2024 Presidential Election | ELECTION DAY 2024

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Rock said:
Real question: what kind of data do campaigns have access to that we wouldn't? I asked this in a sense that people are speculating about why Kamala would go to Texas. If it means that she feels comfortable in swing states, etc. I'm not concerned with the reason for that but rather the people saying oh the campaign must feel good about XYZ. What would the campaign know that we don't?
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They have much more detailed polling than the public has. Harris seems to think a large portion of Republican leaning women in the suburbs can be persuaded to vote for her based on Dobbs.
 
Paine said:
I think this Harris event in Texas is more relevant for races nationwide as well. This will get national coverage and spotlights how Trump’s abortion bans are hurting women. Texas is currently the state with the most restrictive abortion ban.

FWIW, Trump is campaigning in Florida today.
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I think that's right. She's using Texas as a prop. Good for her.

Also, I'm not sure where she's going next, but Texas is right on the way from GA to AZ so it doesn't cost much time at all for the candidate to stop in.
 

With polls tight, US election campaigns target overseas voters​


"... The Democratic National Committee estimates that 1.6 million U.S. voters abroad are eligible to vote in one of the seven battleground states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin - that will likely determine the outcome of the election.

The group is believed to favor Democrats. Among people who used Vote From Abroad, a nonpartisan voter support tool linked to the DNC, three-quarters of overseas voters in the 2020 election said they were Democrats.

So for the first time in a presidential election the DNC has given Democrats Abroad funding - around $300,000 - to help register Americans overseas to vote and ramp up its mail-in voting operations and other efforts. It has taken out ads on social media urging Americans abroad to send in their ballots.

... Republican presidential candidate Trump is also after American expatriates. Earlier this month he said he would end the double taxation of overseas Americans.

The former president's campaign has not offered further detail on how the policy would work but it could end a burdensome requirement that mandates U.S. citizens to file income taxes in the United States regardless of where they live.

While Americans abroad do not have to pay U.S. tax on their first $126,500 in earned income and are eligible for some foreign tax credits, it can be a bureaucratic headache expatriates from many other countries don't face. ..."
 
nycfan said:

With polls tight, US election campaigns target overseas voters​


"... The Democratic National Committee estimates that 1.6 million U.S. voters abroad are eligible to vote in one of the seven battleground states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin - that will likely determine the outcome of the election.

The group is believed to favor Democrats. Among people who used Vote From Abroad, a nonpartisan voter support tool linked to the DNC, three-quarters of overseas voters in the 2020 election said they were Democrats.

So for the first time in a presidential election the DNC has given Democrats Abroad funding - around $300,000 - to help register Americans overseas to vote and ramp up its mail-in voting operations and other efforts. It has taken out ads on social media urging Americans abroad to send in their ballots.

... Republican presidential candidate Trump is also after American expatriates. Earlier this month he said he would end the double taxation of overseas Americans.

The former president's campaign has not offered further detail on how the policy would work but it could end a burdensome requirement that mandates U.S. citizens to file income taxes in the United States regardless of where they live.

While Americans abroad do not have to pay U.S. tax on their first $126,500 in earned income and are eligible for some foreign tax credits, it can be a bureaucratic headache expatriates from many other countries don't face. ..."
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I have gotten two mailers encouraging me to vote and a handwritten card from someone telling me how important my overseas vote is.

All of these arrived after I voted online but....
 
nycfan said:

With polls tight, US election campaigns target overseas voters​


"... The Democratic National Committee estimates that 1.6 million U.S. voters abroad are eligible to vote in one of the seven battleground states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin - that will likely determine the outcome of the election.

The group is believed to favor Democrats. Among people who used Vote From Abroad, a nonpartisan voter support tool linked to the DNC, three-quarters of overseas voters in the 2020 election said they were Democrats.

So for the first time in a presidential election the DNC has given Democrats Abroad funding - around $300,000 - to help register Americans overseas to vote and ramp up its mail-in voting operations and other efforts. It has taken out ads on social media urging Americans abroad to send in their ballots.

... Republican presidential candidate Trump is also after American expatriates. Earlier this month he said he would end the double taxation of overseas Americans.

The former president's campaign has not offered further detail on how the policy would work but it could end a burdensome requirement that mandates U.S. citizens to file income taxes in the United States regardless of where they live.

While Americans abroad do not have to pay U.S. tax on their first $126,500 in earned income and are eligible for some foreign tax credits, it can be a bureaucratic headache expatriates from many other countries don't face. ..."
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I have definitely been seeing ads for Vote abroad on social media down here. Usually its been ads in the local expat paper, but there definitely feels like an important push this time. I believe the last count was that we had 25,000 people from the States down here.
 
CFordUNC said:
"Shut up and sing" eh?
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I didn’t want to respond to him because I honestly couldn’t tell if he was joking or not. It’s just so funny that people think artists have no right to talk about politics. Like what kind of music is Zen listening to that isn’t political in one way or another? The Wiggles?

Just so historically illiterate to think that artists being political is a recent phenomenon.
 
Paine said:
I didn’t want to respond to him because I honestly couldn’t tell if he was joking or not. It’s just so funny that people think artists have no right to talk about politics. Like what kind of music is Zen listening to that isn’t political in one way or another? The Wiggles?

Just so historically illiterate to think that artists being political is a recent phenomenon.
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OMG, I had not thought of the Wiggles in so long. Took my son to one of their concerts many moons ago. I don't know what acid flashbacks are like, but that was pretty wacko seeing a bunch of toddlers and grade school students at a concert like that.
 
Paine said:
I didn’t want to respond to him because I honestly couldn’t tell if he was joking or not. It’s just so funny that people think artists have no right to talk about politics. Like what kind of music is Zen listening to that isn’t political in one way or another? The Wiggles?

Just so historically illiterate to think that artists being political is a recent phenomenon.
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If you only think of art as commerce it makes more sense.
 
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lightbluenc said:
Bahahaha.

American Idiot is one of the all-time great alt/punk rock albums. Their music has always had sociopolitical messaging even back with Dookie.
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Musically it was very good, but it just didn't feel the same when it got super political compared to Dookie.
 
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