(Sibelius the composer or the music notation system?)

Social Media and the proliferation of various media outlets and podcast have changed - for the worse, IMO - how people get, react and digest what they hear and read.

The way Whiny behaves - how can he possibly be a candidate, and with 50/50 chance of winning?

Unfortunately. The Hitler playbook to a tee..

Straight-ticket partisan voters will vote for any R over any D, just like most of us would vote for any D over any R.

Generational Republican voters for whom it's ingrained behavior.

Voters who dislike him personally but know he's the only option to push an extreme right agenda.

MAGA and others who agree with his agenda, share his abhorrent beliefs, and/or flock to him in cult-like fashion.

People who think he'll be better for them financially - tax cuts, etc.

His behavior is irrelevant to many, as difficult as that may be to believe. Agenda rules, for many people.

Stepped aside. I thought then we were doomed. But, Harris took the reins mid gallop and she and her team never, and I mean never missed a step.I’ve been sure we were going to win

I never gave any mind to the polls. There are lots of ways to measure a race without looking at polls weighted towards the gqp by the likes nate silver!

I thought me might still win, barely, and with contested ballots for years. As some Democrats were saying, they had someone who could beat Trump, and it wasn't Harris, I got very worried.

When he stepped aside, and named Harris as his successor, I immediately felt so joyous. It was like we'd gone from a long, hard race to barely win, possibly even lose, to one where we had it, it was going to be big, and Trump would finally leave the political stage.

Still, Keep Calm and Kamala-on! Get out the vote, the more the better, the more voices heard the better. The bigger vote count the better.

I hope you’re right, my friend.

The first vote blue, no matter who candidate I remember. The kind of candidate Democrats should never, ever put up again, from president all the way down to dog catcher.

I sometimes wonder, if Dems had put up a better candidate would we be where we're at today. Mondale was not the first, and certainly not the last. It is the doom of the country to even consider someone who can't win because they're not actually a good candidate.