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How is the bike and how is the training?

Very tactical, very demure

Pictures incoming but by way of update:

For the Starling, the Maximas from Saddleback arrived yesterday, and although I've taken a small bit of bubblewrap off just to oggle at the levers, I'm leaving them in the box so they are fresh for when the frame arrives. The headset also arrived at the same time, as did the (less exciting) new Trickstuff rotors.

Spent a bunch of childhood summer holidays on a Contessa 32 called Nan of Kyle, harboured at Crinan. Don't know we fitted as a family of five on it retrospect.

“We live with what happened,” Pelosi said.

Pelosi was speaking to The Interview, a New York Times podcast, in a conversation the newspaper said would be published Saturday in full.

“Had the president gotten out sooner,” Pelosi remarked, “there may have been other candidates in the race. The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary.

“And as I say, Kamala may have, I think she would have done well in that and been stronger going forward. But we don’t know that. That didn’t happen. We live with what happened. And because the president endorsed Kamala Harris immediately, that really made it almost impossible to have a primary at that time. If it had been much earlier, it would have been different.”

As someone who is also tall

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_human_height_by_country

Nancy Pelosi saying that the Democrats lost because they did not have an open primary.

Need? No - but PM'd you anyway!

Will we be climbing up the walls trying to solve this one?

The i550 sounds like the best bet.

If you want to get into yacht sailing, people are usually looking for crew. All the benefits of sailing and none of the costs.

His analysis pre-election was sufficiently sound to make money off the outcome.

Exactly, which comes back to the wider point that the Democrats would be better served by encouraging wide and competitive primaries, rather than trying to stage-manage party democracy.

If that is the standard, I guess we can all stop posting. There is no way to answer the question of whether RFK would or would not have been successful in a Democratic primary. It is an opinion either way. I guess my point is that a lot of opinions turn out to be wrong.

This could be right, but people said Trump could never win the candidacy in 2015, never win the election in 2016, and the same again this time round.

Having said all that, I personally would have no enthusiasm for RFK as president.

closer than i thought

I think in the order of 600k, but that is perfect redistribution in the swing states, which would never happen

Hillary Clinton was hand in glove with the DNC in 2016

On July 22, 2016, WikiLeaks released online tens of thousands of messages leaked from the e-mail accounts of seven key DNC staff.[140] Some e-mails showed two DNC staffers discussing the possibility that Sanders' possible atheism might harm him in a general election with religious voters. Others showed a few staffers had expressed personal preferences that Clinton should become the nominee, suggesting that the party's leadership had worked to undermine Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign.[140] Then-DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz called the accusations lies.[140]

The furor raised over this matter escalated to Wasserman Schultz's resignation ahead of the convention,[141] and that of Marshals, Dacey, and Communications Director Luis Miranda afterwards.[142] Following Wasserman Schultz's resignation, then-DNC Vice Chair Donna Brazile took over as interim DNC chairwoman for the convention and remained so until February 2017.[143] In November 2017, Brazile said in her book and related interviews that the Clinton campaign and the DNC had colluded 'unethically' by giving the Clinton campaign control over the DNC's personnel and press releases before the primary in return for funding to eliminate the DNC's remaining debt from 2012 campaign,[26] in addition to using the DNC and state committees to funnel campaign-limitation-exceeding donations to her campaign.[144] Internal memos later surfaced, claiming that these measures were not meant to affect the nominating process despite their timing.[145] At the end of June 2016, it was claimed that "more money [from the Hillary Victory Fund] will be moved to the state parties in the coming months."[146] Brazile later clarified that she claimed the process was 'unethical', but 'not a criminal act'.[16][147]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries

It's not like this wasn't being discussed two years ago:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/07/democrats-primary-contest-biden-harris/670509/

Wonderful.

Might have to make a trip to Stockport.

Opportunity to repost this beauty

Who is the guy on the right with Paul Weller?

I think the polls were within the margin of error, including in the swing states, which is where the too close too call came from. I would guess that the polling issue is that some demographic group or groups that pollsters expected to turn out for Kamala Harris didn't turnout in the way they did for Biden in 2020.

I sent that suggestion as a joke to a friend yesterday, but still haven't seen a serious one replace it yet. Apparently the voter rolls were 6 million higher this time as well.

I'm really interested to see detailed demographic breakdowns when they are available. A quick scan says black, Latino and Asian voters were down as percentage of total voters.