U.S. Politics, November 2024: GARBAGE DAY!!

Could just be hopium but it sure sounds like the people who have been publicly freaking us out with this coin flip narrative are starting to realize there’s actually a clear favorite here

maybe we should just stop all this hand-wringing polling shit in the future and just wait for the outcome... is there any real reason to torture ourselves?

Lock thread!

the polls arent really the problem the problem is american elections last for fucking ever

Is Nasty Nate Silver doing a face turn?

maybe we should just stop all this hand-wringing polling shit in the future and just wait for the outcome

or maybe if we live in swing states we should be knocking on people's doors like I just came back from doing, and if we don't, calling people who do

There are absolutely voters, right now, four days out, who intend to vote for Harris but don't know whether they're registered, don't know whether it's too late, don't know when or where they can go, are waiting for an absentee ballot to come in the mail.... I talked to one yesterday and one today. Just saying -- if this is an option for you, please join the people who are doing it. It keeps the doom away and it really does matter.

I don't want to be annoying about this, I just want to help it be the case that tens of thousands of people are spending this weekend doing this

good point good stuff

I'm not in a swing state and everyone here has guns. No door-knocking for me. (People have come around; I've found Tester and Sheehy flyers tucked next to my doorknob. But nobody has actually knocked.)

Yeah, thanks for getting out there eephus - I'm all for GOTV efforts, I was just speaking about these clearly broken polls that we watch like a tennis ball traveling back & forth, it's an industry that doesn't really serve a purpose as far as I can tell

the problem the problem is american elections last for fucking ever

hard agreement on this, in fact they never end

hard agreement on this, in fact they never end

I mean honestly I think one big structural advantage Kamala Harris has is that she's only been running for President for four months! People aren't fucking sick of her!

is it UK that only allows six week campaigns? God I would kill for that, let's rejoin the Crown

switching to a more contemporary parliamentary system would have such benefits for the country and indeed the world unfortunately this is something we can never do because of out devotion to the ancient mystical document the constitution

Trump running for what 20 years or something now versus Kamala running for less than four months, advantage definitely Kamala.

yeah and she's like 20 years younger and doesn't look all tired and haggard, caked with burnt umber shoe polish

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Musk taking over twitter and turning it into a Trump campaign site, the betting market shit, polls being cooked - all of this feels like Trump is the biggest hodler-ass WAGMI ape memecoin cope campaign ever assembled

https://bsky.app/profile/iboudreau.bsky.social/post/3l7wgyar7j72i

the clown is wearing his garbage truck vest to events now

https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/c-gettyimages-2182001999.jpg

hodler-ass WAGMI ape memecoin cope

^^^ some young person pls explain what this means

Trump is the biggest hodler-ass WAGMI ape memecoin cope campaign ever assembled

Okay, but what is the SECOND biggest hodler-ass WAGMI ape memecoin cope campaign ever assembled?

Xp

thought you guys were brat

some young person pls explain what this means

― tobo73, Friday, November 1, 2024 8:50 PM (twenty-nine seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

im not young but its all crypto trading bs more or less except for cope which is just you know coping

WAGMI stands for "We Are Gonna Make It" and has a positive connotation

WAGMI memecoin cope campaign
Doo-dah, doo-dah

i did have to look that one up lol

kamala would say the campaign is 'unserious'

I assumed WAGMI was like some really quality japanese beef or something

that would be nice

Waygu, WAGMI

some underlying cargo cult thinking to a lot of this stuff theyre trying

I didn't realise he was actually using "Trump Will Fix It!", does he know how that looks to the Brits? Not that it matters I guess, kind of a fitting association anyway.

Okay, but what is the SECOND biggest hodler-ass WAGMI ape memecoin cope campaign ever assembled?

― kato kaelin-manuel miranda (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, November 1, 2024 8:51 PM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

blake masters maybe

Canvassing tomorrow morning.

nice

Much appreciation to eephus, Alfred and everyone else putting boots on the ground, phone-banking, etc.

While Harris is actively scooping up Haley voters, she is also likely to pick up a larger-than-expected proportion of undecided voters who are leftists supporting the Uncommitted Movement. These ‘Uncommitted’ Democrats have been clear in their commitment to withholding their support for Democratic candidates until they see a significant change in the party’s approach to the war in Gaza. Leaders of the movement have declined to endorse Kamala Harris in hopes that they can leverage their support for the party in exchange for a shift in foreign policy that protects innocent Palestinians and their right to self-determination.

However, an uncommitted Democrat withholding their support for their party in polling doesn’t automatically translate to a withheld vote on Election Day. Despite withholding their support, movement leaders have stated their explicit commitment to “register a vote that ensures we are blocking Donald Trump.” This isn’t a small group — more than 700,000 voters across the map opted to vote ‘uncommitted’ in Democratic primaries. It’s convincing evidence that a significant proportion of the existing “undecided” vote is made up of ‘uncommitted’ Democrats who plan to quietly support Harris when it’s time to cast their ballots.

Throughout the campaign, leftists have encouraged one another to “vote for your preferred enemy,” implicitly understanding that a second Trump presidency would be exponentially worse for their cause. The most important signifier of the Uncommitted Movement, after all, is their belief in tactically utilizing the democratic process to enact change. These are voters who participated in primary elections explicitly to support no candidate. They are politically active and deeply engaged in the political process. They clearly understand the power of their votes and know that sitting out this election entirely would simply hand power to those who don’t share their beliefs.

from the Politico article about why the Harris vote might be underestimated.

One of the most left people I know on social media put it this way: "You're not voting for who you support, you're voting for who you want to be protesting against."

Now I don't know whether to read that as "leftists are voting for Harris" or "my leftist friend's other leftist friends aren't voting for Harris and that's why she feels she needs to post this"

Much appreciation to eephus, Alfred and everyone else putting boots on the ground, phone-banking, etc.

― Blitz Primary (tipsy mothra), Friday, November 1, 2024 8:27 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yes indeed

im sure a lot of uncommitted voters were planning on going with harris all along i mean those are people who are doing a politics via voting so you gotta think a lot of them are going to vote, as for more general dem hating leftists well theyre also pretty politically engaged people, and trump makes it easy to vote for harris by being so blatantly unrelentingly awful, i mean i myself am a double hater but i hate trump and the republicans so much more its kind of not fair to refer to both the hates by the same name, tho fwiw im not voting for harris but i would if i were in a swing state so dont worry

i mean i myself am a double hater but i hate trump and the republicans so much more its kind of not fair to refer to both the hates by the same name, tho fwiw im not voting for harris but i would if i were in a swing state so dont worry

can we just pin this to the top of every subsequent uspol thread kthx

Oh and also I talked to one Puerto Rican voter and.... she was aware of what was said at Madison Square Garden

My wife is canvassing outside Milwaukee tomorrow, I am canvassing around Madison on Monday, I will report back.

the Access Hollywood tape is trending on TikTok, where some zoomers are hearing it for the first time: https://archive.ph/VZtRZ

This week, many said on the social network they were shocked by the former president’s words and confused why the episode wasn’t a dealbreaker in 2016.

“I don’t think any of my friends had heard it,” said Kate Sullivan, a 21-year-old student in Ohio who heard the tape for the first time on her TikTok For You feed this week. “We all felt equally shocked.”

Did people know about the tape before they voted in 2016? she asked a Post reporter.

Yes, the tape came out before Election Day.

“I just recently got into politics,” she said. “The fact that people knew about this, and he still won, is pretty wild to me.”

“Damn, the recent past was crazy, bro”

I like the idea of these kids giving their elders shit for voting this maniac into the presidency though, gonna be some intense holiday dinners

yeah I agree that's a really hard thing to explain

"wait is this country completely fucked?"

*reporter pulling on their collar*

"Well, you see, Kate, Secretary Clinton didn't use dual factor authentication, so both candidates had real flaws"

Lol

Cardi B is going off right now in Wisconsin.