And that would be a problem, why?
how the fuck should I know? maybe ask them for the reasoing?
It was originally meant to guarantee that the Electoral College always met within 34 days of a presidential election. The Electoral College originally met later in December than it does now. Now the “first Tuesday after the first Monday” is just because of tradition.
Well by chance I’ve also come across a number of tweets praising her for sticking it to the press.
So, Trump’s right.
At least in terms of his own supporters. They want to see the class clown give the teachers hell, with their boring “facts” and “demands for accountability”. Boo press! Yay trump!
This is the reason. See Why is America’s Election Day on a Tuesday in November?. A couple points - November because the crops have been harvested and there’s no planting going on; a Tuesday because it’s not a market day and if anyone needed a travel day, they would not have to travel on a Sunday; and November 2nd is the earliest because All Saint’s Day (November 1) is a religious holiday for many (the day after Halloween!). Choosing the electors is done in November to allow them to meet in December to choose the President and VP.
Researching this, a frequent frequent answer on Google for “election day” was “Is Trump going to cancel the 2020 election?” Sign.
Take a deep breath. I was asking the question in general, not of you specifically.
That kind of makes sense but isn’t that sort of a violation of the separation of church and state?
Sorry for the hijack.
Maybe for the same reason that Christmas is a federal holiday.
A White House valet tests positive. I wish the valet the best. I hope he passed it on to only one person, and that individual one self doses on hydroxychloroquine.
Federal holidays weren’t really a thing until after the Civil War. By that point, Christmas as partly a secular holiday was already established. Also, it was already a holiday in nearly all the states at that time, so it was bowing to reality more than anything else.
Also, election day in November has jack-all to do with All Saints’ Day, which wouldn’t have meaning to most Protestant denominations in the US when it was established anyway. It was set to fall roughly a month before the first Wednesday in December but not exceed a certainly number of days. The All Saints reasoning isn’t in John Galt’s cite, so I have no clue where it came from. I imagine he extracted it from his nether regions.
From my cite:
False negatives about 15% for the rapid Abbott Labs test according to what I found.
Also, Labor Day is the first Monday after the first Tuesday in September. For some indiscernible reason, it can’t fall on September 1.
I really don’t expect that COVID-19 will still be an issue by November, so it should not affect voting. (Perhaps I’m just hoping we’re not still doing the shelter-in-place and social distancing by then.) Also, if no-excuses mail-in voting was available everywhere, that would also make the issue moot.
Watching TV these days is interesting. A lot of commercials are reflecting the current situation, and they are universally* of the same quasi-patriotic tone: we can get through this, we’re in it together, hang in there. Which is 180 degrees different from what we’re hearing from the White House. Somebody is out of synch with the national mood.
*Except for a Progressive Insurance spot that basically dramatizes “conference call bingo”. 
It would, but Republicans won’t let it happen. As Donald said, in one of his few lucid and correct statements – if we had mail-in voting we’d never see a Republican elected again.
So it will happen slowly on a state-by-state basis, starting with blue states. Here in California, I’ve done mail in only for a couple of years now.
Note that Oklahoma passed a law requiring absentee ballots to be notarized. The law has been struck down- for now.
Lesson: Keep your Twitter account on a separate system from your online banking.
Interesting.
We could-if the GOP decided to change some of its policies and predilections to appeal to, you know, a wider slice of the electorate. Now, whose fault is that?
I think that is incorrect. As far as I can find in a Google search, it’s just the first Monday in September, even if it’s September 1.