Posted on 08/24/2020 8:01:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Has President Trump just eaten Joe Biden's lunch?
Sure looks that way based on multiple indicators flashing pro-Trump signals in the wake of the Democratic National Convention. Sure, the leftist press is reporting that Biden's favorability numbers have notched up in the wake of his curiously gaffe-less convention speech, but it's thin gruel. Fact is, that's the only thing they have.
But if you look mostly on the right column of the front page of RealClearPolitics, it's pretty clear the trend is President Trump's friend. Apparently the artifice and over-processed convention infomercial, with its many technical sleights of hand (see here and here), didn't fool the voters. And if it did, not all that many of them watched. Television ratings were down 12% over the previous four-year period. America has more than 150 million registered voters, and only 22 million bothered to watch.
The news was all good for President Trump, who got a rise in his approval ratings in the polls. According to Clarice Feldman's column today:
The President’s approval rating on Rasmussen was 47% as the convention began. Once underway it soared to 51% and has stayed there.
And the left is scrambling to cover for it. "Don't be surprised if Biden doesn't get a bounce in the polls..." writes Washington Post columnist and swamper Karen Tumulty, citing the low televisiom viewership. More important, the Democratic Party platform is likely an issue, what columnist Peggy Noonan called the Trump vs. the "what the other guys will do" problem. The Democratic platform promised, in couched and sugary terms, more lockdowns, higher taxes, anti-industry, fewer cops and more illegal immigrant policies, all of which was a turnoff for voters.
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The media set the bar so low that all he had to do was deliver a pre recorded speech with out screwing up (of course the Dems put “LIVE” in the upper corner to fool their supporters) but to the voters they expected more
If all you have to do to be president is deliver a pre recorded speech, then anyone can be president
I believe the infomercial convention hurt the dems more then it helped. It was boring
Don't sell her short, I think 4% of Democrats supported her candidacy.
Chameleon Harris reciprocates by not liking many Democrats, many of whom she despises for existential reasons (too “white”, not sufficiently “woke”).
This looks more and more like the John Kerry/Joe Lieberman race
John Kerry was the Most leftists they could find who the establishment would support and was “his turn”
Joe Lieberman checked the Jewish Checkbox even though he added nothing to the campaign from a deep blue state and wasn’t really that popular outside the north east region.
Yep, they are repeating 2004
I know I have my own biases, as we all do. But I thought Biden’s speech was terrible. His delivery and cadence were way off. I know I’m biased as I didn’t particularly like what he had to say. But he sounded at points like a cranky old man, and at other times a low energy old man.
What do others think? The media universally praised it as the speech of his life, a speech for the ages, etc. etc. I was left wondering, what speech did they see?
John Kerry ran with John Edwards in 2004. You are thinking of Joe Lieberman being Al Gore’s running mate in 2000.
Don’t be unfair. His big challenge was to give a speech where he didn’t drool. He cleared that bar with seeming ease!
Dems moving on from Russia/Russia/Russia to: pic.twitter.com/AOMsuGXo7M— Truth Wins (@BaldEagle1964) August 21, 2020
Somebody posted a link on another thread a few days ago that showed Biden's DNC speech from 2008 playing alongside the one from last week. They were not identical, but the bullet points were the same, and some of the phrases were the same. So, his "home-run in the bottom of the 9th" speech was basically warmed over from 2008. And Biden was a lot more forceful and alert in the 2008 version.
Since he gave the same speech as 2008, I guess that means he and Barack didn't get the job done in their 12 years.
LOL Brain fart
It was a even worse ticket lol
Biden lying about seducing another man's wife.....
AND monetizing from his gov positions that we, the people, finance
is a gross insult to American families hurt by the pandemic.
Zing
You're right on that...
Suburban housewives aren't big on women who 'sleep' their way to the top...
Black men aren't big on women who smoke dope but put thousands of black men in prison for the same offense.
And white men? They've lost promotions to sluts having affairs with the boss...black men too.
I have no clue why she was chosen other than the tint on her skin.
Biden Faces Pressure From Left Over Influence Industry Ties.
Many of his aides and close allies are veteran Washington hands who have profited from advising big corporations.
New York Times | August 1, 2020 | Kenneth P. Vogel and Glenn Thrush
FR Posted on 8/1/2020, 8:07:53 PM by karpov
WASHINGTON — It was one of the few issues on which President Barack Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. disagreed — how far to go in limiting the influence of lobbyists in government. The vice president privately complained that his boss’s effort to slam shut the revolving door between K Street and the administration would deprive it of experienced talent, and he bristled when Mr. Obama’s aides tried to block him from hiring a well-connected Washington operator who had lobbied for pharmaceutical and insurance companies, credit agencies and others.
Eight years later, that same confidant, Steve Ricchetti, is helping to run Mr. Biden’s presidential campaign. Also involved to varying degrees are other advisers, operatives, fund-raisers and allies with deep connections to Washington’s lucrative lobbying, communications and strategic consulting industry.
That puts Mr. Biden at odds with powerful elements of his party’s liberal base. Increasingly, they are expressing concern that the military contractors, Wall Street banks and other major corporations that paid members of Mr. Biden’s inner circle while they were out of government could hold disproportionate power in a Biden administration.
Politically, it could limit Mr. Biden’s ability to cast himself as the antidote to the anything-goes access peddling that has proliferated in President Trump’s administration. Under Mr. Trump, lobbyists and campaign donors have not only enjoyed access to the highest levels of the administration, but have been tapped to lead cabinet departments and have exerted remarkable influence over policies of intense interest to their former employers.
“It’s worrisome, broadly speaking, that a Biden administration could end up abiding by the unfortunate bipartisan norms of putting people in posts where they oversee industries or employers they just left,” said David Segal, co-founder of the liberal group Demand Progress.
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