Harris went from polling 3.7 points higher than Trump in August to losing by 3.4 points in November. Do you think it took people that long to realize she was a woman of color, or do you think her actions in the interim changed peoples’ perception of her?

Similarly, by refusing to explain why she had abandoned the progressive positions on crime, immigration, health care, and climate change, she blurred the public’s perception of her and opened the door to the Trump campaign’s charge that she was a closet radical. Thinking back to the successful campaign of Bill Clinton in 1992, some Democrats were hoping Harris would have a “Sister Souljah” moment in which she broke with some party orthodoxy in order to show her independence, but this did not happen.

So Galston recognizes that abandoning progressive positions weakened the public’s perception of her, but he thinks the solution should have been to double down and attack progressives more?

As a resource, here’s a PDF of the party bylaws, which define how the DNC and its officials are selected.

The lack of support for Harris among Arab-Americans may not have been rational, but it was completely predictable—and it was something the Harris campaign could have addressed by at least suggesting she was open to reconsidering Biden’s policies.

Blame isn’t zero-sum—we’re all responsible for the predictable results of our actions (or inactions), even if those results were overdetermined.

Interesting approach—to detect fake news by simulating humans’ reaction to it rather than judging the content itself.

It could just be that more men and/or more Republican voters refused to participate in a CNN exit poll.

Hopefully the appeals court judges are on the list.

I know which of you supports the Democratic Party and I will not help you survive the end of days.

If he ever decides the “end of days” is in progress, I think it would be safer for Democrats and Republicans not to be around him anyway.

Incendiary devices found at shipping hubs could be Moscow putting pressure on West not to support Ukraine

Yeah, that’s totally how countries react to terrorist attacks.

You can’t keep your shit and throw it too.

I know the political environment has been getting increasingly polarized, but that’s taking it a bit too far.

How does it compare to Biden’s early vote lead?

Why are they comparing it to the last election the Democrats lost, instead of the one they won?

Minor point: Harris is ahead in the poll aggregate; Trump is ahead in the forecast model.

So the brain worms are transmissible?

Ukraine should offer the North Koreans political asylum if they defect.

What else could they do? There’s no way to make a comprehensive list of every Fediverse-supporting server in existence, let alone aggregate their data.

Not with a typewriter, though.

Yeah, that’s why we need at least… two of them.

“I didn’t think I would become an example of the face-eating-leopards meme.”

I don’t think it was the question, I think it was this:

Journalism should not be endorsing a candidate

Which sounds like it’s arguing against freedom of the press.