Good morning.
Thursday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 76. Sunrise is 6:55, and sunset is 6:31, for 11 hours, 37 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent, with 0.6 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
There will be a Home Buyer’s Educational Event at the Community Engagement Center, 1260 W Main St. in Whitewater from 6 to 7:30 PM.
On this day in 1952, the United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon in the Montebello Islands, Western Australia, to become the world’s third nuclear power.
The Marquette Law School Poll, a respected survey of political preferences, issued its latest findings yesterday. Here are some key results of their latest work:
New Marquette Law School Poll of Wisconsin voters finds Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris supported by 52% and Republican former President Donald Trump supported by 48% among registered voters. Among likely voters, it is also 52% for Harris and 48% for Trump. #mulawpoll
— MULawPoll (@MULawPoll) October 2, 2024
In a multi-candidate race, among registered voters, Harris is at 48% and Trump at 44%. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is at 3%. #mulawpoll
— MULawPoll (@MULawPoll) October 2, 2024
In the U.S. Senate race, Sen. Tammy Baldwin is supported by 53% to Eric Hovde’s 46% among registered voters. Among likely voters, the results are the same. #mulawpoll
— MULawPoll (@MULawPoll) October 2, 2024
In the Senate race, including independent candidates, it is Baldwin 51% and Hovde 45%. Phil Anderson, the “Disrupt the Corruption” party candidate, gets 1%, and Thomas Leager, of the “America First” party, gets 1%, among both registered and likely voters. #mulawpoll
— MULawPoll (@MULawPoll) October 2, 2024
I’ve reported poll results before, in these races and others, and yet one should be clear with oneself: these are no more than possible descriptions of sentiment at those brief moments when respondents answered a pollster’s questions.
With differences between the candidates so stark, and thus stakes so high, the course both practical and moral is simply to carry on, march on, and slog on in support of one’s candidates.
If ever one’s conscience were to be one’s guide, now’s the time.
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