1988

In response to some of the hand wringing about Trump votes during pandemic:

1989

It does put to rest a lot of the Russian meddling ideas though. Apparently we were trying to convince ourselves that it had to be external factors, and not the fact that half of the US is truly stupid and/or evil.

1990

That said the microtargeting enabled by social media? Definitely a thing.

1991
1992

Choosing to take this as a sign of good things to come:

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1993

Double rainbow dude died to covid.

1994

Yes, but I view it like hypnotism. It only works if you were already predisposed to it.

1995

Yes. That was a sign given after total destruction happened.

1996
1997

This is like the 4th quarter of every Seahawks game, except it never ends.

1998

@triggercut, I heavily heavily discount this idea, but what’s the chance the egregious polling errors are actually pointing to shenanigans?

Source: I’m a former nuclear power trained naval officer. #1 rule of operating a nuclear plant is “trust your indications”

1999
2000

I kinda doubt it. But…that’s something I honestly wouldn’t know much about. Which…I’m not dodging the question. I mean: I really don’t know anything about what that would look like! I wish I could give you a better answer than “I don’t know.”…but if I’m being honest…

2001

Seems like we’ll know about PA last, not next. Hopefully it’s just a cherry on top.

2002

Really hope that Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada or Arizona become clear by the end of the day

2003

If you trust the AP they just need to call NV and MI and that would be enough.

2004

Completely anecdotal based on my experience yesterday as a first-time poll worker - while there is ample opportunity for shenanigans, it isn’t happening. Any and all goofiness is from having a bunch of poorly trained people making simple mistakes because the provided direction in many cases is written worse that IKEA furniture instructions. I will likely never vote in person again after seeing the process first-hand - I trust mailing my ballot in a LOT more.

Obviously, this is just at the polling place level - lots of room for sleight of hand elsewhere in the process.

2005
2006

Trump’s campaign manager says he’ll request a recount in Wisconsin, though it may be up to two weeks before one can begin. In 2016 a statewide recount increased Trump’s margin by 131 votes.

So, Trump’s message is: stop counting where we think we’re winning, but count twice where we’re losing.

2007

Are polling errors consistent nation-wide or just in battleground states? Do states with the worst errors use DRE voting? Stuff like that, I’d imagine, but yeah, I doubt it too and I don’t really know either. Thanks for the response!