lizkat
Watching March roll out real winter
Yeah the Rs don't talk about any specifics or sometimes even at all about what they're going to do. They're pitching CRIME and THEM. All negative and a lot of projection. Some of the ads I've seen don't even mention the name of a Republican candidate. They're trying to spread out their thinning funds by using generic fear mongering against the very idea of voting for any Democrats.
I got bored after only a couple days of repetitive GOP ads during my one-month re-up of YTTV for the baseball postseason... had to laugh though at the succession of political ads on a regional news station. First a scary CRIME/THEM ad for the generic Rs, and the next ad after that was by a specific Democrat running for Congress who grew up in the area and was talking about how friendly people are and the work ethic still so strong and how he will bring new jobs to the area to take advantage of a well educated and skilled workforce.
The problem is, polarization of potential voters is so strong now that there's not much "indie" swing left on the issues, as far as I can tell. I only qualify it that way because pollsters admit they may not have it right yet again this year, especially throwing in the "new oddities" of redistricting and state-level legislative changes that may favor ability of Republicans to delay or overturn results they don't like.
So it may all come down to relative strength of vote turnout. Remains to be seen which party's voters are more galvanized or made complacent by the overturn of Roe v Wade, and whether "the economy, stupid" gets interpreted as good or bad --despite or because of the facts, in an allegedly now post-factual era.
Imagine being a pollster when more than half the country lets all phone calls go to vmail anyway.
