US Election 2020 🇺🇸 🤯

Ocean Breeze said:

You are really OUT OF LINE. Where are the mods when one needs them. Shameful.

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JLM said:

I just read up on Alf Landon...……………………..tenacious old bugger!

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But the messages played well with the crowd that gathered on a chilly September night, many of whom waited for hours in the cheery anticipation of a sporting event to snap a photo of Air Force One or hear the president speak. Cheese curds, a Wisconsin staple, were not on the food truck menu. Maga curds were sold instead.

“Trump, he’s for us, he’s for our rights,” said Lori Cates, 52, of nearby Stevens Point. “Too many of the good things he’s done for our economy are overlooked. Biden, Kamala, the socialist left, they want to take our guns away. For too long I didn’t pay attention. Not any more.”

Temperature checks were required for those entering the rally and bottles of hand sanitizer passed out. But masks were optional and few and far between. Meanwhile, Wisconsin’s rates of Covid infections are surging, with positivity rates reaching north of 20% in recent weeks.

Reporting from the New York Times shows eight metro areas in the state top the list of where Covid rates are rising fastest – including Stevens Point, 20 miles south.

But those stats didn’t have Lori Cates too worried. “I think a lot of it is made up,” she claimed. “It’s a ploy to take away from (Trump’s) success.”

Outside the rally, vendors hawked imaginative campaign swag: bottles of water labeled “liberal tears”, T-shirts depicting Trump as Rambo, and Blue Lives Matter flags in support of law enforcement.

Jennifer Warner, 34, made fast business out of her so-called Trump trailer, selling shirts, hats, cups with crude messages aimed at ruffling progressives. An hour before the rally started, Warner had plenty of Don’t Tread On Me flags, but she was sold out of whiskey glasses that read: “**** Your Feelings”.

“Hey, do you have any more shirts left that say ‘No More Bullshit?’” a customer asked Warner. But she was fresh out of those, too.

For Mosinee, a fading paper mill town on the banks of the Wisconsin River, it was the second visit from Trump in as many years – a meaningful stop for residents living in Wisconsin’s northern half, said Mike Wagner, a professor of political communications at the University of Wisconsin.

“Mosinee is a part of the state that often gets ignored, and resents being ignored. Giving attention to them, that’s half the battle,” Wagner said.

That point wasn’t missed by Angel, the barkeep at RoundAbout 2, a tavern on Mosinee’s main street, who asked to be identified only by her last name.

“I think it’s just awesome Trump’s here,” she said. “He’s paying attention to small towns instead of just big cities. He’s paying attention to people like us.”.........Much more

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Tecumsehsbones said:

My mind is a rubbish dump.

I just hope it's a reasonably interesting rubbish dump.

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Tecumsehsbones said:

The solution is so dead simple only you and Walter could miss it.

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Now, a number of states are extending those deadlines, so ballots only need to be postmarked by Election Day, instead of received by Election Day, which is currently the law in most places.

But the changes have given rise to a new problem. Thousands of mail-in ballots routinely arrive without a postmark or one that isn't legible, and election officials have to decide whether to count those ballots and under what circumstances.

"Any time where I think that there would be a calculus made that challenging the results, on any of these sorts of grounds, could potentially change the outcome, I think you might see additional litigation after Election Day," said Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project, a conservative group opposed to extending the mail-in ballot deadlines.

The postmark issue emerged this year in Wisconsin's primary after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that ballots postmarked by Election Day would count as long as they were received within five days of the election. But local clerks started seeing hundreds of ballots without the marks and weren't sure what to do. The state eventually advised that ballots without postmarks should be counted if it seemed "more likely than not" that they had been mailed on time.

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Twin_Moose said:

Liberal media is starting to pay attention this from The Guardian

'He’s paying attention to people like us': Trump’s messages resonate in Wisconsin

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Hoid said:

Biden polling even with Trump in North Carolina and up 9 points in Arizona.
Fat Kid not looking too good here.
Those russian troll farms better get busy.

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Twin_Moose said:

You said in this thread and I agreed

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Mockingbird said:

Okay, my turn. Trump has done good donating his yearly salary to various charities. Regardless of me saying in the past that it is done for optics only as he has in fact proffitted off the US taxpayers through his golf clubs which likely offsets these "donations" these charities would not have gotten this money otherwise, so it is a good thing.
Your turn, something bad...

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Twin_Moose said:

Endorsing Nancy Pelosi for speaker of the house because he thought he could work with her


Anyway I'm sorry we will have to suspend the game here I'm dealing with a personal family tragedy and I will be really bipolar for awhile.

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Twin_Moose said:

Endorsing Nancy Pelosi for speaker of the house because he thought he could work with her
Anyway I'm sorry we will have to suspend the game here I'm dealing with a personal family tragedy and I will be really bipolar for awhile.

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Mockingbird said:

Im sorry to hear that and no need to be sorry, none of this is more important than family. I wish you well.

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Twin_Moose said:

Thankyou

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Twin_Moose said:

Endorsing Nancy Pelosi for speaker of the house because he thought he could work with her


Anyway I'm sorry we will have to suspend the game here I'm dealing with a personal family tragedy and I will be really bipolar for awhile.

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Girth said:

Once again, media sources interview the lowest common denomination, and the answers are as predictable as ever.

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Though Republican candidates appear to be slipping on the surface, Republican voter registration is still outpacing that of Democrats.

Arizonans broke turnout records with 36% of registered voters casting a ballot. 1.45 million voters returned a ballot in the primary this year, and the GOP and Democratic split was tight, with 52% of voters casting GOP ballots and 48% casting Democratic ballots.

Kelli Ward, the chairwoman of the Arizona GOP, said the party isn't taking their registered voter advantage for granted.

"Just this week we had the president, we had the vice president, we've got Karen Pence, the second lady," Ward said. "We saw Ivanka Trump here in Arizona over the last few days, and the president and this administration have done more for Arizona than any previous administration. We know that they care about our state and their visits just reinforced that."

Ward has used her position to amplify the president's message. She won her seat in 2019 after ousting establishment-backed Jonathan Lines, a Yuma businessman, who started his term as the chair in 2017.

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Democrats in the state may be fighting tooth and nail to pull more voters to their side of the aisle if only for one election, but Republicans historically have the advantage in the state. Before Sinema's election, Arizona hadn't sent a Democrat to the Senate since the 1980s.

Despite that advantage, having Trump at the top of the ticket -- and some of the implications of tirelessly supporting him

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Twin_Moose said:

We all know this will be appealed even the Judge agreed by leaving his decision open for 7 days for it.

Judge extends Wisconsin absentee cutoff 6 days post election

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