Friday, November 01, 2024

Today, Nov. 1

"If you push me against the wall and I look at all the data and I put the whole picture together, Trump maybe has a slight edge, but not anything that would be predictive. It's so close that anything can move it," [David] Axelrod said.

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"....There could be Republican women and non-college white women who just don't want to tell anybody how they're voting and aren't being polled. You hear stories about stickers in the ladies room saying, 'You don't have to tell anyone who you voted for,'" he continued.

What worries me is this deus ex femala, that we're speaking out loud "could be's", "stories", urban legends, creating the "shy Kamala voter" out of nothing more substantive than magic dust. It is now an article of faith among "prominent women in politics" that this creature exists, the secret Kamala voter who doesn't tell the men in her life, nor the pollsters when they call, that she is going to vote for Kamala; that she exists in such numbers that they will deluge trumpie with their votes. By her nature, we don't know if the secret Kamala voter is real. Personally I don't consider American women shy lol. This construct does not sound like a real American woman to me, and it would astonish me if she exists as a bloc.

https://www.newsweek.com/david-axelrod-kamala-harris-win-election-1978726