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What a difference a month makes...

@MattAU05 and I were just discussing what an insanely consequently last month+ this has been in American politics. From Biden's disastrous debate, to the maga shooter attempting to kill Trump, to Biden dropping out and now VP Harris surging into the lead. You'd be hard pressed to ever find a more consequential period in American history.

The overwhelming majority of swing voters did not like either option in this race. Nikki Haley was correct last winter when she said the party that decided to replace their elderly candidate would win. The massive shift in this race towards Harris the last few weeks has been incredible. It makes sense though given that 10-20% of the country disliked both options and now the Dems have given them a better choice.

I've missed the last month on the board, but looking forward to catching up on what I assume has been a nuclear dumpster fire of a meltdown over Harris taking the lead and Trump's campaign flailing wildly. Press conference this afternoon has been amazing entertainment with him continuing to attack Governor Kemp and bragging about how big his insurrection crowd was for 1/6. Brilliant move by the Harris campaign to highlight how much bigger her crowd was in the same venue in Atlanta over the weekend. Trump could not resist taking the bait.

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HOOPS Bruce Pearl quick notes (pre-Houston)

We are set to speak with Bruce Pearl as the No. 11 Tigers travel to Houston to take on the No. 4 Cougars on Saturday night.

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*** This game begins the beginning of four of what could be six games of non-conference against top 14 teams.

*** Houston is well coached. Kelvin Sampson teams have played the same way for a long time. Great defense. Physical. Rebounding well. Play as a team and a culture there for sure. Bring almost everybody back except one player from last year.

*** We are obviously going to get exposed. Mentions that whoever wins the rebounding battle will matter.

*** Could be first to 50 game.

*** One thing he absolutely loved from last night: "I don't think we could have shot it any better." Mentions Chaney, CBM and Miles all had hot runs where they made incredible shots.

*** Dylan was great defensively. Johni was great offensively and played unselfishly. Knew he would be double teamed and was excited to get the ball to others.

*** Also thought they played hard for 40 minutes and defended hard without fouling.

*** Houston blitzes ball screens, putting two on the ball. Really brilliant ball screen defensive team.

*** Your traditional 4-man will have trouble against Houston because of their gigantic 4-man.

*** Mentions that people that follow him on Twitter are glad it's basketball season after being asked about the election being over.

*** "What opponent that we will play on a neutral site will be more difficult than playing at Houston, at Duke or at Alabama? I can't think of one."

*** Mentions that Auburn will have thousands of fans at the Houston game. Says it being a bye week for football was a great coincidence.

*** On Chaney getting bigger? "When we watch Chaney from last year early on, it's like 'Who is that skinny kid?'" Says he has done a great job with the training staff. "He's our hardest worker."

*** On balancing focusing on Vermont vs. preparing for Houston? "During the course of the summer we went over every non-conference opponent for a few days."

*** Says Vermont beating UAB made it more difficult for the Catamounts to sneak up on Auburn.

That's it for BP!

Future of the Democratic Party - Long post

Rarely post in here for obvious reasons. BUT, it's been interesting seeing different members of the liberal base/media/strategists/etc. and their $.02 on the future of that party. To me, you're already seeing rifts come more visible, but I think they were always there just not in public. Essentially I'm seeing two "camps" emerge.

1. The progressive camp that, IMO, are STILL detached from reality. They are blaming racism, misogyny, nazis, Joe Rogan, Elon, etc. for the loss. Even though they got their asses whooped in the EC and the PV. Black and Hispanics voted more for Trump vs. the previous elections. Big Dem counties like Miami-Dade flipping to R this time around (first time in 26 years BTW). So cut the shite, will ya. To me, they are doubling-down on that failed thinking. These are the echo-chamber folks who thrive on Twitter, Twitch, etc. These are the AOCs and the "Squad". These are the ones that drove Harris to not dare to bring Shapiro on the ticket or "else" and instead pick that bumbling bafoon Walz. They support open borders, blanket amnesty, gender surgeries regardless of age, etc. Their "base" are academics, lawyers, celebrities, community organizers, etc.

2. The moderate/left of center camp. These are the folks that are speaking about how and WHY they got their asses kicked. They are asking their fellow Dems to look inwardly and be humble. They recognize the overall party has lost touch with the true middle class and are asking the tough questions. They recognize if the Dem party keeps this up, they can quite possibly lose many more elections (local to federal level). To me, they need to have the balls (and some of that have since Tuesday) to call out the party. These folks support transitions to green energy vs. crazy mandates, a more sound immigration policy, funding the police, etc. I don't know that their base is now because the GOP took many of them this past cycle. They used to be heavy in blue-collar folks. These are your more classic or "JFK liberals".

The future? It'll never happen b/c Dems don't' have balls. But if I wanted to be a leader in camp #2, I'd call for the decoupling of camp #1 from the Dem party. Tell them to form their own party of socialists. The Green party was formed, in part, because they saw there was too much daylight between their ideas and the D party. The AOCs can't survive without the general Dem party as it stands today. Why? $$$$ They'll be like the Green party and get 1-5% of the vote and no one will care about them. Nothing wrong with variation within your party, but like the idiot Tea Party folks on the R side, you can't have two big philosophies in ONE party.
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Is Kamala qualified to be president?

Is Kamala qualified?

  • Yes

    Votes: 10 26.3%
  • No

    Votes: 28 73.7%

Seeing a lot of conservative outlets pushing the "not qualified" and "not presidential material" talking point. It seems wild to me considering her professional and political resumé that people would think that .. so I'm interested to see the poll result here... Is Kamala qualified to be president ? If not, why?
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Cook Political Report confirms massive shift towards Harris in every swing state...

Truly a historic moment in American political history. Harris is exceeding even the most optimistic predictions for how she'd do if Biden dropped out. Polling to date is proving that the 15-20% of Americans who are swing voters strongly disliked both options. Now that Dems have given them a new option, they are breaking heavily towards Harris.

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