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In reply to the discussion: Trump showed his hand too early on mail in ballots. [View all]paleotn
(21,888 posts)20. That last ditch effort probably won't work either....
He's been able to get his core demographic, white males without a college degree, to turn out in 2016 and 2018 in numbers not seen in decades. But he's also generated gargantuan turn out in all demographics that oppose him, thus the 2018 blue tsunami. And not much has changed in that regard since the mid terms. Sure, the dumb, racist mother fuckers will turn out, but we will overwhelm them once again.
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It's like me picking someone on my fantasy football team. I could probably blackmail those guys.
brewens
Oct 2020
#4
Yup - drove a few million extra voters out to vote early. Including myself.
lagomorph777
Oct 2020
#3
I live in Florida. I mailed my ballot and checked the government site that assured receipt.
olegramps
Oct 2020
#15
I dropped it off, then checked the government site to make sure they recorded it as received.
lagomorph777
Oct 2020
#30
The bizarre thing is that his supporters are in groups likely to use mail-in.
TwilightZone
Oct 2020
#6
This is true for me. I requested absentee and drove to a ballot box, in years past I would have
Happyhippychick
Oct 2020
#7
I'll be there...I wish Michigan had in person early voting like other states
Buckeyeblue
Oct 2020
#63
When I read and hear about all the problems and challenges in voting this year,
world wide wally
Oct 2020
#23
It seems that Trump received the opposite effect he intended. Americans smelled a foul stench
Illumination
Oct 2020
#24
In 2016 Trump operated freely, no one questioned "Russia, if you're listening ...."
bucolic_frolic
Oct 2020
#25
With mail-in voting favoring Dems, I hope for terrible weather on election day! (n/t)
thesquanderer
Oct 2020
#41
I take some comfort that is flailing and having to do 30 rallies a day to try to catch up.
themaguffin
Oct 2020
#44
If his base is waiting for election day to cast their ballots, he may lose a lot of
Dark n Stormy Knight
Oct 2020
#50
