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[2020 ELECTION] Trump Running Out Of Days To Finally Become President
Bogart
Streetwise HerculesRegistered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
Streetwise HerculesRegistered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
OP copied from the last one, including this sentence.
This here is your official thread for discussing the great basket of wonder and joy that is the upcoming 2020 election.
What You Can Talk About:
- Any national or local 2020 US election.
- The impact of the conventions that just happened.
- The policy platforms of candidates AS THEY PERTAIN TO THE ELECTIONS. "Biden plans to roll out a public option" is okay. "A public option is awesome because of X,Y, and Z" is not.
- Polls related to the election.
- Voting outreach efforts
- Other things that directly pertain to the 2020 election and have not been explicitly banned.
What You Can't Talk About:
- The 2020 primaries that have already occurred. Upcoming 2020 primaries, if there are any left, are okay.
- Bernie Sanders
- 20-motherfucking-16
- Hillary Fucking Clinton
- Policy in general. This is not the place to discuss health care or taxes or policing in general. We have threads for all those things! If not, feel free to make one!
- Who you plan to personally vote for. Nothing good has ever come from a conversation in these threads about why you're definitely voting for Biden / voting third party / not voting. Just rest assured that your personal reasons for voting are the best in the whole world and everyone agrees with you and thinks you're smart and good looking. Masterfully done, you.
If you have previously been banned from this thread, you are still banned from this thread, sorry. Rest assured you can participate in discussions when 2024 rolls around, assuming elections are still a thing that exists in that far away time.
HEY! LISTEN! Some bright spark had the excellent notion to link the resources thread from SE++ for people who are having a hard time, so:
If you're having a tough time of it in these testing times, here are some resources that can help.
This here is your official thread for discussing the great basket of wonder and joy that is the upcoming 2020 election.
What You Can Talk About:
- Any national or local 2020 US election.
- The impact of the conventions that just happened.
- The policy platforms of candidates AS THEY PERTAIN TO THE ELECTIONS. "Biden plans to roll out a public option" is okay. "A public option is awesome because of X,Y, and Z" is not.
- Polls related to the election.
- Voting outreach efforts
- Other things that directly pertain to the 2020 election and have not been explicitly banned.
What You Can't Talk About:
- The 2020 primaries that have already occurred. Upcoming 2020 primaries, if there are any left, are okay.
- Bernie Sanders
- 20-motherfucking-16
- Hillary Fucking Clinton
- Policy in general. This is not the place to discuss health care or taxes or policing in general. We have threads for all those things! If not, feel free to make one!
- Who you plan to personally vote for. Nothing good has ever come from a conversation in these threads about why you're definitely voting for Biden / voting third party / not voting. Just rest assured that your personal reasons for voting are the best in the whole world and everyone agrees with you and thinks you're smart and good looking. Masterfully done, you.
If you have previously been banned from this thread, you are still banned from this thread, sorry. Rest assured you can participate in discussions when 2024 rolls around, assuming elections are still a thing that exists in that far away time.
HEY! LISTEN! Some bright spark had the excellent notion to link the resources thread from SE++ for people who are having a hard time, so:
If you're having a tough time of it in these testing times, here are some resources that can help.
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I don't know how likely it is for some audio tech to mute the sitting president?
"Don't threaten me with a good time." -any audio tech
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/
Especially for the next two weeks, but even afterwards it's not something that's going to go away.
Not at all! What I said was to do with people posting "bug post" and nothing else. People voting early and often is a good thing and the thread welcomes it.
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Given the right wings proclivity for terrorism I'd be scared as hell if I was the guy since undoubtedly someone would leak my address and information.
He was a great VP but I think he could have been at least a very decent President.
And maybe America would not have been the fucking bad Joke it is right now. A "joke" because i choose to laugh because I just don't want to cry.
I just wanted to make sure me saying who I voted for wasn't a problem. Thanks
Dem held seats with vaguely serious challenges:
Alabama - Leans/Likely R unless we believe Jones internals
Michigan - Likely D
GOP held seats:
Arizona - Likely D
Colorado - Likely D
Maine - Leans D
Iowa - Leans D
North Carolina - Leans D
Kansas - Toss up
Montana - Toss up
Georgia - Toss up
Georgia special - Toss up
South Carolina - Toss up
Texas - Leans R
Alaska - Leans R
Mississippi - Likely R
Kentucky - Glorious Pipe Dream
So to me the most likely scenario is something like D+5 or 6.
Oh I see what you mean. That rule is more about forestalling any repetition of the tedious arguments about who people are going to vote for (or not vote for) and the personal attacks and snide inter-sub-forum sniping that goes with it.
"Hey, I voted" is totally fine and well done for exercising your democratic mandate in this, the final election before our robot overlords take over and exterminate all sentient life.
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I'll probably watch anyway just so I can refute some points when I talk to my in-laws next, but I would love to hit the snooze button on the next two weeks.
Is she a one-term hog-castrater?
I will be in AQ40 or at my school board meeting. I am not watching this nightmare under any circumstances.
Don't threaten me with a good time.
But seriously, I'm so happy to see so many people doing democracies in here early. I know the next two weeks are going to be hell, and probably the next two months after that too, but as much as I try to tamp it down I'm still feeling a small bit of...hope.
Assuming all the "leans" go that way and we split the toss ups, do we take it?
well, here's hoping!
From what I understand the other candidate's mic is muted for the first 2 minutes of every question, after that the screaming can commence.
Basically. The Georgia special is going to be highly dependent on how the third goes. Like if Trump wins somehow, Collins/Loeffler will cruise, I think.
Also for anyone who hasn't tried it, if you read to the end of the thread, THEN bookmark it it seems to work as normal, so you really don't need to shitpost at all.
Yes, if Biden wins, only 3 of those GOP-held seats need to flip
Need +3 net. So probably need 4 unless Alabama voters are as smart as Jones' internals say they are.
Cunningham or Hickenlooper calling the shots isn't THAT much better. Moderates are going to have the power because of how the Senate works. Obviously better if they're all forced to coordinate.
I feel pretty comfortable with a prediction that they are not. Alabama is lost, Jones's polls are wrong or juiced to prevent Alabama Dems from giving up and not voting, or just straight up lies.
If Cunningham wins he's going to be wounded and bloody. He'll need some assistance to pull off a return in 2026 but there's plenty of time to shore up the votes. Maybe by then NC is reliably blue or the GOP won't be a complete shitshow.
Do we have the ratings for the debates (and "debates") available? Because I honestly expect the first one to cause people to just not bother watching the "third" debate beyond political obsessives.
Assuming Trump doesn't pull out he's going to look more insane than usual screaming into a muted microphone.
Looking forward to it.
Especially with what I understand to be record numbers of people that have already voted. When I dropped off our ballots, the entire plaza for the shopping center the board of elections is in was packed with a line for early voting wrapped around the plaza's complex. The line for dropping off completed ballots was pretty fast, at least.
30 million and counting, previous early vote record was I think 6 million four years ago, so that's been smashed.
~130 million votes cast total last time.