Well, then just go to those who aren't fine with having their property taken away and put them in ads that run 24/7. Let them tell everyone how Trump uses the federal government to drive them off their land.
If a government wants to build a new highway, they have to buy the land and sometimes courts can force you to sell if anything else has failed, if they judge national interest is more important than the individual interest.
I don't think you understand. In their minds, it is unfortunate that those folks are being driven off their land, but, by golly, at least it is for a racist cause.
No, it’s not.
Unless you've been living in a cave or something, we actually know a whole lot about suppression efforts. This isn't some kind of back-room skullduggery that's been going on; voter suppression efforts are rampant, public, and have strong vocal political backing. The only unknown is how effective they will be in the end; but there is no reasonably denying that their effect ABSOLUTELY makes the race a whole lot closer than "Biden has a 90% chance of winning" implies. Biden might have a 90% of winning if everyone who wanted to vote for him, and by law has a right to, was actually able to cast a vote and have it counted. We already know for a fact that is not the reality of the situation, so "90%" is just grossly misleading.
And with the exception of Alabama and one or two other cases, we’ve won and overturned those efforts. So what, exactly, are you referring to and in which states?
Based on what?
Actually the only thing grossly misleading is the notion that you have any insight that experts don’t.
"Only one or two other cases"...right, like, Texas for instance successfully restricting early-voting drop boxes to one per county? Yeah that might be "just one case"; but do you seriously want to act like that "one case" hasn't successfully repressed at least tens, and conceivably hundreds, of thousands of votes all by itself?
My only insight is that they were spectacularly wrong four years ago, and that all by itself is enough to stunt my confidence that this time around they definitely have it all figured out because Reasons.
Salome, you know as well as anyone that we're all suffering from 2016-inspired PTSD. No amount of logic can quell the intense anxiety that I'm feeling right now, and I can't bring myself to berate anyone who is steeped in fearful pessimism. Yes, those fears may well be unfounded, but that doesn't make them feel any less awful right now while we wait.
Oh, I understand.
Say what you will about them, at least the Soviets counted votes efficiently.
I'm probably going to call in sick on Wednesday, and I'm not even American.
I requested CTO (vacation hours) for Wednesday weeks ago. I know that I'm going to be absolutely wasted because I'll be following election results all night long. We've laid in a stock of popcorn and dip, essential comfort foods, and if I could drink, I'd have laid in substantial quantities of alcohol, too. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to get through this stone-cold sober.
Even if the voting yields a Biden win, there still is anxiety about the horseshit that follows.
