US Election 2020

[laklak]

Fat Elvis. Not black leather Elvis.

[Tero]

Our candidate had campaigned on healthcare. Now she has COVID
https://twitter.com/katejbolz/status/13 ... 4057884678
she will give some statement from home Fri. She does not need money, it is just very hard for Democrats to get the vote here, except the Omaha district. The opponent has suffered gallons of coffee and pancake breakfasts in rural areas, and every two years he has to do it. Drive to the event, eat and talk. Drive off, pull over to convenient shoulder, fingers in the throat and puke out the coffee. Next town.

[Woodbutcher]

The older birch trees here seem to be catching some sort of a deadly fungus. You start to see just some dead branch ends at the top of the tree, the next year the whole top is dead. Within five years the whole tree is completely rotted and falls down. Same as some countries.

[Brian Peacock]

Fat Elvis. Not black leather Elvis.

They'll have to sew him into his tennis shorts every morning.

[rainbow]

29000 motherfuckers went to see The Donald? Fuck me.

Where is the problem? Most will only be symptomatic after the election, and probably of those only 2% will die.

Alarmist!

[pErvinalia]

Is it over yet?

[laklak]

Close, but no cigar.

[laklak]

Both Biden and Trump have rallies in Florida today. Should be interesting to compare turnout.

[Tero]

Cheeseheads deserve that for sending us Trump in 2016.

[laklak]

I love cheese hats.

Apparently 45% of registered voters in Sarasota County have already voted. It this holds we'll have a record breaking election. Breakdown of registered voters in Sarasota County:

Democrat 106,155 Republican 145,131 Other: 89,451

I'm an "other".

[JimC]

Are you a significant other?

[laklak]

More like "otherkin", methinks.

Orc, in particular.

[Tero]

Simple colored folks looking for a father figure and stability

One of Harris’s three stops adds to the intrigue. In addition to Fort Worth and Houston, she will be visiting the smaller city of McAllen, in South Texas, where Joe Biden is struggling to do as well with Latino voters as Hillary Clinton did in 2016. If somebody had told you a few years ago that Trump would be doing better with Latino and Black voters in 2020 than in 2016 and yet still losing his re-election race, would you have believed it?

It’s happened because voters have become less polarized by race during Trump’s presidency. His appeals to white nationalism haven’t worked with most white voters. Since 2016, white voters, both with and without college degrees, have shifted toward the Democrats.

But Trump’s white nationalism hasn’t driven away many voters of color who didn’t already oppose him. Instead, his confrontational style and tough talk on crime and national security seem to have appealed to some Latino and Black voters, as The Times’s Nate Cohn notes. This data, Nate writes, “suggests a widening gap between the views of progressive activists and the rank-and-file of nonwhite voters.”

A large national poll released yesterday showed Trump winning 9 percent of Black voters this year, up from 8 percent in 2016, and 35 percent of Latino voters, up from 29 percent. If Trump manages to win re-election, support from a slice of Latino voters will probably be a key reason.

NYT

Poll https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/13 ... 4877556741

[laklak]

"Progressive activists" out of touch with non-white voters? Whooda thunk it?

[Sean Hayden]

Yeah, there is some scary stuff in there for the Democrats. I've often wondered about how the religiosity of the Hispanic voter will playout long-term. More than half are Catholic, and nearly all are Christians of some kind.

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It's a stupid way to do politics though, innit? We all have interests that aren't tied to our identities, but our leaders sell their platforms as good for whites, or blacks, or Hispanics etc while disparaging their opponents as bad for certain groups.