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In the 10 states with wonkies (that decide elections) the “show” is pretty necessary. OH, MI, FL, PA, bunch of others all flutter when the wind blows.... Trump won last time because he campaigned hard in middle america....That's because no one needs to campaign anymore. D will vote D no matter what, and R will vote R.
Anyone that bothers to do research will most likely vote third party, stay at home or vote R.
So why waste money putting a show?
Also, campaigning would only hurt Biden. I am surprised Trump is not challenging him to start debating.
Everything you all say here about that Biden fella is true.
I don't care. At this point, ANYBODY BUT TRUMP.
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You need to get out more. One of my moonbat neighbors has a lawn sign but I do see a lot of Biden bumper stickers. I usually try to get real close to them at highway speeds or block their view with my truck at an intersection when I can.I’ve yet to see a Biden bumper stick or lawn sign. I know that doesn’t mean much but I don’t see any great enthusiasm behind him
You should see the amount of Trump yard signs in Northern Maine. Even my wife commented that they are everywhere.Trump definitely has a lot of support in the deep South. As others have said, a lot of voters are keeping quiet about it.
My wife and I got mail-in ballot "applications" (as if we requested them). All it takes is someone recognizing the ballot's (very distinct) exterior, opening it on my behalf, and filling out the "request an alternate address for the ballot" field. The penalties about falsifying the signature are a joke. How on earth do you enforce it? The truth is they have no incentive to.
In reality though sometimes Trump is his own worst enemy. I watched some of his rant on Fox from over the weekend and he just comes out as a complete ahole. These kinds of things is where he can loose moderates that he needs. Sometimes he just needs to shut up. Not his style and will never happen, but if he looses that will be the main reason for it.
In the Big Dump Cities I'm anticipating Ryder trucks filled with ballots. If their "leadership" can get away with calling rioters "peaceful protesters" what makes you think they won't be that blatant come November?In order for such fraud to have any significant effect, a huge number of mail-in ballot applications would need to be intercepted and have their addresses changed to redirect the ballots to either a single address, or to a small number of addresses. That would be trivially easy to recognize and investigate since you'd have huge numbers of ballots directed to be sent to the same place(s).
It would also require significant manpower to achieve (someone's gotta hit those mailboxes), which means lots of potential leaks and people who could be caught in the act and squeal once being interrogated.
Same problems apply if you go around trying to steal the actual ballots from people's mailboxes.
And these are just problems that me, some idiot on the Internet, can come up with. I bet there's even more problems I haven't thought of.
Mail-in ballot fraud is difficult to pull off on any scale that would actually affect the outcome of an election without getting caught.
In the Big Dump Cities I'm anticipating Ryder trucks filled with ballots. If their "leadership" can get away with calling rioters "peaceful protesters" what makes you think they won't be that blatant come November?
I highly doubt that is playing any significant part. We tried playing that game with the atty general primary in MA in 2014. Healey won the final election by a landslide.If I were polled, I would say I'm voting for creepy joe just to keep them hopeful. I figure A LOT of R's might be doing the same. 90% probably dont want to deal with any possible backlash from the "tolerant left" and keep their political beliefs to themselves.
Everything you all say here about that Biden fella is true.
I don't care. At this point, ANYBODY BUT TRUMP.
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1. Words??!? Are you aware of what's going on in some of these cities?Maybe because one is saying words, and the other is committing vote fraud on a scale that would be trivially caught and also not of much benefit considering the fact that people in cities tend to vote Democratic anyways. If you want to commit vote fraud to benefit the Democratic candidate, you'd have to travel throughout the vast swaths of non-urban areas and collect their applications/ballots.
1. Words??!? Are you aware of what's going on in some of these cities?
2. You most certainly would not have to travel hither and yon. Votes for Presidental electors are tallied state-wide (likewise for state-wide offices like governor or US senator). For smaller districts, they're tallied district-wide, but are typically gerrymandered in such a way as to include a Big Dump City. BDC populations in many places dwarf outlying populations (which is a lot of the source of the mess we're in now - see Reynolds v Sims).
I never said he's not going to lose - if he does it will most certainly be due to massive fraud. The mechanisms to cloak it - mail-in voting, automagic voter registration, relaxation of balloting materials possession laws ("ballot harvesting"), ... - are being put in place right now.So Trump is definitely not going to lose, but if he does lose it will be because of massive voter fraud which there will be no evidence for but definitely happened.
Okay.
In reality though sometimes Trump is his own worst enemy. I watched some of his rant on Fox from over the weekend and he just comes out as a complete ahole. These kinds of things is where he can loose moderates that he needs. Sometimes he just needs to shut up. Not his style and will never happen, but if he looses that will be the main reason for it.
I never said he's not going to lose - if he does it will most certainly be due to massive fraud. The mechanisms to cloak it - mail-in voting, automagic voter registration, relaxation of balloting materials possession laws ("ballot harvesting"), ... - are being put in place right now.
So there is no scenario in which Trump loses the election and it is because he legitimately lost the election? If he loses it's definitely because of fraud?
Do you understand how ridiculous that sounds?
Look at the two statements you just made. That's some Olympic-level bias. Says more about you than the candidates.Everything you all say here about that Biden fella is true.
I don't care. At this point, ANYBODY BUT TRUMP.
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Don’t worry....sure he has over 4 decades in public service and really he cannot put his name to anything meaningful or not, but really, these next 4 years would be different. He would really do...something
It's not that ridiculous to assume that a combination of voter fraud and loss of wonkie voters abandonment could do him in. I don't think it's "strictly fraud" but if we had an iron clad
system in this country for voting security, I'm pretty sure that, the odds of trump losing would be somewhere around me winning the powerball.