Politics Thread

[noteggs]

Gridlock. Because it means lots of posturing and long 3 martini lunches.
Any new socialist initiatives are DOA

Yes I agree with the House and Senate. It’s just the other bottom feeders in the area who are ready to pounce.

[XU_Lou]

This is a little bit rich considering one of the founders of Breitbart was just banned from Twitter for suggesting beheading two public officials and putting their heads on pikes in front of the White House if the president wins re-election.

Actually, no, it didn't come from Breitbart - it came from the mouths of Democrats themselves....

[xukeith]

Actually, no, it didn't come from Breitbart - it came from the mouths of Democrats themselves....

Bannon pulled a Kathy Griffen.
Why Twitter did nothing to Kathy's Twitter account is not shocking.

[paulxu]

And a MI county fixes “glitch” (oopsy) and the county goes to Trump (6k vote swing). Nothing to see here.

And the process worked apparently without regard to politics. A Republican city clerk supervised a vote count that wrongly gave victory to a Democrat, after which a Democratic county clerk's staff caught the error and requested a correction from the Republican city clerk, handing the win to a Republican.

Those dastardly Democrats. When will they ever learn how to cheat.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/loc...ts/6184186002/

[Strange Brew]

Those dastardly Democrats. When will they ever learn how to cheat.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/loc...ts/6184186002/

Probably a McCain relative....

Edit: The glitch is due to the software used not user error. Paul, where do you get your info?

[xubrew]

For a "racist", Trump pulled the highest percentage of Black, Hispanic vote since 1960, and he pulled and 35% of the Muslim vote. The Hispanic vote helped him carry Florida.

MAYBE he did. I know that's what the exit polls say, but I don't think you can really say for sure because the exit polls don't account for early voting or mail in voting. I'm not going to say that it's certain that he didn't, but I also don't think you can say for certain that he did. It is at least very fair to guess that most Blacks and Hispanics who voted for Biden voted by mail. I think you have to put a big asterisk by any exit poll data you see from this election.

[paulxu]

Probably a McCain relative....

Edit: The glitch is due to the software used not user error. Paul, where do you get your info?

Try clicking the link in my comment. The "glitch" was caught by a Democrat, who helped correct the count, to give the Republican the votes.

[xubrew]

It seems kind of curious that so many Republicans won down ballot races that they were expected to lose. They need to look and see if there was fraud or glitches in the computers.

The Republicans did way better than expected, and the presidential race was closer than expected. I’m not saying that the voting procedure should not be highly scrutinized because, quite frankly, it always should be. But I am saying that the Dems probably have more reason to be suspicious of fraud than the Reps do. Look at how many outcomes that were expected to go their way ended up going the other way.

Now, to be clear, I don’t think there was fraud. I don’t think the Dems have any actual basis to claim fraud. I just think the Reps have even less basis to claim it than the Dems do.

[paulxu]

I'm struck by what seems to be a reality disconnect.
Trump is constantly harping on "stop the count." Being behind, he should want to keep counting to catch up.
And that's possible. For example in Georgia where they are finishing up counting military votes from overseas which arrived after Nov 3rd, but were sent before that date.
Slowing the postal process only helped to impede votes that might help him from the suckers and losers.
And in Arizona (I think) where Biden's lead keeps shrinking as more and more votes are counted.
If we had direct election, the 4 million vote lead Biden has would have let us put this all behind us.
And I'm still not sure who's going to win.

[noteggs]

Try clicking the link in my comment. The "glitch" was caught by a Democrat, who helped correct the count, to give the Republican the votes.

You guys are talking about two different problems in two different counties in Michigan. Strange Brew is talking about 6k vote swing in the Presidential and Senate races in Antrim county. Your article references Oakland county commissioners office. Consider me confused.