• PNW_Doug@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    News like this makes me wonder if David Bowie finally reincarnated somewhere on Earth. Everything went to shit in 2016 after he left for his home planet.

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      10 months ago

      I love it. Even if you can’t flip your Red State, having your votes means Harris can point to a broad spectrum of support that extends even into deep red places, and you never know. It might just be your vote that flips a city or county seat blue and makes it less likely that you and those around you get caught up in the Reich-Wing attempted coup.

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        10 months ago

        I’m at least one vote in Florida against team evil and for team Harris…ignore my name, it was from a time when Palin was a threat. Wow life was innocent

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          10 months ago

          It seems like so far ago. And it reminds me I am not a kitten anymore!

          You want innocent? Mid 90s, when the worst thing we had to worry about was a blowjob in the Oval Office. Bill getting his knob waxed seems like another whole lifetime!

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        10 months ago

        It might just be your vote that flips a city or county

        It’s always your vote that flipped the seat; everyone who voted after you just showed up as backup.

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        10 months ago

        Yep, plus it helps build momentum for long term change and flips in the future if nothing else. Like Georgia was a solidly red state for a long time until it ended up gaining enough steam to flip

        It went from R+11 in 2000 to R+5 in 2008 to D+0.2 in 2020. If every dem voter sat home in the time between, there would have been no chance for that trend to start and there to any serious energy put into flipping it

        Conversely, it’s also why voting even in solid blue states still matters to ensure they stay solidly blue

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      10 months ago

      Even TX needed only 5% more registered voters to go blue in 2016 and even less than that in 2020. Every vote counts!

      Polls in TX open Oct 21-Nov 1, with one final day of voting on Nov 5. Polls are open at least 9 hours the first week and at least 12 hours during the second week and final day of voting (typically 7AM-7PM during weekdays, though polling stations may differ)

      Everything you need to know about the TX elections including voter registration, ballot by mail, dates, polling locations/hours, etc can be found here

      https://www.votetexas.gov/mobile/index.htm

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    10 months ago

    It’s North Carolina, according to YouGov.

    Now you don’t need to click on a Newsweek link and feel dirty.

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    10 months ago

    Do bettrr with titles, put the 5 Ws in them.

    Or is lemmy.world complicit with clickbait journalism?

    And therefore, just another funded media outlet.

    Make it a posting rule.

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    10 months ago

    As a SC resident, it is nice to see both neighbor states turn purple, still red here unfortunately, but i am adding my tiny drop of blue paint to the red bucket this November

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      10 months ago

      Love this sentiment. Honestly I never thought I’d see my home of Georgia go blue. 2020 was a powerful reminder that there is still power in our votes. Keep the pressure up until all of these wannabe fascists are gone.

      If anyone from Georgia sees this; you can request a mail-in ballot beginning August 20th! It’s my favorite way to vote because it’s easy and comfortable. The fact that it seems to annoy the fascism party is a really nice bonus too.

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        10 months ago

        It’s unlikely that Georgia will turn blue; Georgia will likely be purple for a long time to come.

        There are a lot of Republicans in Georgia that never liked Trump, and still don’t. But Republicans still easily control the House, Senate, and Kemp easily beat Abrams a second time in 2022, when the governors race is a straight popular vote. (What the fuck were Dems thinking in nominating her again, anyways? She lost badly the first time, and lost worse the second. Did they somehow expect a wildly different result?) Ossof and Warnock won originally in part because ‘the election was rigged’, and so Republicans simply didn’t show up to vote in runoff elections.

        I do not recommend people use absentee ballots in GA. They’re being sharply limited, and you can expect them to be contested, given that power to certify elections has been taken away from the sec. of state. Yeah, it’s a pain in the ass to vote in person in metro-Atlanta, but that’s a more sure way of getting your vote counted.

        Anecdotally, I have not seen any Biden signs or bumper stickers in my area (I’m in Clyde’s district), definitely no Harris signs, but most of the pro-Trump stuff I see looks like it’s been neglected, e.g., yard signs that are falling down and haven’t been re-staked in weeks.

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      10 months ago

      Keep in mind that even in South Carolina, 43% of voters vote blue! Twelve points is a pretty big difference, but there are a lot of Democratic voters even in red states.