem wth the media supporting a conservative candidate who is intelligent and sane. I wouldn't vote for that person, but I would consider them qualified.

If mainstream is totally on board with Trump's opponent, then it's about time. He is one of the worst human beings in America and they've been letting get away with murder for 9 years.

I think he's under the radar because he moves around so much, but he's been really good - gets on base, runs well and is a strong defender. The only thing missing is power. He is also two years younger than Bregman. If he didn't get injured, I think he would atract more attention than Bregman.

Absolutely...Although not as much as the thought of Kennedy being in charge of all the health related agencies.

Are you really trying to understand why Trump thinks the way he does! It will drive you crazy. 😃

which I believe I explained in the rest of my post.

Without the injury, he'd be one of the elite free agents on the market and I think the Tigers would not get involved in that. With the injury, perhaps they can get him on a shorter-term deal.

Divide and conquer for sure.

I know people who seriously believe that he took a bullet for his country!

There is no doubt that income equality has steadily gotten worse for decades and that it isn't being addressed enough, not even by the Democrats. We do more for the wealthy than anybody else. I actually do think that many Democrats are out of touch elitists. Rural areas in trouble have been largely been ridiculed over the years. The states are called fly over states and the residents are called rednecks. Then they tell them that they have to be nice to the big city minorities who are also disadvantaged (in a different and worse way). This is part of why rural states hate Democrats. What they got wrong was not recognizing that Trump is even worse.

I do not believe the assassination attempt was staged, but I don't think he was hit by a bullet either. I think he was hit by schrapnel. It's just hard to believe that a bullet from an AR-15 would do so little damage. Whether he knew that he was not hit by a bullet at the moment of his almost too good to be true photo op, I am not sure.

Ha-Seong Kim is the Korean Tony Phillips! He is definitely someone I'd like to see the Tigers pursue.