Well, that’s damn good, isn’t it?
Courtesy of CNN:
Former Vice President Joe Biden is dominating President Donald Trump in the latest polls. No, the election is not over yet, and Trump still has a non-negligible chance of winning.
But a look through history reveals that Biden is in a better position at this point than any challenger since 1936, when the first scientific polls were taken in a presidential race.
The ABC News/Washington Post poll released on Sunday was the latest poll to indicate Biden’s strength. Biden led Trump by a 55% to 43% margin among likely voters. The poll was the third high quality national poll published this week that had Biden up by at least 10 points and above 50%. The other two being from CNN/SSRS and Fox News.
Indeed, the average of polls has Biden at around 52% or 53% and up by somewhere between 10 and 11 points. This is an unprecedented position for a challenger with a mere 23 days to go until Election Day.
In the 21 previous presidential elections since 1936, there have only been five challengers who led at this time. Of those five, only one (Bill Clinton in 1992) was ahead by more than 5 points. None of those five were earning more than 48% of the vote in the polls.
In other words, Biden is the first challenger to be above 50% at this late juncture in the campaign.
Once again I am sharing this with you to keep you hopeful and engaged.
It is NOT to suggest that we have this thing in the bag and everybody can relax.
Quite the contrary, nothing is in the bag and nobody should be relaxing until we have voted Donald Trump out of office and Joe Biden is securely ensconced in the White House.
And even after that, we should remain wary, because I think Trump still represents a danger to our country right up until he takes his last breath.
The twin towers fell in a handful of seconds. The last 3 years 9 months have been, similarly, an ongoing total systemic and structural collapse.
National polls don’t mean anything. Only the polls in the swing states. And even then, Barr and the Republicans have laid the ground work to steal the electoral college by challenging the results and installing their own electors. As Bill Maher would call it, the GUS effect.
Even California Isn’t immune.
https://news.yahoo.com/california-republicans-allegedly-setting-fake-043500622.html
“California Secretary of State Alex Padilla’s office has received complaints about what appear to be unauthorized ballot drop boxes in Los Angeles, Orange, and Fresno counties, and it appears from social media posts that California Republicans have set them up to collect ballots, The Orange County Register reported Sunday night. The metal boxes, which purport to be “official,” have been reported at local political party offices, churches, and headquarters for GOP candidates.
“Operating unofficial ballot drop boxes — especially those misrepresented as official drop boxes — is not just misleading to voters, it’s a violation of state law,” Padilla said, and a felony conviction would land perpetrators in prison for two to four years. County elections officials and registrars are solely empowered to set up and maintain drop boxes in accordance with strict state security rules.
The California Republican Party did not respond to the Register’s requests for comments, nor did individual GOP operatives who have implicated themselves on social media. But the state GOP has “been defending the practice in replies on Twitter, alleging the process was made legal under a 2016 law that allows California voters to designate a person to return their ballot for them,” the Register reports. “The GOP calls the practice ‘ballot harvesting’ and blames it for losses to the Democrats in OC and other places in 2018.” State officials say unauthorized drop boxes would violate that law since there’s no designated person to sign for the ballot, as required.
Slate judiciary staff writer Mark Joseph Stern sees something a little more nefarious than just trying to make it more convenient for Republicans to vote. “California Republicans are allegedly creating fake drop boxes and tricking voters into depositing their ballots in them,” he tweeted. “Apparently they’re trying to prove voter fraud is real by committing actual election fraud.””
https://news.yahoo.com/california-issues-cease-desist-gop-232110016.html
“California officials issued a cease-and-desist order Monday to the California Republican Party after GOP officials acknowledged setting up unofficial ballot drop boxes that state election authorities said were illegal.
State election officials said they had received reports about the boxes in Fresno, Los Angeles, and Orange counties. Officials in Ventura County also said they had received reports of unauthorized ballot drop boxes.”
“The cease and desist order gave the GOP until Thursday to remove all boxes. Padilla said that legal options would be reviewed if it does not comply, Padilla said.”
“On Sunday, Padilla issued a memo telling county registrars the unofficial boxes were illegal and that ballots must be mailed or brought to official voting locations or offical drop boxes. “In short, providing unauthorized, non-official vote-by-mail ballot drop boxes is prohibited by state law,” the memo said.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/california-election-officials-denounce-state-gops-fake-ballot-collection-boxes_n_5f8496f4c5b6e6d033a614e3
“California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Secretary of State Alex Padilla said Monday that they have sent cease-and-desist letters to the state Republican Party and county Republican organizations to immediately remove the fake drop boxes in Los Angeles, Orange and Fresno counties.”
“The cease-and-desist letter, a copy of which HuffPost obtained, requires the state Republican Party to arrange with the attorney general’s office to provide county elections officials with the names, addresses and birth date information of voters who had already dropped off their ballot in the unofficial drop boxes by Thursday. GOP officials must also immediately return and surrender to the appropriate county election official any vote-by-mail ballots received through the fake drop boxes.
The first unofficial boxes were spotted in Southern California, according to the Orange County Register and KCAL-TV. At least one of the boxes disappeared after local residents notified election officials in Los Angeles County, and it’s not clear how many, if any, ballots had already been deposited before the box was removed.”
Words fail me as to just how disgusting the Republican Party has become.
But I think Bill Maher hit the ball out of the park with GUS.
Today is Amazon Prime Deals Day.
Remember to buy tons of shit because the prices are great. And when it arrives, in all its packaging, throw out into the trash all of still-working last-seasons-models that you are supposedly replacing. Make sure every room in your house has a few TVs, and every pocket of every piece of clothing has a phone.
And all because the prices are great.
Because remember, its great to be “woke” about climate change. And biden supports fixing it.
But biden isn’t the one making all those purchases in your household!!! YOU ARE!!!
“But the prices are great”. Climate does not care.
“But we are so woke”. Sigh.
wasn’t trump supposed to have died of covid 19? he gets every treatment on the planet and we get fucked. VP Biden has to win or we turn into a third world dictatorship.
This is good news, but remember that Trump would happily burn this country down if he could be president of the ashes. Not even Nixon would be capable of this.
Hey, I’m right there with you. The most vulnerable time for this country will be from Nov 4 until January 21 because we have someone in the Oval Office who really just does not give a damn about the fellow inhabitants of this planet. I mean he really just DOES NOT CARE! I was no fan of George W. Bush, but at least when he was in office you had a sense that the guy was trying his best. We truly didn’t know how good we had it back then.
At least I didn’t worry George W was going to push the nuclear button because he feelings got hurt.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/heres-the-real-reason-trump-is-running-scared-from-another-debate/
Trump was desperate to not have these “accomplishments” a matter of public debate.
it is plausible to conjecture whether he might not be the most successful bio-terrorist in history. Who else could possibly challenge him?
These are the real reasons Trump fled a second debate.
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/10/13/romney-says-hes-fed-up-with-vile-american-politics-blames-trump-for-much-of-the-division.html
Oh come on lighten up! He’s going to leave. Have we all voted yet?
You are delusional. You sound like someone who thinks a woman can be “half pregnant”.
Open your eyes and ears.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/trump-continues-his-19-blunders-as-he-resorts-to-pathetic-ploys-to-shore-up-his-sagging-image/
…”he’s a con man,” – “He’s been conning his whole life, and now, he’s conning the American people. He only cares about himself.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6gAUO86TuM
Chyna! The Lincoln Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJQZ7yG7Tdg
Brings tears to my eyes END THE CHAOS
Don Winslow Films & Bruce Springsteen – #AmericaNeedsPennsylvania
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFuk6Eb1rK8
“reckless with power.”
Trump Insider Cohen Exposes Plan To Jail Rivals In 2020
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/trumps-disgraced-former-physician-s-bidens-mental-capacity-in-official-campaign-call/
Jackson’s purported assessment of Biden comes despite the fact that he is not a cognitive health specialist and has not examined the former vice president personally.