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He’s too busy searching the couch cushions for the $1.4 billion he owes Sandy Hook victims.
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If the GOP really wins the House by just two votes, it’s going to be a hilarious mess. McCarthy is too much of a wet noodle to whip 218 with only a 2-seat cushion. Scalise is already knives out for the Speakership and others may smell blood in the water. If I’m the Dems, I’d toss in a grenade by doing something like nominating Liz Cheney (since the Speaker doesn’t have to be a member of the House) and then sit back and enjoy the show. It’s called ballot curing and it’s a standard process for elections.
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And this should make sense because Dems are much more likely to vote by mail than Republicans. Many states don’t allow the counting of mail ballots until Election Day. So the Election Day vote skews GOP while the mail in vote skews Dem. This is the Red Mirage. In states with good election laws like Florida, they can count the mail ballots ahead of time. They just don’t release any numbers until after the polls close on Election Day. More states should follow Florida’s lead. Pennsylvania tried to but the bill failed in the legislature.
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There’s as much evidence that 2020 was stolen (or 2022 for that matter) as there is that 2016 was stolen, the earth is flat, we didn’t land on the moon, and birds aren’t real. Go spend some time on a flat earther forum. It’ll probably feel like home. Also, the incompetence and inability of some states to quickly process ballots isn’t evidence of fraud. It’s just evidence of incompetence and/or poor election laws/administrators.
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The American Media Should Not Be Trusted
ChiGoose replied to SCBills's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Looks like the polling for the midterms turned out to be excellent. Per The Economist: So if the polling was excellent, but everyone is surprised by the outcome, that does lead credence to the idea that our media sucks. -
Don’t forget that the GOP generally ran terrible candidates because they still bend the knee to their orange Godking and their policies are wildly unpopular with most Americans. This election should have been in the bag for the GOP but they ended up shooting themselves in the dick with an unregulated firearm.
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Well this might be the dumbest thing I’ve read all day, so congratulations, I suppose. If the GOP really cared about stopping abortions, they would do a root cause analysis and address the causes of abortions. But they don’t, so they don’t. They just want an issue that activates the people they consider rubes to vote for them so they can funnel more money to the donor class.
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The comparison to Europe is a bit more nuanced. They have a lot more exceptions than American laws have. Also, since they also have universal healthcare, there is a lot easier access to medical care generally. Here, if you have a positive pregnancy test, you’re basically already four weeks into pregnancy and you may not have regular access to a doctor. If you’re someone with an irregular period, you may be at 6, 8 or more weeks before you take a test. If we really want to reduce elective abortions, we should actually focus on the root cause instead of trying to put the government into the hospital room.
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Well, that’s not the reason I think Elon buying Twitter is bad and dumb. I don’t have strong opinions on the twitter content moderation debate. You can curate your Twitter experience and if you find something objectionable, you can block that account. That worked fine for me. The issue I’m pointing out here is that he seems to think that the Checkmark was a product for those who received them. It’s more important as an indication to other users that the person is who they say they are. That is no longer the case. Anyone pay for a checkmark without validating their identity. Brands are small-c conservative with decisions like ad buys. Why would a brand pay money to advertise on a platform where anyone can convincingly impersonate them and harm their reputation? Revamping content moderation is fine. Combining the blue check with twitter blue and removing the validation requirement likely just killed the platform.
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The American Media Should Not Be Trusted
ChiGoose replied to SCBills's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
I'm not defending incompetence. I'm pushing back on misinformation. If people actually read the article, there was no issue with the voting machines. -
The American Media Should Not Be Trusted
ChiGoose replied to SCBills's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
I mean, the issue was with the printers, not the vote tabulation machines. It was resolved by officials changing the printer settings. But you do you, buddy. -
It doesn't go to runoff, then. Though it may trigger a recount. And would look bad for the outlets that called the run off. Remember that it is not the states or election agencies calling the races right now, it's the media. Media outlets using their models based on turnout, exit polls and vote tallies "call" the elections at this stage. Nothing is legally official until the states complete their counts..