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2024 US [Election] Thread: Election Day is this week

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  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    Shadowhope wrote: »
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    I wonder what Ukraine's number would be?

    The woman whom I have a ?? with thanked me for voting for Harris

  • MarathonMarathon Registered User regular
    In line to vote. Long line right as the polls open

  • OremLKOremLK Registered User regular
    So, "polling busted don't read too much into it" and so on, but Dartmouth dropped a last-minute poll showing Harris +28 in New Hampshire. (NH went to Biden by 7 points last time around.)

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  • zepherinzepherin Russian warship, go fuck yourself Registered User regular
    In line to vote in Maryland. Long line at 8 am though. So +1 for Harris. Also +1 for the right to an abortion. There was someone in the line trying to get people to vote no on it, and the more he spoke the more I was like yes that sounds like a good bill.

  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    OremLK wrote: »
    So, "polling busted don't read too much into it" and so on, but Dartmouth dropped a last-minute poll showing Harris +28 in New Hampshire. (NH went to Biden by 7 points last time around.)

    That poll reads as WAY too college educated to me. They claim they're weighting on education but I dunno.

    The idea that your vote is a moral statement about you or who you vote for is some backwards ass libertarian nonsense. Your vote is about society. Vote to protect the vulnerable.
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  • OremLKOremLK Registered User regular
    enlightenedbum wrote: »
    OremLK wrote: »
    So, "polling busted don't read too much into it" and so on, but Dartmouth dropped a last-minute poll showing Harris +28 in New Hampshire. (NH went to Biden by 7 points last time around.)

    That poll reads as WAY too college educated to me. They claim they're weighting on education but I dunno.

    Yeah, hard to believe over 2/3 would have a college degree. NH is one of the most college-educated states, though.

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  • RatherDashing89RatherDashing89 Registered User regular
    Usually vote after work but I was ready early (thanks DST) so I swung in. Usually no line at all, this time there was a line of like, 5 people. They had the option to use paper ballot or machine and everyone (including me, for some reason) just opted to wait for the machine. Still went pretty smooth and I'm glad to have my +1 for Harris out of the way early and hoping to get through the day without talking to anyone at work about it.

  • SelnerSelner Registered User regular
    zepherin wrote: »
    In line to vote in Maryland. Long line at 8 am though. So +1 for Harris. Also +1 for the right to an abortion. There was someone in the line trying to get people to vote no on it, and the more he spoke the more I was like yes that sounds like a good bill.

    The "vote no" people in MD are just out right lying, it's kind of disgusting.

    And I work in VA (live in MD) but I keep seeing Cao ads on Youtube. It basically alternates. One ad for Cao, one ad for Kaine. But Kaine has that race fully in hand right?

  • GaddezGaddez Registered User regular
    Captain Inertia wrote: »
    Is the party of shooting your own puppies trying to recreate Harambe with a squirrel

    You know, I think the squirrel thing might actually take the cake for stupidest thing of this entire election season. Like it's not the most monstrous or horrible or such, but the simple fact that there was a republican amateur porn star who caught a wild squirrel and got a scaled shirt on it and then tried to make it a thing when animal cotrol had it destroyed in the 11th hour of the election... I think it actually surpasses trump's efforts.
    • Air jerking two giraffes?
    • Eating the dogs?
    • making people walk for hours to get back to their cars in the dead of night?

    Honestly the squirrel thing pole vaults over it.

  • ShadowhopeShadowhope Baa. Registered User regular

    Remember, remember,
    the 5th of November
    The Jan 6 treason and plot
    I see no reason
    Why Trump's goddamn treason
    Should ever be forgot

    Civics is not a consumer product that you can ignore because you don’t like the options presented.
  • GilgaronGilgaron Registered User regular
    Gaddez wrote: »
    Captain Inertia wrote: »
    Is the party of shooting your own puppies trying to recreate Harambe with a squirrel

    You know, I think the squirrel thing might actually take the cake for stupidest thing of this entire election season. Like it's not the most monstrous or horrible or such, but the simple fact that there was a republican amateur porn star who caught a wild squirrel and got a scaled shirt on it and then tried to make it a thing when animal cotrol had it destroyed in the 11th hour of the election... I think it actually surpasses trump's efforts.
    • Air jerking two giraffes?
    • Eating the dogs?
    • making people walk for hours to get back to their cars in the dead of night?

    Honestly the squirrel thing pole vaults over it.

    It's exactly the kind of thing that could only possibly appeal to the weirdest of the weird while also being the sort of thing that might shake a christian dominionist loose if you could get them to believe it.

  • DibbitDibbit Registered User, Transition Team regular
    Gaddez wrote: »
    Captain Inertia wrote: »
    Is the party of shooting your own puppies trying to recreate Harambe with a squirrel

    You know, I think the squirrel thing might actually take the cake for stupidest thing of this entire election season. Like it's not the most monstrous or horrible or such, but the simple fact that there was a republican amateur porn star who caught a wild squirrel and got a scaled shirt on it and then tried to make it a thing when animal cotrol had it destroyed in the 11th hour of the election... I think it actually surpasses trump's efforts.
    • Air jerking two giraffes?
    • Eating the dogs?
    • making people walk for hours to get back to their cars in the dead of night?

    Honestly the squirrel thing pole vaults over it.

    I think the lawsuit going on right now where Elon Musks lawyers are saying "Look, it was randomly, not by chance!" as an excuse for the 1 Million a day lottery also makes the list.

  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
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    Selner wrote: »
    zepherin wrote: »
    In line to vote in Maryland. Long line at 8 am though. So +1 for Harris. Also +1 for the right to an abortion. There was someone in the line trying to get people to vote no on it, and the more he spoke the more I was like yes that sounds like a good bill.

    The "vote no" people in MD are just out right lying, it's kind of disgusting.

    And I work in VA (live in MD) but I keep seeing Cao ads on Youtube. It basically alternates. One ad for Cao, one ad for Kaine. But Kaine has that race fully in hand right?

    The most lying is Ohio. The way they rewrote the anti-gerrymandering ballot initiative to make it seem pro-gerrymandering is outright criminal. Secretary of State elections are important!

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    The idea that your vote is a moral statement about you or who you vote for is some backwards ass libertarian nonsense. Your vote is about society. Vote to protect the vulnerable.
  • Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Central OhioRegistered User regular
    enlightenedbum wrote: »
    Selner wrote: »
    zepherin wrote: »
    In line to vote in Maryland. Long line at 8 am though. So +1 for Harris. Also +1 for the right to an abortion. There was someone in the line trying to get people to vote no on it, and the more he spoke the more I was like yes that sounds like a good bill.

    The "vote no" people in MD are just out right lying, it's kind of disgusting.

    And I work in VA (live in MD) but I keep seeing Cao ads on Youtube. It basically alternates. One ad for Cao, one ad for Kaine. But Kaine has that race fully in hand right?

    The most lying is Ohio. The way they rewrote the anti-gerrymandering ballot initiative to make it seem pro-gerrymandering is outright criminal. Secretary of State elections are important!

    I personally know 3 people who were tricked and voted No despite my wife and I being very obnoxious Citizens Not Politicians (the group beyond Yes on 1) volunteers and telling them repeatedly to ignore the ballot language and just fill in the Yes oval

    It’s like 30% of my sample

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  • daveNYCdaveNYC Why universe hate Waspinator? Registered User regular
    Captain Inertia wrote: »
    enlightenedbum wrote: »
    Selner wrote: »
    zepherin wrote: »
    In line to vote in Maryland. Long line at 8 am though. So +1 for Harris. Also +1 for the right to an abortion. There was someone in the line trying to get people to vote no on it, and the more he spoke the more I was like yes that sounds like a good bill.

    The "vote no" people in MD are just out right lying, it's kind of disgusting.

    And I work in VA (live in MD) but I keep seeing Cao ads on Youtube. It basically alternates. One ad for Cao, one ad for Kaine. But Kaine has that race fully in hand right?

    The most lying is Ohio. The way they rewrote the anti-gerrymandering ballot initiative to make it seem pro-gerrymandering is outright criminal. Secretary of State elections are important!

    I personally know 3 people who were tricked and voted No despite my wife and I being very obnoxious Citizens Not Politicians (the group beyond Yes on 1) volunteers and telling them repeatedly to ignore the ballot language and just fill in the Yes oval

    It’s like 30% of my sample

    They did their own research.

    Shut up, Mr. Burton! You were not brought upon this world to get it!
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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    Captain Inertia wrote: »
    enlightenedbum wrote: »
    Selner wrote: »
    zepherin wrote: »
    In line to vote in Maryland. Long line at 8 am though. So +1 for Harris. Also +1 for the right to an abortion. There was someone in the line trying to get people to vote no on it, and the more he spoke the more I was like yes that sounds like a good bill.

    The "vote no" people in MD are just out right lying, it's kind of disgusting.

    And I work in VA (live in MD) but I keep seeing Cao ads on Youtube. It basically alternates. One ad for Cao, one ad for Kaine. But Kaine has that race fully in hand right?

    The most lying is Ohio. The way they rewrote the anti-gerrymandering ballot initiative to make it seem pro-gerrymandering is outright criminal. Secretary of State elections are important!

    I personally know 3 people who were tricked and voted No despite my wife and I being very obnoxious Citizens Not Politicians (the group beyond Yes on 1) volunteers and telling them repeatedly to ignore the ballot language and just fill in the Yes oval

    It’s like 30% of my sample

    Most firms polled the idea behind it and had it leading by 30, Miami polled the actual language and found it up 1.

    The idea that your vote is a moral statement about you or who you vote for is some backwards ass libertarian nonsense. Your vote is about society. Vote to protect the vulnerable.
  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    In local election stuff-

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    Hope this holds up. Get fucked, Woo!

  • Santa ClaustrophobiaSanta Claustrophobia Ho Ho Ho Disconnecting from Xbox LIVERegistered User regular
    Digby sez she thinks Trump may decide to declare victory by 9p since he believes that all counting should be done by then.

    Presumably he's thinking EST so, again, he'll probably do that if he's leading somewhere important. And if he isn't, then it'll be straight to Fraudsville.

    Also, too, can't wait for all the pontificating on how votes are counted more quickly anywhere else without any real look into why that is.

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    Do not engage the Watermelons.
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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    It is unseasonably warm in SE Michigan today. Normally vote in winter coat and hat and stuff, today...shorts? Rainy on the west side of the state though. Feels good for turnout purposes.

    The idea that your vote is a moral statement about you or who you vote for is some backwards ass libertarian nonsense. Your vote is about society. Vote to protect the vulnerable.
  • Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Central OhioRegistered User regular
    edited November 5
    They didn’t, the Sec of State gets to write a summary of the amendment on the ballot and he went full 180 degrees- No is Yes

    The language had to get 3 of 5 votes on a state election board and welp the SecState was 1 of the 5 on the board and there are 2 republicans besides him in it

    This is the third amendment since 2015 we’ve been able to vote on in Ohio to take drawing districts away from legislatures and the GOP ignored the first 2- this third attempt was very detailed to get around the tactics the GOP has used on the first 2 and that complication is what allowed LaRose to pull this trick. Like it’s fairly prescriptive in who is allowed on the districting commission and what the rules are for drawing districts, and LaRose got to describe that detail as “gerrymandering” and thus say this bill would impose gerrymandering contra to what the people voted for 2 recent times.

    We’re gonna go a 4th time I guess

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  • NEO|PhyteNEO|Phyte They follow the stars, bound together. Strands in a braid till the end.Registered User regular
    Anecdata from Iowa: there is a line at my polling place. I have not seen this before, normally you walk in, find the bank of old ladies managing your precinct, do the ballot retrieval dance, and do the thing.

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  • SeñorAmorSeñorAmor !!! Registered User regular
    Welp, couldn't vote this morning...

    because the line at my polling place was insanely long...

    at 15 minutes before the doors open...

    in pouring rain...


    Normally I'd be upset that I couldn't be one of the first voters, but I drove by today and saw the huge line and decided I'd just go back after my morning meeting. I've never seen the line this long before. Turnout is crazy. I kept driving and the first open spot was like 6 blocks away and there were still more people parking and walking. I'm not sure the line is going to be any shorter later this morning.

    I've got a good feeling about this. :smile:

  • Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User, Moderator, Administrator admin
    The Election Day thread is now open here:
    https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/252571/the-us-election-of-2024-a-thread#latest

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