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OneBro

(1,159 posts)
Thu Oct 1, 2020, 06:09 PM Oct 2020

Actually, that IS enough for me: Biden/Harris is not Trump/Pence.

Talking heads love jawboning about how Joe must offer something more than the fact that he isn't Trump. Well, they don't speak for me. Joe's whole ad campaign could be "I am not Donald Trump," and that would be enough to get me in a miles-long line to vote for Joe. Luckily we need only drop our ballots in the mail here in Oregon, but you get my point.

It isn't that I don't care about policies and issues, it's that there is not one policy or issue that we are so far apart on as to cause me to not vote for Biden/Harris.

Hell, I don't even know what's currently in our party's platform. Probably something about the environment and a strong middle class and workers' rights and immigration and human rights and other ideals consistent with the modern Democratic Party.

Sure, I look forward to sitting down with my party and discussing prison reform and rebuilding the Civil Rights Act and judicial reform and infrastructure and the ERA and affordable health care and affordable higher education and living wages and what needs to be done to hold every lying, thieving, traitorous republicans accountable . . . but today is not that day.

Today, is about voting for Biden/Harris.

Some folks may choose to exercise their right to voice their concerns and anger and disappointment about a Biden/Harris stand or lack of a stand on this policy or that issue, but my response is gonna be the same: I'm voting Biden/Harris. Everything else is just noise.

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Actually, that IS enough for me: Biden/Harris is not Trump/Pence. (Original Post) OneBro Oct 2020 OP
They love rattling the cages of the "Joe Biden has to EARN my vote!" crowd. Aristus Oct 2020 #1
I put the "earn my vote crowd" in the MAGA column with the "undecideds." OneBro Oct 2020 #4
Joe is enough for me too. onecaliberal Oct 2020 #2
Biden, Harris and every Democrat on the ballot. dchill Oct 2020 #3
Yup. I'm in blue Oregon, but I've been phone-banking my relatives in red states. OneBro Oct 2020 #5
Another Oregonian here leftieNanner Oct 2020 #6
Greetings, neighbor! OneBro Oct 2020 #7
Thanks for the info leftieNanner Oct 2020 #8

Aristus

(66,320 posts)
1. They love rattling the cages of the "Joe Biden has to EARN my vote!" crowd.
Thu Oct 1, 2020, 06:11 PM
Oct 2020

Hell, Joe Biden would have earned my vote just by not being Donald Trump. Fortunately, he brings a lot more to the table than just that.

But the "earn my vote" crowd is too busy earning their rubles...

OneBro

(1,159 posts)
4. I put the "earn my vote crowd" in the MAGA column with the "undecideds."
Thu Oct 1, 2020, 06:18 PM
Oct 2020

As they say in Thailand: same-same

onecaliberal

(32,828 posts)
2. Joe is enough for me too.
Thu Oct 1, 2020, 06:13 PM
Oct 2020

These so called undecided are not undecided. They are white supremacists who don’t have the intestinal fortitude to be honest with people. 205,000 Americans are dead. So no. I don’t need anything else. I need 2 mother fucking functional adults to remove that orange piece of shit and get to helping the country.

OneBro

(1,159 posts)
5. Yup. I'm in blue Oregon, but I've been phone-banking my relatives in red states.
Thu Oct 1, 2020, 06:21 PM
Oct 2020

If they didn't know before about the importance of down-ballot races, they sure as hell know now.

leftieNanner

(15,082 posts)
6. Another Oregonian here
Thu Oct 1, 2020, 06:22 PM
Oct 2020

I have checked in with our County Elections Board and our ballots will be mailed out on October 16th. I will have it filled out the day it arrives (have to do some homework on some of the local issues) and am planning to drive it up to the Elections Board office myself.

Cheers!

OneBro

(1,159 posts)
7. Greetings, neighbor!
Thu Oct 1, 2020, 06:32 PM
Oct 2020

I'll be personally dropping mine off too. I don't know if other counties offer this, but if you are in Multnomah County, I suggest using "Track Your Ballot" offered here: https://multco.us/trackyourballot "As a Multnomah County voter, you can sign up to receive alerts via text, phone or email. Know when your ballot is mailed out to you. After you vote and return your ballot, be alerted when it has been accepted for counting."

Good luck and be well!

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