I am hedged for both sides, if Antifa comes, I will just show them my Biden sign, and if Trump's militias come I will just show them my MAGA hat, and I know the Trump supporter lingo enough.
That's my soft defenses, I also have planned other contingencies including self-defense.
Also, my governor may be a bit of a jerk who hates abortion rights, renewable energy, and a whole host of establishment conservative things, but when confronted with protests downtown over George Floyd's death, he simply closed down the highways leading to downtown, if it were something else it would be legal, but If I were a constitutional scholar or an Americanist I would argue it's unconstitutional to stop people from going to protests since it's a first amendment right. But hey it worked, so I am pretty sure he would be able to counter any riots or ethnic cleansing in the suburbs.
As for people in Portland especially the suburbs, you better arm yourself, or something because Mordor is coming.
Only if he wins the popular vote... he didn't in 2016If he wins, would it convince you that there are more people that think you're wrong than those that think you're right in the US?
More exactly, there's a federal deadline to have things sorted, and that deadline is a week prior to the electoral college vote (which itself is the Monday after the second Tuesday in December, or the 14th this year). So it's slightly longer than a month, but not by much.The time allotted to pushing election results to the courts. You can't ask for a recount or dispute results after a month had passed
Then the Dems couldn't blame anyone but themselves for not getting shit done, which I'm pretty sure is a nightmare scenario for them. Assuming they abolished the filibuster (which they could do with a simple majority vote at start of session, mind you).Democrats have a 50-50 (plus VP tiebreaker) majority.
The House has already been called to stay in Democratic hands (though with possibly a reduced majority).
If there weren't more concerning things at stake, I would too enjoy the Schadenfreude...I'm mostly enjoying anons losing their minds when they figured out the websites they used for gambling on the elections ran away with their money.
Twitter and Facebook are two of the worst creations of my lifetime.So people on twitter having a fit calling the election fraud
Its just from random forum people but I hear Trump is steadily catching up there.I am really stressed out about Arizona. WHAT IS EVEN ARIZONA RIGHT NOW!
I am really stressed out about Arizona. WHAT IS EVEN ARIZONA RIGHT NOW!
Again, should be noted that most of AZ's uncounted ballots are probably the rest of the mail-in/early ballots as they stopped counting them yesterday.
I'd argue that 2016 would have gone differently if Clinton hadn't been projected to win so strongly the day before the election, because some democrats leaning voter just decided to skip the vote since they though it was in the bag. This time around I don't think you can make that assumption, since the turnout was exceptionally high. I think it's important to note that vast majority of people care very little about politic and are extraordinarily uninformed (there's something like 10% of the electorate that can't even give the most basic information about the two party), so a lot of people who barely know what's happening voted this time around. Many of them probably just voted for whoever they heard about the most (ie Trump, incumbent candidate have massive advantages because of effect like these). These people most likely do not answer in polls which can skew results when participation is high.Trump supporters who love to avoid polls to give the Republicans a fog of war advantage, and panic the republicans...
Sound strategy.
I argued Democrats should do the same if you see a poll avoid it. Let the independents do the polls, sure I know I am a political science major majoring in IR and our field needs polls, but so what, it''s better than democrats being overconfident.