2020 General Presidential Election Thread

[Uncle Ted]

Knock it off. Those are all anecdotes. Mountains of data/evidence showing it works fine.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/he...st-11594920269

If you want less voter fraud, switch to mail-in voting.

Don't take my word for it... Ask Rep. Jerry Nadler:


Those mail-in "paper ballots are extremely susceptible to fraud":

He "can show you experiences which would make your head spin"!

Your erroneous conclusion may reflect a partisan bias in your reading material. You can go all the way back to four weeks ago, for example, to read about Congressman Steve Watkins (R-KS) being charged with multiple felony counts of voter fraud. I also remember a Republican in North Carolina being charged late last year on multiple counts of voter fraud. I won't bother to Google these and other examples but there are many.

Oh crap... the GOP'ers are doing it too! More reason to vote in person.

[frank ryan]

Why in the hell is trump so scared of mail-in voting?

Because high turnout will hurt him. It traditionally does hurt GOP candidates in swing states. In many places (see Georgia) it's excessively burdensome for minorities to get to their polling place and vote because it's been changed at the last minute, is intentionally set to serve way more people than can be orderly done on election day etc.

Beyond all that, Trump can try and game the system by relying on friendly GOP state leaders to not allow all ballots to be counted. Trump should lose this election but he's cheating to win.

[BlueK]

Because high turnout will hurt him. It traditionally does hurt GOP candidates in swing states. In many places (see Georgia) it's excessively burdensome for minorities to get to their polling place and vote because it's been changed at the last minute, is intentionally set to serve way more people than can be orderly done on election day etc.

Beyond all that, Trump can try and game the system by relying on friendly GOP state leaders to not allow all ballots to be counted. Trump should lose this election but he's cheating to win.

I think Trump and the Republicans will lose this time despite any shenanigans he will throw out there.

[Uncle Ted]

Media spin already starting. New York Times labels her a "pragmatic moderate":

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1...661672453?s=20

Yet she has the second most liberal DW-Nominate score in the Senate after Warren:

https://voteview.com/congress/senate

Is it too late to pick Hillary as Biden running mate?

Kamala Harris Is Far Worse Than Hillary Clinton

Making someone as extreme as Kamala Harris a president-in-waiting is a bone-chilling prospect. No conservative or moderate should support it.
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It’s Harris’s policies that repel me. While I tend to view “Flight 93” thinking as hyperbolic, she does present a major threat to the constitutional order, to the economy, and to established norms. Moreover, she stands an excellent chance of succeeding Biden to the presidency should their ticket be elected in November. Kamala Harris poses a far greater danger to the Republic than Hillary Clinton. Anyone who calls himself a conservative should recognize this.

Harris’s platform is so far to the left of the mainstream that she makes Mrs. Clinton, a hero to the Left for several decades, look moderate.
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The Democrats’ guiding strategic precept is: Never let a crisis go to waste. In their minds, the personality and behavior of Donald Trump constitute a crisis, and they may find broad agreement on that point from the electorate. But Biden’s selection of Harris indicates that the party is prepared to overstep any mandate it receives yet again, as it did in 2009–2010, the period of unasked-for Democratic hyperactivity that led to the election of a Republican to replace Ted Kennedy in the Senate and the famous “shellacking” in the midterms. Making someone as extreme as Kamala Harris a president-in-waiting is a bone-chilling prospect. No conservative or moderate should fail to recognize the danger.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/...llary-clinton/

There is only one reason why a moderate Dem would vote for this ticket... https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbre.../#6b520bf56132

Hey, neither is Jo!

[LVAllen]

Is it too late to pick Hillary as Biden running mate?


https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/...llary-clinton/

There is only one reason why a moderate Dem would vote for this ticket... https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbre.../#6b520bf56132

Hey, neither is Jo!

After the last few years, the GOP is going to have to do a hell of a lot to convince me it gives a rat's fart about the economy, the constitutional order, or to established norms.

[Uncle Ted]

After the last few years, the GOP is going to have to do a hell of a lot to convince me it gives a rat's fart about the economy, the constitutional order, or to established norms.

Only the last few years? Other than the Paul's (in the primaries), I haven't voted for a GOP'er presidential candidate for about 20 years or so. https://www.lp.org

[originalsocal]

Is it too late to pick Hillary as Biden running mate?


https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/...llary-clinton/

There is only one reason why a moderate Dem would vote for this ticket... https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbre.../#6b520bf56132

Hey, neither is Jo!

OMG! The National Review says that Kamala is worse than Hillary! It most certainly must be true!

[BigFatMeanie]

https://www.ksl.com/article/50007282...dential-ballot

Justin Lee, the state’s elections director, confirmed that West will be on the November ballot in Utah after he completed the proper paperwork, submitted the $500 filing fee and gathered 1,000 signatures from registered Utah voters needed to be on the ballot.

I'm 100% voting for Kanye.

[Pelado]

https://www.ksl.com/article/50007282...dential-ballot



I'm 100% voting for Kanye.

Can't really be any worse than the incumbent.

[BigFatMeanie]

Can't really be any worse than the incumbent.

Yup. I was going to write in Mitt as a protest vote, but Kanye will do nicely for that purpose and he's on the ballot so I don't need to do any writing. Win-win!

[Uncle Ted]

LOL... Joe, the home-wrecker:

EXCLUSIVE: 'Joe Biden stole Jill from me': Her first husband tells how she CHEATED with Democrat candidate he once considered a friend and that they have LIED about how they started dating for years

• Joe Biden and his wife Jill had an affair that broke up her first marriage, her ex-husband told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview
• Bill Stevenson says that their story about how the presidential candidate fell in love with Jill after a blind date is made up
• The way the Bidens tell their story, Joe saw a picture of Jill in March 1975 — after her marriage crashed — and they went on a date and have been together since
• But Stevenson claims he andhis then wife met Biden in 1972, when they worked on then-New Castle County Councilman Biden's first campaign for the Senate
• At the time Biden was married to his first wife Neilia who died with their daughter Naomi in a car crash between the election and Biden taking his Senate seat
• 'Jill and I sat in the Bidens' kitchen,' Stevenson said. 'We worked on his campaign'
• Stevenson said he first suspected Biden and Jill were having an affair in August 1974; He was then 26, Jill was 23 and Joe was 31
• 'One of her best friends told me she thought Joe and Jill were getting a little too close,' he said
• That October he got confirmation when a man informed him Biden was driving his wife's car and the two of them got into a fender bender
• Stevenson said: 'I asked Jill to leave the house, which she did... I considered Joe a friend. I'm not surprised he fell in love with Jill'

[...]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ex-claims.html

Good thing the election is about picking a person to run this country and not picking a church choirboy.

[LVAllen]

LOL... Joe, the home-wrecker:


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ex-claims.html

Good thing the election is about picking a person to run this country and not picking a church choirboy.

Yeah, cause Trump comes out the poorer under either standard.

3 wives. Dating wife #2 while Wife#1 was in the same vacation town with the kids. Multiple affairs. Paying for sex.

Versus the claim by the ex-spouse that his then-wife ditched him for someone else.

[Uncle Ted]

Yeah, cause Trump comes out the poorer under either standard.

3 wives. Dating wife #2 while Wife#1 was in the same vacation town with the kids. Multiple affairs. Paying for sex.

Versus the claim by the ex-spouse that his then-wife ditched him for someone else.

The claim was that Joe had an affair with his wife while working for him during his first senate run. Joe was 31 and Jill was 23.

Neither Biden or Drumpf are choirboys but one seems to be corrupt when it comes to using their position in the government. It is a very touchy subject for him:

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"Look, fat." "You're a damn liar!" Still cracks me up.

[PaloAltoCougar]

Another good ad by Republican Voters Against Trump.

[Uncle Ted]

Another good ad by Republican Voters Against Trump.

LOL... this is the same government dumbass that google hired. The Dems were all bent out of shape about him then:

The House members wrote that the hire “appears to contradict Google’s own moral and ethical values.”
[..]
“We are deeply troubled with Google’s decision to hire someone from the Trump Administration that has defended the very same cruel DHS policies Google senior leadership has previously denounced,” the letter said. It was signed by Joaquin Castro, chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, as well as Karen Bass, head of the Congressional Black Caucus, and Judy Chu, chair of the Asian Pacific American Caucus.

Trump’s actions have been “devastating to refugees and immigrant families,” the House members wrote. “During his time with DHS, Miles Taylor undoubtedly demonstrated his support for the Trump Administration’s immigration policies.”
[...]
House members wrote in the letter to Pichai that, “We find it alarming when companies choose to reward and hire individuals that have played active roles in implementing cruel policies that target and hurt the communities we represent and Google is no exception.”

"Google’s own moral and ethical values.” Google dropped the 'Don't Be Evil' clause a long time ago.