How Trump Plans to Make Voters Hate Harris

You'll be surprised to learn that Trump's plans involve rumor mongering, slander, and personal invective. But dig in, kids, and prepare to know your enemy. I recommend reading the whole thing (archive link shows your what's on the other side of the pay wall)

Link to article:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-donald-trump-plans-to-make-voters-hate-kamala-harris

Link to archive:
https://archive.ph/dLxGS

According to data from AdImpact, the Trump campaign and its affiliated super PACS shelled out 57 percent of the their television spending to anti-Harris campaigns, compared to the 8 percent dedicated to anti-Trump ads by the Democratic ticket, from Aug. 23 to Aug. 29.

“This is a moment in the message arc of us seeking to define her, she’s seeking to define herself,” a Trump adviser told The Washington Post.

“We have a defined candidate—everyone knows everything about the person. There’s lots of new information about Kamala Harris that people just don’t know.”

“Our focus every day is on ensuring the American people know Kamala’s dangerously liberal record and see her for who she is,” said the former president’s campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt. “A phony, radical, San Francisco liberal who would further spiral our once great nation into a sanctuary for illegal immigrants and a nightmare for law-abiding Americans.”

If that plan fails, “then you define her as a liar who you can’t trust,” Republican strategist Jeff Roe told Puck.

Whoa... "Kinds of Kindness" on Hulu

Be prepared for anything. Discuss below. No spoilers in subject lines please.

Today's smile on your face: "'She's taking Republicans away from Trump': Pollster reveals shocking new data for Harris"

Link to The Magistrate's Journal

Just scrolled through his journal of DU posts.

This is some damn good reading, well steeped in history and the wisdom is imparts. Rest in peace, Magistrate.

More up to date posts can be read by going to Advanced search and putting his name in the "post author" field.

I'm not a fan of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact

This is an agreement among states that, once enough states to constitute a majority of the electoral college sign on, these states will automatically pledge their EC votes to whoever wins the popular vote.

Sounds like a smart work around to the problems of the popular-will-defying Electoral College, right?

But guess who's signed up of for it... pretty much only Democratic states. I don't know the hard math involved in this, but it's not hard to imagine this boomeranging on us. Right now it seems like losing the election despite winning the vote is a Democratic problem.

But electoral coalitions are shifting, swingy things. A generation ago California was a stalwart GOP state, Pete Wilson & Sam Hayakawa. Half a generation from now, a popular California moderate Republican could end up pulling a reverse Hillary--losing on the West Coast by a few thousand votes per state while still running up big totals in Texas, Florida, & the South and a 50.5% popular vote. We win in the College, but we've agreed to hand over the White House just in time for a Republican to appoint replacements for Thomas, Alito, and the ailing Justice Sotomayor.

In my imagination, I could noodle up half a dozen variations on how this highly principled compact could bite Democrats in the butt.

I'm not a fan of the electoral college either, but the interstate pact feels too much like unilateral disarmament.

Does someone have a couple good sources debunking Matt Taibbi?

Looking for facts & documented inconsistencies, not just "he's changed since the anti-war days"

I'm googling around too, but I'm involving the DU Hive Mind in my quest to win an argument

Is anyone here buying the new Trump digital trading cards?

ONLY $99 per card!
If you buy a mere 75 at full price, you'll get an actual physical card in the mail for FREE!!!!

At least now police can close the books on one cold case

We now know how a mutilated whale head ended up in Central Park, Manhattan, in 1994

RFK Jr.'s Daughter Says Dad Cut Off a Whale's Head, Drove It 5 Hours Home

Source: The Wrap

When they would accelerate, “whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet,” Kick Kennedy explained to Town & Country Magazine.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s daughter Kick Kennedy may or may not be spending time with Jennifer Lopez’s estranged husband Ben Affleck (as reported by Page Six), but she certainly spent time with Town & Country Magazine for a profile that has been resurfaced and made waves on social media, in which she shared an anecdote about her father and a dead whale that still checks out with what we know about the odd politician — especially when it comes to his love for dead animals.

When she was 6, her dad chopped off the head of a whale that washed up on Squaw Island in Hyannis Port. Due to RFK Jr.’s love of studying animal skulls and skeletons, they then strapped the dead whale’s head to the car and spent five hours driving it to their home.

Read more: https://www.thewrap.com/rfk-jr-daughter-kick-kennedy-whale-head/