Chuck Todd: Will Biden cost Harris the election?
Analysis: The president isn't on the ballot. But his presidency and voters' harsh feelings about it are setting the mood for the election.https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/chuck-todd-will-biden-cost-harris-election-rcna175421
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For a country that seems evenly divided over politics and polarized about many cultural issues, a durable majority does agree about one thing: They don’t like the Biden presidency. [Emphasis the OP's.]
And despite the machinations that resulted in President Joe Biden’s not being on the ballot this election season, his unpopularity is still the mood music of this election.
But while Biden isn’t on the ballot anymore, voters are certainly feeling his presence. If there’s one thing it’s clear they don’t want, it’s a candidate who reminds them of Biden.
By a 2-to-1 ratio (22% positive, 46% negative), voters view the word “Bidenomics” negatively, including the approximately one-fifth of all voters whom our pollsters deem “swing voters” — people who haven’t voted straight GOP or Democratic for the White House since 2016.
They tested the word "Bidenomics" for this story, which no Dem has invoked in a year. Todd keeps hammering on how unpopular Biden is. This is a hit piece. MSM "analysts" are continuously on the hunt for a new angle or perspective to report from, and they're analyzing from more and more ridiculous perspectives.
I get that the polling is in opposition to the reality and that people "feel" the economy isn't working for them, when, in fact, it is. THAT should be the angle that the analysts analyze: why is it that the US has the most thriving economy in the world...the lowest unemployment rate in a long time, the lowest inflation rate since forever, the highest GDP in a long time, and on and on.
The real question to analyze is: why are people's "feelings" in opposition to reality, and not "why people's 'feelings' might cost Harris the election". Where does the cynicism come from? Is it that we have it too good and that we have too much time on our hands to ruminate about less relevant things? Is it Republican mis-information?
For fuck's sake this kind of analysis and so-called "reporting" just infuriates me.
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Toad's concern, the waning enthusiasm on our side, & the constant "they're already working to steal the election" stories, are there to depress our side. The first two have no merit & the last one, about stealing the election, is only one side of the story.
The other side is they tried this last time & lost almost 100% of their cases, & we have Mark Elias & a whole team of attorneys already responding to lawsuits the right has already filed. Seriously, where the fuck is THAT story? You only hear it on MSNBC, maybe CNN. Our side isn't just sitting here bemoaning the fact that their side is up to no good. And as for those polls that we know they want to use to claim a stolen election, we have Simon Rosenberg with a slew of data about who is doing those polls & who is paying for who is doing those polls. Elias will use this data post-election.
Spread the enthusiasm! Get your friends & family out to vote. 
what's he yammering about? Fuck him
and he didn't need 0% interest rates to do it, either. 