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MineralMan

(146,286 posts)
Thu Sep 24, 2020, 10:59 AM Sep 2020

Worried about the November 3 Election?

Vote! Bring two or three other people with you to vote who wouldn't bother to do so!

Focus on winning that election, not on "what if" questions. Don't waste your time on worrying about what we'll do if Trump gets another term. Work on making sure that doesn't happen.

Help to make it crystal clear on election day that Trump lost. That's what we can do now and going forward to November 3.

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Worried about the November 3 Election? (Original Post) MineralMan Sep 2020 OP
That's not what we're worried about frazzled Sep 2020 #1
Also make sure you vote blue up and down the ballot zeusdogmom Sep 2020 #2

frazzled

(18,402 posts)
1. That's not what we're worried about
Thu Sep 24, 2020, 11:19 AM
Sep 2020

I have no doubt that millions more Americans will turn out, either in early in-person voting, mail-in balloting, or on Election Day to vote for Biden/Harris. We may see some of the highest turnout numbers in decades, or ever.

What is so worrisome are the plans that Trump is telegraphing about discrediting even an overwhelming victory by the Democrats. Most worrying is that they have a plan in place to possibly use whereby the Republican governors of swing states will be able to replace electors with their own choices, thus swinging the Electoral College even in the face of defeat.

We're worried about the chaos and lies, and the "new" Supreme Court, which may not be willing to stop any of it. We're worried about hundreds of court cases in the states.

I am not being a Henny Penny. It's real, and it's disturbing. If we haven't learned by now that anything previously unimaginable may occur with this administration, then we are naive fools.

zeusdogmom

(990 posts)
2. Also make sure you vote blue up and down the ballot
Thu Sep 24, 2020, 11:23 AM
Sep 2020

Biden needs a D majority in the Senate as well as the House.

Local and state elections are just as important. Our heavily red state legislatures have done a lot of damage in the last couple of decades. (see Ohio as an example. OMG). City, county, school boards, etc. impact daily life in our communities. We need good people there, too. Plus where do you think many of our state reps, etc. come from?

Looking forward to a night of Trumpie crying great big trumpie tears because he is beaten by a huge humiliating margin. I'll be happy no matter what the numbers are as long as the Biden/Harris ticket wins. But I would love to see Trumpie absolutely destroyed by the results - and a few of his little henchmen and women in the senate, too.

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