A rant, my patience is wearing thin. Are we ready for November 8th?

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2022/10/are-we-ready-for-november-8th.html

A vote for a Democrat is a vote against Trump. That's all you need to know when you go into the voting booth. It's a vote for justice and it's a vote against the foreign interference in American Democracy that has been working to bring this country down and grab off their piece of it as a prize.

Wake up! Stop whining. Inflation and crime are side affects of two years of a pandemic and are problems Americans are capable of resolving with good leadership like we have now. We are on the verge of losing what we have, because of our indifference, ignorance, selfish interests and apathy. And we need to become assertive in demanding that those we have put in office do their job, ending the charade of a possible Trump candidacy for the Presidency in 2024. That needs to stop now.

I saw a photo of a couple of ignorant jackasses at a Trump rally with shirts that read, "I'd rather be Russian than Democrat." That says more than they might think it does. As for me, I'd rather be an American than a Republican. And I'm going to do everything I can to save my country.

Are you?

[JPPaverage]

1. One word reply

Yes

[3catwoman3]

2. I remember that photo of those 2 leering...

…ignoramuses (ignoramae?). I think it is from the 2016 election.

They can go anytime.

[Groundhawg]

3. I dread the day.

[hydrolastic]

4. To me it seems there is a good chance of keeping the house

But I have to remind myself I am in a blue state in a blue city. What would be worse is we win both. Biden then keeps trying to work with Republicans and they end up ruling with minority rule. If we win we need to "Go like the wind" and pass so much good legislation that there is no chance of them stopping us. Let the Republicans sort themselves out I say.

[lees1975]

5. A little dreaming never hurt...

Lots of discussion over the weekend about how some polls, like Emerson for example, are undersampling the younger vote and Democratic voter enthusiasm, given the numbers the party has turned out in early voting, and may be off by as much as 3.3 percent, which is really the difference between a GOP house or a Democratic house. I don't know how that will work out but we can hope it does.

I'm on the full steam ahead bandwagon as well, especially if the senate neutralizes Sinema and Manchin. Revise the judiciary act, create four new Supreme Court seats and move on into the future. Streamline the hearings, take a vote and bang, we have 13 SCOTUS justices. Then codify federal control of federal elections. Get it out of the state's hands, set up a permanent commission, and make it irrevocable.

[hydrolastic]

6. I can only go by the social interactions I have.

But here at home in Seattle. Most homes have liberal signs on them bumper stickers on the cars. All of the women I know are blue hopping mad. Everybody seems tired of Trump. Then I go to work with a bunch of guys from the suburbs its the opposite. All of the Trump people I deal with use fox talking points daily. But in the grand scheme... We are the majority ! Why do we assume they will win? It seems that we were so traumatized by 2016 and the resulting Cofefe abuse that followed, We can't say we will win anymore !

[lees1975]

7. It's that way where I live, too,

in Chicago. The city is overwhelmingly Democratic, the suburbs are at about 57%, which leaves the downstate at 55-45 Trumpie. But Chicago's population is equal to the entire downstate, and when you add in the suburbs, including the more Democratic areas of Cook County, it's 70% of the total state population.

But even in 2020, the Trumpies had cooled off, and even downstate, there weren't as many yard signs or bumper stickers, and only a handful of flags.

The only social interactions I have that give me a hint that things will look a little more blue than most people thought is from people I know from Western Pennsylvania where I used to live. I've seen a lot of twitter and facebook post from former Trump voters who are not hot on Oz at all, and not so much on Mastriano, either. And I have some family in Virginia who voted Youngkin last year and who now seriously regret doing that.