The polls have shown Donald Trump with an edge for eight straight months, but there’s a sign his advantage might not be quite as stable as it looks: His lead is built on gains among voters who aren’t paying close attention to politics, who don’t follow traditional news and who don’t regularly vote....
Importantly, these low-turnout voters are often from Democratic constituencies. Many back Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate. But in our polling, Biden wins just three-quarters of Democratic-leaning voters who didn’t vote in the last cycle, even as almost all high-turnout Democratic-leaners continue to support him.
This trend illustrates the disconnect between Trump’s lead in the polls and Democratic victories in lower-turnout special elections. And it helps explain Trump’s gains among young and nonwhite voters, who tend to be among the least engaged.
Just curious how they get the satellite pictures. Do they have their own? Is there an open-source option or public availability of satellite pictures somewhere?
As part of DeSantis’ “Freedom Summer” initiative, the state’s transportation secretary, Jared W. Perdue, announced earlier this month that bridges in the state will have no choice but to be illuminated in red, white and blue from Memorial Day through Labor Day....
Am agreeing with comment poster. Is better to not vote than have one’s vote tossed in the waste. With a great leader such as Putin, not voting is a glorious right that we all, as regular Americans who work in the high tech are well aware of. Do not cancel culture me as I am of course a leftist like yourselves, in the glorious struggle to silence the imperial capitalist pigdogs.
I’ve been struggling with sleep issues for over a decade now. My Doctor has prescribed me all sorts of medication, all of which has had many adverse side effects. What I do know that works, is Xanax. My wife was prescribed it for some stress issues and occasionally will give me one so I can finally sleep. Obviously asking my...
Oh, sorry, no didn’t mean to shit on a specific thing, just saying there’s good ways to do it and bad ways to do it and some of the sort-of recent ones were obviously bad.
Henry VIII's armor from the Tower of London. Interesting cod piece
A Polling Risk for Trump (www.nytimes.com)
The polls have shown Donald Trump with an edge for eight straight months, but there’s a sign his advantage might not be quite as stable as it looks: His lead is built on gains among voters who aren’t paying close attention to politics, who don’t follow traditional news and who don’t regularly vote....
Where does Google get the Satellite Pictures for GoogleEarth maps
Just curious how they get the satellite pictures. Do they have their own? Is there an open-source option or public availability of satellite pictures somewhere?
Would you rather be stuck in the woods with an updated Windows 11 or a Windows 7?
‘Psychologically tortured’: California city pays man nearly $1m after 17-hour police interrogation (www.theguardian.com)
Officers threatened to kill the dog of Thomas Perez Jr as they pressured him to falsely confess to killing his father, who was alive
'Sad Day for Free Speech': Media Matters Layoffs Follow 'Thermonuclear' Attack by Elon Musk (www.commondreams.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15767168...
Ron DeSantis' new target in his 'war on woke'? Colors, apparently (www.msnbc.com)
As part of DeSantis’ “Freedom Summer” initiative, the state’s transportation secretary, Jared W. Perdue, announced earlier this month that bridges in the state will have no choice but to be illuminated in red, white and blue from Memorial Day through Labor Day....
Study Finds That 52 Percent of ChatGPT Answers to Programming Questions Are Wrong (futurism.com)
Netanyahu to address Congress, House Speaker Mike Johnson says (www.nbcnews.com)
Russians bought up $6.3B in Dubai property after 2022 Ukraine invasion, report finds (www.icij.org)
A trove of leaked records reveals Russian property holdings soared “more than tenfold,” economists say.
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Words for an Epic Quest, part 3 (lemmus.org)
Incidental Comics by Grant Snider, May 24 2024....
If you hard. (lemmyf.uk)
Boeing, NASA say Starliner astronaut launch will move forward despite spacecraft helium leak (www.cnbc.com)
Rajah Scops Owl (lemmy.world)
Photo by Mike Nelson...
George Lucas Says Ideas in the Original “Sort of Got Lost” in Post-Disney ‘Star Wars’ Films (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Lucas reflected on his life in work in a wide-ranging chat in Cannes, where he received and honorary Palm d'Or.
Massive issues with sleep and desperate for a solution.
I’ve been struggling with sleep issues for over a decade now. My Doctor has prescribed me all sorts of medication, all of which has had many adverse side effects. What I do know that works, is Xanax. My wife was prescribed it for some stress issues and occasionally will give me one so I can finally sleep. Obviously asking my...
We're Taking Civil Disobedience to End Fossil Fuels. Will You Join Us? | Asking people to engage in nonviolent direct action isn’t something we do lightly. But it is something we must do. (www.commondreams.org)
The most well-funded campaign in US history (midwest.social)
Daily marijuana use outpaces daily drinking in the US, a new study says (apnews.com)
Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift’s Private Jet (gizmodo.com)
Legislation just signed into law has made it exceedingly to difficult to track private jet activity.