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2024 Presidential Election | ELECTION DAY 2024

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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.
 
ZenMode said:
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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Yeah man, it's not like there's a long tradition of political rock songs or anything. Certainly not anything by Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Pink Floyd, Rage Against the Machine, the Beatles/John Lennon, the Clash, the Cranberries, Bruce Springsteen, or many others that's political at all.
 
ZenMode said:
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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Surprisingly, musicians tend to grow and mature as they get older thus the subject matter in their albums change.
 
"Campaign aides believe they can make the difference via the surrogates they have lined up, whether those are celebrities making targeted social media appearances or community members sending direct texts like the attendees at a Doug Emhoff event in Southfield, Michigan, with Jewish voters, who were asked to send messages encouraging people to host 'Kamala Shabbat' dinners."

"Some will be new announcements: After months of carefully poll-testing well-known nonpoliticians, including entertainers and athletes, the campaign will roll out even more endorsements, interviews and appearances meant to break through to tuned-out voters. Expect more events like the vice president’s interview with Charlamagne tha God and Julia Roberts’ trip to Georgia, both ideas that came right out of the campaign’s research."

“We’re not throwing spaghetti against the wall. We have literally studied who these voters listen to,” said a campaign official.

 
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