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I hope you’re right.

 

I think it very well could show they know they are screwed and are bringing out all the bat shit they can.

 

Me, too. I'm going to watch the Georgia polling numbers today to see if there's any change in ballots received. If there's a major jump, that might indicate something. Then again, it might be noise.

 

Exactly where I'm at right now, especially when I hear someone say, "We're better than this."

The fuck we are.

 

One guy who responded to a pro-Trump post on one of my boxing friends’ Facebook page is apparently one of those “poll watchers.” There’s such a fine line between patriotic civic-minded citizens doing their duty and terrorists, I guess.
If one of these clowns “tries something “ I hope they’re the ones who end up in jail.

 

Fake. Trump never says “please.”

 

Got my Georgia peach sticker. Then got an email from my son's school system warning of possible traffic delays with his bus because of Trump's rally today (fortunately, any traffic issues should avoid the areas around my kid's school) and felt even more assured that I made the right selection today.

 

Same — it'll be a poll of how big a can of whoop-ass I opened up on somebody.

 

The sky might be blue and the ocean could be too.

But it's not the same as Dodger Blue.

Or Vida Blue.

 

Want to watch for trends? Here's a tremendous site for early voting. And right now, they're only showing the Hispanic vote in GA, NC and SC, which will be interesting to watch for the next few days.

» 2024 Early Voting UF Election Lab

 

My wife and I went to vote in our primary, and there was a middle-aged man and woman there near the entrance (but appeared to be far enough away from the entrance to be legal), wearing shirts and hats with a candidate's name. Not just any candidate, but one of the most reprehensible (to me) right-wing nutjobs on the ballot. One who had every campaign ad shooting off a semi-automatic rifle or flame-thrower, talking about ridding America of the "woke fringe left" and all that shit.

We're walking past them and the woman says, "Good morning", and I replied with a "Go fuck yourself!" I should have been the bigger person and ignored her, and my wife was a little pissed at me.

I told my wife, "They want to be a violent extremist, be all 'Fuck your feelings, snowflake' and that, then I can play that game, too."

I'm so ready for this election to be over.

 

If Harris is going to win, it’s because she makes a significant jump in support from white voters compared to Biden in 2020 (who in turn did better with those voters than Hillary Clinton). There are too many reports from too many places showing that black voter turnout is weak, even before accounting for the fact that Trump will peel away a small but significant number of those voters he didn’t have in 2020. I can’t find much reporting on how Hispanic voters are faring on that front but it doesn’t look all that promising either.

Now that isn’t an impossible strategy for her. The gender gap has grown and women outvote men. I’ve been skeptical of the idea of “silent blue” women canceling their man’s vote in the privacy of the booth, but in a race this close a little of that could do a lot. And midterm elections in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin held up well for the Democrats even as turnout suffered in Philly and Milwaukee.

But that’s an awfully small target to aim for. Her campaign needs to find a way to turn around enthusiasm in minority communities and they are practically out of runway. If the results still look grim after the early voting figures are updated from this weekend (traditionally the biggest “souls to the polls” Sunday push for African-American congregations) then hold on to your asses.