How Can It Be This Close?

Kamala has upended the race and Trump continues to implode….yet the election remains on a razor’s edge. WTF?

In case you were in a sensory deprivation tank all summer (I wish I was), let me bring you up to speed.

Kamala Harris’s eleventh hour entry into the presidential race has marked an unprecedented turn of events in American politics. The neo-fascist Trump Party, which was cackling over what it saw as certain victory as recently as late July, is on its heels. The Democratic Party is showing an enthusiasm, a self-discipline, and a level of professional competence that are not usually keywords associated with that organization. (“Democrats in Startling Array,” as several wags quipped online.)

Awesome, right? Yes indeed.

But just sixty-two days out from Election Day, the race remains a dead heat. A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll shows Kamala with a four point lead nationally and rising, all of which is a remarkable turnaround from Biden’s numbers just a few weeks ago. Other polls show her lead to be as great as five or six points. But still others, like Nate Silver’s much-vaunted forecast, show the lead to which she initially leapt now slipping a hair, and Trump slightly favored to win the Electoral College (though never the popular vote) for the first time she entered the race. She is sometimes said to be gaining in the…