From Axios, Alex Thompson: "Harris flip-flops on building the border wall" (which she once called a "medieval vanity project") axios.com/2024/08/27/kam…

Heh

In Tel Aviv, Trey reporting "devastating news"

Interesting points: Nate Silver

One of most accurate #pollsters in 2020 -- which, overall, was a forgettable year for pre-election #polls -- says its latest #poll shows Harris-Trump prexy race has tightened Emerson College Polling

Interesting take here from RealClearPolitics, on the presidential campaign's greatest known unknown: What if #polls underestimate Trump's support in 2024, as they did in 2016 and 2020?

Neat #Sundayread about Evel Knievel, 50 years after Snake River Canyon "jump" City Journal city-journal.org/article/rememb…

Egads, From The New Republic: The “Issues” section at the Harris website "undermined by a simple but telling error: The page’s source code revealed that parts of the platform were copied directly from Biden’s campaign page."

Revisiting the first televised presidential #debate — and its improbable TV/radio audience "split" #mediamyth thehill.com/opinion/white-…

Received wisdom about first presidential #debate in September 1960 doesn’t square with commentary published at the time #mediamyth theconversation.com/what-people-sa…

Revisiting the first televised presidential #debate betwteen major party candidates — and the improbable TV/radio audience divide #mediamyth thehill.com/opinion/white-…

Neither of them locked up the election on #debatenight

Why the presumptive "Cronkite Moment" of 1968 is a #mediamyth "It is far easier to embrace the notion that Cronkite’s report ... years ago altered the equation on Vietnam than it is to dig into its back story and understand it for what it was: A mythical moment of marginal

#OTD in #polling history, 2000: Slate headline: "Why Bush is toast" Given that Al Gore had passed George W. Bush in the #polls, the essay asserted, "the race is over." slate.com/news-and-polit…