Political Discussion Thread II

That’s what happens when ya join the CULT OF THE FIRE HAWK!!! WOOOOOOO!!! OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! WHY DID I THINK THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA???

(Seriously though, a violence-free election would be so nice.)

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This is 2020, good things don’t happen anymore.

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Now that’s just simply not true.
Ori and the Will of the Wisps was ■■■■■■■ fantastic.

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Nuzzles gently

God I missed you.

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I know. But your princess is in another castle.

Is suddenly Yoshi.

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Somehow the most surprising thing to happen in the last 36 hours.

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Here’s a dumb question - if a candidate runs unopposed, what’s a good number of “write in” votes that tel the party “hey maybe we should have ■■■■■■■ put someone on this ■■■■■■■ ticket”?

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I’m not sure if it’s dumb, but that’s not really quite how that works. And honestly, it’s more often that there are candidates with no real chance to win. Contrastingly, I see a lot of local, often non-partisan races without sufficient candidates.

Regardless, to answer the question more directly, I’d presume it’d vary by distrct/what office.

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The one I’m thinking about is Morgan Griffith in my own 9th district of VA.

Don’t get me wrong - we were probably going to go red.

But 6% write in against a candidate who ran unopposed feels like maybe we should have had a name with a D next to it on the ballot.

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On my lunch break at work. No way I’m reading 30+ posts. I’m guessing it’s more of the same?

As a side note : I take great exception to the disparity of reporting. CBC says one thing, CNN says another. And not even close. 253 to 213 vs 270 to 268. Annoying. Whatever.

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Who’s saying this? I just saw the other number on local news.

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Don’t know why anyone would be showing the full 538 at this point it time.

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According to reddit, fox just called MI for Biden.

They’ve been calling states before anyone so far, and so far have not been proven wrong.

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Oh! We’ve got a new contributor. Welcome to hell Rinkles.

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Now featuring dirty grade school sex humor.

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Also

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I just looked at their site and saw the other number. :man_shrugging: Oh well. This is going to be a contentious couple of weeks/months, eh.

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Fox’s decision desk was actually covered a lot before the election, and is kind of low key fascinating? The person who runs it couldn’t name who he reported to, and was a Clinton voter. Apparently much like their polling operations it’s very independent, and even more so presently because of how sclerotic Fox has become post-Ailes.

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I’m guessing CBC’s includes “leading in”. Thus the full compliment.

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