These new numbers look good for Kamala Harris
It’s another week during campaign season, which means a litany of polls – particularly when it comes to the seven battleground states of 2024. Although polling stagnated for a short time after Labor Day, the latest polls – particularly the Bloomberg polls that came off the press on Thursday have shown some good news for Kamala Harris – with one showing her up by seven points in Nevada, the state that notoriously took days to count in both 2020 and 2022.
Of course, the typical caveat applies here – to never place too much emphasis on what any single poll tells you. Harris is up in a few other polls in the Silver State as well, but with a closer margin – but outliers like Bloomberg being +7 could be a sign that she is in fact pulling ahead.
Harris had a fairly solid week of polling last week and an even better one this week – with a Fox News poll showing her up by three points in Georgia, a fairly diverse state that has only begun trending blue recently. In addition, the Bloomberg polls show congressional Democrats with comfortable leads – like Ruben Gallego in Arizona. Again, these are polls that you just throw in with the average – but the fact that polling is steadily improving in our favor shows we’re heading in the right direction.
Whatever your efforts are at getting involved in the Harris campaign, they’re working. The ads and campaigning are working. It’s time to double our efforts and run up the score – phone banking, making sure everyone you know is registered, postcard writing, texting. Let’s do everything we can to get Kamala Harris elected on Nov 5 with a Democratic trifecta to govern.
James Sullivan is the assistant editor of Brain World Magazine and an advocate of science-based policy making