Stop trying to make GA happen. It’s not going to happen!
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Looks like sweet summer child to me
The genius of Trump is they knew if they could just demotivate 5% of the black vote in certain areas, it would be enough to swing the election (“What the hell do you have to lose?”) I read they had good success demotivating Haitians in FL with the Hillary super-predator stuff and some anti-Haiti stuff.
If Trump and whatever the hell Lin Wood is doing demotivates 10% of the deplorable vote (which is maybe 5% of the R vote) - maybe that’s enough.
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I think the reason mail-in voting is down is a combination of (1) a perception that this is a really short election timeline, and mail-in voting takes a while, so rather than sweat the ballot arriving people will vote in person, and (2) this is a compressed timeline, so x days before the election you’re going to have fewer mail in ballots compared with the general, when mail in ballots arrived in late September.
Does anyone know a website that shows general election voting breakdowns by ballot type in Georgia? EV vs Mail vs Day Of.
lol senators owning sports teams, jfc this country
there’s going to be such a good BET movie about this
Herb Kohl made sure the Bucks stayed in Milwaukee.
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very cool
The thing is, I haven’t seen long lines in cobb early voting. Seems like it has been 30-45 min max.
That’s 25-40 minutes longer than it ever should be.
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I’m considering the idea that the best stimulus outcome for electoral purposes is to pass a too-small stimulus.
If you pound the table about Republicans not passing anything in the Senate, they can pass something that takes away that talking point or they can not pass anything and push a both sides narrative.
If, however, you pass something perceived as inadequate, you can tell the story that this is the sort of compromise that is created by enabling the GOP and if you want more you should vote for Democrats.
Of course first you need the eDems to actually use that messaging approach. But there’s also a level of nuance I think a lot of people won’t pay attention to.
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I think the timing is pretty perfect for stimulus, assuming it’ll be a few weeks until voters have checks in their hands.
People vote based on how well off they feel like they’re doing, not what politicians have done. There’s a huge difference in the minds of people going to go vote between “Government promised my family of 4 a check for $2,400” and “A month ago I got a check from the Government for $2,400”
In and out in 10 minutes voting early in Paulding County!
I got there right as the polls opened, so there wasn’t really a line
Maybe 40-50% mask compliance at best, but this county broke almost 2:1 for Trump in the presidential election.
I like to think I’m helping to even the score here
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Not passing a massive stimulus before the election was a pretty big own goal by the GOP. I suspect Mitch thought it was hopeless for Trump.
This is losing the forest for trees. People need a huge stimulus right now to survive. How it plays as messaging shouldn’t even be a consideration.
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A huge stimulus was never happening. Keeping the price tag under $1 trillion was a huge deal-breaker for Republicans. Even if McConnell wanted to go bigger, he was never going to be able to move his caucus over that line.
If the runoff splits I’d love to see if Hawley would put his money where is mouth is a pass a generous covid bill for the “common” folk.
At 49-51 just need one R flip.
You’d still need McConnell to bring it to a vote, if I understand that correctly, and he seems to be pretty deft at avoiding that without politicial consequence.
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