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Numbers wise today, I say you’re correct Greger. But I still think Trump is the invisible elephant in the room. With Trump’s endorsements along with his followers going along with his endorsements, mainly for revenge. The Republicans have 4 which should be easily beaten candidates running for senate seats. Would the Republicans nominate them without Trump’s backing? I don’t know since he did back them and usually Republicans go along with anything Trump.

Pre-Trump, when a president had an approval rating of around 40%, independents swamped the out of power party with their votes into the in-power party. They went and voted big for the party out of power.
1994 independents voted for Republican congressional candidates by a 56-42 margin.
2006 independents voted Democratic by a margin of 57-39 over Republicans.
2010 independents voted 56-37 Republican over Democratic congressional candidates.
2018 Independents voted for the Democratic congressional candidates by a 54-42 margin.

Why not in 2022? Have independents all of a sudden become much more politically and worldly smart which they weren’t in the four above listed examples? I doubt that, they’re not political junkies and rarely follow the day to day grind of politics and goings on Washington D.C. It’s true, Trump isn’t on the ballot, but his specter hangs over this election big time to include backing and getting nominated lousy candidates for the general election.

Independents think both major parties suck. Perhaps, although independents think Biden and company has done a very lousy job, they don’t want a return to anything Trump or his backed candidates, party. Maybe? It seems I’ve been trying to make sense of this upcoming election, what is happening with it as it shouldn’t be happening, the only explanation is Trump. Not that independents all of a sudden struck gold in the political brain matter game. 45% of independents still blame Biden a lot for inflation, rising prices, 33% blame Biden some. Just looking at that, it doesn’t seem to me independents just got smarter with a snap of the fingers.

https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/k4maehoie4/econTabReport.pdf

10 August, Governor races

Latest on the governor races, below the competitive races along with the changes in party. Currently the Republicans have 27 governors to 23 for the Democrats. Once this is over, the Democrats gain at least 3 giving them a 26-24 lead with a very close race going on in Georgia which at the moment favors the Republican Kemp, but could go to the Democrats giving them a net gain of 4 governors.

Arizona Open D Hobbs over R Lake Democratic gain
Kansas Incumbent D Kelly slight lead over R Schmidt Democratic hold
Georgia Incumbent R Kemp slight lead over D Abrams Republican hold
Maryland Open D Moore over R Cox Democratic gain
Massachusetts Open D Healey over R Diehl Democratic gain
Michigan Incumbent D Whitmer over R Dixon Democratic hold
Nevada incumbent D Sisolak over R Lombardo Democratic hold
Pennsylvania Open D Shapiro over R Mastriano Democratic hold
Wisconsin incumbent D Evers over R Michels Democratic hold

Once Labor Day passes and when polls really start being taken seriously, the Democrats have a lot to crow about against do-nothing, obstructionist Republicans.

Dems need effective TV ads touting what they have done in two years vs what Republicans did in four under Trump.

Is America better off than two years ago?

• Refrigerated trucks are no being used as mobile morgues
• Millions upon millions of people are no longer out of work
• Schools are no long shutting down because the president of the United States put his feckless son-in-law in charge of getting personal protective equipment to the states - and kept the money for himself
• Pudgy whey-faced creeps are no longer stone cold killing people at protests against police brutality

Two years later, kids are back in school, only regular morgues are necessary now, the unemployment rate is the lowest it's been in 50 years, wages have risen, inflation has slowed, and Jared Kushner is $2 billion richer thanks to an investment in his "hedge fund" from the Saudi government.

So who are you announcing all this to? Everybody here is pretty well up on what's been going on the last few years.

All hail President Biden! Huzzah Huzzah Huzzah!

It wasn't his fault that things went to sh*t.

But only he could have delivered such prosperity and good times to the people of the United States!

And the jailing of SO many political opponents! Justice is being served and the voting public will surely reward the Democratic Party come November.

I don't know about yours, but my experience with the "voting public" has been less than remarkable so far.

The posts are simply to reinforce the fact that Republicans are do-nothing, obstructionists that have become fascist anti-Americans, who support espionage by a former POTUS and why vote for them?

Only reason it makes ME sad is that it's f****g VERTICAL video, which I despise.

You’re not anti-America Jeff. Agree about the vertical display.

The simplest thing in the world: Shooting stills? Hold the camera any way you wish.
Shooting VIDEO? Hold the camera in horizontal (landscape) mode because TV sets and computer screens are horizontal.
The ONLY time vertical video makes sense is when it is PHONE to PHONE video, like FaceTime, or Skype or just any phone call with video.

Manufacturers could easily program phones to shoot video in landscape mode by DEFAULT if they wanted. For vertical, they can just add a button or program the phone to shoot vertical in video calls only.
There is NO such thing as default vertical TELEVISION displays.

In fact, manufacturers can and DO make full frame image sensors and have done so for a very long time, so if they wanted, they could design the phones so they shoot video in landscape mode even when the phone is held vertically, the sensor just "windows" itself to fit the aspect ratio needed, which in the case of TV, is 16:9 or MAYBE 4:3....but 9:16/3:4 never needs to be an option because in film and TV land it simply does not exist and never has.