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Peter Feld πŸ‰

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Progressive strategist (polling, persuasion direct mail, voter-facing digital). Ex: NY Observer, Conde Nast, Global Strategy Group, Lake Research, Hart Research, Dukakis and Tsongas for President, Jessica Savitch backup guitarist. He/him.


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John Cluverius's avatar John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social
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I don’t think the polls showing him doing better in the trial heats are convincing evidence.

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"Most of the delegate slates are full of Biden loyalists, or at least were before the debate. Fearing disruptions from pro-Palestinian activists, Biden’s campaign and the DNC had worked assiduously for months to ensure each state and territory sent trusted delegates to Chicago."

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Peter Feld πŸ‰'s avatar Peter Feld πŸ‰ @peterfeld.bsky.social
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this doesn't map out to a traditional left-center split. The K-Hive wants Biden to stay because they have Biden brain: yell about "MAGA Republicans," brag about bipartisan compromises, blame stuttering, expect democracy vs. fascism to convince voters. The people wanting Biden out are the realists.

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not a great way to measure impact. Instead look at the head to head trends since 6/27. Also, the debate killed Biden by preventing gains which he needs, since he's currently on track to lose. No change wasn't good enough.

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exactly, when Biden was the challenger and he didn't matter because it was all up or down on Trump. Now it's reversed and hiding can't work for him.

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you are fantasizing here. What I'm saying here is the basic principle of Palestinian liberation and decolonization.

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Peter Feld πŸ‰'s avatar Peter Feld πŸ‰ @peterfeld.bsky.social
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saying the loud part loud but ok. Israel has no right to exist and no right to defend itself against its own people whose land it stole and whom it placed under apartheid oppression for 76+ years.

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the whole country is occupied, including all that was stolen in 1948, not just the 22% stolen in 1967.

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we are demanding the eradication of a violent, eliminationist apartheid ethnofascist state and will never back off. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free, that means eliminating every trace of zionist settler privilege in every square inch of historic Palestine.

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Peter Feld πŸ‰'s avatar Peter Feld πŸ‰ @peterfeld.bsky.social
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"Gaffes" covers quite a few things about Biden, but what he did this debate is different. He didn't lift a British pol's personal history, boast about his nonexistent academic standing, endorse same-sex marriage before his boss, say BFD, or gush about segregationist senators. He just fell apart.

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I'm willing to believe he was up 7 in this pre-debate Emerson poll. That would be on par with Hochul in 2022. No chance of losing statewide but kills all those House races Dems hoped to take back. Of course he's probably lost ground post debate.

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Brilliant and super useful

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Peter Feld πŸ‰'s avatar Peter Feld πŸ‰ @peterfeld.bsky.social
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If you don't want the fraudster rapist felon to rule for 4+ years, better swap out Biden for Harris very quickly.

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ok and he certainly overcame it if you see those past clips-I just don't think it describes any of his problems in the debate last month, which seem directly age-related no?

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Lifelong? Play a Biden clip from any year, he never stutters. If he had it in childhood it is gone forever. This is part of the Biden myth to make his deterioration more sympathetic. Nothing in that debate was stutteringβ€”getting stuck on consonants. And 12 years ago and more he was totally glib:

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What "stuttering"? He has filled pauses when he loses his train of thought, he murmurs, he mumbles, he trails off, he veers into non sequitur. There was not one stutter in that whole debate. What kind of stutter makes you talk about immigrant crime when asked about abortion?

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If Biden has to worry about NY this whole election is forgetsville.

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Right, no one voted for him, just against Trump, because reelection campaigns are a pure incumbent referendum, the challenger isn't a factor. Unfortunately that will be true again this time, but now it's a pure up or down on Biden, and Trump will not be a factor :(

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it should have been on his. It's his job.

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Peter Feld πŸ‰'s avatar Peter Feld πŸ‰ @peterfeld.bsky.social
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Hey Mr. DJ, put a record on

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if only the Democratic nominee had the mental dexterity to bring it up in the debate

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I would say only by offering a vision for the future, but I agree with her about Harris. Anyone else and it's the administration throwing in the towel, which is a Dem forfeit. Biden’s problem is, with his visible limits, he is going to have a hard time convincing people he can lead into the future.

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Trump is not going to step down and if Biden doesn't Trump will be president.

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Raea πŸ¦‹πŸ’•πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ΄'s avatar Raea πŸ¦‹πŸ’•πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ΄ @raeaa.bsky.social
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the carceral state has metastasized in the last ten years where as in the case of Banko Brown private security is now deputized by the state to kill (Black, poor, disabled, queer) people. abolition is the triage that will allow us to begin to heal, it will just get worse otherwise

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there is no resemblance between an open year like 2008 and this. An incumbent reelection is a straight up or down referendum, not a binary choice, and the opponent is not a factor. And agree, a vision and agenda for the future is make or break. They will get nowhere with Project 2025 alarm.

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I will β€œvote blue no matter who” because it’s better than the alternative, but Dems absolutely need a better story to tellβ€”one that involves offering concrete progressive changes. Voting β€œfor democracy” is not a great story. Democracy is an abstract term and a far cry from our reality even now

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Jim Inhofe currently discovering that unlike the Senate floor, there are no snowballs in hell

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Clinton's advantage over Harris is a mild uptick in name ID that would disappear if Harris were nominated or succeeded. Polling with alternate names to Biden is useless because it can't capture the dynamics of a new nominee or president.

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This is much like Jimmy Carter's renomination deathmarch. The money and power and all the self-interested pols were with him! We got Reagan, Bush, Bush, Trump, climate death, and 40+ years of fascism!

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Stolen Land sales, with entry restricted by religion, violate the Civil Rights Act of 1965 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. Several have been shut down after PAL Law Commission served legal notices to DAs and the NY AG. If this one goes forward, it's in Queens this Sunday. 40+ orgs endorse.

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What this article leaves out is that if you hand your unlocked phone to a police officer, they can legally search it. Unless companies develop a method that allows you to show officers insurance cards and driver license without unlocking the rest of your phone, don't.

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They exist to stop the left, which is why Biden says he’s OK with losing to Trump.

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Biden's numbers are abysmal considering he had vaccines. He botched the booster rollouts, minimized Delta and Omicron waves, deathmarched everyone back to the office with Jha and Zients in charge, nuked isolation time, dropped mask rules in thousands of folks' mid-flights, made tons of bad choices.

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both were very shortsighted. Trump with the inject bleach and Biden ending all NPIs and putting Wall Street in charge of public health. They both failed the test. Neither could handle masking.

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I thought we were commiserating

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Then you're going to think this Reuters chart is very stupid

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neither of them were great to be honest. Biden putting corporate ghouls Zients and Jha in charge of the pandemic response, threatening the country with a "pandemic of the unvaccinated" when within months it was mostly vaccinated dying, dropping isolation times and all NPIsβ€”were as criminal as Trump.

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Peter Feld πŸ‰'s avatar Peter Feld πŸ‰ @peterfeld.bsky.social
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is this supposed to be some kind of gotcha? Yes, George W. Bush was the most evil and stupid and damaging president in US history, no one including Trump comes anywhere close.

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Biden killed more people than Trump with Covid

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You think someone who didn't kill a million people is worse than someone who did? I'd pick Trump over Bush in a heartbeat if that were the choice.

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