I'm well aware that daytime temperatures are still climbing above 100 degrees out west, in Phoenix, Las Vegas, and poor Laughlin and Bullhead City. But it is October, and whether the weather is showing a little bit of a fall chill or not, I think some Democrats are in need of a little bit of one.
This election season is intense. We know what is at stake. We saw this man serve in the Presidency for four years and it was a disaster. Then we saw January 6th, and we know he has no respect for the law, the Constitution, anything, in fact, except his own interests, all of which involve money. We know that American democracy as we know it will be destroyed systematically by letting him back in the White House.
We are aware of his attempts to suppress the vote, and of all of the potential damage that will be done to our country if he is elected. He has threatened, bullied, and his antics have attracted media attention like no other subversive personality in American history. The fact that he is now the three time nominee of the Republican party, twice impeached, with felony convictions, awaiting sentencing and two trials is an indication that something is seriously wrong with our politics, and the only fix we have is to vote him down once again, this time in such a way that a clear message is sent to the GOP. Don't do this again!
And that has created a level of political stress like I've never seen before. We're stressing out at everything, we're envisioning doom and gloom scenarios as if there is no hope, we're grasping at straws, fearing the worst, trembling at every blip in the polls, scanning them for information that, frankly, isn't there and that they're not going to provide.
It's time to sit back, take a deep breath, let it out, and relax. Chill for a moment. Breathe in again, and relax. There, I hope that feels better.
She's going to win this. It should make all of us feel better realizing that Biden was going to win this, too. How do I know? Well, not by worrying and hand wringing over the polls.
Do some observing. What's out there? A Republican candidate who is so desperate, that he's not even paying attention to what he, or his running mate says. It's a scattershot attempt at trying to pull his base together. He's lost a lot of support along the margins, a lot of those voters who, because of party affiliation and some sort of vague sense of identity that goes with it, were going to hold their nose and vote Republican, but are giving that a long, hard look themselves. In spite of some billionaire PAC money, they aren't finding it easy to gain contributions, leaving Trump to grift for money by selling stuff.
Harris, on the other hand, took in half a billion in September, and the Democrats have enough to make it rain in all 50 states. Her poll numbers, for those who take that seriously, have increased ever since she's been in the race, and if the media is loathe to make known the fact that she is consistently leading in the battleground states as well as nationally, they've had to report her approval rating, double digits ahead of his, and her rising numbers on the only two issues where he has an advantage at all, though not enough to win it, the economy and the border.
She's offering realistic solutions to problems. He's whining about them.
We're stressing about everything. There's shooting in the Middle East and we're stressed over how that will affect the election. There's a hurricane that turned into a tropical storm that devastated the hollers of the Appalachian South and we're stressed about how that effects the election. A deep red Republican pollster defies the majority and becomes an outlier in Trump's favor and there's panic.
Relax. It's going to be OK.
The fact that so many Democrats, independents and Republicans who have publicly declared they're abandoning Trump are worrying about this election is a good sign, and an indicator that we are going to have a huge turnout. That's a good sign. Heck, having celebrity endorsements helps, too, it all goes together.
Heck, even a couple of the composite pollsters, usually dark and gloomy in their forecasts, are thinking that Democrats have a better chance at keeping control of the senate than we may have thought.
So relax, lay down, take a nap, get up and play a game on your computer. It'll help big time. Things are looking good, don't worry about it.
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