I saw very few Trump and Harris signs around here (South Texas) as well. It seems like signs are now limited to mostly local candidates, since the national ones are all well known and have an R or D next to there name. Around here local candidates are listed only by name, not by party, and so having huge numbers of campaign signs takes the place of the R or D next to the name.
FWIW, local news in Kankakee County (IL) is reporting possible record numbers at the polls. I wonder if there’s enough to swing the county blue for the first time since 2008.
Toxic positivity masking the real challenges. I mean, even if Harris wins by an unarguably large margin, i.e. carrying 5 or more of the ‘swing states’ of Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia, the maximum possibly margin is about 90 electoral votes; the likelihood is that she’ll lose at least two of them and have contested recounts in two or three more, not accounting for Republican shitfuckery at the statehouse level in states like Georgia or Arizona which could drag certification out well into January. The notion that we’ll have an affirmative electoral decision tonight is basically nil, and of course Trump is going to claim victory, likely before the count is even in, and claiming massive voter fraud and electoral chicanery if he’s losing (or, as in 2016, even if he has a win).
How about bourbon?
Stranger
That may vary, but Uber and Lyft offer discounted or free rides to the polls.
The vote has to be certified by December 11 this year. If there is ratfuckery, there are steps the states have in place – they very by state – to ensure this.
Small town western Pennsylvanian here.
Over the past 2 - 2 1/2 weeks I have had Harris flyers on my door and in my mailbox every day. It’s incredible. These volunteer workers are amazing.
Headline tomorrow: Trump wins Pennsylvania because Harris campaign workers were too busy canvassing and forgot to vote.
Small consolation when the states are likely the ones committing the ratfuckery.
Running up the score is always good, changes the tone and perception of the outcome.
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this is one i use, you don’t need a tv provider. just have to constantly close ads… it can get annoying.
kornacki is so fun to watch, he is sooo into the numbers and very kinetic.
True, but it won’t drag on until January.
Perhaps, as a Republican-at-heart, you could get your own damn house in order before having the gall to ask Democrats to change a thing.
From your cite:
The short answer is: there’s mechanisms in place to ensure elections are certified. As Karalunas noted, some states have specific statutes that outline a process to follow if a local official won’t certify an election. “So in Michigan, for example, the state law allows state election officials to take over certification at the local level if a local official refuses to certify,” she explained.
In other states, the courts can step in, at the request of a voter, candidate, or another state official. The process, known as a writ of mandamus, involves a court to step in to legally compel a government official — in this case, an election official — to fulfill their duties, like certifying an election.
So, this depends upon state officials and courts enforcing statutes to enforce certification of the vote. Will this be an issue in any of the ‘swing states’? I honestly don’t know but I would have zero faith in a state like Missouri or Alabama would certify a vote that (hypothetically) favored Harris. Although it has passed without a lot of notice, there has been a massive movie at the state level by the GOP to not only take over statehouses but the state-level bureaucracy and judiciary, and a shocking amount of underreported corruption in many Republican-dominated states. All of the fuckery so see coming out of Texas is occurring over much of the Midwest and Southwest without little notice. Most of these states aren’t going to vote in Harris by popular vote so maybe it is a nonissue but I could definitely see something of that nature happening in Arizona or Georgia if the vote and Electoral College electors go to Harris.
Stranger
I tried but they didn’t nominate me as Speaker of the House.
As I post in the “I voted” thread it took me 8 minutes from the time I got out of my car until I got back in. My wife was ahead of me in line and was done even quicker. It’s not a very densely populated area.
I will be following along tonight on here from time to time but will be amusing myself with garbage TV.
I’ve been perusing the NY times Election live feed this morning which has a few snippets from various people as to who they are voting for and why they are voting that way. Some of the Trump voters comment about how they don’t like how Trump acts sometimes but they they just spout verbatim the pro-Trump talking points, “With Trump we didn’t have this inflation. Trump kept us out of war. Trump kept the border closed.” Its pretty clear that these weren’t the reasons that they were supporting Trump, but rather they had pre-decided to support the Republican, and these were the rationalizations that they had been fed to do so.
Tell you what. You get your former party to forget everything they learned about campaigning on a platform of disinformation, fear and loathing and we’ll think about it.
Lucky you (seriously). But the same goes for the Democrats you were appealing to, so I’m not sure what relevance this has.
And just so I am clear about what I am trying to say: your party is a dumpster-fire of epic, democracy-ruining proportions. So perhaps you should spend more time trying to fix it and less time giving advice to the Democrats about how to run campaigns.