Four Quick Things

ONE - TRACKER

If you want to follow how many people have voted, this tracker from the AP shows data by state. No, we don’t know for whom people voted, but the conclusions that can be drawn indicate that the polls are likely understating the final numbers, and our team is LOOKING GOOD!

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TWO - SPORTS

If you know me, you know that I know NOTHING about sports. I generally don’t know any sports person until they run for office.

However, if the Convicted Felon loses next week, my team is going to be the LA Dodgers. They won the World Series in 2020, and he lost the next week. They won the World Series this week. If they’re a marker for keeping bad Rethuglicans out of office, I’m for them.

My husband tells me their colors are white and royal blue, so that’s good for me. Seems there’s a little red in their logo, but I’ll overlook that. The only red things in my house are strawberries, raspberries, and ketchup.

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THREE - DISEASE

I was at the doctor Friday morning. (I’m okay, thanks for asking.) And OF COURSE I worked the check-in counter and every practitioner with whom I interacted. While checking out, I needed paperwork, and the printer jammed, so I was talking to the woman waiting behind me. Her husband voted early and she’s voting Tuesday. (Like me, she fears the red mirage.)

She asked me if I talk to many people about the election. I told her I talk to EVERYONE — it’s like a disease. I told her some of my interactions, and she said that it’s now a communicable disease because she’s now going to talk to everyone with whom she comes in contact between now and Tuesday, and get her friends to do the same.

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FOUR - PORN

Yeah, you read that right. Kudos to my husband for sharing this with me.

No — he wasn’t watching porn, it’s from NPR. These two friends were looking for a way to reach 5 million people, and “subprime” advertising seemed to be the way to go. It’s one of those quick 10-second ads that must be watched before one can proceed to the webpage they want. (In the link you can see the whole thing.)

While advertising in the Philadelphia suburbs, for instance, is quite expensive, ads on porn sites are inexpensive and have almost no competition. "These ads are like real cheap and it's like weirdly relevant to this campaign," Nowinski said.

The relevance they saw was a market they believe can reach one of the key voter demographics in 2024.

"There’s 3 million non-college white men across the 'blue wall' states, that's a lot of people, and they're probably breaking for Trump like 65-70%," he said. "You only need to make a very few of them change their mind to possibly make an impact on the election."

They anticipate 20 MILLION hits by Election Day. And yes, Project 2025 would ban porn.