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Latest 2024 Presidential Polls – 28 September 2024

28 Sep

With 38 days to go until Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris continues leading against the twice impeached, convicted felon Donald Trump in most current polling. Harris and Trump faced off in the only Presidential Debate of the year on September 10, 2024, with Harris clearly having beaten her opponent in one of the most bizarre, televised debates in the history of American presidential politics, with Trump claiming Haitian immigrants are eating people’s pets in Ohio. Trump has posed for political photos and videos over the graves of fallen Marines in Arlington Cemetery, is awaiting sentencing, and faces three additional trials. Trump (78) continues rambling incoherent sentences whenever he speaks.

So, with 38 days until November 5th, where do we stand?

In national polling, the latest Reuters/Ipsos Poll, conducted between 21-23 September 2024 of 785 “likely voters,” has the election lining up like this:

Harris 50%

Trump 44%

According to the Morning Consult, conducted between 20-22 September 2024 of 11,057 “likely voters:”

Harris 50%

Trump 45%

In the CBS News Poll, conducted from 18-20 September 2024 of 3,121 “likely voters:”

Harris 52%

Trump 48%

Trump leads in only one recent national poll, the Rasmussen Reports Poll, conducted from 19-25 September 2024 of 1,820 “likely voters.”

Trump 48

Harris 46

Running election simulations (Courtesy of 270 to Win), Harris beats Trump 16 out of 25 times, or 64% of the time.

Harris 263/Trump 275

Harris 362/Trump 176

Harris 282/Trump 256

Harris 319/Trump 219

Harris 250/Trump 288

Harris 276/Trump 262

Harris 286/Trump 252

Harris 286/Trump 252

Harris 319/Trump 219

Harris 349/Trump 189

Harris 274/Trump 264

Harris 215/Trump 323

Harris 356/Trump 182

Harris 266/Trump 272

Harris 274/Trump 264

Harris 232/Trump 306

Harris 391/Trump 147

Harris 216/Trump 322

Harris 202/Trump 336

Harris 216/Trump 322

Harris 271/Trump 267

Harris 260/Trump 278

Harris 319/Trump 219

Harris 343/Trump 195

Harris 339/Trump 199

As far as the national race for the White House is concerned, according to recent state polling data available, if the election was today, odds are that Vice President Harris would be the 47th President of the United States, while Trump, who forever remains the only twice-impeached convicted former president in U.S. history, will go down as having lost two elections in a row.

 
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Posted by on September 28, 2024 in Uncategorized

 

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Vice President Says There’s No Need to Own Assault Weapons?

20 Feb

According to news reports, Vice President Joe Biden said there’s no reason that people should need to own an assault weapon.

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The Vice President was taking part in a Facebook Town Hall hosted by Parents magazine, and took a handful of questions from readers about gun violence. One question cited a well worn right wing talking point, mewing how gun owners would be unable to protect themselves if Congress passed a bill banning certain weapons and high-capacity gun magazines.

“Kate, if you want to protect yourself, get a double barreled shotgun,” the Vice President responded. “I promise you, as I told my wife, we live in an area that’s wooded and somewhat secluded. I said, Jill, if there’s ever a problem, just walk out on the balcony here, walk out, put [up] that double barreled shotgun and fire two blasts outside the house.”

“You don’t need an AR-15,” he said. “Buy a shotgun! Buy a shotgun!”

The Vice President also said he doesn’t support making changes to the Second Amendment and described America’s “really healthy gun culture,” which was a “part of my father’s ethic.” He clarified to another questioner that nobody wants to take away people’s guns.

“I have two shotguns at home,” he said. “No one is going to come and take my guns.”

OK, thank you Mr. Vice President, will it make any difference with right wing gun fanatics? No it won’t. However, facts are a shot gun is the best possible weapon for home defense; an assault rifles muzzle velocity makes it an extremely dangerous weapon in the home, as it can send a round through multiple walls and possibly into your neighbor’s house or out into the street, putting a lot of innocent people at risk, whereas a shotgun’s ammo will not do that, while combing excellent stopping power in the confined space of a home. No it’s not as glamorous, but what do you want, glam or stopping power? Do you want to look cool, or stop an intruder? You don’t need assault rifles or high capacity magazines to protect your home from an intruder, and you’re not going to fight off the imagined “guvmint” bad guys either; this isn’t 1775 – ever heard of drones?

 
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Posted by on February 20, 2013 in Guns

 

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Colin Powell endorses President for second term

29 Oct

Former Secretary of State, and Army General, Colin Powell’s endorsed President Barack Obama for a second term, in a repeat of his endorsement from 2008.

“You know, I voted for him in 2008 and I plan to stick with him in 2012, and I’ll be voting for he and Vice President Joe Biden next month,” he said on CBS’ “This Morning.”

Powell praised the president’s handling of the economy and ending of the Iraq War.

“I think we ought to keep on the track we are on,” he said.

While Powell said he had the “utmost respect” for Republican Tea Party (GOTP) challenger Willard Mitt Romney, he criticized Willard’s so-called “tax plan”, his alleged “foreign policy” calling it a “moving target.”

“One day he has a certain strong view about staying in Afghanistan, but then on Monday night (last presidential debate) he agrees with the withdrawal,” the Secretary said. “Same thing in Iraq. On every issue that was discussed on Monday night, Gov. Romney agreed with the president with some nuances. But this is quite a different set of foreign policy views than he had earlier in the campaign.”

President Obama said he was “proud” and “humbled” to learn he has the support of former Secretary of State Colin Powell, “I’m grateful to him for his lifetime of service to his country both as a soldier and as a diplomat,” the President told a crowd of 15,000 during a campaign stop in Virginia. “And every brave American who wears the uniform of this country should know that as long as I’m your commander in chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. We will be relentless in pursuit of our enemies. Those are promises I’ve kept.”

Secretary Powell’s a great American hero, and heroes do what’s right for their country even if it means bucking their party to support the right man for the job. Powell’s concerns about Romney’s forever changing foreign policy and never ending tax plan are well founded and any thinking voter should be just as concerned. Unfortunately, there seem to be a lot of voters who just can’t seem to be bothered with thinking.

 
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Posted by on October 29, 2012 in 2012 Election

 

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Just Because

12 Oct

 

 
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Posted by on October 12, 2012 in 2012 Election

 

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Romney claims Vice President’s remarks a “new low”?

15 Aug

Republican Tea Party (GOTP) presidential wannabe Willard Mitt Romney’s accusing President Barack Obama’s campaign of reaching a new low, according to press accounts, following Vice President Joe Biden’s remarks to supporters saying GOTP presidential candidates and GOTP lawmakers would put them “back in chains.”

It’s clear the Vice President was talking about the risks of letting Wall Street operate without strong oversight when he was addressing a rally crowd in Danville, Va.

He said Romney wants to get rid of new Wall Street regulations Obama signed into law after the financial collapse of 2008, “Unchain Wall Street. They’re going to put y’all back in chains.”

Willard’s spokeswoman, Andrea Saul, mewed that the Vice President’s comments are, quote, “not acceptable in our political discourse” and a, quote, “new low.”

At a later campaign stop in Wytheville, Va., Vice President Biden clarified his remarks, noting his “chains” comment was a nod to an earlier comment made by Paul Ryan that “a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy.”

It was a nice try by the Romney Campaign to try to turn the Vice President’s comment into something it wasn’t, but in the fashion we’ve all come to recognize, they mishandled this one too. If your new running mate has been talking about “unshackling the banks and Wall Street” for the better part of a year or more, you better know that before you stick your neck out and criticize the comments made by your opponents; it’s just one more case of not being ready for the big time.

 
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Posted by on August 15, 2012 in 2012 Election

 

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