On Sunday as he was leaving his campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Del., Biden responded to a shouted question from a reporter about why he’s losing to Trump in the polls.
“You’re reading the wrong polls,” Biden said. While the president was walking from the building to his waiting vehicle, a car crashed into a parked U.S. Secret Service SUV that was blocking off the intersection during his departure. Both Biden and first lady Jill Biden were unharmed.
It’s unclear what polls Biden was referring to, but last month his campaign sent a memo to media outlets citing polling that showed Biden leading or tied with Trump from NPR/PBS/Marist, Yahoo News/YouGov, USA/Suffolk, and Quinnipiac University, among others.
There are more than just two polls, Biden says
At a Chicago fundraiser on Nov. 9, Biden told donors that while “the press has been talking about two polls … there are 10 other polls we’re winning,” according to a pool report.
Biden said that his campaign had placed copies of those polls on attendees’ seats.
Reporters ‘don’t read the polls,’ according to Biden
Earlier that same day, Biden told reporters at Maryland’s Joint Base Andrews that reporters “don’t read the polls.”
“Ten polls. Eight of them I’m beating him in those states. Eight of them. You guys only do two, CNN and New York Times,” Biden said.
Polls from CNN and the New York Times published days before Biden’s November remarks suggested Biden was trailing Trump and other Republican hopefuls nationally by four and five points respectively.
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Economic numbers show it’s “morning again in America” after Covid and Trump Coupvid, but President Biden’s low approval numbers show Americans have not yet awakened to that.
Dow Jones Industrial Average had its seventh consecutive winning week. S&P continues on it’s longest winning streak since 2017. In November, 199,000 jobs were added exceeding economists predictions, with wages up 4%. Gas prices are down as are mortgage rates with the Federal Reserve indicting it will likely drop interest rates. Inflation has also slowed and is turning downward.
Yet going down along with gas prices has been President Biden’s approval rating. Pew poll now has it at 33%. The Wall Street Journal survey has it a sliver higher at 37%.
The Pew poll’s Biden approval at 33% is a 2% drop from June. Even among Democrats, Biden has fallen 4 points to 61%. Among Black, Asian and Hispanic voters, Biden’s numbers are even worse. Just slightly more than half of Black voters approve of Biden, at 52%. Among Asian voters it’s 37% and Hispanics voters it’s 37%.
While gas prices are down and inflation has turned downward, Americans have not seen that it’s checked out at the grocery store checkout with prices still higher along with Biden’s age. Those are two big reasons they may want to checkout someone else for The White House in 2024.
I don’t know how the price of fuel figures into the price of transportation and food production and finally into the price of food in the grocery store. I do know that the price of diesel is $1.00 more than regular gas and is about $1.00 less than it was one year ago. I haven’t seen that reduction in the grocery store. I can only surmise than food prices lag behind fuel prices, which makes sense, but that doesn’t take weather, feed, fertilizer… into account. Apparently when it’s cheaper to drive to the store but it’s expensive once you get there the price at the pump isn’t enough to make voters appreciative of the gas price reduction when they get through the checkout line and they blame the President for that.
“President Biden’s reluctance to acknowledge his physical limitations at age 81 is causing some tension on his team, as senior aides and First Lady Jill Biden push him to rest more and be vigilant about his health going into 2024. Some current and former aides believe Biden doesn’t realize how old he can come across.”
I know Christmas is the usual time for prime rib sales, but I just got a rib roast from Safeway for just $4.17 per pound! I cut it up into 10 boneless Ribeye steaks for freezing that amount to $6.56 each! They would be more than twice that if bought separately. Plus plump beef ribs for barbecue.
Never fear, Conan O’Brien has a very special guest on his podcast, which you can watch (yes, podcasts aren’t just for your ears) on tomorrow’s episode of “Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend.” Yes, it’s POTUS Joe!
While I agree that the ageist swipes at Biden could be troublesome when comes to younger voters, it seems to be the only thing late night comics can come up with to say.
The comments about being a grifter, rapist, fascist, narcissist, liar, treasonous, thief, and Russian asset, those terms all apply to tRUMPsky.
Oooo, but Biden is three years older than Orange Adolf. And????
ps – If younger voters care about reproductive freedom (abortion, mifepristone…and birth control pills ARE up next), and not getting blown to smithereens by an AR, and having a booming job market, and ACA (troubled as it is, beats not having any health insurance), and perhaps seeing their lifelong friends get deported, and just living in a Democracy at all, they will turn out for Biden.
As when Hillary was running, the media wants the conflict, dollars, and eyeballs more than they want truth or ethics. It cost us what could have been the first woman President. Now it could put Trump back in office.
“In most situations, comparing a political opponent to Adolf Hitler might seem like an extraordinary step. For Joe Biden’s campaign, it has become part of the routine of running against Donald Trump.”
“A woman who had a miscarriage is now charged with abusing a corpse as stricter abortion laws play out nationwide”
“Watts went to a hospital three times in four days due to vaginal bleeding, a report from the Trumbull County Coroner’s Office says.”
“Watts returned on September 20 expecting to be induced to deliver her preterm pregnancy, according to The Washington Post.”
“But for hours doctors and officials mulled the ethics of inducing labor for a woman who had been diagnosed with preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM), had no detectable amniotic fluid, was bleeding vaginally and had advanced cervical dilation, the Post reported. Watts eventually left.”
“Then on September 22, Watts returned to the hospital “for vaginal bleeding with retained placenta after a home delivery,” the coroner’s office report states. “According to medical records, Brittany Watts stated that at approximately 5:58am … she delivered the fetus into the toilet of her residence.”
An autopsy revealed the fetus’ cause of death was intrauterine fetal demise – meaning the fetus died inside the womb – due to severely low amniotic fluid from the premature rupture of membranes.
“… to naturally lose a fetus more than halfway through gestation – often known as stillbirth…About 21,000 stillbirths happen each year in the US – about 1 in 175 pregnancies…”
However, “(t)here is no law in Ohio that requires a mother suffering a miscarriage to bury or cremate those remains,” Watts’ attorney said.
“Women miscarry into toilets everyday,” Timko wrote in an email to CNN. “In fact, the Ohio Legislature has created broad immunity to women for acts or omissions during pregnancy and has admonished that women should ‘in no case’ be criminalized for the circumstances or outcomes of their pregnancies.”
“The prosecution of Ms. Watts is tragic and unjust,” she wrote. “We will continue to fight.”
“Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights slammed the criminal charge against Watts, saying it would deter other women who suffer miscarriages from seeking medical help.”
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96G. President Trump Engaged in Insurrection
¶176 President Trump challenges the district court’s findings that he “engaged in” an “insurrection.” The Constitution leaves these terms undefined. Therefore,we must make a legal determination regarding what the drafters and ratifiers meant when they chose to deploy these words in Section Three. Mindful of the deferential standard of review afforded a district court’s factual findings, weconclude that the district court did not clearly err in concluding that the events of January 6 constituted an insurrection and that President Trump engaged in that insurrection.
[…]
We would save ourselves all this trouble and corruption if the office of the president was limited to one six-year term. No second term, no reelection, no campaigning, no grift, no graft.
Orange Adolf was Commander In Chief, and in a final attempt to not be the loser that he is, attempted to change the outcome of the election by force; he called a crowd to DC, knew they were armed, directed them where to go, used inflammatory speech, and did nothing to stop the violence and the disruption of the count for hours. If it walks like a chump and talks like a chump…
” you had to sleep with those weenies, you’d be pissed off ”
Ha!
Spoken like someone who hasn’t been getting much lately. But you do have to admit that Ted is an expert on the sufferings of weenies. In fact, he probably only has to defer to my Senator, Ole Running Josh. Run boy! Run!
I haven’t been following the Watts case, knowing America, I assume she is black. Certainly poor as those are the folks Republicans dispise more than African Americans.
Jack
I was back in the old neighborhood. I stopped to talk to our Church partners, they have taken over running the neighborhood group. It is a struggle for them, learning in a short time what Sherry and I learned over 20years. They had been calling me for advice. the last few months as their former President got overwhelmed and resigned. I wasn’t surprised.
There was still some money left from donations to McCo Friends Y Amigos from folks who donated to our cause, after Sherry’s memorial.
I turned it over to the church trusting that it will go to help folks in the neighborhood.
Jack
My problem with the Carol Silent Night is that through high school , every year, our mixed chorus performed for the community. It was a small school somewhere around 100 to 120 students. Not a lot to draw from and we had 20 to 25 in the chorus. We all stayed in tune, we were good and we actually won some competitions. We had a genius for a teacher.
our Christmas concert was the most important thing we did through the year. I was one of 5 boys who could sing the bass part. As a result it ruins most performances of Silent Night as I automatically start humming the bass part.
This one is different; it is a beautifully done example of the song. If this doesn’t get you in the Christmas spirit nothing will
14 years ago
Official video for “Must Be Santa” by Bob Dylan
Imagine being a grown-up human having a beef with the word “woke”.
politico:
https://www.cleveland.com/darcy/2023/12/economy-good-biden-polls-bad-darcy-cartoon.html
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Economic numbers show it’s “morning again in America” after Covid and Trump Coupvid, but President Biden’s low approval numbers show Americans have not yet awakened to that.
Dow Jones Industrial Average had its seventh consecutive winning week. S&P continues on it’s longest winning streak since 2017. In November, 199,000 jobs were added exceeding economists predictions, with wages up 4%. Gas prices are down as are mortgage rates with the Federal Reserve indicting it will likely drop interest rates. Inflation has also slowed and is turning downward.
Yet going down along with gas prices has been President Biden’s approval rating. Pew poll now has it at 33%. The Wall Street Journal survey has it a sliver higher at 37%.
The Pew poll’s Biden approval at 33% is a 2% drop from June. Even among Democrats, Biden has fallen 4 points to 61%. Among Black, Asian and Hispanic voters, Biden’s numbers are even worse. Just slightly more than half of Black voters approve of Biden, at 52%. Among Asian voters it’s 37% and Hispanics voters it’s 37%.
While gas prices are down and inflation has turned downward, Americans have not seen that it’s checked out at the grocery store checkout with prices still higher along with Biden’s age. Those are two big reasons they may want to checkout someone else for The White House in 2024.
I don’t know how the price of fuel figures into the price of transportation and food production and finally into the price of food in the grocery store. I do know that the price of diesel is $1.00 more than regular gas and is about $1.00 less than it was one year ago. I haven’t seen that reduction in the grocery store. I can only surmise than food prices lag behind fuel prices, which makes sense, but that doesn’t take weather, feed, fertilizer… into account. Apparently when it’s cheaper to drive to the store but it’s expensive once you get there the price at the pump isn’t enough to make voters appreciative of the gas price reduction when they get through the checkout line and they blame the President for that.
It is getting worrisome that Bill Maher might be right in calling him “Ruth Bader Biden”…
Axios: Biden’s age denialism sparks internal tension, aides say
I know Christmas is the usual time for prime rib sales, but I just got a rib roast from Safeway for just $4.17 per pound! I cut it up into 10 boneless Ribeye steaks for freezing that amount to $6.56 each! They would be more than twice that if bought separately. Plus plump beef ribs for barbecue.
Never fear, Conan O’Brien has a very special guest on his podcast, which you can watch (yes, podcasts aren’t just for your ears) on tomorrow’s episode of “Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend.” Yes, it’s POTUS Joe!
https://www.today.com/video/hear-a-preview-of-conan-o-brien-s-interview-with-joe-biden-200533573554
While I agree that the ageist swipes at Biden could be troublesome when comes to younger voters, it seems to be the only thing late night comics can come up with to say.
The comments about being a grifter, rapist, fascist, narcissist, liar, treasonous, thief, and Russian asset, those terms all apply to tRUMPsky.
Oooo, but Biden is three years older than Orange Adolf. And????
ps – If younger voters care about reproductive freedom (abortion, mifepristone…and birth control pills ARE up next), and not getting blown to smithereens by an AR, and having a booming job market, and ACA (troubled as it is, beats not having any health insurance), and perhaps seeing their lifelong friends get deported, and just living in a Democracy at all, they will turn out for Biden.
Biden/Harris 2024!
today’s meme…
Ivana Trump: Donald Read Hitler Speeches In Bed
Were they in the original German?
This is what he should’ve read.
As when Hillary was running, the media wants the conflict, dollars, and eyeballs more than they want truth or ethics. It cost us what could have been the first woman President. Now it could put Trump back in office.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/19/biden-trump-hitler-00132367
What time does the post office close? Please, don’t say 4:30 🙏
Also, when in Christmas? Please don’t say “in 6 days” 🙏
Ted Cruz says liberal women are unhappy and pissed off all the time because liberal men don’t satisfy them in bed.
“If you were a liberal woman and you had to sleep with those weenies, you’d be pissed off”
https://t.co/Som7PPLrpK
Because nothing turns the ladies on more than Ted Cruz.
lol, from the guy who let trump insult his wife, women love that 😆
i think liberal women are “pissed all the time” because you don’t respect their autonomy, Ted
So much bullshit. Where does it come from and why do they keep it going?
…to pollute the discourse with nonsense so nothing can be resolved because collapse is their goal
They can’t fix it if it ain’t broke.
Yay (for the moment) chump off the ballot in color-raydo.
SCOTuS’ only way around the language of th constitution is “it wasn’t an insurrection.”
I wish people would cease saying “get-go”
At the end of Clinton’s 2nd term Clarence Thomas threatens to quit because he wasn’t making enough money.
The gop found him more money. Real quick.
Classic Trump goons. All they can do is insult the courts when they lose, but offer no serious legal arguments that make any sense
That Colorado ruling if it stands keeps him of the primary ballot. The general election is another kettle of fish.
BTW, Bink autonomy could be anatomy and fit as well.
What class do you take to learn to write verbal regurgitation?
Our local CBS station out of Denver just did a yeoman’s job of cleaning up the Plumpty statement to be suitable for the evening news broadcast.
(They excerpted the only readable sentence.)
Their legal strategy is to circumvent the legal process by appealing to the mob. Mobs are to be feared because they’re mindless.
If MAGAt Mike and the Qs want to investigate something, it should be Clarence and Ginni Thomas.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/19/us/brittany-watts-miscarriage-criminal-charge/index.html
“A woman who had a miscarriage is now charged with abusing a corpse as stricter abortion laws play out nationwide”
“Watts went to a hospital three times in four days due to vaginal bleeding, a report from the Trumbull County Coroner’s Office says.”
“Watts returned on September 20 expecting to be induced to deliver her preterm pregnancy, according to The Washington Post.”
“But for hours doctors and officials mulled the ethics of inducing labor for a woman who had been diagnosed with preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM), had no detectable amniotic fluid, was bleeding vaginally and had advanced cervical dilation, the Post reported. Watts eventually left.”
“Then on September 22, Watts returned to the hospital “for vaginal bleeding with retained placenta after a home delivery,” the coroner’s office report states. “According to medical records, Brittany Watts stated that at approximately 5:58am … she delivered the fetus into the toilet of her residence.”
An autopsy revealed the fetus’ cause of death was intrauterine fetal demise – meaning the fetus died inside the womb – due to severely low amniotic fluid from the premature rupture of membranes.
“… to naturally lose a fetus more than halfway through gestation – often known as stillbirth…About 21,000 stillbirths happen each year in the US – about 1 in 175 pregnancies…”
However, “(t)here is no law in Ohio that requires a mother suffering a miscarriage to bury or cremate those remains,” Watts’ attorney said.
“Women miscarry into toilets everyday,” Timko wrote in an email to CNN. “In fact, the Ohio Legislature has created broad immunity to women for acts or omissions during pregnancy and has admonished that women should ‘in no case’ be criminalized for the circumstances or outcomes of their pregnancies.”
“The prosecution of Ms. Watts is tragic and unjust,” she wrote. “We will continue to fight.”
“Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights slammed the criminal charge against Watts, saying it would deter other women who suffer miscarriages from seeking medical help.”
Ms. Watts is a victim of an Trump prosecution – by way of Alito and his RW gang of legal terrorists.
READ: Colorado Supreme Court ruling barring Trump from ballot under 14th Amendment | The Hill
[…]
96G. President Trump Engaged in Insurrection
¶176 President Trump challenges the district court’s findings that he “engaged in” an “insurrection.” The Constitution leaves these terms undefined. Therefore,we must make a legal determination regarding what the drafters and ratifiers meant when they chose to deploy these words in Section Three. Mindful of the deferential standard of review afforded a district court’s factual findings, weconclude that the district court did not clearly err in concluding that the events of January 6 constituted an insurrection and that President Trump engaged in that insurrection.
[…]
We would save ourselves all this trouble and corruption if the office of the president was limited to one six-year term. No second term, no reelection, no campaigning, no grift, no graft.
Orange Adolf was Commander In Chief, and in a final attempt to not be the loser that he is, attempted to change the outcome of the election by force; he called a crowd to DC, knew they were armed, directed them where to go, used inflammatory speech, and did nothing to stop the violence and the disruption of the count for hours. If it walks like a chump and talks like a chump…
” you had to sleep with those weenies, you’d be pissed off ”
Ha!
Spoken like someone who hasn’t been getting much lately. But you do have to admit that Ted is an expert on the sufferings of weenies. In fact, he probably only has to defer to my Senator, Ole Running Josh. Run boy! Run!
Jack
I haven’t been following the Watts case, knowing America, I assume she is black. Certainly poor as those are the folks Republicans dispise more than African Americans.
Jack
I was back in the old neighborhood. I stopped to talk to our Church partners, they have taken over running the neighborhood group. It is a struggle for them, learning in a short time what Sherry and I learned over 20years. They had been calling me for advice. the last few months as their former President got overwhelmed and resigned. I wasn’t surprised.
There was still some money left from donations to McCo Friends Y Amigos from folks who donated to our cause, after Sherry’s memorial.
I turned it over to the church trusting that it will go to help folks in the neighborhood.
Jack
Thank you for your service, Jack.
My problem with the Carol Silent Night is that through high school , every year, our mixed chorus performed for the community. It was a small school somewhere around 100 to 120 students. Not a lot to draw from and we had 20 to 25 in the chorus. We all stayed in tune, we were good and we actually won some competitions. We had a genius for a teacher.
our Christmas concert was the most important thing we did through the year. I was one of 5 boys who could sing the bass part. As a result it ruins most performances of Silent Night as I automatically start humming the bass part.
This one is different; it is a beautifully done example of the song. If this doesn’t get you in the Christmas spirit nothing will
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