Brooks Benson

Decamping to the butterfly app. Find me at @brooksbenson.bsky.social

From Nate Cohn’s new article on polling accuracy. Basically, pollsters are terrified of being wrong again, so they’re flat-out ignoring “very blue” results. “As a result, pollsters are more willing to take steps to produce more Republican-leaning results.”

The more I think about it, the more that this is just an AMAZING admission from the NYT pollster. He's saying that his people are so terrified of being wrong that they're literally stoking fires of a Trump victory... which will fuel Trump's claims that the vote was rigged.

Perhaps SpaceX is successful because Musk is focused elsewhere.

LGM

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love the idea of immigrants crossing the border and immediately outbidding a white couple for a 3 bed/2 bath in suburban Virginia

With Kris Kristofferson’s passing, that means just Willie Nelson is left.

An inconvenient truth for @MSNBC: the NY Times's normalizing Trump coverage is very much the election story. If you daily book Times reporters/pundits, Mara Gay, Michelle Goldberg, Susan Craig, Michael Schmidt, Jeremy Peters, shouldn't you ask about their paper being under fire?

@YNB So did I.

Me too.

The Simpsons are incredible. This is from 2006.

Carter is a great human and was a much better President than he’s remembered as. Probably the most unfairly maligned President of the last century. 🫡

Idolizing Trump is like believing the stripper really likes you

I admire Kruk and Kuiper for their mental gymnastics to find positive things to say/spin this terrible product.

President @JoeBiden did more in one term than many Presidents have done in a lifetime. Don’t forget that

Never in my life will I understand how a debate on TV could mean more than an insurrection on the capital

Beautiful!

There will be no Trump pivot. There will be no new tone. He is who he is. Pundits claiming otherwise at this late date are either absurdly credulous or deliberately carrying his water.