Post by mhbruin on Oct 8, 2020 9:42:55 GMT -8
Another major hurricane is bearing down on the US. News like that gets lost among the stuff that passes for "news" so much of the time.
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The fact that 6 men were arrested for planning to kidnap the Governor of Michigan is deemed so unimportant, it isn't even mentioned on CNN's web site.
NBC mentions it.
But CNN does have a story on "The Masked Singer".
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I heard a commentator say the "gender gap" is not what most people think. Yes, women support Democrats more than Republicans, but that is because Black women overwhelmingly support Democrats. In past elections, white women have favored Republicans.
I found this:
"Scholarship on women voters in the United States has focused on the gender gap, showing that, since the 1980s, women are more likely to vote for Democratic Party candidates than men. The persistence of the gender gap has nurtured the conclusion that women are Democrats. This article presents evidence upending that conventional wisdom. I[...] White women are the only group of female voters who support Republican Party candidates for president. They have done so by a majority in all but 2 of the last 18 elections. The relevance of race for partisan choice among women voters is estimated with data collected in 2008, 2012, and 2016, and the significance of being white is identified after accounting for political party identification and other predictors."
Source
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The New England Journal of Medicine has had four editorials in it's history signed by all the editors. None of them related to politics. Their latest issue has a fifth, slamming Trump for his handling of the epidemic.
I am sure you read NEJM all the time but...
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"Black Americans still pay more than any other group to own a home, a disparity that over 30 years contributes to roughly half the current $130,000 gap between Blacks and whites in savings at retirement, a recent Massachusetts Institute of Technology study shows.
"The annual difference of $743 in mortgage interest payments, $550 in mortgage insurance premiums and $390 in property taxes, when invested over 30 years results in lost retirement savings of $67,320 for Black homeowners, according to the study called “The Unequal Costs of Black Homeownership.”
It starts with lower credit scores. Is there a way to fix that?
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538's analyst is skeptical about Lindsey Graham losing. Basically he says that Harrison can get 45% to 48% ov
Story
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Trump did a call in interview that was unhinged, even by Trump standards. He said he was "extremely young". He called for Barr to indict Obama, Biden, and Hillary, saying they had all the evidence. He called Harris a "monster".
Asked what he wants to accomplish in a second term, Trump says "I have done more for Black community than any president except Abraham Lincoln."
When asked about bad polling, he said, "I don't understand it. I don't believe 'em ... they have a boat thing, they have 5,000 boats, they have thousands of trucks all over the country. I don't believe the polls"
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Is the drug Trump got "a cure" as he claims?
All we know about its effectiveness comes from a September 29 Regeneron press release, as Vox’s Umair Irfan reported, about a multi-phase, randomized, double-blind clinical trial involving only 275 people.
While the company did report promising results — the treatment cut the viral load of Covid-19 patients who were not hospitalized, and reduced the time it took to resolve symptoms — these are very early, unvetted findings. They say nothing of whether the drug cut the risk of death or “cured” people.
“The sample size is pitiful,” said David Nunan, a senior research fellow at the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford University.
Also, "The emergency antibody that Trump received last week was developed with the use of a cell line originally derived from abortion tissue, according to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, the company that developed the experimental drug."
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Another woman accuses Trump of sexual assault. Mike Pence still has nothing to say.
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Another 1.3 million first-time unemployment claims. People are still losing their jobs.
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Senator Mike Lee admits the he doesn't believe in Democracy. He tweeted:
"Democracy isn’t the objective; liberty, peace, and prospefity are. We want the human condition to flourish. Rank democracy can thwart that."
Liberty without democracy. How does that work?
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A few comments others made about the debate:
"Pence proves black flies matter"
"Pench f
Kamala Harris: Not one judicial nominee of President Trump that was confirmed to the federal bench is black.
If Pence drives the way he debates, he rolls through every stop sign and red light he sees.
How does Pence keep going over his time while also saying absolutely nothing?
Here's a 5 min video of Kamala's best moments.
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Trump's comments on COVID in the original German
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Georgia Senator Perdue say we need to cut Social Security and Medicare. Just what seniors want to hear.
Link
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A Tom Steyer sighting:
A major progressive super PAC is targeting deep red states with crucial Senate races, a sign that the Democratic Party is pushing further into solidly Republican political territory in the final days of the 2020 campaign.
NextGen America, which focuses on turning out voters under age 35, is expanding its target list to include Senate races in Alaska and South Carolina, and House elections for Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District and Kansas’ 2nd and 3rd Congressional districts. The group, funded almost exclusively by former Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer, has a $45 million budget for the 2020 election cycle.
The group is spending $200,000 on a digital ad in Alaska boosting independent Senate challenger Al Gross, who has the backing of national Democratic groups, over GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan. It will aim its volunteer army at the other states to text and call voters, encouraging them to register and vote.
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FWIW, in 2022, Republican will be defending 20 Senate seats. Democrats will be defending 12.
Vulnerable Repubs would be Johnson in Wisconsin (that rhymes) and Toomey's open seat in Pennsylvania. (Toomey is retiring, probably because Toomey rhymes with gloomy.)
No Democrats seem vulnerable.
---------------------
The fact that 6 men were arrested for planning to kidnap the Governor of Michigan is deemed so unimportant, it isn't even mentioned on CNN's web site.
NBC mentions it.
But CNN does have a story on "The Masked Singer".
----------------------------
I heard a commentator say the "gender gap" is not what most people think. Yes, women support Democrats more than Republicans, but that is because Black women overwhelmingly support Democrats. In past elections, white women have favored Republicans.
I found this:
"Scholarship on women voters in the United States has focused on the gender gap, showing that, since the 1980s, women are more likely to vote for Democratic Party candidates than men. The persistence of the gender gap has nurtured the conclusion that women are Democrats. This article presents evidence upending that conventional wisdom. I[...] White women are the only group of female voters who support Republican Party candidates for president. They have done so by a majority in all but 2 of the last 18 elections. The relevance of race for partisan choice among women voters is estimated with data collected in 2008, 2012, and 2016, and the significance of being white is identified after accounting for political party identification and other predictors."
Source
--------------------------
The New England Journal of Medicine has had four editorials in it's history signed by all the editors. None of them related to politics. Their latest issue has a fifth, slamming Trump for his handling of the epidemic.
I am sure you read NEJM all the time but...
--------------------------
"Black Americans still pay more than any other group to own a home, a disparity that over 30 years contributes to roughly half the current $130,000 gap between Blacks and whites in savings at retirement, a recent Massachusetts Institute of Technology study shows.
"The annual difference of $743 in mortgage interest payments, $550 in mortgage insurance premiums and $390 in property taxes, when invested over 30 years results in lost retirement savings of $67,320 for Black homeowners, according to the study called “The Unequal Costs of Black Homeownership.”
It starts with lower credit scores. Is there a way to fix that?
--------------------------
538's analyst is skeptical about Lindsey Graham losing. Basically he says that Harrison can get 45% to 48% ov
Story
-----------------------------
Trump did a call in interview that was unhinged, even by Trump standards. He said he was "extremely young". He called for Barr to indict Obama, Biden, and Hillary, saying they had all the evidence. He called Harris a "monster".
Asked what he wants to accomplish in a second term, Trump says "I have done more for Black community than any president except Abraham Lincoln."
When asked about bad polling, he said, "I don't understand it. I don't believe 'em ... they have a boat thing, they have 5,000 boats, they have thousands of trucks all over the country. I don't believe the polls"
--------------------------------
Is the drug Trump got "a cure" as he claims?
All we know about its effectiveness comes from a September 29 Regeneron press release, as Vox’s Umair Irfan reported, about a multi-phase, randomized, double-blind clinical trial involving only 275 people.
While the company did report promising results — the treatment cut the viral load of Covid-19 patients who were not hospitalized, and reduced the time it took to resolve symptoms — these are very early, unvetted findings. They say nothing of whether the drug cut the risk of death or “cured” people.
“The sample size is pitiful,” said David Nunan, a senior research fellow at the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford University.
Also, "The emergency antibody that Trump received last week was developed with the use of a cell line originally derived from abortion tissue, according to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, the company that developed the experimental drug."
-------------------------------------
Another woman accuses Trump of sexual assault. Mike Pence still has nothing to say.
-----------------------------------
Another 1.3 million first-time unemployment claims. People are still losing their jobs.
--------------------------------
Senator Mike Lee admits the he doesn't believe in Democracy. He tweeted:
"Democracy isn’t the objective; liberty, peace, and prospefity are. We want the human condition to flourish. Rank democracy can thwart that."
Liberty without democracy. How does that work?
-----------------------------------------------
A few comments others made about the debate:
"Pence proves black flies matter"
"Pench f
Kamala Harris: Not one judicial nominee of President Trump that was confirmed to the federal bench is black.
If Pence drives the way he debates, he rolls through every stop sign and red light he sees.
How does Pence keep going over his time while also saying absolutely nothing?
Here's a 5 min video of Kamala's best moments.
----------------------------
Trump's comments on COVID in the original German
------------------------
Georgia Senator Perdue say we need to cut Social Security and Medicare. Just what seniors want to hear.
Link
--------------------
A Tom Steyer sighting:
A major progressive super PAC is targeting deep red states with crucial Senate races, a sign that the Democratic Party is pushing further into solidly Republican political territory in the final days of the 2020 campaign.
NextGen America, which focuses on turning out voters under age 35, is expanding its target list to include Senate races in Alaska and South Carolina, and House elections for Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District and Kansas’ 2nd and 3rd Congressional districts. The group, funded almost exclusively by former Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer, has a $45 million budget for the 2020 election cycle.
The group is spending $200,000 on a digital ad in Alaska boosting independent Senate challenger Al Gross, who has the backing of national Democratic groups, over GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan. It will aim its volunteer army at the other states to text and call voters, encouraging them to register and vote.
-------------------------------
FWIW, in 2022, Republican will be defending 20 Senate seats. Democrats will be defending 12.
Vulnerable Repubs would be Johnson in Wisconsin (that rhymes) and Toomey's open seat in Pennsylvania. (Toomey is retiring, probably because Toomey rhymes with gloomy.)
No Democrats seem vulnerable.