2024 Presidential Election | ELECTION DAY 2024

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Being labeled weird is a badge of honor, if your "weirdness" is just another way to describe your own brand of unique.

For MAGA, they really are just plain weird. They have ideas that don't comport to common sense or rationality. The dream of a world where women are only incubators, immigrants are ostracized, LGBTQ is vilified, non-Christians bend the knee, and democracy exists only in name where the entirety of federal powers protect the ultra-wealthy.

It's great seeing them on the defensive.
 
Suddenly, the Election Is About Weird vs. Normal

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DONALD TRUMP IS “old and quite weird.” He is “someone you wouldn’t want to sit near at a restaurant.” JD Vance is “a creep.” He would empower states to track women’s menstrual cycles and federal authorities to block them from crossing state lines for abortion care. This pair is bizarre. Just plain strange.

Behold the Harris for President campaign’s increasingly favored line of attack on the Republican ticket, an approach credited to both Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Vice President Kamala Harris herself.

The Vance-is-a-creep email made me blink in surprise. But by the time the weird-guy-in-restaurant statement showed up a few hours later, with the word “strange” in the subject line, I laughed. Who wouldn’t relate to that? Could it be that Democrats are . . . onto something?”
 
mpaer said:
Lord I should send these folks one of my pathetic but emotionial 50-100 dollar donations
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Vote.org is in fact a 501(c)3, so give away and enjoy a tax break. I have a smallish donor advised charitable giving fund and will add them to my list. Another really good 501(c)3 is Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich's inequity media (Inequality Media with Robert Reich) . For an old fogey he has a huge youth following and has great digital game.
 
Ddseddse said:
Vote.org is in fact a 501(c)3, so give away and enjoy a tax break. I have a smallish donor advised charitable giving fund and will add them to my list. Another really good 501(c)3 is Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich's inequity media (Inequality Media with Robert Reich) . For an old fogey he has a huge youth following and has great digital game.
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My coordinator is his first cousin. Reich is apparently an incredible artist as well.
 
CallMeTyler said:
Labeling them weird is surprisingly effective. It's really getting under their skin.
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I love it. And pretty much all the VP candidates are really good at conveying it. It has two huge benefits. First, it’s obviously true, and anyone not in the MAGA indoctrination universe already knows it. Second, it blunts at least some of the concerns swing voters might have about some parts of the Democrats’ wide and diverse coalition. In other words, Dems may be “weird” in some ways, but we embrace it and celebrate it. Pubs are even weirder, but they get all up in their feelings when that truth is stated.
 
I propose Kamala refer to orangeturd as donut don
or may "dough nuld"
 
Clt Heel said:
So Suffolk county, NY was the largest gdp producing county that went for Trump in 2020? What is produced in Suffolk county? I’m genuinely curious.
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Suffolk County's GDP was $125 billion in 2022—the #3 highest out of 62 counties in the state.
 
Clt Heel said:
So Suffolk county, NY was the largest gdp producing county that went for Trump in 2020? What is produced in Suffolk county? I’m genuinely curious.
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Suffolk County is full of people who take the LIRR into the city to work everyday. At least before work at home. It also includes a bunch of rich people in the Hamptons.
 

Harris campaign pledges she won’t ban fracking​


Kamala Harris’ shift on fracking comes after GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump raised her 2019 stance calling for banning the oil and gas drilling technique.

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The response by the Harris campaign came after the former president brought up statements Harris made during her 2019 primary run pledging to ban fracking at a Minnesota campaign rally on Saturday.



“Trump’s false claims about fracking bans are an obvious attempt to distract from his own plans to enrich oil and gas executives at the expense of the middle class,” the Harris campaign said in a statement. “The Biden-Harris Administration passed the largest ever climate change legislation and under their leadership, America now has the highest ever domestic energy production.”

“She would not ban fracking,” a campaign spokesperson said in a follow-up email to POLITICO. ..."
 
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Keeping your voters enthusiastic is the key to getting them to the polls when early voting begins.


This metric dramatically changed for Democrats when Joe Biden dropped his re-election bid and endorsed Kamala Harris:


  1. Less than a month ago, a new Wall Street Journal poll found just 37% of Biden voters were enthusiastic about him, but now 81% of Harris voters are enthusiastic about her. That compares to 85% of Republicans who say they’re enthusiastic about Donald Trump.
  2. A new ABC/Ipsos poll shows 88% of Democrats are now enthusiastic about Harris as the nominee, while 82% of Republicans say the same about Trump.

As Democratic pollster Mike Bocian told the Wall Street Journal: “This is an astounding change.” ..."

politicalwire.com

The Enthusiasm Gap Is Gone

Keeping your voters enthusiastic is the key to getting them to the polls when early voting begins. This metric dramatically changed for Democrats when Joe Biden dropped his re-election bid and endorsed Kamala Harris: Less
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When President Joe Biden announced just a week ago that he would not accept the Democratic nomination for president, he did not pass the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris.

He passed it to us.

It is up to us to decide whether we want a country based on fear or on facts, on reaction or on reality, on hatred or on hope.

It is up to us whether it will be fascism or democracy that, in the end, moves swiftly, and up to us whether we will choose to follow in the footsteps of those Americans who came before us in our noblest moments, and launch a brand new era in American history.

- HCR
 
nycfan said:
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Keeping your voters enthusiastic is the key to getting them to the polls when early voting begins.


This metric dramatically changed for Democrats when Joe Biden dropped his re-election bid and endorsed Kamala Harris:


  1. Less than a month ago, a new Wall Street Journal poll found just 37% of Biden voters were enthusiastic about him, but now 81% of Harris voters are enthusiastic about her. That compares to 85% of Republicans who say they’re enthusiastic about Donald Trump.
  2. A new ABC/Ipsos poll shows 88% of Democrats are now enthusiastic about Harris as the nominee, while 82% of Republicans say the same about Trump.

As Democratic pollster Mike Bocian told the Wall Street Journal: “This is an astounding change.” ..."

politicalwire.com

The Enthusiasm Gap Is Gone

Keeping your voters enthusiastic is the key to getting them to the polls when early voting begins. This metric dramatically changed for Democrats when Joe Biden dropped his re-election bid and endorsed Kamala Harris: Less
politicalwire.com politicalwire.com
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This, as much as anything, told me right away that Kamala has the chops for the job. I'm sure she has advisors who counseled that independent outreach was job #1 and she should present herself as a moderate out of the gate. What did she do? She went on Ru Paul's drag race (among other things) and rallied the ******* base, that's what she did.

She knew that this election will be lost if the base doesn't turn out. Sure, you want to peel off as many "undecided voters" (whatever the **** those are) as you can, but end of day if Kamala is making an acceptance speech election night, the news the next morning will be about how the base turned out for her. It's that simple.
 
The more I think about it, the “weird” tag is catching on because it has truth to it but I think also because it is not as harsh as the Biden attacks. Weird is something you can play with, it is something you don’t want in a leader but it is not apocalyptic. These dudes are just weird. Like avoid them on the Subway but not call the cops dangerous.

It lowers the temperature but still calls out the policies and behavior.

Weird GIF by MOODMAN
 
CallMeTyler said:
If I were Kamala, every time Trump made some dubious claim about my intentions should I win office, I would always counter with a press release titled:

"Another lie from the lying weirdo. Here's the truth:"

Trump would have a flipping meltdown.
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Or, “I’m not Trump’s wife. I won’t let him lie to me. And I definitely won’t let him lie about me.”
 
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