Well Trump had his Georgia rally, and as expected he kept the focus on himself and his wild accusations that the election was stolen. The article is paywalled, but what struck me is the quote from a Trump voter who wholeheartedly agrees that the election was riddled with fraud, and that she also intends to turn out to vote for Loeffler and Purdue.
This is why I think all the talk about how Trump’s calling the legitimacy of the electoral process into doubt will suppress turnout in the runoff election is bullshit. Trump voters are fully capable of holding two entirely contradictory opinions at the same time – that the voting process is rigged, and that their votes are critical to securing a Republican victory in the Senate. These people will turn out to vote, and any thought otherwise is wishful thinking. The only question is whether Democrats can motivate turnout at equal or greater levels.
I absolutely agree.
Here’s CNN’s latest:
Never understand how outsiders think their mailing to strangers who are locals is some route to motivating changing minds.
You apparently also don’t understand what the mailings are for. They’re non-partisan letters encouraging people to exercise their right to vote. They contain information on how to find out about registering and what voting dates are approaching. Period. No mention of party, candidates or agendas. There is a major effort on the part of Republicans everywhere to suppress and discourage voting, and it works. No reason why this can’t counter that.
Some of the mailings - particularly postcards - are, as I understand it, encouraging Georgians to vote for the Democratic candidates down there. I have several friends who are doing this.
They are REMINDERS to do on a particular day what these people were (to one degree or another) planning to do anyway.
Have you ever owned or used a digital or paper calendar, to remind yourself to do something on a particular day?
(Chefguy, Elendil’s Heir is right…the cards we sent, like most, are indeed “partisan.” The preprinted side states the “nonpartisan” facts, and the handwritten side includes “…vote for Rev. Warnock and Jon Ossoff…”)
“Here’s a supercut of Kelly Loeffler’s entire, deranged #GASenateDebate performance in 85 seconds.”
Assuming this is accurate, there’s no actual statement of her platform or intentions.
I can understand how someone can be a liberal. I understand how someone can be a radical. I don’t understand how someone can be a radical liberal. That’s not a thing.
Maybe Kelly was just riffing on Supertramp’s “The Logical Song”
Most Conservatives don’t make a distinction between liberals and the left. They conflate it all - so Bernie Sanders and AOC are ‘liberals’ as much as Joe Biden is. So basically Loeffler is trying to say Warnock is Bernie Sanders.
Liberal has taken on a more negative implication to Conservatives than Leftist has.
Lots of ads in Georgia have gone after the “Liberal Agenda” - such as Ossoff will listen to Pelosi (who Conservatives also apparently think is like AOC/Sanders).
Even the empty podium standing in for Perdue was caught in a couple lies.
Welcome to 2020!
Wow, well done! I wrote 170 letters through Vote Forward and I thought that was a lot!
I’m looking at one of the postcards from Vote Forward right now. The back is blank. The front says “Be a Georgia Voter”. Below that it says Vote Tuesday Jan 5th and gives the times that the polls open. Then it provides a link to the voting info website.
That’s it. No candidates, no agenda.
Correct. Postcardstoswingstates sent us 500 such cards in a box, along with an addresses list of 500 “likely Democratic voters who likely need a reminder,” and instructions to HAND-WRITE on the obverse:
[Voter’s First Name(s)], Thank you for being a voter! Please VOTE in the Tuesday Jan. 5 Senate elections for Rev. Warnock and Jon Ossoff. [Your First Name]
… and to hand write the address.
My wife, son, and I finished the task in just six R.E.M. albums plus an EP (We listened in chrono order, and got up to and through most of Green).
Okay, gotta fess up and say that’s correct. My wife does the writing and I apply the stamps. I didn’t realize that the postcards were to include that candidate message. The letters we wrote, however, did not.
Got it! Cool.