I slept great last night but had a weird dream about serving alcohol on a tropical island, which was basically a mountain rising out of the ocean. It was a nice and pleasant dream but makes no sense (because it was a dream).
(Before anyone asks, no the island was not a floating pile of garbage, it was actually nice.)
I don’t think that has anything to do with election day anxiety, but maybe it does.
Yeah, but those are often useless; because the final results may be the other way around.
Sometimes people who know the areas can come to conclusions based on which areas have finished reporting and which haven’t. But in a close enough election, sometimes they can’t – or they come to the wrong ones
I’m sure there’s lots of mathematics. The problem is figuring out which ones apply in any given election; especially when that may vary by district.
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Might be happening. I don’t think anybody knows yet whether the high early voting means a high overall turnout, or a high percentage of early votes compared to on-the-day votes, or some combination of the two.
And, this year, we don’t know how many registered Republicans might vote for Harris; or vote downballot only and leave the POTUS line blank. We know that number’s not zero – but we don’t know whether it’s high enough to swing the election.
Seconding.
And, if they do extend there – it’ll be harder to refuse to extend if a D district has problems.
I am trying not to read my BIL’s emails. Though some of the other people getting them are calling him on some of it (doing reply-all in at least some cases) – but having no apparent success. If he won’t listen to them, he certainly won’t listen to me.
Voted three hours ago. Long line at start (I was there at poll opening time) but got in and out with little fuss once the doors opened.
I might not like the politics around here, but voting is taken seriously and the process has always been handled extremely well.
Like Ground Hog day and Punxsutawney Phil, it’s amusing but not relevant.
Guam just posted its unofficial election results, and it took me three or four minutes for the page to clear. And, they put President all the way at the bottom, which is cheeky. But
2024 GENERAL ELECTION UNOFFICIAL RESULTS SUMMARY 5.pdf - Google Drive
DEM HARRIS/WALZ 13,510 49.46%
REP TRUMP/VANCE 12,624 46.22%
IND KENNEDY/SHANAHAN 938 3.43%
GRN STEIN/WARE 119 0.44%
AM SOL SONSKI/ONAK 45 0.16%
SOC STODDEN/CHOLENSKY 44 0.16%
PRO WOOD/PIETROWSKI 34 0.12%
Total Votes Cast 27,314 100.00%
That’s it, Guam. President-Elect Harris tonight.
Shenanigans in Florida, though this looks like a legit computer glitch and not intentional.
The preview doesn’t seem to be working, so I’ll quote the beginning:
Florida voter lookup database appears down
The online site that allows Florida residents to verify their voter registration status appears to have been affected by outages this morning, drawing criticism from state groups observing voter access to information on Election Day.
And the online tool has had recent criticism even before today.
I’m not sure if or how it might affect voting in that state.
Considering that Florida was a state that was always expected to go to Trump, any glitches there could only help Harris. So no worries there.
A funny thing is, if all those RFK voters had followed his request and voted for TFG, it would have gone the other way.
Or perhaps not so funny.
As normal, I bicycled to my polling place (3/4 mile round trip) I usually go around 5PM and it isn’t busy. I am on leave so decided to go earlier (~11 AM) – much busier than at 5. Still only took me 7min 44 sec (and that is with filling in all the non competitive judge positions)
No rain on ride in, but did rain on ride home.
#638. Poll worked says it has been steady since 7 AM - saw some folks register (MN has same day registration)
Here it is the next day and it’s still raining in St. Louis, and most of eastern Missouri. Major roads in St. Louis are closed by flooding. Pretty much, if a street runs next to a creek, it’s flooded.
As of 10:30 this morning 111,000 people in St. Louis County have voted. About 1/3 of registered voters in the county voted early. The rain is supposed to end around noon, so there will probably be a surge later in the day.
I don’t have any figures for St. Louis City (which is not part of St. Louis County).I did see that the percentage of early voters was higher in the parts of the county in the Republican leaning 2nd Congressional district than in the heavily Democratic 1st district. Make of that what you will.
And here we thought it was leopards.
Wait, if they’re shooting for a trophy, why in the face?
Huh? That doesn’t seem to make any sense!
I’m thinking a ton of provisional ballots meaning we won’t get counts for a couple days. But most of us assume Florida is going to Trump so I don’t think it will affect the predictions tonight/tomorrow.
It’s weird but I actually had a really good nights sleep last night and didn’t have any trouble getting up in the morning.
That’s what I said!
Well, you can shoot them anywhere but most aim for the face because that’s the manly (and womanly) thing to do to prove … something. Extra trophy points if you ask the cat, “Have you ever danced with the Devil in the pale moonlight?” before you do it.
Video featuring Colorado hunters.
Nope. Guam has no EVs. We are going to a House election as per Dixville Notch. Time to watch those CD races.
The theme song for today, as sung by famous lounge singer Mel Brooks:
I’m going with Motownphilly by Boyz II Men. It’s nice and upbeat, and Philly is where the election will seemingly be decided.