a debate happened
It is where I take a gander at the news stories on the Yahoo front page and have the simple question — why is this getting swamped by headlines on the love life of two millionaire entertainers — a pro athlete worth a few million and a singer worth millions more? It gets surreal at about “Savannah Guthrie’s Daughter Vale, 9, Says Travis Kelce ‘Better Not Break’ Taylor Swift’s Heart“. I have to look up who Savannah Guthrie is, and assume her nine year old daughter isn’t a kid influencer or commenter or something. Though my immediate rebuttal is a “And what are you going to do about it if he does, Savannah Guthrie’s 9 Year old daughter Vale? “
But it may be that this news attention is just as well. It is more relevant to anything than the Republican presidential debate that happened this week. And I want to go back and see what happened in it, as I did thing the first one was worthwhile and despite commentary to the contrary had some sideways relevance to it. I just don’t know that this one does. Leading through fivethirtyeight blog coverage in it, I trip up over a point…
According to a September poll by ABC Newrs and The Washington Post, 74 percent of Republicans said they would blame Biden and the Democrats in Congress if the government were to shut down. Just 5 percent said they would blame Republicans in Congress, and 16 percent said they would blame both equally. Five percent didn’t have an opinion or wouldn’t blame either.
There is a value judgement with the word “blame”. I want to know the percentage that “credit” the Republicans, which might not shuffle the numbers here because we then have a polling problem of figuring monolithic actors — they would blame the Republicans for fouling up the shutdown or inching towards averting it and credit Freedom Caucus and its members for making it happen.
Huffington Post. “Taylor Swift’s Rumored Romance With Travis Kelce Is Already So Different Than Her Relationship With Joe Alwyn. Here’s Everything You Need To Know.” Really, everything you need to know — NEED to know is… This… Here… And that is all.
The National Review surveys the electoral landscape, and gives us this.
I am interested to read the RFK got take, a right now contrarian take which actually might just be accurate — the Republicans settling for a third party over Trump are your “respectables” and Don’t have the Gary Johnson option, the qanon like contingent liable to split off RFKjr / Trump.
On the top headliner — Had De had har. The dastardly Democrats really are fooling the Republicans into nominating Trump. Sure. Just like they did in 2016, right? No. This is your own damnedable fault. But, not being able to see their specifics — er… How? Touting Biden’s low approval ratimgs? Rope-a-dope to the max by emphasizing “senior moments” to give the impression — the one I hear is the reason no Republican voter is entertaining the “electability” argument — that “anyone can beat this guy!”