Casey trailed McCormick by only 0.2% Harris is behind by 1.8%

Why do some people believe a recount for Harris could reverse a 120,000 vote deficit?

(according to our City Commissioners from a news report I heard yesterday) due to missing dates/signatures or errors with them. I expect that problem existed statewide, to different degrees, based on that ridiculous requirement (that the PA Supreme Court has yet to rule on the merits for). The last count I saw before the concession had them about 15,000 votes apart.

I like to think we're smarter than that. We're just upset.

.... too bad,.... nice guy.
Like Sharrod Brown in Ohio, it is not these guys fault eggs are stuck over $3.00 per dozen or gasoline over $3.00 per gallon too.

Most of these price increases are directly attributable to price gouging by the big petrol companies/refineries and industrial sized egg producers looking for obscene profits.

In 1967, right smack in the middle of the era of “super cheap gas”, the national average for gasoline was 36 cents a gallon. Cheap huh? Right now, in the city I live in in Wisconsin, gas is averaging about $2.60/gallon and has been around that for quite a while now. Certainly, in the 2 months leading up to the election. Now plug that into an inflation calculator (Tom’s inflation Calculator in this case – Google it). $2.60 in 1967 dollars is, wait for it!... 28 cents! That’s right, gas is cheaper now than in the “Golden Age” of gas prices by 22%! But as they say, wait there’s more! The average gas mileage for cars and light trucks is at least double today.

“Compared to a typical car from the 1960s, a 2024 car will have significantly better gas mileage, with a modern vehicle achieving at least double, if not triple, the miles per gallon of a car from that era; a typical 1960s car might get around 10-15 mpg, while a 2024 car could easily average 30 mpg or more depending on the model and driving conditions.”

So, in effect, what we pay per mile to “go down the road” is at least a whopping 61% less (~14 cents/gallon in 1967 equivalent dollars) than in the so-called “Golden Age” of gas prices.

This gas price thing, and a lot of other price related things, are nothing but a bunch of easily debunked bullshit!

First, citing the price of gas 57 years ago isn't going to mean much to the vast majority of gas-buying consumers.
Second, what the vast majority of gas consumers remember, rightly or wrongly, is that in November 2020, gas prices were around $2.00/gallon -- a dollar less than today and several dollars less than what gas cost at its peak in 2022.

But it is the correct way to illustrate that gas is actually much cheaper today than it was in the good old days when "gas was cheap". And I also I think my econ professor(s) and my other professors at the UW-EC School of Business would agree with me and would also agree that they taught me well.

I can't worry about what a bunch of dummies think anymore. There's nothing anyone can do to help them understand things like this (see: you can't fix stupid). Hell, half of them (or more?) probably would believe that a Polar Bear's natural diet is ice cream if they heard it on FOX...

GD muskrat and his hideous tv commercials in Ohio.

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will ever have.

I look forward to voting for Sen Casey when he runs for Gov to succeed Gov Shapiro and for Gov Shapiro when he ousts McCormick in 2030.

Such as 2028.