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VorZakone said:
What I find quite remarkable is that this was a genuinely winnable election for Trump but his campaign seemed to just wing it. The Democrats looked better organized.
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Biden dropping out seem to throw off the Trump's campaign a bit. Also Trump's campaign hasn't been disciplined enough (i.e. the MSG rally, Trump saying more odd and wild things, appointing JD Vance, homeless cat lady comments etc)
 
Since some people are asking about when to expect results:

First results will be from some districts in Indiana and Kentucky, where polls close at 6:00 pm EST.

The polls close at 7:00 pm EST in the remaining districts from Indiana and Kentucky, as well as Georgia, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and most of Florida (not the panhandle).

The polls close at 7:30 pm EST in North Carolina, Ohio, and West Virginia.

8:00 pm EST is the biggest one, including Michigan and Pennsylvania.

9:00 pm EST is when polls close in Arizona, Texas, and Wisconsin; Nevada polls close at 10:00 pm EST.

Different states will report at different rates; we will know much more about the general directionality of the election hopefully by 10:00 pm EST when several eastern states have reported decent numbers of votes, but some key states won't finish counting until Wednesday (e.g. AZ, NV).
 
Zed 101 said:
This epitomises what is wrong with news broadcasting in America, I don't know the politician, whether he is actually decent or not but the reporter is a disgrace, not that we are great in the UK, but here that report would never take place, if it somehow did the reporter would be working for QVC within a week if he was lucky.... how do you guys actually live with this? does it not make you physically sick?
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Yes.

Buttigieg is kind of “the guy” for dealing with this sort of thing in the Democrat party right now. He has his weaknesses and strengths like anyone but he’s built for dealing with Fox or centre right types. He’s like sticking Park on Pirlo
 
It's like peeking out the curtain when your troublesome neighbour is causing shit again.

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DavidDeSchmikes said:
Biden dropping out seem to throw off the Trump's campaign a bit. Also Trump's campaign hasn't been disciplined enough (i.e. the MSG rally, Trump saying more odd and wild things, appointing JD Vance, homeless cat lady comments etc)
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I agree, Biden's dropping out threw them off and they couldn't stay disciplined long enough to close the campaign in a proper way.
 
Ady87 said:
My Twitter feed is exclusively crypto related. I’m in various crypto group chats both US based on Twitter and with guys from the UK like myself via Messenger. My feed is skewed heavily pro Trump and the last few weeks have been exhausting.

The consensus is, Trump good because our crypto bags will go up. I’ve tried fighting the good fight and I’m getting nowhere. Almost all of them are young bedroom investor non educated bros that are all worth high 5 to low 7 figs and they can’t be reasoned with. My role has essentially been devils advocate at best but I’m expecting the worst tonight. As someone else said, Polymarket has them incredibly bullish and I’m less than impressed with how they’ve been representing things in their feed.

I’m hoping I’ve just had my head in the rabbit hole for too long and she somehow wins this thing.


Edit : Crypto markets violent upward price action has me nervous too.
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Share this video with them and tell them it doesn't matter who wins. Crypto wins regardless.

 
Listen, if we're going to focus on stopping Cal from doing something, I'd rather he keep doing the timefeckery than, well..... you know. :)
 
This thread reads more like BlueCafe did not know there were so many Dems on here
 
Scarlett Dracarys said:
She's not just any woman though. She's waiting to unleash and I'm votng for her and I hope she gets the chance to show her capabilities.
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diarm said:
Hoping to wake up Wednesday morning to hear Trump has won. I’m not his biggest fan, far from it, but I just think Harris is a devious witch with ideas above her station.

I’m not the biggest fan of his stance on sexually abusing women and being close friends with rapists, but then she didn’t set herself apart enough from Biden during that 60 minutes interview so it’s all swings and roundabouts really.

In an ideal world, I’d be able to vote for a Republican candidate who had shared some articulate policies, rather than a campaign run on soundbites of divisive and hate fuelled rhetoric, but he’s going to make China pay tariffs for American businesses while she’s tanked the economy so what choice do I have?
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:lol: :lol: :lol:
 
VorZakone said:
Turnout looking very high.
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Every co-worker I've spoke to in WI today has been complaining about way longer than normal voting lines. One lives in super rural WI (likely very red leaning) and she said it was a 30min line at 7am.
 
WI_Red said:
Every co-worker I've spoke to in WI today has been complaining about way longer than normal voting lines. One lives in super rural WI (likely very red leaning) and she said it was a 30min line at 7am.
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I don’t quite understand why more people don’t make use of mail in voting and even early voting rather than waiting for the day off.
 
RDCR07 said:
I don’t quite understand why more people don’t make use of mail in voting and even early voting rather than waiting for the day off.
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It depends where you live in the country too. I have never had any line at a polling station because I live in a nice part of Maryland so am never going to be disenfranchised.

Also, with the ballot drop boxes being incinerated some people are a little apprehensive about using them. Plus conservatives historically don’t trust it. Early voting is a different question.
 
The higher the turn out, the better for Harris
 
Klopper76 said:
Usually better for Dems right?
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I think conventional wisdom is that that's better for the Dems indeed. Did a quick Google search but some interesting results popped up. This from a NYT article 6 days ago. Anyway, we'll have to see.

This is an extraordinary change from as recently as a decade ago, when Democrats were presumed to be the party that benefited from high turnout. During the Obama era, Democratic chances seemed to depend on mobilizing young, nonwhite and infrequent voters to the polls.

Now, all these familiar maxims have been turned upside down. As the prominent Democratic pollster Anna Greenberg put it: “The Harris coalition rests on the most reliable voters (older, college educated). Trump needs every single low-propensity less educated young person to come out and vote for him.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/30/upshot/election-turnout-trump-harris-polls.html
 
Tarrou said:
hardly anyone is a democrat here they just don't want Trump to win
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If the Dems lose I think this is where they would have messed up, instead of giving people reasons to vote for them the main argument has been vote for us so trump doesn't get in.
 
This thread seemed to be full of people expecting Trump to carry this earlier, nice to wake up from a nap to find that it’s more hopeful in here now.
 
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