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I’ve been looking but can’t find a satisfactory explanation, other than that (as is typical), lots of reporting entities report past the deadline, it’s very common. The first number is basically a projection that extrapolates what the late reporting entities will say. The revision takes into account all the late-reporting employers…none of whom had good news to report.
So I don’t think they’re gaming the numbers, I think the labor market is legitimately weak.
Not Harrison Ford, though. He supported her presidential run, but now says the country is taking a healthy turn to the right:
Harrison Ford endorsed Kamala Harris. Now he says the country is ‘on a healthy swing to the right’
Mamdani is going to win. He is way ahead of the other candidates. This poll shows that he has 50% of the vote, the others combined have 49% of the vote.
Zohran Mamdani Beats Out All NYC Mayoral Candidates Combined—New Poll – Newsweek
About 70 percent of respondents said they were “dissatisfied” with the direction of the city. The most important issues to them are housing costs (65 percent); price of groceries, utilities and household items (58 percent); and crime/public safety (51 percent).
An anti-Semitic Muslim Marxist mayor of New York City. It’ll be interesting to see what happens to that city. Also interesting…how it foreshadows the 2026 and 2028 elections.
This poll compares hypothetical 028 matchups between JD Vance and Democrats Newsom, AOC and Buttigieg. Buttigieg was best by a slim margin, followed by Newsom then AOC.
Vance vs. Newsom, Vance wins 45% to 42%.
Vance vs. AOC, Vance wins 44% to 41%.
Vance vs. Buttigieg, Vance wins 44% to 43%.
Between 13% and 15% undecided in each instance.
Who would voters support in 2028? How Vance, Newsom and others fare in poll
Since 2022, Colbert has hosted 176 left-leaning guests and only one Republican on soon-to-be cancelled “The Late Show,” according to a study by media watchdog NewsBusters — a staggering imbalance that has tracked with his 2025 guest list.
In just the first six months of this year, the show booked 43 left-leaning political guests — and zero conservatives — leading all late-night programs in partisan tilt.
The only “conservative” on Colbert’s show since 2022 was — you guessed it — Liz Cheney.
Colbert’s left-wing ‘Late Show’ became ‘therapy’ session for liberals: study
$40 million annual losses with rapidly shrinking audiences. Go figure.
I remember back when you all were apoplectic on the original CEB when Bill Clinton met with Loretta Lynch for ten minutes when they crossed paths at an airport.
Their paths “didn’t cross.” Lynch had to physically leave her plane, cross the tarmac and enter Bill Clinton’s plane. At the time, Loretta Lynch was the Attorney General and Hillary Clinton was under federal investigation for her use of a private email server and when Lynch was questioned, she lied, saying that she and the former President talked about “golf and grandkids.” This from a woman who doesn’t play golf and had no kids, let alone grandkids.
Incidentally, the “nonpartisan” FBI (ho ho!!) engaged in a witch hunt to find the person who leaked the details about the encounter in order to discipline them. The next month, then-FBI Director James Comey announced the bureau would not recommend that the Department of Justice pursue charges in the e-mail probe. You remember, the one where Hillary deleted 30,000 e-mails.
For some reason, you left that part out.
Trump is a great propagandist. I gotta give him that.
In September, 2015, back when Trump ran for President the first time, in the pre-Republican primary days, he received derisive comments about his candidacy from most corners, Barack Obama, Rachel Maddow, various Democrats.
Not from master propagandist Bill Clinton. Five months before Trump ran in the first primary, Fareed Zakaria interviewed the former President. Here’s the exchange — remember, Clinton’s wife is running in this election:
FZ: As a great student of American politics, what explains Donald Trump?
BC: First of all, he’s a master brander, and when you’ve got a lot of people running and people are trying to make distinctions, being able to put a personal stamp on it so people identify with who you are counts for something…then he said to the working-class supporters of the republican party that have largely shifted over for cultural reasons, I’ll give you economic reason to vote for me, I’ll build a all…so your incomes ill go up…he’s got a lot of pizazz and zip. He’s branded himself in a clearer ay and he’s generated some excitement…
FZ: Could Trump be the nominee?
BC: I think so…I think the country needs somebody ho can give us broadly shared prosperity, help families and kids, try to reduce the impact of all this huge anonymous money in our political system and in a world full of challenges, keep big bad things from happening and make as many good things happen as possible. That’s how I would define the job of the next President.
On top of the Socialism, PA Governor Shapiro demands that Mamdani condemn the global intifada, not just discourage it.
Mamdani handed stark warning by Josh Shapiro ahead of NYC mayoral election
Fat chance. The strain of anti-Semitism exhibited by the Muslim community is striking and terrible.
Mayor Lurie has a 73% approval percentage. London Breed’s approval rating was 28%.
Poll data shows how Daniel Lurie is doing after 6 months as SF mayor
Colbert is interviewing a CNN host and refers to CNN by saying “I know you guys are objective over there” and the audience howls with laughter. She says “Is that supposed to be a laugh line?” Colbert responds “It wasn’t supposed to be, but I guess it is.”
Yeah, Stephen. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
Interesting list. Sarah Huckabee Sanders … I always liked Mike Huckabee…he did the View show once (I only saw the one) and he was really extraordinary, these hardcore Lefties were agreeing with him halfway through the show. He basically approached it the same way JD Vance approached the Tim Walz debate.
Brian Kemp…I think he’s looking at a 2026 Senate run.
I think DeSantis’ star isn’t going to rise much. It might, but I think his day is over.
I like what I know of Governor Abbott. He’s done a great job for his state. He sure does win a lot. He’ll be 70 by the time the next presidential election rolls around, but he’ll be okay during it.
Nikki Haley will have a real shot if Trump/Vance/Rubio crashes and burns. She needs to accomplish something over the next three years, she can’t just be a crank. Hate to say it, but her best bet would be to switch to the Democrat party. Seriously.
I think it’s going to be a two-horse race, Rubio and Vance with Abbott as a possibility. Haley’s a possibility, but she needs to do something.
Speaking of Newsom, his CA Repub Gov. candidate Steve Hilton slammed Newsom for traveling across country to meet rural residents in South Carolina as parts of California remain in ruins.
Steve Hilton calls Newsom ‘a disgrace’ for ditching California to meet with South Carolina voters
Hilton’s not wrong. Newsom is more interested in running for President than being governor. There hasn’t been a Republican governor since Schwarzenegger in 2003. If Harris is Hilton’s opponent, there might be another one.
Mayor Lurie says there’s been a vibe shift in San Francisco and opinion polls show that people feel more confident in the city’s direction than in six or seven years. In fairness, that’s a pretty low bar:
San Francisco has undergone ‘vibe shift,’ new mayor says
Six years ago, the son of terrorists, Chesa Boudin was elected District Attorney. London Breed was the mayor. And Union Square was open for business. But at least most crimes are down since Boudin has departed. Overdoses are way up since 2019
Video: Lurie said we would have 1,500 extra beds for the homeless (there’s 25,000 already). Didn’t hit that promise. Sounds like small, incremental steps are being made and maybe that’s all we can hope for. Says fentanyl really changed the game.
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie on homeless, fentanyl crisis, public safety | Watch
I like moderate Democrats and I’ve voted for them. I backed Obama over McCain, I backed Romney over Obama. But the centrist Democrats are a vanishing breed. I’d have voted for Sam Nunn. But I can’t fathom a country that takes someone like AOC seriously. Or Kamala Harris. Or Tim Walz. Or the Crew or Sisterhood or whatever they call themselves, or most of the NYC mayoral candidates. I can get behind Mayor Lurie or Harold Ford Jr. (last chair of the Democrat Leadership Council) but much as I’d like to because they’re from my two favorite colleges, I can’t get behind Gavin Newsom or Adam Schiff.
I like a lot of left-leaning policies. I like taxation of wealth, including estate and otherwise. I like politicians who tackle tough problems, like actuarial disasters like Social Security.
And speaking of the DLC… man, did the Democrats tthat or what. It was created to shift away from the leftward turn taken by the Dems. Best result was Clinton’s twin victories. And now Democrats hate masculinity, to the point that they felt they needed to spend $20 million to learn how to speak to the half of the human race that they have vilified for the past half-century. A topic for another time.
Democrats, if you want a road map back to success in politics, read this:
Democratic Leadership Council – Wikipedia
Incidentally, there was a Republican equivalent, named (naturally) The Republican Leadership Council, led by one of my favorite Republicans, former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman.
Allow me to translate.
“I can’t or won’t point out specific policies that I don’t like. All I know is that I really, really, REALLY don’t like the current President. Above all else, I am a Progressive, and I live in the land of make-believe, which is preferable in all ways to the current land. So because I can’t point to ridiculous Progressive policies, I will instead resort to name-calling. We Lefties have been calling Republicans “Hitler” — even Republicans who are frankly moderate and adopt some liberal and left positions, like…well…all Republican presidents.
“The worst part, the really worst part is that the President is effective. He says what he’s going to do and he does it. I will ignore the fact that Lefty Dem Presidents also tell lies regularly, and I will scream from the rooftops that our salesman (true) of a President tells actual lies, while our Lefty lawyer presidents merely lie through omission, misdirection, obfuscation and selective silence or their puppets weigh in.
“And because he is effective, it is not enough to merely call him ‘Hitler’ which has been worn out from half-a-century of misapplication. Therefore, I will throw everything I can at the wall to see if something sticks; e.g., Spain, China, Russia, Germany, North Korea, Iran. I will pretend the President is an agent for one more of those countries, when in actuality, my last President accepted money from foreign adversaries through his son. We even have him on video bragging about it. And we will pretend that his son didn’t have damning evidence on his computer, we’ll pretend that was a Russian plot…sure, that’s it. A Russian plot.
“And I will ignore the fact that he is a former Democrat and has quite a few former Democrats in his circle, and I will ignore the 15 Progressive policies (e.g., Defund the Police) that the Left still supports (see recent NYC mayoral candidate).
“And I will pretend that my political opponents are too stupid to see what only I can plainly see and laud myself in the comments and title of my post. Yes, I have my gaslight-o-meter dialed up to 11.”
