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Gstu posted:I'm watching my second election from overseas, so I will go to bed in about 3 hours, and I arrive for my totally normal work day at about 10:00PM eastern time, just as things start to get really interesting. Same, I'll be up maybe 8pm America time. And, sorta like everyone drinking I got insomnia so I take mirtazapine before bed, because the strong stuff like ambien just gets to my head. Usually I take 2/3rds a pill. Tonight I took a whole pill! Gonna be a real wild night.
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It isn't a general election in Georgia if the voting machines don't break https://twitter.com/cbs46/status/1323616434816245761
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Lizard Combatant posted:Wait, there's actually a Swearengin running? Shame on any Swearengen that doesn’t run on half price pussy.
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military cervix posted:As a european, it seems I can get access to both CNN and NBC for election night. Which would be better to have on in the background while I incessantly F5 Twitter? I have no knowledge about american TV news. Follow this thread I am expecting people's twitter/link game to be ON POINT
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Paracaidas posted:Oh, I don't expect her to win. Or frankly, even keep it close. But how she runs compared to Biden and downballot Dems will certainly be illuminating for a couple particular theories. I'm wondering if we'll be able to see an effect, and what it would be. One of the theories behind Obama's successful, and Bernie's unsuccessful, primary campaigns, and the "leftist/DSA" pitch for general elections, is that these candidates will draw out unlikely and first time voters. What I'm not sure is if these new voters will just vote swearingen and leave the rest of the ballot blank, or if they'll vote Biden and other Dems too, or if they'll split tickets because they've bought in to Trump's economic populist bullshit. I.e. I'm wondering what the actual effects on other races will be, and I'm not sure what to look for - is it turnout, is it ticket splitting, is it blank votes elsewhere?
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Deteriorata posted:Either would be fine. NBC will be more low key while CNN is more prone to sensationalism, but they'll have the same data and make the same calls as anyone else. They'll both also have a lot of mindless drivel and silly set pieces to fill time. Late night drunk MSNBC is where it's at imo. More fun in a 2008/2012 kinda year than 2016 though.
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Can non-Americans speak to whether there is so much money and effort spent to get out the vote in your country? I see people post Instagram stories of anyone even slightly famous doing something to encourage voting and it’s just embarrassing we have to go to these lengths. I also think people will slack off in 2024.
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Harlock posted:It isn't a general election in Georgia if the voting machines don't break Republicans reaping what they sow
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B B posted:Yiiiiiiiiikes. Glad we haven't had much of that here. I am currently in Arlington, VA, but am moving to Richmond, VA in a couple of weeks. I am really looking forward to getting out of Northern Virginia, but Richmond has obviously been much more of a hotbed for this sort of stuff than where I am at now. Richmond loving owns and even if you're down in the fan (which is where everyone lives "downtown") there haven't really been many issues. You're going to love it here compared to NOVA. Even Short Pump which is seen as mini-NOVA isn't even comparable. I lived out there for 4 years before moving to Glen Allen and was perfectly happy out there.
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Nov 3, 2020 15:48
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Josh Lyman posted:Can non-Americans speak to whether there is so much money and effort spent to get out the vote in your country? I see people post Instagram stories of anyone even slightly famous doing something to encourage voting and it’s just embarrassing we have to go to these lengths. i'm not canadian (yet) but definitely not here - but then, elections only last like eight weeks start to finish so there's not really time to get weary from it
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Josh Lyman posted:Can non-Americans speak to whether there is so much money and effort spent to get out the vote in your country? I see people post Instagram stories of anyone even slightly famous doing something to encourage voting and it’s just embarrassing we have to go to these lengths.
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Nov 3, 2020 15:49
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Josh Lyman posted:I also think people will slack off in 2024. Dems historically slack off in mid-terms so this is much more likely to happen in 2022 than 2024.
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Josh Lyman posted:Can non-Americans speak to whether there is so much money and effort spent to get out the vote in your country? I see people post Instagram stories of anyone even slightly famous doing something to encourage voting and it’s just embarrassing we have to go to these lengths. The rules on how much money you can spend in uk election are super strict so not really. You do get celebrities canvassing / doing events for parties sometimes though.
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Seven Hundred Bee posted:OK whatever weird slap fight happened on the last few pages cut it out. Yessss can’t wait for “General Election Posting Station: MURDER HORNET FONDUE” On a related note, lol: https://twitter.com/altonbrown/status/1323629747029594112?s=21
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Nov 3, 2020 15:53
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Youth Decay posted:Republicans reaping what they sow I went to look and this failure in Georgia is a likely net D gain. Bravo Georgia elections worker who routed all the broken voting machines away from Atlanta to rural counties!
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The Artificial Kid posted:We just get fined if we don't vote. Same here...theoretically. Are there places where they actually enforce that?
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JohnCompany posted:I'm wondering if we'll be able to see an effect, and what it would be. One of the theories behind Obama's successful, and Bernie's unsuccessful, primary campaigns, and the "leftist/DSA" pitch for general elections, is that these candidates will draw out unlikely and first time voters. What I'm not sure is if these new voters will just vote swearingen and leave the rest of the ballot blank, or if they'll vote Biden and other Dems too, or if they'll split tickets because they've bought in to Trump's economic populist bullshit. I.e. I'm wondering what the actual effects on other races will be, and I'm not sure what to look for - is it turnout, is it ticket splitting, is it blank votes elsewhere? That is always challenging to get to--if there's a spike in D turnout in WV is that Biden? Paula? AntiTrump? I'm mostly focused on how Biden does and how she compares to the Dem house candidates, in that I don't think anything short of a victory "proves" the theory right, but it can certainly hint in that direction. Say she loses 55-45 (which would certainly beat any reasonable expectation)... that reads differently if Biden loses 53-47 compared to if he gets beat by 25. Meanwhile if she underperforms or matches downballot Dems, that throws some cold water on the idea that her platform is the path forward for Dems in red spaces. Or you wait for the CCES and dive in when even fewer people care!
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Elotana posted:If Biden wins please embed "Fight Song" in the C-SPAM background No, embed "There's Hope For the World" by Ron Wasserman from the soundtrack of Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie
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Youth Decay posted:Republicans reaping what they sow I thought the polls were showing a strong chance of Georgia flipping blue this year?
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Lead out in cuffs posted:I thought the polls were showing a strong chance of Georgia flipping blue this year? Showing a chance. I don't believe in it, personally
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Lead out in cuffs posted:I thought the polls were showing a strong chance of Georgia flipping blue this year? Mostly due to the early vote, however. Election day turnout is going to be tilted towards the GOP in many areas.
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If I’m reading this correctly, Election Day voting is 50/50 in Broward County which is historically very Blue and Hillary won 66% in 2016. If we assume early voting will skew heavy Dem, then 50/50 for today’s votes would be good news. Do I have that right?
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Lead out in cuffs posted:I thought the polls were showing a strong chance of Georgia flipping blue this year? That's a county outside the Atlanta metro area that went 60% for Trump in 2016.
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On Terra Firma posted:Richmond loving owns and even if you're down in the fan (which is where everyone lives "downtown") there haven't really been many issues. You're going to love it here compared to NOVA. Even Short Pump which is seen as mini-NOVA isn't even comparable. I lived out there for 4 years before moving to Glen Allen and was perfectly happy out there. Ahhhh, it's good to hear there haven't been that many issues. I just saw the dude get hit by a car / shot fired incident from the weekend, and that freaked me out a bit.
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ewiley posted:Yessss can’t wait for “General Election Posting Station: MURDER HORNET FONDUE” Holy poo poo, his feed looks like he was strung out as gently caress last night.
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This is purely anecdotal but I've seen 10+ of my left friends post on FB about how they just voted. I would have assumed they would have voted by mail. I'll laugh my rear end off if the "red mirage" never even shows up.
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RBA Starblade posted:I'll be honest guys, I don't think I see a way that Bernie can still win this do NOT bring this negative bullshit in to this thread Apologize, QUICKLY
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Random Stranger posted:I have cast my ballot in my location where my vote doesn't matter. I was asked to keep it down when I shouted, "From hell's heart I stab at thee!" when voting for Biden. Nice! I briefly thought about how cool it’d be to shout something like that but decided against it.
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B B posted:Yiiiiiiiiikes. Glad we haven't had much of that here. I am currently in Arlington, VA, but am moving to Richmond, VA in a couple of weeks. I am really looking forward to getting out of Northern Virginia, but Richmond has obviously been much more of a hotbed for this sort of stuff than where I am at now. 
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Antillie posted:Holy poo poo, his feed looks like he was strung out as gently caress last night. Either he was on something very strong or he pulled the best impression ever last night. Either way, this is a hell of a thing.
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metachronos posted:This is purely anecdotal but I've seen 10+ of my left friends post on FB about how they just voted. I would have assumed they would have voted by mail. I'll laugh my rear end off if the "red mirage" never even shows up.
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Antillie posted:Holy poo poo, his feed looks like he was strung out as gently caress last night. Either that or he's trying out a new "ambien amnesia lol amirite" gimmick
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Josh Lyman posted:Arlington is super blue though. Northern Virginia is still a shithole though, sorry to say
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Josh Lyman posted:If I’m reading this correctly, Election Day voting is 50/50 in Broward County which is historically very Blue and Hillary won 66% in 2016. If we assume early voting will skew heavy Dem, then 50/50 for today’s votes would be good news. Do I have that right? Plus, if Florida is anything like AZ (which I assume it is), the older crowd that would be heavily Republican, seem to vote right away early in the morning, while a lot of those who'd vote Democrat and didn't do early voting, will probably vote in the afternoon/early evening once off of work.
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metachronos posted:This is purely anecdotal but I've seen 10+ of my left friends post on FB about how they just voted. I would have assumed they would have voted by mail. I'll laugh my rear end off if the "red mirage" never even shows up. It's only a portion of the country that allows for easy early voting and given the postal service fuckery, voting in person was the best way to make sure it counts. What I expect to see is urban ballots cast today to be close to an even split with the early ballots being a flood.
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