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Cythereal posted:In Florida, we had a similar thing about solar power. The wording of the amendment makes it sound like it will make things easier for solar power to get established in the state, but if you look into who proposed and backed it, it's the existing electric companies trying to block solar power from becoming a widespread thing in Florida via state constitutional amendment. It's a god drat scam. I mean, here is the text on the ballot: quote:Rights of Electricity Consumers Regarding Solar Energy Choice But in reality, as you said, it's a ploy by big power companies to try to block solar power and solar companies despise the proposed amendment and power companies have poured millions of dollars into getting this poo poo passed.
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Rabble posted:So much for the Cleveland vote. Pretty sure she'd even tell you that it was worth it.
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canepazzo posted:https://twitter.com/CandaceSmith_/status/794214725622042624 Most of his rallies are something like this. Usually they just try to make the crowd seem bigger by packing the audience in one section of seats, and then cropping photos to the crowded section.
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DaveWoo posted:CNN decided to respond to the "post the map" challenge, I guess: Trump reminds himself to be "nice and cool" Yet he will never be cool and good
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Axe Master posted:I lived in Haverhill for the past two years before moving back to Boston, and I don't find it difficult to believe at all that New Hampshire would vote Trump. It's a nightmarish state filled with the conservative/libertarian idiots that commute 90+ minutes to Boston every day rather than live in TAXACHUSETTS. I'm almost surprised it was polling as far toward Clinton as it had been. I have no doubt we'd lose a which state is worse match with Mass but not without getting some good punches in. You guys produced Romney and made us deal with kicking Scott Brown to the curb. We might produce worse poo poo but at least we keep it from affecting the rest of America. I think we can all be thankful for Paul LePage making us look better though. I have no way of defending our circus of a state house or our tax policies though. We are truly hosed when the GOP wins an odd governors election. Then I'm heading south of the border.
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SavageBastard posted:
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MrBond posted:The other thing is that even with our weak form of federalism, Obama has such limited power here anyway. When I hear the demand that he fix that or fix black community problems before police shootings, I have a hard time wrapping my brain around that too. Do they expect him to parachute into every municipality and fix the police force himself? again, poor understanding of how the world works, does not understand the role of the president and the delegation of powers etc.
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theflyingorc posted:I'm not sure whether or not the networks will call it, but I'm willing to personally be certain if she wins NC. If she wins NC it's virtually over. Like she can actually lose NV, CO, OH and NH and win. Obviously that's not ideal and for various senate races we want to win as many of those as possible, but we don't have to. Honestly I think she gets to 322 with a national margin of something 3-4%. SavageBastard posted:
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SavageBastard posted:
This is the most likely Trump-wins map, but NV, FL and NC are all looking up for Clinton based on actual votes thus far.
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theflyingorc posted:I'm not sure whether or not the networks will call it, but I'm willing to personally be certain if she wins NC. Thanks friend 
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theflyingorc posted:https://twitter.com/PpollingNumbers/status/794216772459229184 Pair that with this: https://twitter.com/LatinoDecisions/status/793871820843692032 +2 to 3 million Hispanic voters compared to 2012
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Crowsbeak posted:Real RPG question? How often do you play not as your own gender? Given the choice I always play as a woman, I've been doing this going back to Golden Axe in the arcades back on the day.
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Yup, Trump's back to just saying whatever poo poo comes into his head. Here's his thoughts from just now on presidential temperament: Donald Trump posted:I'm also honored to have the greatest temperament that anybody has.
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comingafteryouall posted:Ultimecia is like a time traveling witch that wants to destroy all of time for reasons? Or maybe she wanted to fold all time into the future so she could rule over everything? Has about the same amount of motivation as most final FF bosses IMO. Ultimecia is actually Rinoa in the future who is trying to stop the past because she's sad. Also Squall is Dead makes FF8 go from horrible to amazing and I wish the remake made it explicit. edit: I just finished FFX and I think it's pretty good but I hated how Wakka was cool but would probably vote for Spira-Trump because of his hatred of Al-Bhed.
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CommieGIR posted:http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/11/02/alabama_secretary_of_state_says_more_voting_would_cheapen_the_work_of_civil.html quote:Merrill explained his thoughts in an interview with a progressive voting rights initiative called Answering the Call. Asked about automatic registration for people who turn 18, Merrill responded, “I don’t think that just because your birthday comes around, that you ought to be registered to vote.” He then listed a litany of voting rights advocates—including Rep. John Lewis, Martin Luther King, and Rosa Parks—and declared: Up is down and war is peace. This man is a state governor. Nocturtle fucked around with this message at 18:00 on Nov 3, 2016 |
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:If she wins NC it's virtually over. Like she can actually lose NV, CO, OH and NH and win. Obviously that's not ideal and for various senate races we want to win as many of those as possible, but we don't have to. 322 is my prediction, as well - although if I was forced to I would say I'm not sure about Florida.
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Blorange posted:This is the most likely Trump-wins map, but NV, FL and NC are all looking up for Clinton based on actual votes thus far. What's a good source for updated early voting demographic data?
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SavageBastard posted:What's a good source for updated early voting demographic data? https://twitter.com/ElectProject for many states, NC focused https://twitter.com/steveschale for FL https://twitter.com/RalstonReports for NV
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theflyingorc posted:322 is my prediction, as well - although if I was forced to I would say I'm not sure about Florida. I think Florida will be fine, but we can win without it, which is a total luxury.
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This is one of the cooler "Cubs win" things I've seen so far: https://twitter.com/GraceJohnso/status/794042007501045760
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MrBond posted:Does anyone understand the rationale behind "race relations have gotten worse under Obama?" I saw bits of what looked like a focus group on cbs this morning, and that was one of the themes. Well Obama obviously stokes racism. Anyone who logged onto facebook on Nov 5th of 2008 could have seen that easily enough. It's just that people who were able to keep their racism quiet about sharing their bathrooms, water fountains, and public pools couldn't keep biting their tongues when it came to sharing power.
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Mind_Taker posted:Why are New Hampshire and Vermont so different in terms of Democratic reliability? I know nothing about the two states other than they are a similar size and shape, adjacent, and located in New England. I'm not sure of the real historical reasons but there is a similar base of farmer/hunter types in both, but somehow NH skewed to the libertarian 'leave me alone' philosophy more than VT, where the cities had a bunch of hippies move in a few decades ago and had more progressive politics as a result in general (higher taxes, more of a social safety net.) You can drive without a seatbelt in NH but I need to get my car inspected yearly in VT to keep it on the road. Just one example of many.
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If anyone hasn't listened to that Obama speech posted earlier, do it. It is amazing. He roasts the poo poo out of Marco Rubio, the Republican Congress, and even goes after the media a little. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVkgCkw6rq8&t=2576s
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theflyingorc posted:If she wins NC solidly that's probably pretty close to true? if nate cohn's estimate is true and she's looking at a ~+5 in nc it'll get called around 9:30-10 and that's game, but networks won't call the election itself until 11 eastern when west coast polls close
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DaveWoo posted:CNN decided to respond to the "post the map" challenge, I guess: Feed me all of your red Michigan maps CNN, your incompetence nourishes me
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Okay, so I'm gonna break down the facts as I understand them to rationalize my very mild panic and possibly help others. If I'm wrong in any of it, someone call me out on it and correct me. As I understand it, the following things are true: -Early voting is STRONG, and generally favors the big D. -Polls have tightened in battleground states, some to the point of a Trump lead, but they're mostly within the MoE, and polls are so easily skewed/manipulated that things like the aggregate trends, voter turnout, demographics, etc. are far more relevant. Those mostly favor the Dems. -The Senate projections have changed less than the Presidential, which is a little odd. Using an example i hope happens, if Ross wins NC which is a toss-up but polls for her have been good recently, there's almost no way Hilldawg loses NC. If she wins NC, call it. -We have heard for a long time now that the internal polling for Republicans is worse than the public polls, and there's not a whole lot of concrete evidence either way, but it's plausible considering stories that have come out about Republican leadership panicking which, granted, have mostly dried up, but that may just be them circling the wagons in public. -In that vein, it's not LIKELY, but it's possible that Republicans who poll for Trump might ultimately vote for Hillary. Even a small percentage of those would be disastrous for Trump. Admittedly the opposite is also possible, but less likely, given party approval polls, etc. -Nate's model has ALWAYS been most chaotic, and other aggregators still have Hillary as basically a lock. -Trump has basically no margin of error. Does that about sum it up?
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Crain posted:This is one of the cooler "Cubs win" things I've seen so far: My grandpa then died of horrid food poisoning. I've never seen a happier corpse.
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Soothing Vapors posted:Feed me all of your red Michigan maps CNN, your incompetence nourishes me The Maine and Pennsylvania one is the best.
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Mind_Taker posted:Why are New Hampshire and Vermont so different in terms of Democratic reliability? I know nothing about the two states other than they are a similar size and shape, adjacent, and located in New England. A lot of ex-hippies moved to Vermont from New York in the 70s as part of the commune movement. Meanwhile, there are a bunch of Massholes living in Southern New Hampshire for tax purposes.
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Mozi posted:I'm not sure of the real historical reasons but there is a similar base of farmer/hunter types in both, but somehow NH skewed to the libertarian 'leave me alone' philosophy more than VT, where the cities had a bunch of hippies move in a few decades ago and had more progressive politics as a result in general (higher taxes, more of a social safety net.) NH has yearly inspections too  But I think another of the main differences is the number of faux-rich 95%+ white suburban towns that are in southern NH. Windham, Londonderry, Amherst, Hanover, South/Hooksett, etc. Vermont has a few of those too but not as many. Also Ben and Jerry's 
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WampaLord posted:If you're in line before 7 PM, you get to vote. Some lines are hours long. In the Presidential Preference election, the polling station I was collecting signatures at stopped the line at 7 and the last person voted at around 11:30. In one of the other polling stations, they ran out of parking spaces and traffic was backed up for miles from people who physically could not get in line before the deadline. Maricopa County is probably going to get a new County Recorder as a result, which is sort of a plus. The County Recorder insists that it won't happen again, but who knows.
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Radish posted:The Maine and Pennsylvania one is the best. I'm partial to the Colorado-New Mexico one personally.
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Mind_Taker posted:Why are New Hampshire and Vermont so different in terms of Democratic reliability? I know nothing about the two states other than they are a similar size and shape, adjacent, and located in New England. southern new hampshire where 90% of the state lives is a white flight suburb of boston
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Nashua New Hampshire is pretty liberal as its on the border of massachusetts. But the further north you get, the further into the crazy conservative weeds you get. I went to hollis NH a couple months ago to sell a bunch of old junk at the flea market there, and in addition to plenty of dudes just selling all sorts of firearms, bladed weaponry and ammunition of all sorts openly (in such a way that someone could just follow them home and murder them/hijack their van full of ammo to supplement a militia for a good while, since it's just a fat old white dude driving their rusty old van and that's it), they also had a shitload of trump supporters wandering around, and there were a fair number of MAGA hats and old white folks discussing SHE TAKE ARR GUNS and kinda sorta racist nonsense near our stall! It was pretty uncomfortable. Not everyone was that way of course, but the Trump supporters were way more visible than here in MA.
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FCKGW posted:Goddamn Obama working on his comedy routine The part where he starts to lean on the podium while talking about Obamacare is god drat amazing.
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