We're on the home run, let's stand together for a blue wave 🤗🌊 (Trump thread #107

[Roussette]

Here we go!

Ho hum, I went to your link that you put above. Clicked on it, and then pressed the twitter button top right, and it took me to a Twitter page where I found the book, and retweeted it. I think it took me to the publisher perhaps?
Any publicity is good publicity ]grin]

Yes that sounds plausible !

Hello again. So in three days, we'll know.

I’m really nervous! I know the polls show Biden ahead in most of the battleground states but some of them are very close. Maybe I’m just preparing myself for the worst?

It’s the hope that kills you.

I bring and to welcome everyone and keep us comfy.

And more of course.

Interesting to see how difficult it is to translate Trump especially given the nonsense about how he tells it like it is and doesn't speak like a politician etc etc.

@JamieLeeCurtains

Hello again. So in three days, we'll know.

I'd hazard a guess that we won't know for sure until the wee hours of Thurs morning (EST). There are going to be a shit-tonne of mail ins and many states (including mine) can't start counting them until election day.

2 caveats:

1-If it's an 'in person vote' landslide we'll probably know 'enough' to call it in the wee hours of Wed morning (EST).

2- This whole thing is very likely to end up in court if mail ins decide the election. In that case we won't know until early December based on the length of time it took for the Bush v Gore SCOTUS decision.

EST = Eastern Standard Time (aka New York time)

I don't know if it was the reintroduction of lockdown or the footage of Trumpites blocking the Biden bus, but I had a horrible feeling of anxiety all last night. I'm worried that Trump might actually win this, and equally worried about what will happen if he loses.
The divisions that he has created will take years nay decades to be mended.

I know it's more likely that early results will favour Rep with mail in (hopefully arriving early) possibly swinging it to Dems.

It would be interesting if close of polls indicated a Biden win, you can bet your last nickel that Trump will suddenly be saying "we have to wait for ALL votes to be counted"

Saw this on a walk the other day :-)

01/20/2021 THE END OF AN ERROR

I haven't been sleeping all that well myself Bruce. I seem to go to sleep just finefine, but either wake up either periodically during the night feeling anxious or wake up at 3 am and can't get back to sleep due to the 'whirling' thoughts in my head.

I've sort of just 'given in' to a disrupted sleep pattern until this is all over. Then I'll work on 'sleep training' myself.

....Trump will suddenly be saying "we have to wait for ALL votes to be counted"

You betcha my life he will. No matter how the victory is gained, he'll find a reason to whinge and contest. Since DH has been told to avoid stress, I can see I'll be spending a lot of time with the bedroom TV.

🤞🤞🤞

I do miss (sort of) the Trump supporters of 2016 on the running up to the election. This year's have not been resilient enough.

Both hoping for and dreading next Wednesday.

The stats provided by PekingFaintly on judicial appointments are astonishing! You knew it was happening but perhaps not the scale.....

Useful:

When To Expect Election Results In Every State
projects.fivethirtyeight.com/election-results-timing/

I hope there is a good turnout of young voters. I remember seeing tons of posts on social media back in 2016 from friends (early to mid 20s back then) admitting that they didn’t vote because they didn’t know who to vote for. A bit scary that they couldn’t come to a conclusion themselves. Then again I’ve heard others say they don’t vote at all because that puts you in the pool for jury duty. I wish people understood that their vote does count and it is important.

[quote CoffeeandCroissant]Useful:

When To Expect Election Results In Every State
projects.fivethirtyeight.com/election-results-timing/[/quote]
Thank you, that's really fascinating.

Hello everyone,
Just checking in for chapter 3527852 of The United States in the Era of Trump school textbook that we are all loving in real time. I've been following you all since this catastrofuck began in 2016 and I really, desperately just it to be over so that you can all begin to rest, heal and take stock.

Hopefully, this is the chapter where the odious little shit is chased out of the White House and straight into the nearest jail.

So many fingers and toes being crossed by this nasty woman.

That 538 link is interesting.

In my state it shows the 4th Congressional District as 'a race to watch'. It's been a solidly red district for decades. I had no idea that there was even a chance for the Dem candidate.

The Red Mirage.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/31/red-mirage-trump-election-scenario-victory

(Sorrry if posted earlier)

On the road with the Trump sh*t-show.

www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-11-01/traveling-with-trump-is-a-cognitive-dissonance-carnival

'Even one hour with Trump can be dizzying. His speeches ramble, his staff frequently is clueless as to his plans, and normal functions often veer towards chaos. The sensory overload can become disorienting, a vaudevillian alternative-reality show — Cognitive Dissonance, the Musical.'

Hey everyone, hope it's ok to poke my head around the door; I've been reading these threads for ages! Thanks so much for all the links and general succour - never felt more like I needed it. Like others, I'm veering between hope and despair - genuinely not sure how to get through waking up again to another horrific result, and feeling sick to my stomach as Tuesday approaches. One thing - trafod - on your point about young/new voters - this Washington Post analysis piece suggests that they are voting, and that they're voting for Biden:

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/01/where-race-stands-2-days-before-election-day/

"According to the Times-Siena polls, voters who didn’t cast ballots in 2016 but plan to (or already have) this time favor Biden by seven points in Arizona, 12 points in Pennsylvania, 17 points in Florida and 19 points in Wisconsin. And, to be clear, these are sizable chunks of voters: about 1 in every 5 voters in the first three states and 11 percent of all voters in Wisconsin.

"And lest Democrats worry that these voters might not actually turn out, given they didn’t do so in 2016: Two-thirds of them say they have already voted in Arizona and Florida, while 56 percent say the same in Wisconsin. (The number is lower — 36 percent — in Pennsylvania.) These are not just votes that Democrats hope to add; in most cases, these are votes they already have.

"The polls come on top of data collected by TargetSmart that has already shown that voters who haven’t previously cast ballots but did so early this time tilt toward Biden by similar margins. If Biden’s edge in new voters holds, he wins."