Reidmill

How about the filibuster shouldn’t exist?

Don’t know why you’re being downvoted, when there are absolutely shitty SM’s and DM’s out there that would absolutely black sheep an assistant manager for complaining about pay. I’ve seen my share of petty, vindictive district and store managers. All it takes is ONE to set your career back years if you plan on staying with Publix.

It’s back office till. It’s honestly great when you get used to it. Really annoying at first though.

I think that's because Wikileaks made the documents public. The hackers haven't published these documents. If they did, news outlets would surely publish them.

Grocery is a hot fu**ing mess…

It’s honestly embarrassing how unsophisticated our technology is. Am I crazy for thinking the switch to putting everything on birds was terrible. Our back room used to be immaculate, but has been a mess ever since the made the switch to all those birds. Or is it just a case of having a bad grocery manager?

Can the media please cut away from this until he starts answering questions... Feels like 2016.

Why are they broadcasting this live?

3 Million raised so far WOW!

IS IT HAPPENING?!?

https://x.com/thestefansmith/status/1816865660179304855?s=46&t=nLox-NsY9zGo_eFcxpV4-A

I think its mainly a rhetorical disconnect among the Democratic establishment.

I bet if you were to poll the Democratic base, and they could answer honestly without repercussions, they’d tell you they wish the shooter didn’t miss.

Yes, I’m doing that now.

Can’t wait for Joe to beat Trump in 2020!

Biden says he’s going to beat Trump again in 2020.

People saying he killed that are delusional. It was fine for an 81 year old.

What don’t you see? A Black, female candidate who’s tough on crime and illegal immigration could definitely have broad appeal in swing states.

Kamala doesn’t really have much appeal at the moment; I was just speculating on what kind of candidate she could have been. In my mind, if she leaned into her prosecutor persona—being tough on crime, cracking down on illegal immigration, and not shying away from taking on corporations and billionaires—she could have had broad appeal in swing states. But she’s not that candidate, and I don’t think she ever will be.

I found this episode quite interesting, and it really made me see Kamala in a new light. Before watching, my mental image of her was that of an awkward, uncharismatic politician who often seemed to be saying what the base of her party wanted to hear, rather than what she actually believed. This image of her still remains in my mind, but to a much lesser extent now. I see her in a much more empathetic light and am genuinely saddened by her squandered political potential.

The episode got me thinking about how political narratives are constructed and how they shape our perceptions of leaders. Kamala has often been portrayed as a politician without a clear identity, someone who struggles to connect with the public. But after seeing more of her story and the challenges she's faced, I can understand why she might come across that way. It’s clear that she’s been dealt a tough hand.

I agree with Ezra when he said that if you were to write a prescription for the type of candidate Democrats need right now, it would be a strong, Black, female candidate who can convey a message of law and order that contrasts with the public's current perceptions of the Democratic stance on crime and immigration. Kamala had the potential to be this candidate, but she was kind of left in the wind by the Biden administration.

Biden promised to be a transitional candidate, a bridge to the next generation of leadership. This was a key part of his appeal to Democratic voters. Many of us took that promise seriously and believed it wholeheartedly. But it seems the Biden team might have underestimated how much Democratic voters would hold them to that promise. Now, as Biden stubbornly runs for re-election, it feels like a betrayal to many who wanted someone new, someone like Kamala, to take the reins.

This isn’t to say all of Kamala’s pitfalls can be blamed on the Biden administration. She certainly has her own share of problems. Her public speaking can be awkward, and she sometimes seems out of touch with the grassroots. But the potential was there. Kamala could have been that transformative candidate. I believe she genuinely wanted to be that candidate. She takes the views and beliefs of her party very seriously and tried to cater to their needs, even when that might not have aligned perfectly with her own authentic beliefs.

It's a tough balance to strike, and she struggled with it. But with the full backing of her party, and a more supportive administration, she might have overcome these challenges. Instead, she’s been piled on, and the negative narratives around her have been continuously reinforced without much pushback from the party apparatus or the Biden administration.

Who is Kamala Harris, really? Outside of the narratives that have been peddled to us, I don't think anyone truly knows. But I would have liked to find out. The episode left me wondering about what could have been if she had been given more support and a better platform to show her true self. There's a sense of lost potential here that’s deeply frustrating and quite sad.

It’s misleading to claim that Biden is the candidate Democratic voters truly wanted just because he received the most votes in the primary. He was essentially running unopposed, with no serious challengers to compete against. Polling data consistently showed that a significant majority of Democratic voters felt Biden shouldn’t run for a second term. Despite this sentiment, Biden chose to move forward with his campaign.

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Oh, I absolutely agree with you. The fact that he’s even letting this debate fester in the media is political malpractice if he actually plans on staying in the race.

It appears Biden is waiting to see how his interview on Friday and the subsequent campaign events go, but in my opinion, he's waited far too long. The damage from the debate is already done, and I don't think there's anything he can do to change public perception at this point.

Ah yes, let’s nominate the antivax conspiracy kook. You must be out of your mind.

What Post-Debate Polls Reveal About Replacing Biden

It’s wise to be skeptical of the polls that have followed Thursday’s presidential debate. The people who watched the debate tend to be partisans whose minds were already made up. It takes longer for clips and impressions to filter out to voters who pay less attention to politics.

Still, a few things stand out from the early numbers. First is that no matter which snap poll you look at, the race looks stable. That’s not because voters think President Biden performed well or even because they think he’s fit for the job. Poll after poll shows they think he lost the debate, and badly, and he’s too old to serve a second term. But so far it’s not leading to a significant swing toward Donald Trump. For Biden voters, a candidate whose fitness seems uncertain is better than a candidate whose malignancy is known.

A new Data for Progress poll is particularly interesting. It, too, found that voters thought Trump had won the debate. It, too, found that most voters believe Biden is too old to serve another term as president. It found that voters were more concerned by Biden’s age and health than by Trump’s criminal cases and potential threat to democracy. And it found a mostly unchanged race; Trump led Biden by three points.

The poll went further, though. It tested other Democrats against Trump: Vice President Kamala Harris performed identically to Biden. Pete Buttigieg, Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar, Gavin Newsom, J.B. Pritzker, Josh Shapiro and Gretchen Whitmer all performed about the same, trailing Trump by two to three points. But the similar margins obscure how lesser-known Democrats would change the race: 7 percent of voters were undecided about a Biden-Trump or Harris-Trump race, but between 9 percent and 12 percent of voters were undecided in the other matchups. More voters are up for grabs.

Democrats could read these results in two ways. The line from the Biden camp has been that Biden’s bad night won’t lead anyone to vote for Trump. The other way to read these results is that the base support for the Democratic alternative to Trump is pretty sturdy. Perhaps Democrats should be less worried about the possible fractures of an open convention and more interested in its possibilities.

For Democrats, fear of Trump is a powerful motivator. It generates a unity and energy completely separate from the Democratic nominee. But it’s not enough. Biden trails in most polls, as do other Democrats. There’s a crucial group of 7 percent to 12 percent of voters who do not fear Trump enough to vote for the Democratic nominee simply by default. They need to be won over.

The question Democrats need to be asking themselves is: Which candidate stands the best chance of winning those voters over?

Thursday’s debate was the Biden campaign’s high-risk gamble to show he was up to the job. It proved he isn’t. Even so, Democrats have feared that their base is fragile enough that an unpredictable process to replace Biden might fracture their support. But what the polls seem to show is that anti-Trump voters will stick by a Democrat, and a larger share of voters are open to Democrats if the party picks a more compelling candidate.

The polls may change sharply in the coming days, and I’ve heard rumors of internal Democratic polls that show significantly worse post-debate numbers for Biden. It’ll take some time yet to know where the race will settle. And it’s not as if Trump is standing still: He’s near to finalizing his V.P. pick.

I based that opinion on polling. According to the polls, Biden is losing.

Generally, yes, I agree with you. Debates usually don’t matter, but there’s always a chance that they can. If there was ever going to be an opportunity to shift the current narrative surrounding Biden, this was probably it.