Just spoke to my mom who is a centrist liberal and never talks to me about politics. she said “I don’t think I’m going to be voting. I feel sick to my stomach about both these two.”
Two of the easiest elections in the history of this country and the dems just blew em both.
The amount of voter suppression in key states is genuinely disturbing to me. I don’t know why people are voting early- wouldn’t it be easier to count them later (ie, let the media decide who wins based on ‘Irl’ voting).
Counterpoint as mentioned by Chapo is the idea that the military elite/CIA/Deep State thought they could ‘endure’ Trump, but he wasn’t nearly as keen to keep the wheels moving overseas. So whatever control they have they’ll probably utilise it. I don’t imagine Fox etc NOT calling the election early/forcing all other media stations to fall in line 2000 style.
I watched 2016 live out of pure curiosity, but 2020 will genuinely be must watch tv. So much important shit will happen so quickly, as opposed to 2016 where both HRC fucking bailed on her convention and Trump arrived late af to his convention.
There’s more early voting in states like PA and MI, where they recently made it easier to vote before election day. Early returns aren’t favorable for Dems, though, and Republicans at least claim that they are more likely to vote on election day. Republicans have been registering a lot of new voters, supposedly anyway. Trump screaming about Dems stuffing ballot boxes is probably projection to an extent.
Libs will blame OP’s mom on msnbc for losing.
I think the Democrats are going to fall ass backwards into a victory, but they’re gonna bomb when it comes to the midterms
