2024 Presidential Election | ELECTION DAY 2024

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nycfan said:
He has inundated the market with too many NC appearances in too large of venues in too short of time. And Monday morning in Raleigh seems like a shit time for any kind of meeting of any significant size, TBH. For all we know there are thousands of people out there stuck in traffic with their Trump flags limp as cars stop and go.
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For context, the seating capacity of Dorton Arena is about 7,500. The population of the Raleigh-Cary metro area is 1,509,231.
 
nycfan said:
My husband said the exact same thing last night. We were in Philadelphia for the Sweet 16 and Final 8 games and it only struck us what was about to happen sitting in our hotel room the night before the Elite 8 game. From then to the end of that Final Four game we were both a wreck.

I actually always assumed that Blue Devil fans didn’t experience the pure anxiety/adrenaline double rush in anticipation of that Final Four game because they were so certain this was divine intervention to set them up to avenge the home loss in Durham on the way to K going out with a national title, but could be wrong about that.
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What a game that was vs UCLA
 
nycfan said:
He has inundated the market with too many NC appearances in too large of venues in too short of time. And Monday morning in Raleigh seems like a shit time for any kind of meeting of any significant size, TBH. For all we know there are thousands of people out there stuck in traffic with their Trump flags limp as cars stop and go.
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Doors opened at 6:00. Doubt there was much traffic.
 
Cappy the Stool Man said:
Dorton is also across a parking lot from the Rarely Beats Carolina Center. There's a reason they chose the former, and they can't even fill that.
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LOLOL State fans spend enough time watching their basketball team get its ass kicked at home by a team wearing blue. If they had to also watch their godking get *his* ass kicked by a team wearing blue in that same building, they'd already be climbing the walls of the U.S. Capitol...again.
 
altmin said:
Not sure what I am supposed to do here. Fly into NC and lock my parents in a closet so they can't vote? They support bad people and have revealed that at their core they are bad people too. Our relationship is all but permanently broken. I don't see how their being horrible human beings is my fault.
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Amen

Do I realize I have TREMENDOUS privilege in this country as a white man? Yes

Do I have the ability to change the minds of so many of my cousins, aunts, uncles, old friends, classmates, coworkers etc who have chosen MAGA brain rot? No. I have tried. To the point they either cut me out or I had to cut them out. What the hell else am I supposed to do?

Being an ally isn’t as hard as being an actual oppressed group. I don’t think anyone would ever claim that. But being blamed for the problem when you’re actually a member of the pro democracy coalition is a little much.
 
nycfan said:
I tend to agree with HY, Haley is following the lane for a shot at the ‘28 nomination and isn’t the only one doing this.

Governors Kemp and Sununu (and Youngkin & DeSantis from the MAGA right) are all engaging in a version of the same dance to varying degrees.

Now, if Trump wins this election, I’m not so sure this works as well for the Haley/Sununu side, and TBD how much momentum JD Vance would have, but he will have a lot of money already lined up for the race post Trump second term.

If we have an wipe out of the GOP tonight that the polls are not detecting, then I think the Haley/Sununu lane will be better positioned but likely will have to battle with Never Trump Republicans trying to recapture the party in the image of Reagan. But that seems remote right now, so the never-Trumpers seem stuck in the wilderness until at least the next election cycle.
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Agree with you. She’s got a viable path forward if/when Trump loses this upcoming election, but she is understandably trying to shore up some support she may need in 2028 from the Trump base if she ends up head to head against Kamala in the 2028 General.
 
Folks, y'all can stop that right now lmao. Nikki Haley has the least viable path forward in the Republican Party of, like, literally anyone. Name a person. I'll guarantee that that person has a much more viable future in the post-Trump GOP than Nimrata Randahawa. :LOL:
 
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