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  • You are writing to likely dems with Vote Forward. The political campaign ones are explicitly going to likely dems, the social campaign ones are going to underrepresented demographics - which typically lean towards dems. Their research has just found that writing partisan messages doesn't work as well for increasing voter turnout, so they say not to write parsian messages. Similar for how writing by hand works better


    There are still text banks still open! Here's some with Field Team 6

    https://www.mobilize.us/ft6/?show_all_events=true&tag_ids=22573

  • Setting aside the false equivalency here, the presidental race is not the only race on the ballot. We can help with those down ballot races too

    There are plenty of viable dem candidates who do support all of what you just mentioned

    For instance, Pennsylvania state legislature democrats are supporting a $20/hr minimum wage. There are races this year that could flip the PA state senate and let that start getting through

    Or for corperate money side: Dan Osborn (indepdent, and there's no dem in the race) is a union leader who led the kellog strikes. He wants to get money out of politics and has taken zero corperate pac money. He's running for Nebraska's US senate seat and has a real chance to win. Polls put him neck and neck or even up slightly

  • He'll be the person handed an executive order and told to sign. He doesn't need to follow all that many details. He already has said he wants to appoint a huge number of the people who just so happen to be involved in Project 2025. They'll be his inner circle voices

  • That's why the Heritage Foundation made a detailed plan for him with Project 2025. They're creating lists of people to remove, executive actions to do, and training people to put in

    Even his first term he was able to do a lot of damage, but they have plans ready to remove all the guardrails

  • I see zero reason why this would make state laws about it unconstitutional. The constitution does not say it is mandatory for prison slave labor to exist, just that it could

    The US constitution not prohibiting something doesn't mean a law or a state constitution can't

  • Finally, after nearly 20 minutes, an aide brought Trump a replacement microphone that worked.

    “I won’t pay the bill for this stupid company,” he said. “I won’t pay the bill, and then we’ll have a story that Trump didn’t pay the bill to a contractor.”

    Might be the only truthful thing trump said during the event

  • They don't easily capture changes to turnout between election cycles is my point. They rely on assumptions of what turnout will look like to weight their polling

    The best proxy is voter enthusiasm, but its not perfect

  • Polling doesn't capture turnout changes. This is the kind of thing that's largest effect, if materialized, would be boosting dem turnout

  • Which is also a ??? moment

  • 1 million in just 3 days of early voting. And that's including today which is still ongoing

  • He is in an R+5 district in Pennsylvania (PA-10). Perry won by 7.6% in 2022. Going from lean-R to tossup is certainly something

  • Tracking higher than 2020 numbers in many states. In Georgia, this year's first day early voting turnout (310k) was over double the 2020 first day early voting (135k).

    Keep in mind that COVID changed voting patterns in 2020 so comparisons can be funky. Even still 2020 had higher early voting turnout (especially by mail) than we had historically seen, so being on track for higher early turnout is great to see

    Early voting has historically been heavy in dem's favor and polling on voting prefering suggest that this has not changed all that much. There is a strong partisian divide in voting early vs election day

    Exit polling data (asking people who they voted for) is not released until after polls close on election day

  • Note that polling doesn't capture turnout data rather well. It has to make assumptions about turnout for weighting

    The closets metric polls have to try to guesstimate turnout is enthusiasm, which is down ~15% for trump compared to 2020. In 2020, there was a enthusiasm gap in Trump's favor. This year that's flipped

    Or if we look at say a subgroup like Niki Haley primary voters (~5-10% of republicans), there's a marked drop in their support for Trump this year compared to 2020

    The majority of them, 59%, said they voted for Trump in 2020. But now, only 45% plan to cast their ballots for him again in 2024, marking a 14-point difference.

    https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article293768789.html#storylink=cpy

    Overall, this will probably look like small movments if it materializes, but in elections won on close margins this absolutely matters

  • Keep in mind it also gives people canvasing to lower-information voters something to mention

    As an example, I was talking to someone undecided a bit ago who didn't follow news super closely and said education was their top issue. They looked completely taken a back when I mentioned how Trump has said he wants shut down the department of education (both from him directly and it's Project 2025)

  • I think there's a chance swaying a little more people than we might think - even if it's a small percentage overall that can be swayed

    Look for instances at the audience reactions to his lies about January 6th at his Univision Townhall. They show visable disgust

    https://xcancel.com/MeidasTouch/status/1846746612980199817

    Even if it's not enough to make them vote the opposite way, it might be enough to make them not show up to vote against harris. Turnout changes in single digit percentages matters a lot

  • politics @lemmy.world

    Court finds Trump Tower violated environmental laws and endangered fish in the Chicago River

    www.chicagotribune.com /2024/09/11/trump-tower-violations-chicago-river/
  • politics @lemmy.world

    thehill.com /homenews/campaign/4875173-taylor-swift-vote-gov/
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    Republicans dismayed by Trump’s ‘bad’ and ‘unprepared’ debate performance

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2024/sep/11/trump-harris-debate-republican-reaction
  • politics @lemmy.world

    Trump confronted by ‘Central Park Five’ member in debate spin room that he had called to be executed

    www.independent.co.uk /news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-debate-central-park-five-yusef-salaam-b2610705.html
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    J.D. Vance Can’t Explain Why Trump Threw Him Under the Bus in Debate

    newrepublic.com /post/185860/jd-vance-trump-threw-under-bus-debate-abortion
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    Trump campaign required to pay upfront deposit of $145,000 before Thursday event in Tucson

    www.kold.com /2024/09/11/trump-campaign-required-pay-upfront-deposit-145000-before-thursday-event-tucson/
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    Is the press ‘sanewashing’ Trump?

    www.cjr.org /the_media_today/trump_incoherent_media_sanewashing.php
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    Jack White sues Trump over the use of The White Stripes' 'Seven Nation Army': 'This machine sues fascists'

    www.businessinsider.com /jack-white-sues-trump-seven-nation-army-2024-9
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    Speaker Johnson's government funding strategy is on life support as GOP defections mount

    www.nbcnews.com /politics/congress/speaker-johnsons-government-funding-strategy-life-support-defections-m-rcna170328
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    Harris Vows to End Subminimum Wages in Policy Push Before Debate

    www.bloomberg.com /news/articles/2024-09-09/harris-vows-to-end-subminimum-wages-in-policy-push-before-debate
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    Independent Osborn seeks to be surprise of cycle in Nebraska Senate race | Limited polling suggests a potentially close race between Dan Osborn and Republican Deb Fischer (no Democrat is running)

    thehill.com /homenews/campaign/4866382-nebraska-senate-race-threatened/
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    Harris proposes raising the corporate tax rate to 28%, rolling back a Trump law

    www.nbcnews.com /politics/2024-election/harris-proposes-raising-corporate-tax-rate-28-rolling-back-trump-law-rcna167208
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    Trump spent the weekend flying around America on a plane previously owned by Jeffrey Epstein

    www.businessinsider.com /trump-jeffrey-epstein-private-jet-weekend-campaign-2024-8
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    'We're normal guys': J.D. Vance tells reporters not to label Trump ticket as 'weird'

    www.rawstory.com /news/vance-trump-normal-guys/
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    Trump's campaign says it's 'not going to talk about couches'

    www.businessinsider.com /trump-campaign-addresses-jd-vance-couch-meme-2024-8
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world

    TIL about de la Chapelle syndrome where people with XX chromosomes are born with traditionally masculine organs & presentation. Usually those with the trait are unaware they have XX chromosomes at all

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/XX_male_syndrome
  • Science Memes @mander.xyz

    Powerful

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world

    TIL about "Swill milk" where cows were fed distillery waste causing cow teeth rot and disease. It was also adulterated with raw eggs, burn sugar, etc. Swill milk lead to over 8,000 infant's deaths

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swill_milk_scandal