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That gives me a lot of hope (I've been pretty pessimistic for the last few weeks...) Because a very similar thing happened in the New Zealand elections in 2020. The amount of women who went out and voted early was huge.
My Aunt voted for the first time in her life to vote for Jacinda/Labour. My Mum voted for her as well, the first time she has voted for a left leaning party.
This is also the best nationwide result in the popular vote for a main party since 1951, the most seats any party has won since 1990 and the first time Labour has won an absolute majority of the vote since 1946.
I don't think Kamala will do that well because, well sexism/racism. But I'm hopeful.
What has the response been to this in the US? All a bit cringe to me but clever that she used this to make light of her laughing, which the Trump camp are obsessed with.
I don’t know but take my palm-ela took me out
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It came off really well, if TikTok is any thing to go by. I think the two of them were both enamored to meet one another regardless of all else, and their play-by-play did very well @ this stage in the election.
That’s good then! Being in the UK it’s hard to see any of our politicians doing something like this and not be ridiculed.
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I was thinking the same, but Texas has a similar ban so maybe we'll see the same thing there?
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While I was watching it last night I was reminded of that absolute car crash of a sketch Tony Blair did with Catherine Tate.
Yeah, plus +3 in Iowa is what, a +16 shift? If the states where the ban is still theoretical only pull, say, half that shift, a +8 still might be enough to shift some battleground states.
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Maya sitting opposite Harris, who she’s parodied for ages, and seeing her properly realise she’s engaging with not only the person likely to be the next president, but the first woman / woman of colour to be elected president? Gave me goosebumps tbh.
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As far as “SNL the weekend before election”’s go, I must tip my cap to the time when John McCain showed up with Tina Fey as Sarah Palin, and at one point Sarah ”went rogue” and tried to sell Palin 2012 t-shirts.
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It's believed that Iowa would at the minimum mimic culturally the kind of voter culture amongst whites in the plains (as seen with shifts to Dems or away from Republicans like in the NE+2 district/some Kansas district or in the Nebraska Senate race where an independent is taking on a Republican after Dems decided not to run anyone).
And the idea is that the plains are culturally similar enough to the rust belt that there is some cultural overlap.
For example, polls this far are either not showing or are not capturing the same kind of shift amongst white educated voters in the sun belt states, whether in NV/AZ or NC/GA.
So the national implications are limited, but it suggests Republicans losing independent white women in the rust belt due to the impact of the Dobbs decision, with Harris only needing MI/PA/WI in order to win.
This is making me sick. Christ, how are people voting for a convicted felon who’s about to be sentenced in a few weeks??
Jesus Christ. Why have the Right latched onto this squirrel? They’re so weird.
My mom and I dropped off our ballots today so we've officially voted for Harris/Walz and I do feel a sense of relief that we've at least got that taken care of. It's a small comfort, but it's at least something. There were quite a few people there also dropping their ballots off and there's been a massive turnout since we were able to start turning our votes in, I think more than ever before. I'm petrified seeing how close the polls are...I just can't fathom what kind of brain dead monster is still voting for a literal convicted felon, with convicted felon being probably the least horrible thing about him.
The way the 2020 election got pushed into a week of constant anxiety and fear was something I (and everyone else) had never seen or could've predicted but this year feels even scarier because we know now how insane it can get - we’re not going into this one blind. This pretty much sums it up:
I think we’re likely in for another multiple day count. To my fellow American PJers, if you’re able to stock up on things you need and stay safely at home while everything goes down, please do. I remember on election night in 2020 I was about to head to the store to grab a few things but I had this intense gut feeling to just stay home and I thought I was being silly but it was actually good that I listened to that feeling. I heard gunshots later that night and the…educationally challenged folks were going insane. The day before the counting was done and the election was called, I was at the store in the parking lot (in broad daylight) and a guy with a massive trump decal on his truck threatened to r*pe me and slit my throat because I ignored his cat call and then when he wouldn’t stop, I said I wouldn’t touch a trump supporter with a ten foot pole. It was so bad that other people were going off on him and another man walked me into the store. I was so rattled. Batshit people like that felt emboldened and untouchable because trump was throwing a tantrum and kept declaring his win and screaming voter fraud. So if you can stay safely at home, please do. It’s a really scary world and the people are even worse.
The way the 2020 election got pushed into a week of constant anxiety and fear was something I (and everyone else) had never seen or could've predicted but this year feels even scarier because we know now how insane it can get - we’re not going into this one blind. This pretty much sums it up:
I think we’re likely in for another multiple day count. To my fellow American PJers, if you’re able to stock up on things you need and stay safely at home while everything goes down, please do. I remember on election night in 2020 I was about to head to the store to grab a few things but I had this intense gut feeling to just stay home and I thought I was being silly but it was actually good that I listened to that feeling. I heard gunshots later that night and the…educationally challenged folks were going insane. The day before the counting was done and the election was called, I was at the store in the parking lot (in broad daylight) and a guy with a massive trump decal on his truck threatened to r*pe me and slit my throat because I ignored his cat call and then when he wouldn’t stop, I said I wouldn’t touch a trump supporter with a ten foot pole. It was so bad that other people were going off on him and another man walked me into the store. I was so rattled. Batshit people like that felt emboldened and untouchable because trump was throwing a tantrum and kept declaring his win and screaming voter fraud. So if you can stay safely at home, please do. It’s a really scary world and the people are even worse.
I don’t doubt for a second that he’ll declare victory before all votes are counted.
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