No no be fair, it began *during* the struggle, when some ostensibly progressive websites actively tried to sabotage the bill

Im not proud of it but I will admit that in the throes of the 2024 election night debacle and the Death Of The Republic etc, the words “at least this is the end of those fucking keys” did flash briefly through my mind

Alas we are left with only one true and reliable electoral prognosticator: Alan Lichtman and the Thirteen Keys to the White House

100%, and I’m sort of surprised it hasn’t been worse than it has but it’s hard to believe it’ll hold out much longer

Hey now it could also be his… wife’s brother’s wife

I'll be honest, I actually trust his actual data / modelling instincts less than Silver, though Silver's *judgement* / commentary etc has obviously gone far more to shit

he will never outright lie, but he's just very very happy to tell partial stories if they fit what he wants to tell

I know he's well liked here, but he's well liked in part precisely because he's willing to be *deeply* intellectually dishonest in order to present polling in the light which best fits the BSky hive mind. He's always had a bit of this but it's gotten much worse

Now this was, obviously, wrong at the time and very obviously wrong at the time, and actively counterproductive for fighting Trump, but the really important thing was to establish how much cooler they had been in the early and mid 00s than the kids these days

(By the way, iconic popular artists, even old ones, doing tours about how the regime sucks with the anti-regime slogan in the title, is not the sort of thing that happens in successfully consolidated autocracies)

We will be rocking your town in celebration and in defense of America — American democracy, American freedom, our American Constitution and our sacred American dream — all of which are under attack by our wannabe king and his rogue government in Washington, D.C.

Oh yeah, to be clear Duss is clearly her core FP guy and Duss is *awful*, but this specifically is just striking incompetence - she hadn’t even been prepped with his moron reading!

I mean, it's a focus group. If you're using a focus group to try to reconstruct mass sentiment like this, you're using a focus group wrong

Goodwin is employing a straight-up Holocaust denier.