Pressley, Warren, Markey back Harris

That I'm better than most everyone else on Googling ballot access and sample ballots before I go vote?

1968: Multiple viable contenders after the primary process, brokered convention.

Humphrey severely hampered by association with Johnson’s Vietnam War.

Chaotic violence on the streets (and in the hall) during convention, drove voters to alleged “law and order” candidate.

2024: All signs indicate convention delegates are prepared to unite for Harris, whatever interim process is implemented.

Zero enthusiasm for non-registered democrat Joe Manchin.

Harris associated with incredibly impactful administration.

Roe, Bitches.

The actual calendar. July 22 is a Monday, just like it was in 1968.

Yes, LBJ quit in March. And primaries were not nearly as significant as they are today... except this year they aren't. Harris will get the nomination without winning a single primary, just like Humphrey in 1968.

In 1968, the Vietnam war divided Democrats against one another, just as the Gaza war is doing this year. There were protests on college campuses, just as there are today.

The only thing missing is Mayor Daley.

No, Al Gore lost.
As did Trump in 2020.
No air quotes.

Gore didn't actually lose the popular vote

That's like saying "We'd have won this baseball game if we were playing by football rules". There's no "winning" the popular vote because popular vote doesn't "win" you anything but a "you tried" star. However...Gore only "lost" the electoral college vote because of some truly shady behavior by the Supreme Court.

*That* beach will be open. It's in a Trump neighborhood.

Just a brief list of reasons not to be a calm.

• The republican party's candidate for president led an attempted coup of our federal government on January 6th, and is openly calling for mass arrests and deportations, purging the federal government of anyone he doesn't like, and using the justice department as his personal police force. This embrace of fascism by the republican leader has led to the open rise of nazism in the street of the USA, where brownshirt marches occur on a regular basis.
• The republican supreme court has ignored language in the constitution and founders original intent to make the office of president a virtual king (if a republican is in power).
• Republican judges are ignoring centuries of settled law to overturn laws they don't like such as Roe v. Wade, and republican officials are jailing women who have miscarriages and calling for arrests of women and doctors who participate in abortions across state lines.
• Republican politicians, with the backing of their hired hands in the judiciary, are tearing down the wall between church and state everywhere they can.

Now, as your are obviously an older white man, this probably doesn't impact you directly yet, but telling everyone else not to worry their little heads is appallingly blinkered and tone deaf.

But yeah, Carson beach will probably be open next summer.

Even if Trump wins, Carson Beach will be open next summer.

Site of the new Joe Moakley coal-fired Power Plant by 2026, if Trump has his way.

The state's population recently fell from 39 million to 38.965 million, per the US Census Bureau. I wouldn't call 0.0009% of the country's most populous state even one drove.

But the point is moot: Newsom has already endorsed Harris.

And the Republican Party.

We've been on "pit and the pendulum" mode for many decades - or had been, at least.

After 20 years of FDR/Truman, it has gone: R 8 years, D 8 years, R 8 years, D 4 years, R 12 years, D 8 years, R 8 years, D 8 years. That gets us up through the Obama years. Mostly 8 years of back and forth, party out of power gets agitated enough (and/or swing voters tired of the in-power party) to swing back the other way.

Now... It has accelerated. Two single-term presidencies in a row? If 45 becomes 47, that'll be three (if his health doesn't crater). Heck - if Harris wins, she might be only a one-term.

You can't possibly be that ignorant.