Just one time though. Just one election I'd like to see florida not fumble the ball to the other team.
Just one time though. Just one election I'd like to see florida not fumble the ball to the other team.
To be honest I can't wait for the first debate. Since after that many things will be much clearer.
What do you think will be much clearer?
Well, so far we only have polls as conclusions. But after the first debate we will probably have much better guess in judging if those polls will hold in their conclusions to the November. Since thus far the numbers are kinda in the air. Plus it will probably bubble to the surface that Biden isn't some ANTIFA overlord.
Really?? lol
All of which is to say that there is no version of the Interregnum in which Trump congratulates Biden on his victory. He has told us so. “The only way they can take this election away from us is if this is a rigged election,†Trump said at the Republican National Convention on August 24. Unless he wins a bona fide victory in the Electoral College, Trump’s refusal to concede—his mere denial of defeat—will have cascading effects.
There is no truth to be found in dancing around this point, either: Trump does not want Black people to vote. (He said as much in 2017—on Martin Luther King Day, no less—to a voting-blessrights group co-founded by King, according to a recording leaked to Politico.) He does not want young people or poor people to vote. He believes, with reason, that he is less likely to win reelection if turnout is high at the polls. This is not a “both sides†phenomenon. In present-day politics, we have one party that consistently seeks advantage in depriving the other party’s adherents of the right to vote.
Of all the favorable signs for Trump’s Election Day operations, Clark explained, “first and foremost is the consent decree’s gone.†He was referring to a court order forbidding Republican operatives from using any of a long list of voter-purging and intimidation techniques. The expiration of that order was a “huge, huge, huge, huge deal,†Clark said.
The order had its origins in the New Jersey gubernatorial election of 1981. According to the district court’s opinion in Democratic National Committee v. Republican National Committee, the RNC allegedly tried to intimidate voters by hiring off-duty law-enforcement officers as members of a “National Ballot Security Task Force,†some of them armed and carrying two-way radios. According to the plaintiffs, they stopped and questioned voters in minority neighborhoods, blocked voters from entering the polls, forcibly restrained poll workers, challenged people’s eligibility to vote, warned of criminal charges for casting an illegal ballot, and generally did their best to frighten voters away from the polls. The power of these methods relied on well-founded fears among people of color about contact with police.
Voter fraud is a fictitious threat to the outcome of elections, a pretext that Republicans use to thwart or discard the ballots of likely opponents. An authoritative report by the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan think tank, calculated the rate of voter fraud in three elections at between 0.0003 percent and 0.0025 percent. Another investigation, from Justin Levitt at Loyola Law School, turned up 31 credible allegations of voter impersonation out of more than 1 billion votes cast in the United States from 2000 to 2014. Judges in voting-rights cases have made comparable findings of fact.
Nonetheless, Republicans and their allies have litigated scores of cases in the name of preventing fraud in this year’s election. State by state, they have sought—with some success—to purge voter rolls, tighten rules on provisional votes, uphold voterblessidentification requirements, ban the use of ballot drop boxes, reduce eligibility to vote by mail, discard mail-in ballots with technical flaws, and outlaw the counting of ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive afterward. The intent and effect is to throw away votes in large numbers.
In part, Trump’s hostility to voting by mail is a reflection of his belief that more voting is bad for him in general. Democrats, he said on Fox & Friends at the end of March, want “levels of voting that, if you ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.â€
Some Republicans see Trump’s vendetta as self-defeating. “It to me appears entirely irrational,†Jeff Timmer, a former executive director of the Michigan Republican Party, told me. “The Trump campaign and RNC and by fiat their state party organizations are engaging in suppressing their own voter turnout,†including Republican seniors who have voted by mail for years.
The worst case for an orderly count is also considered by some election modelers the likeliest: that Trump will jump ahead on Election Night, based on in-person returns, but his lead will slowly give way to a Biden victory as mail-in votes are tabulated. Josh Mendelsohn, the CEO of the Democratic data-modeling firm Hawkfish, calls this scenario “the red mirage.†The turbulence of that interval, fed by street protests, social media, and Trump’s desperate struggles to lock in his lead, can only be imagined. “Any scenario that you come up with will not be as weird as the reality of it,†the Trump legal adviser said.
The right calls every democrat a far left lunatic, even the ones they supposedly like. Had Tulsi gotten the nomination, they'd have turned on her too and they'd be calling her the second coming of Hillary right now. They do this with pretty much every moderate democrat, to the point that the meaning of 'far left' is so diluted. This is their strategy, they'll pretend to support the anti-DNC dems like Sanders and Tulsi, but ultimately they're all a bunch of 'radicals' when it comes campaign time.
the average republican voter seems to have a really skewed frame of reference when it comes to concepts like right, left and the center. all the more skewed when you compare USA's left right and center to that of most other developed nations--the "far left" dems that frighten them are center-right liberals by most developed nations' standards--even the dems who are left wing by USA standards are barely so by the rest of the world's standards.
When one party is trying to encourage and facilitate voting and the other is trying to discourage and impede it, it says much about their relative approaches to governance, and their views on democracy and citizenship in general.The right calls every democrat a far left lunatic, even the ones they supposedly like. Had Tulsi gotten the nomination, they'd have turned on her too and they'd be calling her the second coming of Hillary right now. They do this with pretty much every moderate democrat, to the point that the meaning of 'far left' is so diluted. This is their strategy, they'll pretend to support the anti-DNC dems like Sanders and Tulsi, but ultimately they're all a bunch of 'radicals' when it comes campaign time.
the average republican voter seems to have a really skewed frame of reference when it comes to concepts like right, left and the center. all the more skewed when you compare USA's left right and center to that of most other developed nations--the "far left" dems that frighten them are center-right liberals by most developed nations' standards--even the dems who are left wing by USA standards are barely so by the rest of the world's standards.
Oh but I forget, these people actually use the terms "left" and "liberal" synonymously and unironically. They actually think these are the same things. Half the time you get in a discussion with them, you can't even get very far because you have to spend the entire time schooling them on basic concepts.
Just trying to understand what goes on in their heads, or what doesn't go on in their heads, why the lack of critical thinking and understanding of 9th grade level civics and politics escapes so many of them...
Is it something like the "faith gene"?