Without making this political, as a Canadian that can’t vote in the election but will be effected by the result I implore everyone to take this election seriously and vote if you can. With the COVID crisis and civil unrest this is the most important election of my lifetime and for anyone who is able to vote please take the responsibility seriously.
Don’t think your candidate will win anyway etc - every vote counts as we saw in 2016. So please - make sure your voice is heard.
I think its also important for people to realize that this election can go in any direction. I would not be shocked in the slightest if Trump decimates Bidden, Trump squeaks past Bidden, Bidden decimates Trump, or Bidden squeaks past Trump.
Don’t be fooled that any result is a given based on your social circle. This is the type of thinking that leads to people not voting, ESPECIALLY if you live in a swing state.
Trump is such a hard person to accurately poll. Don’t forget that back in 2016 most news outlets were saying he had zero chance. I remember Huffington Post said he had a 3% chance of winning.
Trump doesn’t have the raw numbers for a landslide (most reputable reports have his support maxed-out at around 40-45%). but it’s possible that he could squeak out another EC win.
The likely outcome is that Biden wins (in large part, b/c he has more ways to win). If Biden wins FL, he wins…If Biden sweeps the midwest trio, he wins…if Biden can squeak out wins in NC & GA, he wins.
The more pressing question IMO, is what will happen when/if Trump loses?
Will he acquiesce power willingly, or will this get ugly.
I hope so…regardless though, my main point in what I said is that I hope anyone who opposes trump votes. Don’t take a Bidden win for granted.
Like I said earlier…in 2016 Huffington Post gave Trump a 3% chance of winning, SNL was doing skits of Hilarys guaranteed win, these are just two examples of hundreds. I believe that a lot of people who will vote Trump are very quiet about it, or flat out lie about it. Any poll involving him is tough to gauge, it’s truly all over the place.
Long story short, everyone please vote (I’m Canadian so I can’t, but my fingers are crossed).
I’m an American. I’ve spent the last four years thinking about 2016 every day
Like I said, trump can win and the polls can be wrong but we are not seeing the same thing as we did in 2016. There are a lot of differences with biden.
And HRC was probably the worst possible choice in 2016 and it wasn’t utter destruction. Biden getting crushed is probably the least likely outcome. I could see it being very close tho.
I 100% agree its least likely, I just wouldn’t be shocked. Also, to be clear, when I say decimated (maybe not the best word choice) I consider what happened last time being that. I’m not talking anything crazy like a shutout or even necessarily a win in the popular vote.
Can we both agree that all democrats NEED to vote and not take this for granted?
I’m from The UK and whilst on furlough I followed American News instead of The British News (As it was getting annoying) so I followed what’s going on.
But seriously, how can this be close and considering what The President has been saying and all the outrageous claims he and his family and staff have been making, is there nothing that can be done to stop it?
TBH, it looks like The Democrats aren’t taking any chances and it looks like having Barack Obama won’t hurt.
Bet if anyone booing The Doctors at the rallies, will want their help should they get it
Buddy of mine went down to Florida (pre covid/protests to be fair) to attend a business seminar. When he was there, he asked quite a few people “Whats the deal with Trump, does the guy have any shot?”.
He’s not a Trump supporter at all and he was genuinely curious. He said that the overwhelming response was “The guy is an idiot, but I’m still going to vote for him”. I wont get into the reasons they laid out today.
Granted these were people in business, so I’m sure that skews things. But its stories like that which make me nervous.
If Raw tonight is a shit show, I wouldn’t mind if they spent 10 minutes reviewing it and spent the rest discussing The Election.
If it wasn’t so serious, it’s like Pro Wrestling, you having The Face Faction going up against The Heel Faction.
I’m just hoping that it does follow the time honoured tradition of the head of the heel faction wanting help from the other members of the group but they’ve had enough and turn on him to kick him out of the group at the worst possible time for him.
Got a feeling that this thread may end up looking like it’s the thread for an ongoing Wrestlemania.
I may even stay up throughout the night watching it all.
After all, I did it for the marathon Wrestlemania’s
Well actually no votes count. This is an indirect democracy. You are literally voting for other people to vote for the president. Which happens in December.