For the VP
GOP Gov. Greg Abbott is featured in a Cancun Cruz ad saying the governor’s job is to keep Texas, Texas. He goes on to say that Cong. Colin Allred isn’t Texas. Uh, sure. All I can say is I didn’t see anyone in Texas dressed up like Cong. Allred for Halloween, like I saw a number of folks dressed up like Cancun Cruz heading off to Cancun for Halloween. The ad would be a lot more honest if Gov. Abbott would have said “my job isn’t to keep Cancun Cruz in Texas.” Just saying.
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The featured photo is the Breitbart fella from yesterday’s “What’s Your Point.” He said yesterday that there was a “peaceful transfer of power” in 2021. Huh? His fellow panelist Marcus Davis sharply rebuked the fella and reminded him that January 6 was a violent attempted coup led by Donald Trump and not a peaceful transfer of power.
Earlier in the show, the Breitbart fella said there could possibly be a Trump landslide tomorrow. He based it upon reading the Real Clear Politics electoral college charts. That brought a big laugh from Davis. I loved watching Marcus Davis laugh in this fella’s face.
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Mary McCormack of “The West Wing” said “women are the story of this election.” She is right. She said it yesterday on MSNBC’s “Velshi.” McCormack also said there is “mama bear energy” in the electorate this year. She is right.
Also, on “Velshi,” MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow had a special report on post-Roe and the 2024 election. It was an excellent feature by Maddow.
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Saturday morning, I attended the Area 5 Democrats block walk breakfast for volunteers in Pasadena. In a conversation with close acquaintances, I said that I was feeling a Vice President Kamala Harris rout tomorrow. For the VP. By rout, I mean a decisive victory for the Vice President, and that we will have clear indicators tomorrow evening that she is going to successfully complete the mission. I don’t think it is going to be a rerun of 2024 when we found out that Joe Biden had won on the Saturday after Election Day.
Women are outperforming men in sizable numbers in battleground states in the early voting. I don’t see how men will show up tomorrow to somehow balance things out. That isn’t how it works.
It is also unprecedented to see this many Republicans openly and publicly endorse a Democrat like they have with the Vice President. It reminds me a little of 1972, when a lot of Democrats couldn’t stomach the Democratic Party nominee, Senator George McGovern and endorsed President Richard Nixon.
The Vice President has also run a far more superior campaign. Just look at last week. Trump’s final campaign week was consumed by the Madison Square Garden fiasco while the Vice President was on message and capped it off with a very humorous, witty, and entertaining “Saturday Night Live” appearance.
Saturday evening a political bomb shell of sorts was dropped when the Des Moines Register released a poll saying the Vice President has a three-point lead in Iowa. The much-anticipated poll and pollster has a reputation for its accuracy. Iowa isn’t a battleground state and neither Trump nor the Vice President have directed major campaign resources to the state.
I said last week that the polling would be a secondary storyline in the post-election. Yesterday on MSNBC, Matthew Dowd said that he wouldn’t be surprised tomorrow night to see all the eggs on the faces of the pollsters.
Matthew also said to look at the results of other states not in play like Indiana, Kansas, and Kentucky and see how close the results are.
I will also be paying attention to the exit polling on the issues that will be released late tomorrow afternoon to get a sense of what the voters are saying.
I am feeling it. If I am wrong, well, we asked for it.
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On a very side note, Mary McCormack played the co-pilot of the space shuttle that was armed with nukes needed to destroy the comet in “Deep Impact” back in 1998. Toward the end of the flick, when the crew runs out of most options and can only destroy the comet by flying the space shuttle directly into the comet, McCormack’s character deadpans, “look on the bright side. We’ll all have high schools named after us.” I still chuckle when I hear her deliver the line when I run across the flick.
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My Beatles wall calendar for the month of November has the four with Ed Sullivan in a black and white photo from February 1964.
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The Christmas tunes channels are now active on SiriusXM.
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Alex Bregman won the Gold Glove Award for National League third baseman. Congrats. Now give him a good deal, Astros.
