You hate to see it…
Waddaya know.
The polls are the polls, and they’re typically biased one way or the other. But votes are votes…
There was a line when I went to vote yesterday at the West Gray location and the line was longer when I left. It was great to see.
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Trump has filed suit in a Florida court to ask them to make the mean NY AG Tish James go away.
Good luck with that.
This would seem to be significant.
Cue the “deep fake” clamoring in 3… 2… 1…
Kash Patel - who, among other things, Trump shoehorned into the DOD after he lost the election - has flipped.
As Barb explains, there’s no reason to give Patel immunity for his testimony if you weren’t going to use it to build a case against a bigger fish. Further, I have read that he was given only “limited use” immunity, which means that he can be prosecuted for breaking the agreement by lying. If he accepted that deal, they had his nuts in a vice.
A friend of mine voted in Kingwood yesterday and said he waited about an hour.
A good sign overall, because when people vote Dems win.
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Went past the early voting station again just now, and there was the longest line yet.
There is a theory that the margins tightened in the aggregated polls because there were a number of heavily skewed right wing polls injected into the algorithm that dragged it back to the middle (the rationale for this being that it energizes the conservative base and de-energizes liberals).
I don’t want to get into the world of “unskewed polls”, because that was hilariously stupid when Romney did it in 2012. But the broad truth on the ground is that the early vote turnout is ahead of 2018’s blue wave and competing with 2020’s numbers. It appears that the youth vote - who aren’t answering calls on their landline from pollsters - is coming out.
Meanwhile, Republican voters have been conditioned these days to vote in person on Election Day, so we will have to see what that looks like when it happens. No chickens being counted at all, but the high early vote turnout is a good bellwether.
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Voted today in Waco. Left my house at 12:40, and was back home by 1:00. No wait, no line, no more than half the available machines in use – even during the lunch hour.
My wife voted a couple of days ago. She said she had about five people in front of her in line, but was still in and out pretty quickly.
No wait during lunch in Travis county.
This is not going to go well for the Trumps.
Also, in the Trump Org criminal trial already underway in NY, the defense has laid it all on Weisselberg, saying that the other officers (i.e. the Trumps) didn’t know what was going on, he was acting alone, betrayed their trust yada yada yada.
It’s an interesting tactic, considering that Weisselberg is still the CFO of the Trump Org!
I had to take care of some thing at the LBJ Library on Tuesday and on my way out noticed there was Early Voting in the lobby, and out of 12 or so voting stations, one was being used. I got in and out in less than 10 minutes.
Why would Republicans wait until Election Day to vote in person using voting machines they know damn well are rigged??? Seems like a waste of time. They should just refuse to vote. I know that strikes are a tool of the left but we’re living in uncertain times and whatnot.
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That’s no not how being the officer of a corporation works. You don’t get to point at another officer and say “he did it”. You have an obligation to know about and monitor your fellow officers. You can’t say that they have specialized expertise and that you have ceded all responsibility to them. If your management skill set is that narrow, you are not allowed to be an officer of a corporation. Most handle this by hiring an independent, third-party auditing firm to do the double checking for them.
It’s a bad argument, but it’s all they have. I’m sure Weisselberg has all the receipts.
Scratch a Republican, this is what you find. They’re still fighting FDR.
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