Happy 33-days-until-the-election day!
Is that a thing? Can we make it a thing?
So….what’s on your mind this week? Dockworkers strike? The Middle East conflict? The VP debate fallout? What polls matter (and what polls don’t)? Is this the Yankees year?
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Do you have thoughts on Melania putting out the video with her abortion rights stance - totally opposite of her husband's current one - in advance of her book release? Is this Melania being Melania and doing what she wants to do irregardless of the campaign because she wants women to buy her book? Maybe they asked her to do this to help salvage voters? Or, my favorite, that she doesn't want him to win and thinks male voters will think the previous president can't even get his wife's agreement on his stance of women's reproductive rights?
I am still confused why you feel Vance did so well during the debate when he told so many lies and made so many spins