The 2024 U.S. Presidential race

[Katheryne Helendale]

Supreme Court allows Pennsylvania to count contested provisional ballots, rejecting Republican plea

The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal from Republicans that could have led to thousands of provisional ballots not being counted in Pennsylvania.

apnews.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Free]

Oh sure, that'll happen.

European Greens ask Jill Stein to stand down and endorse Kamala Harris

A coalition of European Greens have urged the US Green party’s nominee, Jill Stein, to pull out of next week’s election and endorse Kamala Harris to stop Donald Trump from becoming president.

Green parties in 16 European countries from Portugal to Ukraine distanced themselves from their US counterparts in a statement on Friday, and called for Stein to withdraw from the race.

“We are clear that Kamala Harris is the only candidate who can block Donald Trump and his anti-democratic, authoritarian policies from the White House,” they wrote.

The signatories include Green parties from several countries in which they govern as part of coalitions, such as Germany, Ireland, Belgium and Spain. The parties said there was “no link” between the Greens in Europe and the US.

“The US Greens are no longer a member of the global organisation of Green parties,” they wrote. “In part, this fissure resulted from their relationship with parties with authoritarian leaders, and serious policy differences on key issues including Russia’s full scale assault on Ukraine.”

 

[Beebo Brink]

So, about polling...

Is Polling Broken?

Nate Cohn: “It’s hard to overstate how traumatic the 2016 and 2020 elections were for many pollsters. For some, another underestimate of Mr. Trump could be a major threat to their business and their livelihood. For the rest, their status and reputations are on the line.”

“If they underestimate Mr. Trump a third straight time, how can their polls be trusted again? It is much safer, whether in terms of literal self-interest or purely psychologically, to find a close race than to gamble on a clear Harris victory.”

“At the same time, the 2016 and 2020 polling misfires shattered many pollsters’ confidence in their own methods and data. When their results come in very blue, they don’t believe it. And frankly, I share that same feeling: If our final Pennsylvania poll comes in at Harris +7, why would I believe it? As a result, pollsters are more willing to take steps to produce more Republican-leaning results.”

 

[Cindy Claveau]

Forget the Polls Showing a Dead Heat. Kamala Harris Will Win

-David Rothkopf -

Kamala Harris is going to be the next president of the United States.

On January 20, 2025, she will become America’s first woman president, America’s first woman of color to be commander-in-chief and America’s first person of Asian heritage to become the country’s chief executive.

Her inauguration will signal a historic watershed in American history, and will also mark the end of nearly a decade during which Donald Trump was a central figure in American politics. He will become an ugly footnote in U.S. history, a name that students will find relegated to “worst presidents” lists and books and articles about corruption.

For students of politics, his rise will be linked to a backlash against irreversible trends in American demographics that will ensure that within just a few years, the majority in the country will look more like Harris than Trump.

She is the future. He is the past. And on Election Day, American voters will embrace that change.

This will all be made possible because, when the final votes are counted in next week’s election, Harris will have outperformed the vast majority of polls and won by a more substantial majority than most commentators expected. Trump will howl and contest the vote. But in the end his conspiracy theories and unfounded legal challenges and intrigues will again be unsuccessful as they were in 2020 and 2021.

Saying it doesn't make it true, but I like the cut of his jib!

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

I will feel better about all this after all the votes are cast and results tallied.

 

[Free]

Saying it doesn't make it true, but I like the cut of his jib!

I worry about people who spend their time cutting jibs. They're usually hanging over the boat without a life vest.

 

[Free]

How to say you belong in prison without actually saying it.

California Landlord Fired After Bragging About Stealing Tenants' Ballots, Using Them to Vote for Trump

The man was fired from his job at an apartment complex after multiple users reported his account for voter fraud and mail fraud to the FBI.

www.latintimes.com

 

[Free]

I never expected to write this, but Trump is on camera miming a handjob and fellatio to a microphone stand.

 

[Essence Lumin]

I never expected to write this, but Trump is on camera miming a handjob and fellatio to a microphone stand.

Yeah, amazing and just before the election. The several minutes long version of this clip from Meidastouch shows him complaining about the mic and how he isn't going to pay the event handlers.

 

[Cristiano]

 

[detrius]

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[Innula Zenovka]

A lot of state poll results show ties. So are they tied because of voters — or pollsters?

Analysis: Even in a close election, random chance means polls should be showing a broader range of results. That raises the question of whether we’re in for another polling surprise.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[WolfEyes]

Surprisingly, Misha has aged quite well.

At 74:

 

[Free]

This is shocking a lot of poll watchers.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Good grief!. Click the "show more" button for the full flavour of his rambling.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Good grief!. Click the "show more" button for the full flavour of his rambling.

Was this before or after the poll results from Iowa and the announcement that Harris will appear on Saturday Night Live before the election?

If it was before, then holy moly he's going to blow another gasket when he gets that information. And I'm not sure he's got many gaskets left....

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Good grief!. Click the "show more" button for the full flavour of his rambling.

If I threw up after eating a bowl of alphabet soup, what comes up would still be more coherent than what gushed forth from Trump's mouth!

 

[Cristiano]

This is soooo good. It made me happy and tear up a little.