Interesting Daily Mail (their poll shows Trump 80% & Harris 20% but RWM is no more trustworthy than MSM this year) article – Veteran strategist reveals major factor all pollsters are ‘missing’ as he predicts secret wave on eve of one of the closest presidential elections in history. Er, a “secret wave” this time? Alex Castellanos says:

.. pollsters are overlooking a huge shift in Republican voter registration..

‘I think the pollsters are getting this wrong. They are all missing something because they’re giving us the same poll over and over again’, he said.

‘What I think they are missing is a massive shift in voter registration underneath all of this.

’31 states have voter registration by party, 30 of them in the past four years have seen movement towards Republicans.

‘Yet we are getting these surveys that are off base. I’m not going to call it a wave but I think there’s a “wavelet” out there of Republican enthusiasm in registration.’

OK – a “wavelet” this time instead of the dreaded ‘Red Wave’ forecasts that disappointed so many.

Here’s a guy I find amusing and addictive who describes his journey through guitar with emphasis on gear in tasty 10 minute videos: This is typical Mike Cole:

–Mike Cole, “Why Guitar Players HATE Jimi Hendrix”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ts2ePmYEQ4

By HATE he means “Having Appreciation That’s Earned.”

He’s a young black player whose big influences were Stevie Ray Vaughn, Eric Clapton and John Frusciante.

Then Cole discovers his Big Three all revered Jimi Hendrix and covered his song, “Little Wing.” Swoon.

Cole has a lightbulb flash moment. He creates a great tribute to Jimi Hendrix.

Perhaps too much inside guitar. There’s some wild subcultural stuff happening on YouTube.

Om has a lot tof pain, parasits, and trauma in their life that they deal with by aggravating and criticizing people online. I am sure this behavior has not changed all that much. Without peersonal self worth and healing, it would not. They remind me of a younger 2006 Ymar. That is why I will give theem special treatment in th bifurcation heh, given my new powers and status.

Jim Melcher:

Agreed. That poll doesn’t make sense. I’ve been watching too. However, it did tank the Polymarket betting market from 60-40 (Trump-Harris) to 55-45 (T-H).

Whatever is going to happen is going to happen. I’m still betting on Trump. Whatever tricks the Dems have left will be during or after the election.

Kamala Harris is the worst presidential candidate in my lifetime, probably in all of our history. Democrats should be ashamed.

(Remember all those statisticians who claimed that the “results” of the 2020 “election” were statistically highly improbable—or did they say, “statistically impossible”?—even the ones who insisted they weren’t Trump supporters… Hmm. Wonder whatever happened to those guys…)

https://open.substack.com/pub/skeshel/p/my-take-on-harris-3-in-iowa-and-the?r=1n1to2&utm_medium=ios

Keshel calls it a psy-op, and I have to agree. It fits the pattern we have been seeing for the past few weeks of media weaving a narrative to make a Harris victory, should she be able to steal one, seem believable.

Attack of the Robot Bureaucrats:
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/42083.html

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/02/uk/uk-conservative-leadership-contest-results-intl/index.html