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As you may be aware, we had a Presidential debate last night. The President did well, we all agree on that. Will it move the polls? Do the polls matter? We discuss. Then, Hoover’s Shelby Steele and his filmmaker son Eli Steele have made What Killed Michael Brown, a provocative new documentary about race and the impact of the events in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014. The film is streaming on Amazon (not without controversy — we discuss this on the show) and we implore everyone to watch it. Then, first time guest Susan Ferrechio, the Washington Examiner’s Chief Congressional Correspondent stops by to give us the low down on her mano-a-mano match with CNN’s Brian Stelter (take our advice and watch the clip) and discuss media bias the the prospects of holding the Senate and re-taking the House. Yes, we have a new LPoW courtesy of Jenna Stocker (and we remembered to add it to the description). Finally, a few thoughts on Jeffrey Toobin (we assure you that our Zoom call was squeaky clean), and we reveal why there are no pumpkins in the Robinson household.
Music from this week’s show: Susie Q by Creedence Clearwater Revival
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Doesn’t Mark Steyn’s observation of many elections ago still hold true? On the order of “You can’t have a conservative government in a liberal culture.”
So at 61 comments, and 2 likes – has this podcast been ratio ed?
I can’t believe the election is even close. Looking at the size and enthusiasm of campaign events – with and without the candidates in attendance. The republican campaign has orders of magnitude more energy, more enthusiasm and most importantly bodies. The attendance at a Biden even is just pathetic. Since labor day more than a quarter of a million people have attended a rally to see the president or vice president – during the same time, around 100 people have seen Joe Biden? How is this even in the same game?
I’d be shocked if President Trump is not handily re-elected.
It depends on how supercharged the Democrat cheating machine is, this time.
Yes, I think this is why Trump won in the first place. The democrats where so confident in the polls, they forgot to stuff enough ballot boxes.
I just hope for a decisive victory in enough states that it becomes a moot point to cheat inside the margin of fudge.
Allowing votes to be “discovered” for up to 3 days after election day in some states – perhaps longer, elsewhere – makes it harder. But here’s hoping.
I am hoping the supreme court puts an end to that foolishness.
This is the problem with living laws, courts can breath life into laws where there is no need. Using COVID-1984 as an excuse to create gaps to commit fraud, is not proper.
I think this election will be settled by the court.
I liked the podcast.
Yeah. Rob yelled at us, but that part didn’t last too long.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/10/my-lying-eyes.php
An example of a huge turnout for Trump, one not organized by the campaign. Joe can’t get 1 live person to show up to a campaign event.
The post-vote analysis will be fascinating, but during COVID I do not think the above is telling us the whole story.
First, I did see further coverage of one of these “Joe has no people” events which explained Biden’s strategy is to go places solely to be seen on the ground with local reporters but is to NOT inform the people, They say this is “to keep everyone safe”.
Further, I spoke to a blue state relative yesterday and learned that a) the COVID panic is still strong in some, and b) there is a totemic belief that if we had better national leadership things would be better. It is not unlike the clip I saw this morning of AOC saying there is voter suppression in NYC regardless of it being a blue city in a blue state – everything is reinforcing their narratives. Reason has gone out the window.
The point being, not being “on tour” is exactly on brand for the kind of voter he is courting. And these voters ARE motivated. The frightful question is how many of these voters exist and how they are spread across the electorate.
I haven’t listened yet, but my husband has, so I think I have the gist of it. At this point, I have no interest in Rob’s political analysis, so called. It isn’t nuanced, and he has nothing new to say. We all get it, Orange Man Bad, he’s just not classy enough. Whatever.
You know what I would like to hear from Rob? What does he hear, in these elite enclaves, to which I will never have entree? In the Hamptons, in NYC, amongst the wealthy elite, what are they saying? Do they like all the WuFlu inspired restrictions? Are they okay with restaurants going out of business? With Broadway remaining closed? What are they watching on TV? Did they approve of Netflix running Cuties? Do they like all the newly woke sporting events? Boys competing against girls in school athletics? You know, some in the field reporting, like what Salena Zito does, only amongst the pampered classes?
Have you read read the Trafalgar polling article and the piece in National Review on Biden underperforming Hillary at this point in the campaign? The key idea is this: The people who put Trump in the White House in 16 were the so-called “shy Trump voters” who were unwilling to disclose their support of Trump to pollsters for fear of social disapproval. That was before the attempts to murder Republican congressmen at a softball game, to wreck a train carrying Republican congressmen and the assault on Rand Paul. It was before mobs of Biden voters burned down minority neighborhoods to protest the non-existent “systemic racism” in police departments, before Burn, Loot, Murder and Antifa creeps started harassing people in public and invading or attempting to invade their homes. The rational bet here is that all of these destructive and threatening violent activities by Biden/Harris voters have now created a lot more Trump voters, especially of the shy type. Another instructive factor is to consider the effects of Republican minority outreach. There was such a thing this time. Years worth of it. The Ds want to rely on polls? Well, polls show Black support for Trump as high as 43% and Hispanic support for him in the 30% range. If either of these numbers is accurate within the margin of error and is reflected in voting, Biden is so completely toast that it will make Reagan/Mondale look like the Gipper eked out a last-minute victory by the skin of his teeth.
Last time, I was happy to answer any old poll. I’ve stopped answering polls since then.
Reading my feed and various groups I belong to on social media, I think you are a representative case and not an outlier especially of likely Trump voters in blue states.
I’ll say it here: a Biden victory can only be had by fraud.
I’d love to see that, too!
Affluent whites, like Rob Long’s neighbors, who espouse progressive beliefs do so to make up for the fact that they actually live their lives as if they were white racists.
They buy houses in neighborhoods where there are few black people. They send their kids to schools where there are few black kids. They shop where few black people shop. They vacation where few black people vacation.
And they call the rest of us racist.
I watch NHK too and agree on how it and the BBC and France 24 all parrot the narrative set forward by US MSM. Ironic too for NHK since the Japanese have had a teensy, weensy problem with racism through the years. Reminder to self: Sumo will be back in November. Yeah!
Julia you are on fire!
I did appreciate Peter (it’s what makes him a great interviewer) noting the Eli is deaf. I had listened to another podcast and did not know that about the younger Mr. Steele. I thought a speech impediment or ? I agree that a transcript would be helpful because what he says is, of course, different from his father and gives one an additional perspective.
Have a listen to the 10 Blocks podcast too. https://ricochet.com/podcast/city-journal-10-blocks/shelby-and-eli-steele-on-michael-brown-race-and-amazon/
Also Catherine Herridge, Susan Ferrechio, Sharyl Atkinsson. Wow if I keep thinking really, really hard I might get to my left hand. I doubt I’ll have to use my toes unfortunately.
But see that’s because the Democrats are so much more concerned than Republicans about stopping the spread of the virus and also believing the science don’t you see. Except of course when you have ‘mostly peaceful’
protestsriots and think that there are more than 22 sexes.That was what I listened to Julia. Thanks for helping me remember something from last week. I’m too old.
Hasn’t the Supreme Court – thanks to Chief Fink Justice John Roberts – already decided that Pennsylvania can keep counting “votes” for 3 extra days, and they don’t even have to be postmarked?
Assuming we could get to what they actually think, not just what they virtue-signal to each other, that could be interesting.
Hopefully they’ll get another bite at that apple, to correct it.
I’m not saying Joe’s no show events are telling the whole story. I would argue, though, that the lack of public events for Joe, and non-scripted events, like Trump’s Arizona event, are telling.
If COVID panic is still strong, then they’ve already voted, and it doesn’t matter. Those aren’t people likely to be dissuaded if suddenly Trump read a bunch of books and wrote policy papers.
Blue city voters are voting for a Democrat. That’s all they care about. It literally almost doesn’t matter who, to them, as long as it’s a D.
It was a 4-4 tie in that case, wasn’t it? Which let stand the lower court ruling. Justice Amy Coney Barrett could change that, if it comes up again.
I am sure there will be plenty of lawsuits in Pennsylvania next month for the courts to get this one right, unless its a complete blowout and challenges to some votes would be moot – but nobody expects that.