In The Shadow Of Mt Hollywood

Here's the conundrum leading up to the debate, from David Strom at Hot Air : Kamala could appear on stage drunk out of her mind, vomit on the moderators, and do a striptease revealing she is a lizard person, and her poll numbers would only drop by 3 points. Everybody anticipates this, because it's what happened after Joe Biden's disastrous June 27 -- his performance was so outlandishly bad that Nancy Pelosi had him off the Democrat ticket within a month -- but the polls didn't shift a bit in the wake of the debate. In fact, this was the basis of Joe's own argument for why he should stay, the polls hadn't changed, the race was still within the margin of error. Nancy Pelosi didn't believe it, and the rest is history. I think it's also understood that by "the polls", people mean the Real Clear Politics average , but nobody will quite come out and say this. And as of this morning, it has Harris leading the notional popular vote by 1.8, ...