I’m seeing numbers that Harris is winning women by 17 points and that Trump is winning men by the same margin.
If those numbers are accurate, then a double digit gap in turnout means that Trump is toast.
Still too damn close for me.
King Jong Un Imitator shows up at Trump Rally.
Screams “Death To Democracy.”
The crowd cheered. {LINK}
Some people shut down when a freight train is racing towards them. If everyone who feels the threat goes to vote, great! But when people use terms like “dread” that sounds to my ears less like they’re going to chant “fight! fight! fight!” and more like they’ll freeze with hands on the ears chanting “la, la la!”
There’s a difference between not being complacent, as we cannot afford to be, and being convinced we’ve already lost. Between Trumpists being an oversized but also overly vocal faction (what I believe) and being literally half the population (what the MAGAts want us to believe). To quote Sir Arthur Conan Doyle:
all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one’s self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one’s own powers.
This is one reason vote-by-mail makes me anxious. It means husband watch how their wives vote, and i think that will dampen some support for Harris.
We’ve had vote-by-mail exclusively in Oregon for decades. Doesn’t appear to be a major problem. I’m sure some of it goes on, but probably not as much as you fear.
We vote by mail (actually via a drop box) and I not only helped my wife fill out her ballot, I delivered it for her. She’s currently hospitalized (but doing terrific). Our state law says you can only drop off your own ballot unless infirmed, in which case you need to fill out a form signed by the voter and her “agent.” We did everything by the book.
Anyway, I post this not to contradict your point. But we’re in Pennsylvania, we both voted straight Democrat, and I’d say that puts the election in the bag. No need to thank me.
Glad she’s doing terrific and thank you!
Well isn’t the converse true as well? Wives can see how their husbands vote. My wife would leave me if I voted for Trump. (and I wouldn’t blame her)
My Wife and I fill out our own ballets, but there are often things that we are unsure of. Some of the wording (double negatives) is very confusing. For that stuff we read the ‘blue book’ and talk about it, but there where still some issues that where so, so poorly worded and confusing that we left them blank.
I mean, does a yes mean yes, of does a yes mean no? That’s how bad some of the stuff for Colorado was worded. Meant to confuse, not inform.
I am used to taking action despite the ever present feelings of dread that frequently come my way.
I will be voting in person at my local polling station on November 5th as I have done most of my life.
But I am starting to feel a lump of dread if I think to hard about possible outcomes.
Yep, I voted, but next week is indeed like the entire world is waiting for a biopsy to return with positive or negative results.
Welp, I’m done panicking and have entered a state of zen. In 9* days I’ll either be deliriously happy, or joining The Resistance Movement (or starting a secessionist movement). But there’s nothing left I can do at this point: I’ve made $ donations, written postcards, sent text messages, put up a yard sign. And voted.
*plus the time to resolve all the bogus certification claims and lawsuits.
Any 0.1% of doubt I had that Trump would lose this election was fully put to bed by that Madison Square Garden “rally.” Those Puerto Rico comments are never going away.
I hear you. I did not see that coming.
It’s sure to result in Fuhrer votes for Trump.
You say that, but one of my conservative relatives had a post-rally post and did not mention it, only saying that the rally confirmed her decision to vote for Trump.
Please stop thinking of his supporters as people who have the same moral lines that you do: I’m sure there’s overlap, but some people are very easily able to hand-wave away racism and xenophobia, and for the secure-the-border crowd, it’s a plus. (Never mind Puerto Rico’s actual status as part of the USA: I don’t think xenophobes are great at history or geography.)
To be honest I’m surprised sometimes which comments land and which don’t.
To me, as a Brit watching from outside, I would have thought that a (so-called) comedian making such an insult would be easier to explain away than the constant badmouthing of the USA, and of blue states in particular, that is the core of maga rhetoric. Especially trump dissing Detroit while *in* Detroit.
But apparently this hit harder.
As long as trump disqualifies himself in some way, I guess we’re all good, it’s just surprising sometimes.
Yes, but don’t people of Puerto Rican descent usually vote Democratic anyway? I can easily imagine Trump and his supporters rationalizing the comments away by saying, “Fuck 'em, they don’t vote for us anyway.” That’s one of Trump’s main credos.
Do they vote in the popular vote for president?
Yes, but a lot of non-Puerto Rican Hispanics may take offense to the comments, and even some Trump-liking Puerto Rican voters in America may reconsider now.