Kamala Harris gained 23 points in a poll looking at independents White House choice.
  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    212·
    3 months ago

    Newsweek: we’re such shit journalists that we don’t know what overhauls means and probably meant to use “overtakes”.

    (Just to be clear, this wasn’t a copy error on the poster - the article title is literally that)

    • blackbrook@mander.xyz
      12·
      3 months ago

      I had to look it up, but using overhaul with the meaning of overtake is apparently valid. It sounds odd to me, and I’ve never actually heard it used that way, but Merriam-Webster validates it.

      • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        3 months ago

        Oh weird, I even asked around with some of my linguistically minded coworkers and nobody was familiar with that expression. I wonder if there’s a region where it’s a more common usage.

        • Tyfud@lemmy.world
          2·
          3 months ago

          Language is always evolving, never static. A dictionary and the definitions are backwards looking always. Dictionaries are always trying to keep up with the evolutions of language, but they’ll always lag behind.

          Just keep in mind that words change how they’re used over our lifetimes, and it never stops.

          E. G. Irregardless is now a valid word, when 15 and 20 years ago it was people mixing up regardless or irrespective so now I don’t even get that high horse anymore 😉

        • thisisnotgoingwell@programming.dev
          11·
          3 months ago

          I’d believe that overhauls in this sense means that they have completely restructured/breathed new life to their campaign and thus gained favorability

    • AmidFuror@fedia.io
      6·
      3 months ago

      That and they could have directly said she’s ahead by 9 points amongst independents.

      • frezik@midwest.social
        41·
        3 months ago

        Think less like a person trying to get your point across in a clear manner, and more like a person trying to generate clicks for money.

    • Wiz@midwest.socialEnglish
      74·
      3 months ago

      That is a valid concern. We need to work hard for the next 90+ days to prevent that.

      He is a cornered animal and will fight more the closer we get to November.

      • Blackbeard@lemmy.worldEnglish
        27·
        3 months ago

        The fucker is already offering retirees “free” money by cutting taxes on Social Security income, which will blow a $1.6 trillion hole in the budget and increase the pace at which the entire system dries up and leaves us out to dry. And the scary thing is, some of these old idiots will fall for it.

        Shit’s gonna get crazy if his polling keeps slipping.

          • Blackbeard@lemmy.worldEnglish
            8·
            3 months ago

            I don’t disagree, but anyone who thinks that’s what Trump and his cronies are proposing is delusional.

        • Wiz@midwest.socialEnglish
          8·
          3 months ago

          I would be all for not taxing Social Security, and using taxes on the rich to pay for it.

          I mean why are we giving them money to just take it away. It’s a Ronald Reagan thing, so that’s why it benefits the rich and kicks the poor.

          So, let’s fix it! Great idea!

          • Blackbeard@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            3 months ago

            It was implemented under the Amendments of 1983, which passed with overwhelming bipartisan support to save a program very much running on fumes. Two of the major compromises were a multi-decade increase of the retirement age (for Republicans) and an increase in payroll taxes (for Democrats). The tax on benefits took effect in 1984 and was designed only to impact upper income retirees. Then Clinton’s Congress added a second income tier for taxation in 1993, and the income tiers have never been adjusted for inflation, so like the minimum wage it puts pressure on lower and lower income Americans the longer it goes unaddressed while the value of a dollar falls. In essence, the regressive burden is very much due to the failure of every Congress since that time to clean up the requirements.

            To lay it at the feet of Reagan is…to put it mildly…overly reductive. Also you know damn well “fixing it” isn’t what Trump has in mind.

      • quicklime@lemm.ee
        11·
        3 months ago

        It seems like there have been a lot of hints that he’s scheming to win in spite of the popular vote, through electoral vote and certification shenanigans, maybe an attempt to just make the situation muddy enough in enough different ways that it goes to his stacked Supreme Court in a manner partially reminiscent of the bullshit that installed GW Bush in 2000.

        • barsquid@lemmy.world
          7·
          3 months ago

          The country should have taken up arms in 2000 when a Repub SCOTUS illegally decided the election for the Repub candidate.

        • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          Possibly, but regardless vote. Force them to make that move and show their hand. Don’t just hand it to them.

    • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
      19·
      3 months ago

      That’s a completely valid fear even if the predicted outcome was a landslide - the potential damage to our political stability is immense if he wins election. (He also might actively accelerate climate change and break a bunch of shit arguably more important than the American state).

      • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
        9·
        3 months ago

        (He also might actively accelerate climate change and break a bunch of shit arguably more important than the American state).

        Might? Also don’t forget the impact on the geopolitical balance of power a Trump presidency would mean, especially at this precarious moment in time.

    • OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
      17·
      3 months ago

      The race was 60/40 Trump and now it’s 50/50. It won’t get to more than 60/40 Harris ever. Either candidate winning is an extremely realistic scenario.

      • Croquette@sh.itjust.works
        161·
        3 months ago

        Because the US has a fucked up system where a small state vote is worth more than a vote from a populous state.

        It should be a simple popular vote and that’s it. Kill the electoral college and hopefully the Overton window will go left when no Republican president is elected for a few cycles.

        • taiyang@lemmy.world
          6·
          3 months ago

          I think the Dems know that, but we need a real majority and we haven’t had that since… Clinton? Obama had blue dog democrats and Biden had his two senators holding him up. We also are more willing to than ever to go with simple majority, too, which helps.

          It would really turn the tide though, no way Dems aren’t considering it if we can get enough votes.

      • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
        31·
        3 months ago

        Sure, but there’s still absolutely a threat that people just don’t vote for Harris. We need to actually win the election before we worry about anything after it going wrong. Assume the votes actually matter, and prepare for them not to. Don’t assume they won’t matter and not vote because that makes it so they don’t even have to cheat and be exposed.

    • stonerboner@lemmynsfw.com
      619·
      3 months ago

      There is a 100% chance Trump will lose the election. He may attempt another coup, but that’s not winning. That’s flipping the table and shitting on the game board.

      • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
        33·
        3 months ago

        The chance of him legitimately winning is way, way higher than 0%. Now, that does not mean he isn’t also planning a coup. It seems he and/or the republican party very much is putting plans in motion.

        Regardless, don’t get overconfident, don’t get complacent.

        • dudinax@programming.dev
          21·
          3 months ago

          He’s going to try a coup whether he wins or looses. If he looses the election, he’ll lose the coup.

          If he wins the election, odds would be he’d win the coup, except Trump is a perpetual fuck up.

      • Buffalox@lemmy.world
        5·
        3 months ago

        Confidence is good, but underestimating your opponent is not.
        That said, it does look like Trump is losing it, and if that continues, chances are good Harris will win.
        But it’s never over until it’s actually over. As in the votes have been counted.

      • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

        You must get your info strictly by reading Lemmy communities. It’s easy to get that impression because we’re a pretty liberal in general, but not every poll puts her ahead, and this one doesn’t put her far ahead. We still need to work hard and get people to vote.