Love seeing the new blue election show up in polling. The first thing I did this morning was call Senator Ossoff and Senator Warnock and gush all over them! Have a great week, y'all!
Last night my parents were at dinner with friends who were asking them how they planned to ensure the next 7 months of this presidential campaign. My mom tells me she replied " Actually, let me tell you about Hopium...."
An interesting note on the new Marist and NBC surveys: Biden actually does even better in the 5-way race in both polls. He's +5 (+7 w/ likely voters) in Marist and +2 in NBC.
I love your optimism but am very concerned about voter suppression. Vigilante suppression is a real thing. Many potential democratic voters are being thrown off the rolls; many without their knowledge. What to do????
Not the top headline of the day, but Dems in Tennessee, despite being a super minority in the Legislature, were able to rally enough public support to kill an effort for the year by the extremist MAGA Governor & R Leadership in the State House & Senate to badly undermine public schools with an ugly voucher scheme. Team D is showing some grit and leveraging our grassroots organizational prowess to protect everything we can at every level of government in every corner of the country. I have a hunch that we will over-perform the polling again in the national popular vote and see a handful of surprise gains in unexpected places
Just called Senator Merkley and Senator Wyden. I also am active on a lot of pro-Ukranian message boards. I tell them what I'm doing, what all of us can do. I try to counteract all the negativity and worrying. We can do this. Sarcastic shout out to the Ayatollah for launching an attack that made this vote possible!!!
Simon, a puzzlement for me: why do any reputable pollsters still use RVs this close to an election? Wouldn’t LVs always be the best pool to fish in for accuracy 7 months away? Of course, it would depend on how rigorous is their metric for likely voting…do different pollsters use different ways to measure likely-ness?
. "Ukrainian Army Celebrates Major Victory Over Marjorie Taylor Greene"
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"UKRAINE (The Borowitz Report)—After six months of what seemed at times an unwinnable battle, on Saturday the Ukrainian army scored a stunning victory over Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Jubilant Ukrainian soldiers cheered as news spread that their despised foe from Georgia’s 14th congressional district had been dealt a humiliating defeat.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who greeted his front-line troops with a flurry of high fives, declared, “This is a war between freedom and Marjorie Taylor Greene. Ukraine chooses freedom.”
Answering a reporter’s question, Zelensky signaled that he might be open to direct talks with Greene, but added, “We would need an interpreter since only I speak English.”
On Sunday, Greene was still fuming about Ukraine’s win, telling Fox News, “I don’t see why Zelensky needs more weapons when he already has space lasers.”
I managed to get a live person for both Senators and my House rep, which is very rare. I thanked my Rep for voting for Ukraine and encouraged my Senators to not only support the bill but work with their Republican colleagues to make this a big bipartisan majority.
Simon FYI I gifted a subscription 2 my sister Sandra S. via the typical email route. She’ll set up her account later today. If there’s a preferred mechanism lmk in chat. 🤞it works. 🙏4 creating Hopium ~ Doing More ~ Worry Less🗽
Love seeing the new blue election show up in polling. The first thing I did this morning was call Senator Ossoff and Senator Warnock and gush all over them! Have a great week, y'all!
We'd better start working today on the next aid package for Ukraine.
Last night my parents were at dinner with friends who were asking them how they planned to ensure the next 7 months of this presidential campaign. My mom tells me she replied " Actually, let me tell you about Hopium...."
An interesting note on the new Marist and NBC surveys: Biden actually does even better in the 5-way race in both polls. He's +5 (+7 w/ likely voters) in Marist and +2 in NBC.
Just called the offices of Senators Lujan and Heinrich to register my support. Probably not needed as they are likely to vote for the Ukraine aid.
All 3 of our US Representatives voted yes in the house!
I love your optimism but am very concerned about voter suppression. Vigilante suppression is a real thing. Many potential democratic voters are being thrown off the rolls; many without their knowledge. What to do????
I called my Congressman to thank him, and then I called my Senators to encourage them.
I just called Hawley and Schmitt. I could only leave voicemail with Hawley’s office but was able to talk to a real person at Schmitt’s office!
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Not the top headline of the day, but Dems in Tennessee, despite being a super minority in the Legislature, were able to rally enough public support to kill an effort for the year by the extremist MAGA Governor & R Leadership in the State House & Senate to badly undermine public schools with an ugly voucher scheme. Team D is showing some grit and leveraging our grassroots organizational prowess to protect everything we can at every level of government in every corner of the country. I have a hunch that we will over-perform the polling again in the national popular vote and see a handful of surprise gains in unexpected places
https://x.com/tennessean/status/1782371301039931836?s=46
Go Team Democracy!! 😎🇺🇸🎹🎶🎤
I just called Senators Warren and Markey about the funding for Ukraine! Easy to do, thanks for the reminder!
Just called Senator Merkley and Senator Wyden. I also am active on a lot of pro-Ukranian message boards. I tell them what I'm doing, what all of us can do. I try to counteract all the negativity and worrying. We can do this. Sarcastic shout out to the Ayatollah for launching an attack that made this vote possible!!!
Called Beavis (Tillis) and Butthead (Budd) at their DC offices and NC offices.
Simon, a puzzlement for me: why do any reputable pollsters still use RVs this close to an election? Wouldn’t LVs always be the best pool to fish in for accuracy 7 months away? Of course, it would depend on how rigorous is their metric for likely voting…do different pollsters use different ways to measure likely-ness?
The Borowitz Report nails it:
. "Ukrainian Army Celebrates Major Victory Over Marjorie Taylor Greene"
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"UKRAINE (The Borowitz Report)—After six months of what seemed at times an unwinnable battle, on Saturday the Ukrainian army scored a stunning victory over Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Jubilant Ukrainian soldiers cheered as news spread that their despised foe from Georgia’s 14th congressional district had been dealt a humiliating defeat.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who greeted his front-line troops with a flurry of high fives, declared, “This is a war between freedom and Marjorie Taylor Greene. Ukraine chooses freedom.”
Answering a reporter’s question, Zelensky signaled that he might be open to direct talks with Greene, but added, “We would need an interpreter since only I speak English.”
On Sunday, Greene was still fuming about Ukraine’s win, telling Fox News, “I don’t see why Zelensky needs more weapons when he already has space lasers.”
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https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/ukrainian-army-celebrates-major-victory
(Andy Borowitz, previously of The New Yorker, really is worth a subscription – free or paid.)
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I managed to get a live person for both Senators and my House rep, which is very rare. I thanked my Rep for voting for Ukraine and encouraged my Senators to not only support the bill but work with their Republican colleagues to make this a big bipartisan majority.
Simon FYI I gifted a subscription 2 my sister Sandra S. via the typical email route. She’ll set up her account later today. If there’s a preferred mechanism lmk in chat. 🤞it works. 🙏4 creating Hopium ~ Doing More ~ Worry Less🗽