She even screwed up on Anderson Cooper

[George K]

"I don't know how they pulled it off, but for their Harris town hall CNN managed to find a woman+registered Democrat+poli sci professor at Swarthmore undecided voter"

[LuFins Dad]

@Jolly said in She even screwed up on Anderson Cooper:

Something is happening. Look at some of her recent interactions with "friendly" media...The questions are becoming more pointed and she's actually getting follow-up questions.

Why? They've been in the tank for her since Biden dropped out. What has changed in the media?

She’s losing, they see it. Now it’s CYA time.

But, my guess is that she was given some advanced notice on what to expect to let her put together a good answer, and she failed.

[jon-nyc]

@George-K said in She even screwed up on Anderson Cooper:

"I don't know how they pulled it off, but for their Harris town hall CNN managed to find a woman+registered Democrat+poli sci professor at Swarthmore undecided voter"

Probably a bunch like her stuck between Jill Stein and Cornell West.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in She even screwed up on Anderson Cooper:

@George-K said in She even screwed up on Anderson Cooper:

"I don't know how they pulled it off, but for their Harris town hall CNN managed to find a woman+registered Democrat+poli sci professor at Swarthmore undecided voter"

Probably a bunch like her stuck between Jill Stein and Cornell West.

Good point.

[George K]

That "undecided voter:

https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-retired-professor-who-went-viral-after-cnns-town-hall-explains-why-shes-an-undecided-voter?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_11480949_nl_Academe-Today_date_20241025&sra=true

As Anderson Cooper made clear, I am a registered Democrat. This is not a secret. I’m not trying to hide that. But I am angry with the Democrats over Biden’s willingness to send all sorts of weapons to Netanyahu and his generals, which they are then using to kill an enormous number of civilians. I was hoping that Harris might put some daylight between her position and Biden’s on this issue, and I’m not hearing it. But voting for Trump was not on my agenda. There are people who have jumped to that conclusion. [Emphasis added.]

Chronicle: So you were deciding between Harris and a third-party candidate? Or sitting it out, perhaps.

Chronicle: How did you wind up participating in the town hall?

I do not know how or why I was contacted for this particular event. Some of the participants said that they had answered a survey about their views of the upcoming election, and that that was what CNN had had access to as they were looking for undecided voters. I didn’t answer any surveys. So this came to my mailbox and, of course, I was interested in the event. You had to write questions. I think that they picked [people to participate] partly on the basis of the questions that you asked. My first question was on something I cared a great deal about — Gaza, the war in the Middle East. But they said they had picked somebody else to ask a question like that, and they selected the question that I asked.

Oh - spontaneous questions from the audience which CNN pre-selected.

Chronicle: What would you say to someone who looks at you and says, “This is a registered Democrat who taught at a historically liberal campus. How can she be undecided?” Some people have speculated online that you were a plant.

Well, you should ask CNN how they picked people. What would I be a plant for? My question was quite straightforward. I don’t see how people wouldn’t want to know the answer to a question like that. So what in the world would I be a plant to do?

People who don’t know me, and who are just assuming that I’m considering a vote for Trump, think I can’t possibly be a serious student of the Constitution, etc., etc. I care very much about threats to democracy and the degradation of democratic norms.

[Jolly]

Yes, you were a plant, and you should be smart enough to know it. But then again, you are a professor.

Secondly, this idiot is again showing her Leftist roots, since she considers threats to democracy anybody who doesn't agree with her.

[LuFins Dad]

That matches my own belief. I’ve been saying for a while that there aren’t undecided people trying to choose who, they are trying to decide if.

[Jolly]

Ben Shapiro made a neat observation the other day....Going back through most of the campaign season and looking at the RCP average of all polls, Trump has not been above about 48% and not under about 46%. He has a very, very hard base on the national level.

Unless something changes, Trump's chances of winning the electoral college and the Presidency look like 60/40 or better. I think the interesting question right now is where the popular vote will land.

[LuFins Dad]

The continuing question is polling error. The last two have underestimated Trump’s support, but it’s very possible for it to go the other way.

[Jolly]

Absolutely.