GET OUT: US politics November 2020

has the population of white non-college educated voters dropped by half a mil in georgia? surely not?

No. But those folks will predominantly vote on E-Day. The point is that we now know for sure that turnout among Black and Hispanic voters in Georgia will smash that of 2016, and we don't yet know whether that'll be true for Trump's base.

I'm still trying to understand why we think they would prefer voting on election day vs early vote.

as noted here, many people enjoy the personal ritual or sense of security of lodging directly.

How many states have Kanye and other (libertarian, green, independent?) candidates on the ballot? It's definitely a shame that the endless attention void of the President has stopped us learning about and laughing at whatever mutant replaced Gary Johnson after the party rejected him for thinking seatbelts were okay.

has the population of white non-college educated voters dropped by half a mil in georgia? surely not?

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, November 2, 2020 5:30 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i'm being obtuse at this point.

(but i still maintain that there's no way to know if good news like that is good _enough_ in a close election)

no i’m calling it

thank god the election is over. are you all as relieved as i am right now?

from the needle page:

Here’s an easy way to think about it:

If Joe Biden wins even one of these states, he is a solid favorite to win the presidency. If President Trump wins all three, both candidates have realistic paths to the presidency.

many people enjoy

(legitimately so! I've voted early for convenience sake around work {eg working at the polls} or travel, and voted in person despite inconvenience because it's irrationally satisfying to do so. it's not implausible that less-educated voters are more likely to also stick to on-day voting out of familiarity or resentment/mistrust of change.)

The only time I voted in person on election day was 2008 and I got frisked by McCain’s secret service detail just after (my office was on the same block as his phx residence)

Voted for Nader on Election Day 2000 and got to use a marker to fill in an arrow, the last time I got to physically select my candidates.

I voted for Nader too. Highly regret it

I voted for a Fart this year

re: needle anxiety cause by data viz dorks

remember how much PTSD was the needle jitter code was causing on NYTimes/TheUpshot coverage 4 years ago lol:

Looking for trends in @nytimes's presidential forecast needle? Don't look too hard - the bounce is random jitter from your PC, not live data pic.twitter.com/pwcV6epee7

— Alp Toker (@atoker) November 9, 2016

Ahhhh YMP I will love you forever for the Dar Williams shout out.

Although I feel like the version of that song that I saw live might have had another verse about how Western NY sometimes also wanted to be California? Or did I make that up?

xxxp Gore lost Texas by 15-20% so that was my first experience with people pretending the Electoral College doesn't exist and that a vote for Nader was a vote for Bush.

Also now that I live in the Hudson Valley that song is so much more hilarious than I understood in 1997.

"Voting is the most punk thing you can do. They want us to be apathetic." --John Gourley from Portugal the Man pic.twitter.com/kX96WBSMxc

— Andrea Chalupa 🇺🇲 (@AndreaChalupa) November 2, 2020

I did the Nader Trader thing in 2000, swapped w somebody in what state I can’t recall.

If I could have voted- I was 15- I would have voted for Nader. No qualms about that.

in orbit, thanks; best of all possible wishes to you

I voted in the state where Dubya won* by 537 votes, keep in mind

at what point did you start to regret your vote?

"My Pet Goat"

yeah I regret not voting for Gore (in Tennessee!!) in ‘00. I remember being p much uninterested in him, not yet sold on “The Left”/ Naderism, and harboring no real animus towards Bush. boy howdy did that change fucking fast.

Are we ready for whatever?

I'm ready. Let's get it over with

*should note I didn’t vote at all in ‘00, and wouldve definitely NOT voted for a christ-bitten dickhead for leader of the free world. was m/l checked out of politics at the time.

(lol but I did totally vote for Dole in ‘96 fml)

Is there a thread where we admit embarrassing things

Remember like a month ago when Bob Dole came out of his cave to whine about the media being unfair to Trump? Wild way to show proof of life.

Is there a thread where we admit embarrassing things

― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal)

I voted for Bill Clinton in 1996.

who should you have voted for?

I like thinking that will has evolved from there to the left of me

who should you have voted for?

― Dan S, Monday, November 2, 2020

Tricky.

How about this for embarrassing: I honestly thought Kerry had a strong shot until like the night of. Didn’t do cable or horse race stuff; all I knew was that EVERYONE (except evangelicals) thinks this guy’s total fucking idiot, right? RIGHT!!? Like awful bullshit war aside, this guy is D-U-M-B. Making Dan Quayle look like a man of poise and scholarship kind of dumb.

Who’s dumb now.

(me, it’s me)

From 2000 until 2010, Joe Lieberman put in overtime making the world worse in every possible way - without even getting any higher office or Cabinet gig out of it.

i've never made an embarrassing political mistake!

i think it's worth remembering that sometimes we make mistakes in being too cynical, too. for example, i think quite a few people were wrong about texas this year and made a point of telling everyone that there was no chance and it was ridiculous to even think about

(I was thinking a couple of weeks ago that it would be good to have a bot post every 20 or so posts reminding us that we love each other and want the same outcome. Too late now, but it's worth keeping in mind that different people deal with this stuff differently, and that's bound to cause conflict)

bleep bloop

we love each other and want the same outcome

bloop bleep

I have voted for president twice, despite being eligible in five election cycles. One of those times I voted third party.

Excellent! x-post

i owned a Joey Lawrence cassingle

My first-ever presidential vote was cast for Perot. I'm not sure I could've even told you why I did that at the time.

my first vote was for Nader. had Gore won in 2000 I woulda probably voted for Kucinich in 2004.

now he's a Trump kook.

This one time, on the way to a music festival, I peed in a Snapple bottle and just left it by the roadside

xp kucinich is?
or nader?

either one seems weird!

xp there were dozens of pee bottles to keep yours company, YMP. as far as you could see

One time I was leaving a music festival, dying of thirst, and took a swig from what looked like a bottle of iced tea someone threw away

lol apparently Dave Chappelle’s in my neighborhood canvassing tonight

So, anyway Dave Chapelle is canvassing in Kirkwood right now. Hop on over to Edgewood & knock on my door! (I already voted tho) 💅

— Bee Nguyen 🐝 (@BeeForGeorgia) November 3, 2020