[Old School Hound]

She dodged on a couple of questions, but she held her own for the most part.  I have to giver her props for agreeing to go on Fox knowing that the questions would be difficult and the environment hostile.  The other candidate doesn't have the guts to go on MSNBC and face the heat.

I talked to a couple of undecided voters today who were pretty strongly leaning towards Trump last week that are now leaning towards Harris after watching her and Trump both this week.  Her biggest obstacle to overcome is there are a whole lot of people, mainly men, who have a real problem in voting for a woman, let alone one of mixed race.

We might not like to admit it but I do believe there is some real truth to this. There are some men who will never vote for a woman to be president. And a mixed race woman makes her a two (or three) time loser to those men.

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I think 538's algorithm is not accounting for the intangibles that Kamala brings to this race. There has never been a candidate with the credibility issues that Harris has. There are reasons that Kamala has never won a single delegate in a primary election and it required a bait and switch to get her into the game. She is a one of one that no algorithm can account for.

I'm a big believer in the importance of intangibles in sports. Analytics can't account for those intangibles. But intangibles win and lose a lot of games. So, intangibles in politics can't be overlooked. Good point, Hoot. We'll just have to see which candidate's intangibles are most costly to him/her.