2024 Presidential Election | ELECTION DAY 2024

[lawtig02]

"Campaign aides believe they can make the difference via the surrogates they have lined up, whether those are celebrities making targeted social media appearances or community members sending direct texts like the attendees at a Doug Emhoff event in Southfield, Michigan, with Jewish voters, who were asked to send messages encouraging people to host “
'Kamala Shabbat' dinners."

"Some will be new announcements: After months of carefully poll-testing well-known nonpoliticians, including entertainers and athletes, the campaign will roll out even more endorsements, interviews and appearances meant to break through to tuned-out voters. Expect more events like the vice president’s interview with Charlamagne tha God and Julia Roberts’ trip to Georgia, both ideas that came right out of the campaign’s research."

“We’re not throwing spaghetti against the wall. We have literally studied who these voters listen to,” said a campaign official.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/22/politics/kamala-harris-campaign-final-weeks/index.html

That's a terrific article, and one more key quote here, since I think CNN has moved most things behind a paywall.

“I’m confident that we’re being conservative in how we view this race,” Plouffe said, “so that we are more likely to be surprised on the upside by things.”

Plouffe also said in an interview in the last couple of days that they know exactly what individuals they need to get to the polls and have a plan to do it. They may end up being wrong, but there's zero chance Trump has the level of sophistication and precision in his campaign that Kamala does.

 

[heelinhell]

so far the courts are thwarting the GQP voter suppression efforts...let's hope this continues over the next two weeks

GOP fails to convince judge to purge Michigan voter rolls weeks before the election

The Republican National Committee went to court in Michigan demanding that, just days before the general election, the state be forced to purge the voter rolls. The RNC along with Michigan voters Jordan Jorritsma and Emerson Silvernail sued in federal court to force the rolls to remove...

www.rawstory.com

 

[BillOfRights]

Eminem in Detroit.
Stevie Nicks on SNL.
Julia Roberts in Georgia.
Bruce Springsteen in Philadelphia and Atlanta with Obama.
I wonder if Beyonce will be with her in Houston???
Taylor Swift somewhere?
I'm sure more to come.

 

[PTOHeel]

The discussion of political music reminds me of this hilarious video from a few years ago.

 

[superrific]

I assume because you wouldn't do enough white cross to last a 12 hour concert ?

No, because I can't stand any of those musical acts. If you were to add, say, Public Enemy or Corrosion of Conformity, I'd be much more down. Warrior Soul too. They're not great but they are listenable.

 

[lawtig02]

Eminem in Detroit.
Stevie Nicks on SNL.
Julia Roberts in Georgia.
Bruce Springsteen in Philadelphia and Atlanta with Obama.
I wonder if Beyonce will be with her in Houston???
Taylor Swift somewhere?
I'm sure more to come.

My wildest dream is a Tay Tay/Queen B prime time special live from Lincoln Financial Field the evening of November 3. Won't happen, but a man can dream.

 

[Rock]

My wildest dream is a Tay Tay/Queen B prime time special live from Lincoln Financial Field the evening of November 3. Won't happen, but a man can dream.

I wonder how many votes are actually changeable within the last days of the election. I'm sure the number would shock me.

 

[superrific]

"Campaign aides believe they can make the difference via the surrogates they have lined up, whether those are celebrities making targeted social media appearances or community members sending direct texts like the attendees at a Doug Emhoff event in Southfield, Michigan, with Jewish voters, who were asked to send messages encouraging people to host “
'Kamala Shabbat' dinners."

"Some will be new announcements: After months of carefully poll-testing well-known nonpoliticians, including entertainers and athletes, the campaign will roll out even more endorsements, interviews and appearances meant to break through to tuned-out voters. Expect more events like the vice president’s interview with Charlamagne tha God and Julia Roberts’ trip to Georgia, both ideas that came right out of the campaign’s research."

“We’re not throwing spaghetti against the wall. We have literally studied who these voters listen to,” said a campaign official.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/22/politics/kamala-harris-campaign-final-weeks/index.html

This is why, I think, that the people criticizing Biden's campaign manager and lamenting Kamala's retention of them really missed the mark.

This is what they have been doing for a year. They weren't managing Biden's poll numbers in January or February so much, because they were focused on the end game. And if Biden hadn't slipped in the past year (the idea that he was debate-bad a year prior is just not consistent with, well, anything observable), we'd probably be looking at a similar race, and it would be Biden with the ground game advantage.

*** I'm now understanding a July comment from Jen O'Malley that didn't make sense to me before. It was something like, "you can show me polls and I can one up you with direct voter engagement." Direct voter engagement is not a way of assessing the electorate's mood. It isn't even remotely an apples-to-oranges comparison. What I now think she meant was that the campaign had big plans to engage with voters, and that replacing THE CAMPAIGN was a bad idea. Obviously self-serving, but maybe not wrong.

Anyway, Kamala inherited all of this. So trust the campaign. They know way, way, way more than we do. They might make bad judgments, but their judgments are going to be more accurate than ours.

 

[uncjhodges]

I wonder how many votes are actually changeable within the last days of the election. I'm sure the number would shock me.

It would be more a getting them to the polls than changing their minds

 

[lawtig02]

I wonder how many votes are actually changeable within the last days of the election. I'm sure the number would shock me.

Yeah, I don't care about changing votes at that point. I'd just really enjoy that concert as we head into election week.

 

[CFordUNC]

I wonder how many votes are actually changeable within the last days of the election. I'm sure the number would shock me.

I have long said that I will personally vote for any presidential candidate who promises to issue an executive order prohibiting football teams from lining up in the shotgun on fourth and inches. My vote is definitely malleable!

 

[Illithor]

Looks like Trump - Rogan is happening Friday

 

[JCTarheel82]

Benny Johnson will be forever known as "who?"

I started to think up a funny name for him but then realized a grown man going by "Benny" is already embarrassing enough.

 

[Rock]

Looks like Trump - Rogan is happening Friday

Assume anyone that listens to Joe Rogan was already voting for Donald Trump. It would be a power move, in my opinion, for Kamala to go on days before the election and after Trump.

 

[JCTarheel82]

I didn’t want to respond to him because I honestly couldn’t tell if he was joking or not. It’s just so funny that people think artists have no right to talk about politics. Like what kind of music is Zen listening to that isn’t political in one way or another? The Wiggles?

Just so historically illiterate to think that artists being political is a recent phenomenon.

It's Taco. He's just trolling as always.

 

[hedge]

I don't know what acid flashbacks are like, but that was pretty wacko seeing a bunch of toddlers and grade school students at a concert like that.

That's kinda what it's like...

 

[aGDevil2k]

"It doesn't cost $60,000 to bury a fucking Mexican. Don't pay it" - Donald Trump

Kind of think that needs some air time in Arizona, Nevada, Georgia and NC

Trump screamed "It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a fucking Mexican!" after getting bill for murdered US soldier's funeral: report - National Zero

In the middle of a long sequel to the infamous September 2020 “Suckers and Losers” report, the Atlantic details a pretty fucking sick and cruel incident of how convicted felon former President Trump reacted when handed the bill for murdered US soldier Vanessa Guillen‘s funeral after telling her...

nationalzero.com

 

[Rock]

 

[Illithor]

Assume anyone that listens to Joe Rogan was already voting for Donald Trump. It would be a power move, in my opinion, for Kamala to go on days before the election and after Trump.

Probably a solid 80% or more for sure. I agree, Kamala should go on.

 

[korgguy1971]

"It doesn't cost $60,000 to bury a fucking Mexican. Don't pay it" - Donald Trump

Kind of think that needs some air time in Arizona, Nevada, Georgia and NC

Trump screamed "It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a fucking Mexican!" after getting bill for murdered US soldier's funeral: report - National Zero

In the middle of a long sequel to the infamous September 2020 “Suckers and Losers” report, the Atlantic details a pretty fucking sick and cruel incident of how convicted felon former President Trump reacted when handed the bill for murdered US soldier Vanessa Guillen‘s funeral after telling her...

nationalzero.com

"Tish tosh - don't take him literally; take him figuratively"

Also, he absolutely said that word for word.