It’s not surprising that when there are two 900-year-old candidates in the running for president who can’t seem to string two sentences together, they end up roughly tied.

And it’s also not surprising that when someone who isn’t a senile near-zombie emerges, she is more appealing than a weird pervy felon or a nursing-home-escapee hair-sniffer. I mean, fucking hell, that Harris is in the lead now isn’t some grand mystery that takes Hercule Poirot to solve. It has nothing to do with Harris’s policies or lack of them, or charisma or absence of same. It’s just that she can articulate a coherent statement without rambling, doesn’t look like she just wandered out of Shady Pines, and might actually live out her term.

That’s all. But that’s a lot.