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Not guaranteed, but we could see Biden's lead abate or shrink soon as we get further away from the first debate, which Americans thought Biden won and mostly had a higher opinion of him afterward.

Now: Biden/Trump 49-46 (3% other, 2% undecided) With high turnout: 50-46 (2% other, 2% undecided) With low turnout: 49-48 (2% other, 2% undecided) Biden's up from September when he was 47-45 (48-46 with high turnout and low turnout)

Here's what's interesting about the article; for Kavanaugh, it was cut and dry. A possible colleague of Barrett’s took a different view on racial slurs in 2013. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, then serving as a federal appeals court judge in Washington, D.C, said one utterance was enough. “But, in my view, being called the n-word by a supervisor ... suffices by itself to establish a racially hostile work environment. That epithet has been labeled, variously, a term that ‘sums up . . . all the bitter years of insult and struggle in America,’ ‘pure anathema to African-Americans,’ and ’probably the most offensive word in English,” Kavanaugh wrote. “No other word in the English language so powerfully or instantly calls to mind our country’s long and brutal struggle to overcome racism and discrimination against African-Americans. In short, the case law demonstrates that a single, sufficiently severe incident may create a hostile work environment actionable” under federal anti-discrimination laws.

This may be a little different than what you're saying, but the last part reminded me of why I'm more progressive now than I was 10 years ago. I had one hardcore libertarian roommate and another hardcore Republican my last two semesters of college, and I worked with plenty of Republicans at my first job. Any time I discussed something with them, I felt like I went above and beyond reasoning with them, coming to the middle, arguing on their terms (aka: talking more about debt than about economic opportunity), and it would lead to no concessions from them at all. It took a long time, but eventually I thought, "Why am I trying so hard to come to their side rather than explain my position by itself?" People who are far-right automatons won't do anything, but I've gotten more, "I've never heard it explained to me that way," remarks doing that than trying to appeal to someone's conservatism.

I know it's different, but I get the idea that we should hear that side of the argument more. I think many people abstractly know the argument of, "It's the hardest decision a woman could make," but really don't "get" the circumstances.

I love it when Patrick Leahy speaks because I always think of him as the guy who stood up to The Joker and vouched for Bruce Wayne.

My body my choice falls on deaf conservative ears, but they're not the people I'm trying to convince or rally. As one example, I know hardcore law enforcement people who are my body my choice people, word for word, and aren't Democrats. While I do agree that it's not a binary choice, I do get mclumber's position in the sense that humanizing it as Peters or Buttigieg have helps to change the conversation and humanizing the choice, and even I don't hear that argument enough.

http://www.elle.com//sites/elle/assets/images/favicon.ico Michigan Senator Gary Peters Shares His Abortion Story WWW.ELLE.COM “It's a story of how gut-wrenching and complicated decisions can be related to reproductive health."

Finally got around to reading the replies and I think I found tomcat's twitter account

Way better. Anyone have T-Mobile Tuesdays? I've gotten a free Impossible Whopper a few times, no mayo or anything, and it's actually really good.

Kind of to some of this. 1. The idea that they're the "neocon" wing has mostly been pushed by Trump supporters, to which there's some truth to it, but they push it so Trump seems better. Trump has the support of Rudy Giuliani, who was the biggest "9/11 changed everything" and Iraq War proponent next to any of them. Palin was a big, "Leaving is a white flag of surrender," believer. 2. They've gone after a lot of Republicans that board members think they'd like. Tom Cotton? No likey. 3. He may very well lose all that support if he wins, but would we rather the votes go elsewhere and he has less of a chance of winning? I don't see it as a problem; I see it as building a coalition so Democrats win. A lot of these people are voting straight-Democrat.

"I can look at Bernie Sanders and disagree with him on 57 issues without breaking a sweat. But you know what he's not? Un-American." "If Trump wins, the argument is over. If Bernie wins, the argument continues." "But Bernie Sanders is faithful to the American creed. To the American ideal. We're supposed to disagree with each other in this country." This does go into, "It's not that we disagree with Trump on this policy/that policy; it's that Trump is so terrible and a failure as keeping us safe." But I honestly thought they were #NeverBernie.

The Headline Continues to Be a Record 9.3 Million Voted Early Vote Analysis for Sunday, Oct. 11 ELECTPROJECT.GITHUB.IO Early Voting Continues at Record Pace with 9.3 million voted. Four years ago at this same time before the November election, I was tracking 1.4 million people voted.

A continuous reminder as to why I never liked DeSantis.

That he's gonna drop dead if he does all these rallies (apparently he wants to do a rally everyday until election day).

http://www.thedailybeast.com//static/media/favicon.b30a79ed.ico Dr. Fauci: The Trump Campaign Is ‘In Effect, Harassing Me’ WWW.THEDAILYBEAST.COM The nation’s top infectious disease expert says there is “not a chance” he quits the task force. But he’s openly angry with how he’s being politicized.

108 I have to imagine the number of people who lived to be 108 and watched their child die before they did is very very very small.

If he beat Peters and Biden won the state, he'd be in a small group to beat an incumbent while his party's presidential nominee lost the state.

Curious what this week's events will do. Michigan: Wisconsin: Biggest differences are Biden's individual numbers: he's been closer or over 50% while Clinton wasn't. Michigan was pretty close in the polls compared to Wisconsin. Also, I looked at nearly each state and have no idea Google Consumer Surveys was doing.

Interesting.

The Michigan poll for Biden also had concerning news for the Michigan Senate race.

I simultaneously hate how long this line is but love that people won't let anything stop them from voting.