Interesting that this is going on when Twitter is owned by Elon Musk. But the fact may be that if the momentum is strong enough behind a given sentiment that it’s futile to try to suppress it. I do confess to some amazement, however, that Musk is allowing this since he’s going to be tapped to run the United States the way he runs his rocket company, i.e., straight into “unscheduled disassembly” mode in the event of a Trump win. In all events, there it is, big as life.
I didn’t and I never have #VotedforTrump.
I’m an American. FU Trump. pic.twitter.com/jQ2d1InIBL— PrettyGrafikDesign (@TheHausWorking) November 5, 2024
We could have a record turnout in this election. That has been expected. Forbes is reporting that 82,000,000 ballots have already been cast. If conventional wisdom holds and a strong turnout means good news for Democrats, then we could win this thing handily. It has been noted that Trump began to encourage mail-in ballots a while back and the Republicans did what they were told. But it well may not be enough.
I live in Nevada, where there was a surge of ballots from rural counties. I recall Jon Ralston intoning just last week and I quote, “There is no way this is good news for Democrats.” As of yesterday the tune has changed to Nevada will go for Harris. I am hoping and praying that this is the story of the election as a whole. Yes, Republicans may have voted early. But I am hoping for that giant voting bloc, the 100 million voters who don’t vote, to come out of the closet and decide this election.
Election Day 2024 arrived Tuesday — with tens of millions of Americans having already cast their ballots. Those include record numbers in Georgia, North Carolina and other battleground states that could decide the winner.
The early turnout in Georgia, which has flipped between the Republican and Democratic nominees in the previous two presidential elections, has been so robust — over 4 million voters — that a top official in the secretary of state’s office said the big day could look like a “ghost town” at the polls.
As of Monday, Associated Press tracking of advance voting nationwide showed roughly 82 million ballots already cast — slightly more than half the total number of votes in the presidential election four years earlier. That’s driven partly by Republican voters, who were casting early ballots at a higher rate than in recent previous elections after a campaign by former President Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee to counter the Democrats’ longstanding advantage in the early vote.
Despite long lines in some places and a few hiccups that are common to all elections, early in-person and mail voting proceeded without any major problems.
That included in the parts of western North Carolina hammered last month by Hurricane Helene. State and local election officials, benefiting from changes made by the Republican-controlled legislature, pulled off a herculean effort to ensure residents could cast their ballots as they dealt with power outages, lack of water and washed out roads.
By the time early voting in North Carolina had ended on Saturday, over 4.4 million voters — or nearly 57% of all registered voters in the state — had cast their ballots. As of Monday, turnout in the 25 western counties affected by the hurricane was even stronger at 59% of registered voters, state election board Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell said.
Brinson Bell called the voters and election workers in the hurricane-hit counties “an inspiration to us all.”
It is inspiring. Let us hope that America comes together for democracy today. This could be the largest turnout of the electorate in American history. We need a decisive Democratic victory so that Trump’s claims of having won the election or the election having been stolen will be greeted with the peals of laughter that such a comment deserves.
Or, it could come down to a tight race. That’s possible.
And yes, conceivably the race could go the other way and the worse president in American history could be elected yet again. Anything is possible. But let’s jump off that bridge when we come to it. Meanwhile, so far, so good.
Listening to NPR, I heard that the turd emperor has voted in Florida. Are convicted felons allowed to vote? I thought Defuture was against that.
After Kamala Harris wins I am going to write and petition our elected officials to rid our space program of muskrat and I hope everyone else does the same. We don’t need that POS.
Yes, it was legal for Trump to vote in FL. I looked up the law on this to be sure. Had he been convicted of the same crimes in FL he’d be subject to similar penalties that he faces in NY which could include prison time. Also, FL law says they have to honor the judgements of courts in other states. However Trump has yet to be sentenced, much less be put behind bars. Were he still a resident of NYC he could have legally voted there because he still hasn’t been sententenced. Only AFTER he was behind bars would he be prohibited from voting in New York. So that means in Florida he’s still got the right to vote, much as we might hate it. You can however be goddamned sure that if it was a DEMOCRAT DeSantis would have even a Presidential nominee/candidate arrested and charged. He wouldn’t care that the charges wouldn’t stick. He’d just order it done (and it WOULD be done) to cause a Democrat embarrassment, hassle and legal expenses.