1968

I’m using pretty simple extrapolation here but this is what AZ may look like:

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1969

OK, maybe not the Senate itself, but EC is definitely rooted in slavery–part of the reason they didn’t go with a popular vote (keeping in mind that, to the framers, the popular vote was for landowning “gentlemen” only) was that all those enslaved people in big slave states couldn’t vote: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/electoral-college-racist-origins/601918/ , and of course adding the number of Senators to the count of each state’s EVs just made things worse than the “three-fifths compromise” had already.

1970

Gotcha, thanks. So part of the question is how strongly correlated the late arriving requests were to the late arriving returned ballots. Reasonable to assume there’s some correlation, for sure, but unclear how much (to me at least).

1971

Illinois also says a rather emphatic HI

1972

PA also says you’d better finish up yer chores before you head out huntin’ with the coonhounds or there’ll be hell to pay.

1973

Nate Silver on AZ:


1974

How very unexpected.

1975

PA and OH have the most to answer for, being comfortably northern states. If they could get their shit together we wouldn’t ever have to do this again.

1976

OH COME ON. This election is killing me!

1977

The 3/5 of a person thing was definitely easier to implement with Electoral college system than a straight vote.

1978

Geezus fuck off already Nate.

1979

Nate Silver is history’s greatest monster.

1980

Yeah, I added that 3/5 part to my post.

1981

'Merica.

1982

I saw that, too.

I think of the long lines for free food the past months around here, in a county that voted 70% Trump.

A whole lot of people that I have known (including some Dems) believe that government ought to care for the welfare of people… down to about their level. But lower in the pecking order, they are lazy bums.

There is a racial component to this sometimes, sure, but nowhere near only. As a teacher, I often took in bushels of apples knowing that a lot of students were legitimately hungry. And there was a weird mix of enthusiasm among adults and muttering about it. And it seemed to have everything to do with where the observer and the particular kid matched up in the social pecking order. I’d say “one social step down from me” brought out the worst.

The explanation I heard, when they criticized to my face, was the give people stuff and they quit trying.

I heard the same thing about county services, but with a slightly different angle. They didn’t want services to be too good, because it would attract freeloaders to their community.

1983

Few people anywhere understand it.

1984

Imagine voting for Donald Trump after all his bullshit. Collins I get. I may not agree with her but she’s a functioning adult qualified to hold office. I have joked in the past that it’s hard to find a human being less qualified to be president than Trump but it’s true. After everything we’ve seen from him over the last four years, tens of millions of people across this country voted for more.

1985

I think that’s just an attitude we’re going to need to give up. The idea that there are lots of Republicans who care about Trump being an idiot, a liar, and a grifter so much that they’d either not vote or vote for a Democrat is clearly false.

They only care if the other guy is an idiot, a liar, and a grifter.

1986

I am going to assume this is 100% accurate so that my nerves don’t fray any further

1987

Go fuck yourself Cheeto.