Quote (Thor123422 @ Oct 31 2020 04:04pm)

Anybody got any thoughts on the Trump campaign fighting legal battles to get votes thrown out?

In Pennsylvania they've gotten the courts to rule on very specific circumstances for accepting ballots including "secret envelopes".

Similarly they're trying to argue that even if ballots are postmarked by election day they shouldn't be counted if they are received after Nov 3. Any court that agrees with this, especially after the postmaster's shenanigans that were obviously meant to delay ballots, will lose my respect as an authority and should lose everybody else's as well.

How the supreme court and state courts rule on these issues can substantially affect our democracy going forward. We may be in for a rough ride on the election results and as a country depending on how it goes.

I'm leaning towards moving to Canada regardless of results honestly. The fact that we've gotten to this point may indicate that we're screwed regardless of results, since the cracks in the system are laid bare. Caesar didn't destroy the Republic by marching over the Rubicon. He destroyed it by exploiting the cracks years before that.

Quote (Thor123422 @ Oct 31 2020 03:04pm)

Anybody got any thoughts on the Trump campaign fighting legal battles to get votes thrown out?

In Pennsylvania they've gotten the courts to rule on very specific circumstances for accepting ballots including "secret envelopes".

Similarly they're trying to argue that even if ballots are postmarked by election day they shouldn't be counted if they are received after Nov 3. Any court that agrees with this, especially after the postmaster's shenanigans that were obviously meant to delay ballots, will lose my respect as an authority and should lose everybody else's as well.

How the supreme court and state courts rule on these issues can substantially affect our democracy going forward. We may be in for a rough ride on the election results and as a country depending on how it goes.

I'm leaning towards moving to Canada regardless of results honestly. The fact that we've gotten to this point may indicate that we're screwed regardless of results, since the cracks in the system are laid bare. Caesar didn't destroy the Republic by marching over the Rubicon. He destroyed it by exploiting the cracks years before that.

Quote (Thor123422 @ 31 Oct 2020 21:04)

Anybody got any thoughts on the Trump campaign fighting legal battles to get votes thrown out?

In Pennsylvania they've gotten the courts to rule on very specific circumstances for accepting ballots including "secret envelopes".

Similarly they're trying to argue that even if ballots are postmarked by election day they shouldn't be counted if they are received after Nov 3. Any court that agrees with this, especially after the postmaster's shenanigans that were obviously meant to delay ballots, will lose my respect as an authority and should lose everybody else's as well.

How the supreme court and state courts rule on these issues can substantially affect our democracy going forward. We may be in for a rough ride on the election results and as a country depending on how it goes.

I'm leaning towards moving to Canada regardless of results honestly. The fact that we've gotten to this point may indicate that we're screwed regardless of results, since the cracks in the system are laid bare. Caesar didn't destroy the Republic by marching over the Rubicon. He destroyed it by exploiting the cracks years before that.

Quote (Thor123422 @ Oct 31 2020 01:04pm)

Anybody got any thoughts on the Trump campaign fighting legal battles to get votes thrown out?

In Pennsylvania they've gotten the courts to rule on very specific circumstances for accepting ballots including "secret envelopes".

Similarly they're trying to argue that even if ballots are postmarked by election day they shouldn't be counted if they are received after Nov 3. Any court that agrees with this, especially after the postmaster's shenanigans that were obviously meant to delay ballots, will lose my respect as an authority and should lose everybody else's as well.

How the supreme court and state courts rule on these issues can substantially affect our democracy going forward. We may be in for a rough ride on the election results and as a country depending on how it goes.

I'm leaning towards moving to Canada regardless of results honestly. The fact that we've gotten to this point may indicate that we're screwed regardless of results, since the cracks in the system are laid bare. Caesar didn't destroy the Republic by marching over the Rubicon. He destroyed it by exploiting the cracks years before that.

Quote (Surfpunk @ 31 Oct 2020 21:44)

Here's a 538 map of what the outcome would look like if polling this year was off by as much as it was in 2016 (with FL, GA, and PA all being <1% margin):

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ElrTXR9XYAYN0SU.jpg

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1322602104226283520

Quote (Black XistenZ @ Oct 31 2020 04:55pm)

I really dont think that Trump will lose Florida. It's the one state where Republicans have consistently overperformed their polls in recent years, even in 2018. It is one of the best cultural fits for Trumpism. Cubans and Venezuelans are coming home to Trump/the GOP. The gotv machine of the GOP has consistently outhustled their Democratic counterpart. Polls have been trending quite well for Trump there. And covid cases are relatively far down still.

So unless seniors break with Trump en masse (which would imply that he loses the overall election in a landslide), I really dont see him losing FL. I wouldnt be surprised at all if NC, GA or even AZ end up to the left of FL this time around.