**** NYTimes.com: Are Democrats Whistling Past the Graveyard?

Are Democrats Whistling Past the Graveyard?

The political strategist Mike Podhorzer discusses what polls can — and can’t — say about 2024.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/14/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-michael-podhorzer.html?smid=em-share

But the act of making it seem like if this could all change if we just had a different person at the top of this is fantasy. It’s just fantasy. And that’s part of why I think it’s a real problem that important media institutions support the idea that our problems are as superficial as who we put on the ballot as different human beings, when we need to solve the underlying institutional problems.