@TheresaVermont Hope you’ll be okay!

@TheresaVermont So, the Winooski River is the danger?

@TheresaVermont Where in Vermont? Surely not Burlington. Winooski?

@danielbsmith Yeah, polls become news items in themselves and give the chattering classes something to pontificate/worry/boast about.

@danielbsmith You can choose the poll you want to buttress your case. Polls in 2020 said that Biden would win by 12 points. In 2016, they predicted an easy Clinton victory. Having faith in polls is not the point. Who you gonna believe, polls or your lyin’ eyes? Frankly, I wish they would either stop doing polls entirely, or limit them to the last two weeks of the election cycle. Why should I care how other people will vote? They have their votes, and I have mine.

“This is not who we are.” Really? I’m tired of hearing that platitude from politicians, including our president. If Trump gets elected again, that will show who we are. You can talk red states, Electoral College, gerrymandering, “popular vote” all you want, but the fact will remain that if we cannot get enough votes to counter those disparities that is who we will be.

@feloneouscat We don’t have to fear about doing it again. We can’t get rid of it now!

@dauphin87 Yeah, and we get cited if there’s a hole in our muffler. Don’t know why HD bikes get a pass.

@BillieBun I think Republicans are fine with Biden staying in, now that he’s damaged goods. If they say otherwise, it likely is to make Biden supporters dig in even more. “Ooh, they’re afraid of Biden!”

@Bix Yes!

@CrypticMirror Unfortunately, global warming threatens the Gulf Stream, which would make Scottish weather even worse.

No need for sarcasm, sir.

@Razdawg22 Well, yeah. I haven’t seen any other folks acting as a candidate for president among Democrats. Have you? But I’ve seen Biden’s stumbles - too many to be ignored. You can’t beat someone with no one, and right now all we have is Biden. It’s a fix we’re in, no doubt about it. Biden could still win, but I no longer like his chances. And the prospect of another Trump presidency scares me to death.

Not at all.

@Razdawg2 Jet, yes, it’s my opinion. But so is yours that Biden is the only candidate able to beat Trump.

My opinion is based on what I’ve seen in his appearances in recent weeks, including that debate. He had a good SOTU speech, and I was encouraged by that, including some extemporaneous comebacks to hecklers. But what I’ve seen since then worries me.

Your opinion has nothing to back it up, really, except hypothetical polls involving non-candidates. But he’ll still get my vote by default.

@Idissent If disparaging my intelligence is how you want to buttress your argument, I have nothing more to say to you.

I’ve expressed my reservations about Biden and endured the only-Biden-is-the answer backlash. All I can say now is I hope you all will be laughing at me come November. I’lll gladly take that abuse!

@Idissent Let’s say Biden manages to win in November. Yay! We’ve saved democracy! But we’ll have an enfeebled president. Is that what you want? Will Biden’s frailties get better as he gets even older? If Biden, with his growing negatives, can beat Trump, so can someone who at least looks vital and energetic, and can respond to the dire threats posed by Trump coherently, off the cuff, without a Teleprompter.

@Idissent There is no “miracle” candidate. We’ve been dealt a bad hand. We had a chance to overcome the age concern among voters and beat Trump before that debate disaster and subsequent revelations that keep trickling out, but I don’t see anything to turn this around now if Biden stays in the race.