Posted on 09/08/2020 8:30:43 PM PDT by OrangeHoof
I see what you’re saying. Part of Trump’s success was to win by such a wide margin that more than one state had to be flipped to change the outcome.
Such a naked attempt to overturn the results of a presidential election would be certain political suicide to a Whitmer, Wolf or Evers if it were tried. It’s possible the Democrats won’t care but it would be the flashpoint, I’m afraid, to a REAL civil war if it were tried. You could have not just rioting in the streets but possibly assassinations as well. And I don’t say that lightly.
It's the cheated Republicans we're talking about, and they're not known for radical violent reactions to Democrat scorched earth tactics. They still have to get up early to go to work in the morning (or they used to) to earn their wages to pay the mortgage feed their children.
-PJ
Reopen school as a barometer?
Disagree. MA and RI are reopening. Trump has zero chance in those states.
Tillis in 2014 only received 49% of the votes against “bug eyes” hagan.
Based on the craven disregard for caring how one wins, I think we best keep the Senate and grab the house to navigate the dims shananagins in this elector college voting.
More likely, a long couple of months. Florida may well fail to report their electors by the December deadline. That almost happened in 2000 (the insanity was brought to an end by SCOTUS) and is much closer to happening this year.
Yes, MA and RI value education and children and rank those higher than their fear of the virus, like Europe. I’ve read the closer to the Canadian border, the better the education is in US States.
Also the teachers unions in those states must be weaker than those in CA.
I suppose MA and RI have Dem governors but just weren’t that interested in tyrannical lockdowns. They have some sense. . .
I don’t see it being called until Florida and Ohio go Trump. I look for a mid-night call possibly from FNC, depending on how far off the rails they continue to go. Even in a landslide the media is not going to go there until they absolutely have to.
As someone who has spent most of my life in Texas and Colorado, I disagree. People move where the jobs are. In the last recession, Texas absorbed a lot of Northerners who openly bitched about the heat, openly bitched about the South, openly bitched about the culture, thought they were SO superior to the local yokels, etc. Wanna guess what party they probably voted for? Colorado is flooded with Californians fleeing high taxes and government overreach. Then they began voting out the Republicans and putting in Democrats who just legislated the very things California was doing. Democrats are political termites. They invade a state and keep gnawing away at it until it collapses and then they move out to another state they can destroy.
I think there’s a good chance the majority of states are called on election night. The tv networks are all about scooping the competition. Once they or AP calls a state, the others quickly jump in line.
On the other hand, I did see in 2016 where many of the networks had Trump at the edge of 270 but needed just one more state except that one more state was one the other networks had called. On this channel, they were still unable to call Michigan. On that channel, they were still unable to call Pennsylvania. On this network, they were waiting North Carolina. Most of them wouldn’t call Georgia until hours after it was obvious Trump had won.
But they want their “who won” headline the night of the election and they’ll be under great pressure to declare a winner. This whole “let’s wait a few weeks until all mail-in votes come in” is going to be a hard sell to the networks and also the viewers. Stay up all night only to be told there’s no winner? All it takes is one mainstream source to break ranks and the rest will follow.
That’s interesting. If a state withholds electors and they aren’t seated when the college convenes, how are the electoral votes the seated electors counted? Is it the majority vote of all electoral seats in the college? Or of all electoral votes cast in the college?
-PJ
That sounds good to me! :-D
I can confirm that in Texas in 2016 there were tons of TRUMP yard signs. This year, I’m seeing quite a few as well, but there are also BIDEN signs mixed in. These are in the new housing neighborhoods that are springing up here like weeds. There will be one BIDEN sign for every 3 TRUMP signs as a quick eyeball average. They are transplants coming for the jobs but they are bringing their liberal votes with them.
Jobs are an important factor BUT as a relocater myself, from Yankee to Dixie, if I didn’t feel comfortable, I wouldn’t have stayed AND I know many people who move back after a few years because they just don’t like culture change.
I'm beginning to see a pattern.
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