Where did all those Harris/Walz posters come from so quickly? It seems to me that one minute, no one was quite sure who Kamala's running mate would be and then she announced and twenty minutes later, the signs were all over every venue in which she or her new running mate spoke…and her website had merchandise with the official Harris/Walz logo.
I'm kinda curious how this happened. I can imagine that a week or three ago, some designer was commissioned to get to work and that somewhere — on some computer — there were and maybe still are versions of this logo that were Harris/Shapiro or Harris/Kelly or Harris/Beshear or Harris/Pritzker. And I wonder if the smaller font for the vice-presidential candidate was because that designer had to make up one that was for Harris/Buttigieg.
But it's one thing to have a logo design; quite another to have hundreds of posters and banners — some of them rather large — ready for a rally the next day. Did they print up some with Harris/Someone Else to have them ready? If anyone sees press coverage of this, lemme know.
The polls still have this as a pretty close race. At this moment, 538 has Harris at 1.8% ahead of Trump. Given the margins of error on the polls they're aggregating, that's pretty much the same as Trump being 1.8% ahead of Harris. There are also polls that show her ahead by wider margins and state polls that show her ahead in some key states…but I think optimism still needs to be well-guarded.
What may be cause for a smidgen of celebration is the feeling of momentum and how panicky Trump seems to be. His increasingly-slurred speech and increasingly-wacko accusations are probably making a lot of people feel Harris is doing better than she is…so far. Some of my friends wish he'd shut up. I think the more he talks and tweets, the more America is becoming convinced this man is outta his f'in mind.