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My upscale SC neighborhood has exactly zero Trump signs. Fair number of Biden signs. Let’s do this!!!
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Don’t worry.
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Just dropped my allot off in one of the drop boxes, located in the middle of a parking lot at a community college. I’m now sitting nearby in my car. There has been a non stop steady stream of people dropping their ballots off for the past 15 minutes. 90% of the people are putting on a mask before they get out of their car, even though it is outside and nobody is coming near them. Many people are taking pictures as they vote. I literally could cry right now its fucking beautiful.
As much as I can’t wait to leave NJ, it’s not all bad.
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The idea of starving the beast does not solely belong to Grover Norquist. It also emanated from sources such as Milton Friedman and the Koch brothers. It is woven into the theoretically underpinnings of much of the Republican Party. Donald Trump has to appeal to those sentiments, even if he doesn’t particularly care or think too deeply about them.
Is someone like Mitch McConnell a hardcore ideologue? Probably not. But a lot of Republicans in Congress are and McConnell can’t accomplish things without their support. Paul Ryan was probably the Republican with power who did the most to try to cut down government and even his horrible budget was seen as too moderate by some GOP representatives. Ultimately, he failed and ceded way to the nakedly power-hungry machinations of Trump.
In 1981, Ronald Reagan said, “Government is not the solution to the problem, government is the problem.” He inspired a lot of Republicans who believe in the virtue of extremism. Those extremists have been enabled by the Hastert rule. This is why we have a Republican Party that has embraced the politics of government shutdowns.
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Why do you want to leave NJ?
Perhaps for that sexy PA swing vote?
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The Biden campaign should keep pounding Trump on this but I believe that Trump had not more than a vague idea who the Proud Boys are and that “stand by” is just part of the usual word salad we are used from him. He remembered “stand” from the question and riffed on that without thinking about what the words leaving his mouth actually mean.
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Whenever I see a poll with a lead within the margin of error and Biden at <50% I get a bit queasy. That’s all too close for comfort.
I also can’t help but think that Trump would have gotten reelected easily if CoViD hadn’t made an appearance or if he had at least a minimally competent response to the crisis.
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If he didn’t know who they were, then when they were mentioned, he would say, “Who?”, rather than immediately addressing them.
What I meant is that if you ask Trump to tell you everything he knows about the Proud Boys he couldn’t tell you much besides “they love me and America very, very strongly”.
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Lots of movement today in the polling average (without debate effects coming in). 538 national polling average up to 7.6 from 7.0 yesterday.
Tons of movement in predictit today. Now up to 63Biden/42Trump, from 59Bident/44Trump yesterday. Both Florida and North Carolina flipped from Trump to Biden on predictit map. Ohio, Georgia, and Iowa close to flipping.
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NV polling slipped a bit.
I’m in this market too but I probably won’t max it out of risk avoidance in an election with plenty of good markets out there.
trump loses any state he won is also still only 85.
Oh, Trump would have been a lock to win if no COVID. In Dec 2019, even I was like well I hate his guts but don’t really have a solid argument that his shittiness is having a real life impact on the average white Midwestern swing voter.
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Biden also tied his ATH on 538’s model @ 79%.
At best, he tried to play it fancy and got crushed.
Just say: White Supremacy Bad.
This is also a redistricting election where control of state legislatures determines which party gets to gerrymander. No pressure.