Miscellaneous And Off Topic Subjects

[foxhopper]

I'm surprised that the wife and I haven't received many calls or texts yet. The damn political mail is ridiculous though. Such a waste of paper.

We can't in person early vote until 10-26.

[Dr. Strangelove]

[Mike]

I'm surprised that the wife and I haven't received many calls or texts yet. The damn political mail is ridiculous though. Such a waste of paper.

We can't in person early vote until 10-26.

I get 5-7 mailers every single day. It's maddening. They go straight from the mailbox to the trash bin. Good time own a printing press, I suppose.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Republicans still going strong in Nevada. After last night's update they have about a 12,000 vote lead. Dem lead in Clark is only 6700 and that's easily swamped by the huge margins R's are putting up in the rural counties. 320k have already voted and that could be 20-25% of the total electorate.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Posted a couple weeks ago that Allegheny is a big one to watch election night. They will report their mail in ballots almost as soon as polls close. And they, not Philadelphia, have the largest batch of mail in votes in the state. They should tilt heavily towards Harris so she could jump out to a big lead very early.

[Dr. Strangelove]

No word on casualties yet but a significant terrorist attack this afternoon in Turkey

Ankara, Turkey attack: Deadly ‘terror’ attack hits major Turkish defense company | CNN

[Mike]

Having 10s or 100s of thousands of uncounted ballots sitting around for weeks doesn't strike me as a great idea. The shift to mail-in/early voting will only increase going forward but I think this will eventually need to be reigned in a bit. Locally, I've heard stories about early polling locations that have to staff and pay the requisite number of workers to run the operation and they get like 20 people in 8 hours. How long will that be sustainable for small towns and rural counties with tight budgets? It's a solution without a problem. I have no problem with expanding the number of days of in person voting but how many do you need?

[Dr. Strangelove]

Surprise announcement of an audit in Georgia. Just 20 non-citizens registered to vote out of 8.2 million. And only 9 of those actually voted. All referred to law enforcement.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Looming Questions about the Trump Get-Out-the-Vote Effort | National Review

[Mike]

I read that earlier but have a question: Does door-knocking in 2024 really have any affect? I think contacting people through text or mail would be far more affective than some nimrod showing up on your porch.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Well you yourself just said you throw mailings straight in the trash haha

[lineygoblue]

So now former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard has made the full switch to the Republican Party. Earlier, Senator Joe Manchin felt he had to leave the Democratic party, although he still caucuses with the Dems.

Imagine for a moment that the radicals in the Democratic party had not forced these two out, and somehow they became the Democrats' Presidential ticket. Manchin/Gabbard.

They'd be about 10 percentage points ahead of Trump right now. I'd be counting the days to when I could cast my ballot for them.

[CGVT]

So now former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard has made the full switch to the Republican Party. Earlier, Senator Joe Manchin felt he had to leave the Democratic party, although he still caucuses with the Dems.

Imagine for a moment that the radicals in the Democratic party had not forced these two out, and somehow they became the Democrats' Presidential ticket. Manchin/Gabbard.

They'd be about 10 percentage points ahead of Trump right now. I'd be counting the days to when I could cast my ballot for them.

This post is a joke, right?

Right?

[Dr. Strangelove]

I feel like I can pretty much tell you what Joe Manchin's politics are.

Tulsi Gabbard is a vapid hack whose politics are whatever way the wind is blowing. She is desperate to stay even mildly relevant.

[Mike]

Well you yourself just said you throw mailings straight in the trash haha

I was referring to the glossy flyers. What I mean by contacting people is like what my wife received this week, a hand-written letter from Vote Forward. I assume she received it because according to their website they:

focus on mobilizing potential voters in historically marginalized communities—such as people of color, women, and young voters.

As a member of a marginalized community, aka birthing person, she was appreciative of the help in navigating the voting process. It's not safe to assume she has a man in her life that can explain these things to her.

But my larger point is that we opened it because it was personalized (I was also very curious if they were politicking and to my surprise it was just how to obtain a mail-in ballot). The Pronoun People would be disappointed to learn of our voting preferences, though.