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(29,238 posts)she knows about this concern thing
When Susan loses later today, she can start her own freelance concern agency
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,350 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Squinch
(51,074 posts)quakerboy
(13,923 posts)If your voters dont exist.
Squinch
(51,074 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,390 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)TwilightZone
(25,505 posts)He put a lot of emphasis on PA at the end. I think they were trying to make up lost ground.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)underpants
(182,972 posts)They treated it like it was a piggy bank until suddenly they needed it and the money was gone.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Oopsie
dubyadiprecession
(5,734 posts)...and they would rather go home.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Rice4VP
(1,235 posts)if I were a Trumpanzee too
Windy City Charlie
(1,178 posts)Hopefully this isn't a trick by the Trump campaign to try and make potential Biden voters who have plans of going to the voting booth yet today think it's in the bag.
KatyMan
(4,214 posts)Why wouldn't one want to vote anyway? Especially with all the downticket races.
brush
(53,957 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,029 posts)you've defeated yourself before the polls are even open
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)underpants
(182,972 posts)If you can avoid it. Waaay too many things can go wrong.
coti
(4,612 posts)Squinch
(51,074 posts)I picture them in a desolate field waiting for a bus.
YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)They should be.
They have to offset the early voting advantage that the D's have piled up.
It would be tough if they had all hands on deck ready for action. Sounds like most of the crew is still below decks playing tiddly winks.
Squinch
(51,074 posts)durablend
(7,466 posts)Eeking out a win isn't enough. Needs to be crushed.
Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)The Magistrate
(95,264 posts)Sycophants and ideologues are seldom the best people for a task, and the lower levels of the Republican by now contain little else.
MineralMan
(146,341 posts)Renew Deal
(81,889 posts)greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)If this cashes out, how fucking incompetent could they be?
MyOwnPeace
(16,946 posts)Well, just look at their "COVID-19" response!
MyOwnPeace
(16,946 posts)The team in Pennsylvania was not as prepared as it should be in a state that could decide the presidency.
The "TRUMP TEAM" was not as prepared as it should be to assume the presidency......
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,292 posts)They've been trying to squeeze out more from that voting bloc, though. That's why they've spent so much time traversing Westmoreland county (western PA, southeast abutting Allegheny county) and in Erie.
My precinct is red and turned out at 79+% in 2016. From standing in line to vote this morning, that's probably a good bet for this year, too. Voters need to show up in the normally apathetic Democratic areas of the county. I did a little drive by, stop and chat at a couple of them after I voted. One had a line out the door and had had one since polls opened at 7. The other one had no outside line, but I was told had seen a steady stream of voters.
Windy City Charlie
(1,178 posts)Trump's problem has been is he's relied totally on his base in this election (between that and the courts). He seems to think his base is as large as it's ever been. The problem isn't getting the base to vote. The question is is how large is the base.
bluehen
(8 posts)Rural Chester County- outside of Philly.
DeminPennswoods
(15,292 posts)distancing than maybe big turnout. I was working the polls in Phila the first time Rendell ran for PA gov. Everyone in Philly and its suburbs was excited to vote for their former mayor. We got a crush of voters early and few after the workday voters, but it was very light after maybe 2PM. I think this might be one of those kind of times. People had pent up demand to vote, went/are going early and cannibalizing the late afternoon and evening vote.
stopdiggin
(11,399 posts)in this campaign "as they should be" ??
Let's remember this is the third string here, with a few waterboys suited up to pad the numbers. Why would we be expecting differently for election day?
quakerboy
(13,923 posts)Theyve been right on that grift thing.
And theyve been extremely prepared to give putin anything that isnt nailed down. Even brought hammers to lose up a few things thst were nailed down.
stopdiggin
(11,399 posts)But -- being a numbers runner for the local bookmaker -- was never a real skilled labor (or management) position in the operation either. Again -- bench warmers.
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Proud Liberal Dem
(24,450 posts)If they're worried, I'm happy!
TeamPooka
(24,279 posts)CozyMystery
(652 posts)Son #2 decided he wasn't going to vote today because his vote won't matter. Son #1, who was on way to pick him up, told him that he was coming to get him and he would carry him bodily out to the car and into the polling place. Son #2 knew that #1 was serious and would actually do that. So all three voted for Biden this morning.
We never see young folks at our polling place. Today, Son #1 was giddy over there being 4 young people there to vote, with 6 old people making up the balance in the indoor waiting area. Until I pointed out that with the 3 of them, there were 7 young people.
Sometimes it helps to have triplets ... the numbers look better when they are present.
Of course, where we live, some of those young people will vote straight R.
ETA (edited to add): I don't get out much because I have cancer. BUT I see plenty of young people who work at the cancer center. They aren't going to tell me their political views. So I get around it by mentioning AOC. Their faces light up and they tell me how they love her. I tell them that next prez election I think AOC will be old enough to run. They get happy about that. Then I say that Biden will be a great president because he will fix a lot of what has been broken and AOC can fix the rest. I figure those folks will vote for Biden. They all assure me they will vote, or have already voted.
So I have to be a little sneaky but at least I can encourage people to vote and to vote for Biden.
Whether AOC will run (or be ready to run) for president is beside the point.