DL Open Thread Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Karl Baker at Spotlight Delaware dove into the 2024 Delaware Bond Bill so you don’t have to, and he found lots of specific projects under vague descriptions, obscuring the total of $50 million the state, Gov. John Carney, will spend on buildings in Wilmington, future Mayor (he hopes) John Carney. Lots of other nuggets in Baker’s summary. I’d quote you some, but they deserve the clicks.
Tim Alberta of the Atlantic says the Trump re-election team miscalculated, believing Biden would never step aside, and was caught flatfooted when he did. They’re worried because their own polling showed that Biden was a drag on the ticket. A hurdle for them, sure, but it shows that their control of the media allows them, given enough time, to determine the narrative. They were so successful drumming home Biden’s age and frailty that, in the Wile E. Coyote tradition, it blew up in their faces.
Meanwhile, in a clear sign of what Democrats should run on, polling on Project 2025 shows that when people learn about it, they hate it. Progressive polling firm Navigator Research found familiarity with the radical right plan to destroy America doubled in the past month, and its favorability was underwater by 43-11. That means a plurality has heard about it, but too little to form an opinion. Could the path forward be any clearer?
J.D. Vance, the Ted Cruz of the North, has set a dubious record: He’s the first VP pick of this century to have a negative approval rating after being named to the post. CNN’s Harry Enten pointed out that Vance was elected to the Senate from Ohio despite underperforming the rest of the Republicans on the ticket.
Not that anyone would be surprised by, or even remembers, the enormous number of lies Trump told in his acceptance speech, but the New York Times has a bunch of handy charts illustrating the many, many whoppers he told about both his performance and Biden’s. But you’ll notice the headline says no such thing.
The floor’s yours.
“… but it shows that their control of the media allows them, given enough time, to determine the narrative.”
My hope is that the short election season will (somewhat) disarm the GOP’s standard tactics:
1) Hit on a pseudo-scandal and hammer it home endlessly (see Swift Boats, Obama Birth Certificate, Clinton Emails, Hunter Biden, etc) until clouds and shadows appear.
2) Rely on NYT and “legit” media to do stories about the presence of clouds and shadows based on the lazy click-bait journalism of “people are saying” and “where there’s smoke?”
Saw my first BHL ad on TV today. I’m sure that that Philly PAC is paying for it.
Hope Matt goes up soon…
Got a mailer from her yesterday; well, actually from the DSEA Advocacy Fund. So she doesn’t need to raise any money from any, y’know, actual voters.
Pretty sure that’s the second one they sent out on her behalf.
She’s going up this early because they’re trying to stop the bleeding.
She has the name recognition advantage, so they’re hammering it home with the same vague bullshit she always spouts. I’m sure it was put together by a committee, because that’s how she rolls.
Speaking of, what’s Velda been doing? Carney’s been getting a lot of photo ops around the city and word on the street he’s got something brewing in southbridge. Velda has signs up but not much else