The 2024 U.S. Presidential race

Isabeau

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I do not agree with any of this, and that does not make me petty.

Opinion: We must have compassion for those on the losing side of presidential election
(Cincinnati Inquirer )

Obviously, not my country (election), but unless someone shows remorse, accepts defeat graciously, and wishes to make amends, I do not feel the need to respect or forgive. This isn’t some one off thing.

I suppose if we’re talking about an individual that is close to you, maybe nonstop gloating might not be the way to go, but in general, I don’t think there is any need to show compassion towards a group such as this.
 

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I do not agree with any of this, and that does not make me petty.

Opinion: We must have compassion for those on the losing side of presidential election
(Cincinnati Inquirer )

Obviously, not my country (election), but unless someone shows remorse, accepts defeat graciously, and wishes to make amends, I do not feel the need to respect or forgive. This isn’t some one off thing.

I suppose if we’re talking about an individual that is close to you, maybe nonstop gloating might not be the way to go, but in general, I don’t think there is any need to show compassion towards a group such as this.
Flipping it in reverse, would their side show us any compassion if our side lost? Absolutely not! I, for one, am tired of taking the high road all the time.
 

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I followed Harris and Trump round North Carolina. It’s clear who’s going to win | The Independent
I was waiting outside the PNC Music Pavilion in Charlotte, North Carolina after Vice President Kamala Harris’s rally when my phone started to blow up. Ann Selzer, the vaunted pollster of Iowa, had just dropped a poll showing that Harris was leading Trump by three points in the Hawkeye State — a state Trump had won twice. Everyone in the political world wanted to talk about it.

The Trump campaign knew how bad this news looked. Tony Fabrizio and Tim Saler, the Trump campaign’s data men, released a memo challenging the findings almost immediately.

Not long afterwards, a New York Times/Siena College poll showed Harris leading in North Carolina, as well as Georgia, Nevada and Wisconsin. If Harris wins all four, she would not even need to win Pennsylvania, Arizona or Michigan in order to win the entire election.

By the time these polls dropped, I may have been shocked at their margin, but I was not surprised that Harris’s campaign had drawn another ace. That’s because I had spent much of Saturday following both presidential candidates around North Carolina on the final weekend of the campaign and it had become clear to me that Harris had all the momentum, while Trump was grasping for straws.
 

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I do not agree with any of this, and that does not make me petty.

Opinion: We must have compassion for those on the losing side of presidential election
(Cincinnati Inquirer )
Yeah, that is bull shit.

I vaguely tried that in 2016, at this point, fuck these idiots and let them grovel until the end of days at the feet everyone they have threatened harm to over the last 8 years.

God knows they won't change their tune, they will just bitch endlessly that it was some Soros fueled theft of the election against "Saint Dumbass."
 

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a New York Times/Siena College poll showed Harris leading in North Carolina, as well as Georgia, Nevada and Wisconsin. If Harris wins all four, she would not even need to win Pennsylvania, Arizona or Michigan in order to win the entire election.
I don't dare imagine.... awww screw it. I'M IMAGINING IT AND IT'S GLORIOUS!

My little pee brain is incapable of influencing the real world beyond just the power of thought. So I feel free to imagine what we're all probably thinking.

Trump declares victory 5 minutes after the polls close in NYC. News media frowns because that's their job.

National race called by 9 PM EDT?

Kamala becomes the cause of Trump's Traumala.

And America slept soundly that night.

Amen.
 

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I don't vote and have explained why ad-nauseum. I don't know what a swing state is. I don't know if Cali is a swing state.
You probably explained it to someone else. I just remembered some of your remarks popping up in my peripheral vision and was confused because I had been under the impression that you and your partner had a mutual agreement to not vote because you'd cancel each other out anyway.

And a swing state is a state that doesn't reliably vote red or blue. It may go one way or another - unlike California, which will go to to Harris.
 
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So, about polling...

Is Polling Broken?
I'm more comfortable hoping that people will begin to trust the institutions of voting and government than I am worrying that people won't trust polls. Who the frankly flying gives a hell damn fuck. Let the polling process die in a fire.