US Politics - under the spell of The Count

[Relic]

Bye Ohio =( 

[Larry of the Lawn]

 

1 minute ago, DMC said:

I get medical usage and even decriminalization (which is what it is in DC), but I still don't know how I feel about legalization.

Thanks for the clarification.  

Also NJ legalized weed and NC elected that Hitler youth kid to the House.

[Mr. Chatywin et al.]

6 minutes ago, Chataya de Fleury said:

Au contraire, mon ami, I timed it really well. If GA results still aren't in, or if the tallying is breathlessly close, I want to be completely anaesthetized.

Touché.

[DanteGabriel]

Just now, Mindwalker said:

While I agree with the post, please no perjorative terms like these!! My nerves are frayed enough.

Also, thank the Goddess for the ignore function.

My apologies, I didn't mean to cast aspersion on the whole continent, just applying a geographic note to the description of that poster's behavior. Some of my best friends are European.

[Kalbear]

So uh

Guys

Guys

I think maybe the polls might have been a wee bit off

So weird

[Makk]

This is going a lot worse than I was hoping, more like what I was fearing. It's all going to come down to Pennsylvania and be really close there. Struggling to understand the mentality.

[Mindwalker]

1 minute ago, DanteGabriel said:

My apologies, I didn't mean to cast aspersion on the whole continent, just applying a geographic note to the description of that poster's behavior. Some of my best friends are European.

Heh. Thanks! <3

I have a very bad feeling. (Which doesn't mean anything in the grand scheme of things, of course.)

Are there any statistics about heightened rates of heart attacks on election nights?!

[Kalbear]

1 minute ago, Makk said:

This is going a lot worse than I was hoping, more like what I was fearing. It's all going to come down to Pennsylvania and be really close there. Struggling to understand the mentality.

Lots of racists, lots of low information voters, and people doubling down on their mistakes. Also, my new pet theory- republicans almost never have a candidate they actually love. They're dutiful but usually not passionate. Trump gives a lot of them passion, and that means those turnout numbers that are usually a good sign for dems are actually bad. 

[KingintheNorth4]

I'm seeing so many gifs bugs bunny sawing Florida off from the rest of the country, and it never gets old because it's accurate.

[Relic]

1 minute ago, Killjoybear said:

Lots of racists, lots of low information voters, and people doubling down on their mistakes. Also, my new pet theory- republicans almost never have a candidate they actually love. They're dutiful but usually not passionate. Trump gives a lot of them passion, and that means those turnout numbers that are usually a good sign for dems are actually bad. 

yup.

 

And again, fuck polls. Remember this shit 4 years from now, ffs

[DanteGabriel]

Just now, KingintheNorth4 said:

I'm seeing so many gifs bugs bunny sawing Florida off from the rest of the country, and it never gets old because it's accurate.

That gif comes out every four years.

[Martell Spy]

Young voters in Midwest are swinging toward Biden, early exit polls show

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/election-results-and-news-11-03-20/h_fa7de48ad2bcc05933139d3131eca7a7

Quote

 

Voters under 30 years old across the Midwest are swinging toward Joe Biden, according to preliminary exit polling. 

Biden earned support from around 6 in 10 voters under 30 years old in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Trump earned support from about 1 in 3 voters under 30 years old, the early exit polls show.

Hillary Clinton won young voters in all three states by single digits in 2016, while Biden currently leads by significantly more than that.

White voters with a college degree are also shifting slightly toward Biden, according to the early exit polls. Biden captured a double-digit lead with the group in Michigan and Pennsylvania; Clinton didn’t win this group in either state in 2016.

 

 

[Maithanet]

Just now, Martell Spy said:

Young voters in Midwest are swinging toward Biden, early exit polls show

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/election-results-and-news-11-03-20/h_fa7de48ad2bcc05933139d3131eca7a7

Now is not the time to be putting our faith in exit polls. 

[Mr. Chatywin et al.]

5 minutes ago, Killjoybear said:

Lots of racists, lots of low information voters, and people doubling down on their mistakes. Also, my new pet theory- republicans almost never have a candidate they actually love. They're dutiful but usually not passionate. Trump gives a lot of them passion, and that means those turnout numbers that are usually a good sign for dems are actually bad. 

They hate us. Trump makes them feel good about it. When has the right actually voted much in support of anything?

Own the Libs. That's where it begins and ends.

[Centrist Simon Steele]

24 minutes ago, Disturber of Peace said:

Yep. I definately am not a victim. 

Not being sarcastic now. 

I did not really come to troll. I just kept linking projections and facts. 

I did say I find it funny reading a hard left subforum in moments of panic which is also objectively true. 

This place is not far left. 

[Mindwalker]

PA officials have said that full unoffiial results could take until Nov. 6. They also won't count any more of the 350.000 mail-in ballots tonight (about 76.000 have been tallied so far).

[illrede]

3 minutes ago, Killjoybear said:

Lots of racists, lots of low information voters, and people doubling down on their mistakes. Also, my new pet theory- republicans almost never have a candidate they actually love. They're dutiful but usually not passionate. Trump gives a lot of them passion, and that means those turnout numbers that are usually a good sign for dems are actually bad. 

Good luck usefully dissecting love, but you're probably right that it is love.

 

There's a scene in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night that I've frequently dwelt on; interwar tourists are visiting a WWI battlefield, and a character in response to his companions' stupefaction at it goes on a rant how this was a "love battle", fueled by postcards home, Christmas presents... and it stuck with me. Hate isn't strong enough to get you out of the ditch at the Somme, that takes love. 

[Larry of the Lawn]

When is AZ going to have results?

[Kalbear]

2 minutes ago, Tywin et al. said:

They hate us. Trump makes them feel good about it. When has the right actually voted much in support of anything?

Own the Libs. That's where it begins and ends.

Kinda makes sense. Media is dominated by people dunking left and right on them. People making fun of their supporters and whatnot. At some point you just lean into it and decide to back people who hit back. 

But as always elections aren't about policy or good governance - they're first and foremost about feelings. And Trump makes a lot of people angry and that in turn makes them happy. Its exactly like @Disturber of Peace - they get off on it and are not apologetic. 

Still, long way to go. I'm amused that so far it has gone almost precisely like my recent predictions. 

[Kalbear]

1 minute ago, larrytheimp said:

When is AZ going to have results?

Probably very quickly, as soon or sooner than Florida. Final results may be a while but you should have enough idea to see how it's going when the polls close.