Not sure whether Biden can maintain his narrow lead in Arizona and Nevada, and uncertain whether he has enough votes to close the gap in Pennsylvania if needed.
I worked a 13 hour volunteer post at an outside poll observer yesterday at a precinct in Montgomery County (Upper Merion). The district is 50/50, but leans Democrat. The precinct (a Baptist church) had 60-90 minute lines all day long, up until evening. Local official who has worked that voting precinct for 30 years told me that they never have any lines.
[A sidenote: An old guy, likely late 80s, maybe early 90s, wearing a Marine Corps hat, collapsed in line, and fell on his head. I figured he died. But, he came to. 911 was called. I got him a bottle of water. Paramedics checked his vitals, cleaned up his bloody forehead, and cleared him to vote, which he insisted doing. We escorted him to the front of the line of 100+ voters. Everyone clapped. No one knew who he would vote for, but everyone respected his right to vote – the one thing Americans instinctively defend for one another, which is truly a wonderful thing].
I was convinced that heavy turnout meant a nationwide resounding renunciation of Trump. I was wrong. Dead wrong. Trump has turned out more voters than any republican candidate in history. If Biden hangs on, he will sadly not have a mandate to govern.
We have no identity as a nation. America is a split personality. Half the electorate views Trump as the Mad King, an unfit, inept, clear and present danger to America’s values and institutions, yet the other half is enthusiastically willing to double down on four more years. If the electorate affirms Trump as who we are as a nation, my strong view remains that America will be forever diminished, forever compromised.
Yet, as I walked my post yesterday, I saw scores of voters (civil and respectful of one another's franchise) who love America just the same as me, yet they see Trump in a completely different light. Perplexing to me, but the overwhelming turnout for Trump speaks for itself. And to that, I have to tip my hat.
Wishing everyone here all the best.
Remember, Trump is losing the Popular Vote by more than 4M and he could lose the Electoral Vote by 80+. This isn't the blowout I had hoped for but it's the equivalent of a 2 TD win.
These are not the only two things, but the main reasons:
1. Personally he is a narcissistic pompous ass with no filter between his thoughts and his speech/tweets. Women and a lot of men don’t want any more of this even though his actions politically have improved the lot of every American citizen.
2. His Covid response, although probably in results was as good as any President could have done, gave inconsistent messaging about the seriousness of the disease and he abandoned a Covid “task force” that could have kept messaging on track even though it would have had little impact on actual infection rates. It was the actions of Governors, not Trump, that collapsed the economy and made people jobless, and it was the actions of Pelosi that kept necessary Covid relief money to really help unemployed and small business owners without massive stupid pork and corruption. But Trump got blamed, not that he didn’t deserve a little.
Which tells you all you need to know about Biden
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Side note, Doug Jones lost to a second rate coach. Doug Jones is where we all need to be. Being a “democrat” in Alabama means you are a moderate anywhere else.
It's gonna be steady as she goes for the ship of state hopefully back to negotiating compromises. Out best Congresses and finest Acts were bipartisan because these had the support of the majority of people. There will be a stimulus but no bailout of state debt. There will be tax increases but not a massive wealth redistribution. There will be Democrat additions to the federal courts but no Court packing. Health Care will be reformed to ensure broader coverage but will not become socialized medicine run by DC bureaucrats. Election "reforms" will be left to the individual states to determine. There will be more tension between establishment and progressive Democrats that between the parties. The media will be praying for another Jon Benet Ramsey of OJ event to fill the lost TDS time. We will all enjoy sports again and it won't involve much social protest. Out general mood with improve tremendously.
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See, he grows on you
temper, he can be a good guy at times. He outworks anybody and has an undeniable love for this country. He did not need this office but wanted to make us great again. He had enough of us being intimated by lesser powerful countries, Iran, for example. He also hated us being taken advantage of financially. His terrific work ethic and love of his country are unmatched.
let us know, eh?
We've neve seen him at work. How can you know this? He doesn't read anything. He speaks like a child who has had no education.
We know he golfs.
We know he's a narcissist, conman, abuser of women an abuses his staff, he's a liar, he's a multiple failed business man, he's a bigot,
he's loves dictators, and the list goes on and on..
But nothing in the positive column.
DT has balls, he even stood up to china,which none of you would. Now the will have they're way. It took a pandemic to throw him off. He left it the governors but forgot he was in charge.
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And hundreds of thousands of women ripping their unborn children limb from limb from their womb
All voted for the same guy.
Save the Lecture about decay under Trump for your kind.
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Also worth noting that I still believe the Asian guy would have won in a landslide and would be a far better POTUS.
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I mean, I guess you could construct some crazy hypothetical where Yang would spend his $10 BN tech fortune (if he had one) on a campaign and then pull 22% or something. I will concede that Yang would be a better POTUS than Don or Joe, though. But so would about 90 out of 100 randomly selected names in a phone book.
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