US Election 2020

[Tero]

Maybe. Never checked. But I think not, you can call the county office, and they will only give your status. You cannot for example ask for your spouse's status at the same time.

We vote for everything on the same ballot from dog catcher to president. So it is very important to vote in your little district.

The mayoral and city council elections are in May but a lot of local issues end up on the Nov ballot.

[Tero]

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/201 ... ellar.html

[Scot Dutchy]

Telling you where to vote? We can vote anywhere. There are polling stations on the main train routes.

[Scot Dutchy]

Maybe. Never checked. But I think not, you can call the county office, and they will only give your status. You cannot for example ask for your spouse's status at the same time.

We vote for everything on the same ballot from dog catcher to president. So it is very important to vote in your little district.

The mayoral and city council elections are in May but a lot of local issues end up on the Nov ballot.

The big fix.

[Tero]

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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/201 ... ellar.html

Pete and Sanders are splitting the young folks vote, so he may run again 2024 if we are cursed with Trump. But the debate moment was definitely the two women trolling Pete about his wine cave event.

[Scot Dutchy]

You want to vote make sure you are in the right state. They call this democracy?

Which US states make it hardest to vote?

While some states have enacted policies that make it easier to cast a ballot, many have gone in the opposite direction

What a mess.

[laklak]

They should make it a fuckton harder, too many imbeciles out there.

[Tero]

Since we can't have healthcare, can we have universal access to wine caves?

[laklak]

I'll settle for a beer fridge.

[Joe]

So maybe Trump's laying the groundwork for not debating the Democratic nominee.

Trump slams debate commission, raising questions about his participation

President Trump on Monday hammered the Commission on Presidential Debates, raising questions about his participation in debates next year with the eventual Democratic presidential nominee.
The president, in a trio of tweets, said he looked forward to debating "whoever the lucky person is who stumbles across the finish line" in the Democratic primary.

But he chastised the nonprofit commission responsible for organizing the presidential debates and suggested he might avoid them. That group has scheduled three general election debates next year.

"As President, the debates are up to me, and there are many options, including doing them directly & avoiding the nasty politics of this very biased Commission," Trump tweeted. "I will make a decision at an appropriate time but in the meantime, the Commission on Presidential Debates is NOT authorized to speak for me (or R’s)!"

The president claimed that the commission, which describes itself as nonpartisan, is "stacked with Trump Haters & Never Trumpers." Trump pointed to an incident in a 2016 presidential debate in which the commission acknowledged technical issues with his microphone.

Trump's tweets came days after The New York Times reported that he was talking with advisers about the possibility of sitting out the general election debates next year due to distrust in the commission and concerns about who might serve as moderators.

The Commission on Presidential Debates has already announced the dates and locations for three general election debates in 2020, plus one vice presidential debate. The first presidential debate is slated for Sept. 29.

Perhaps he's just lobbying for moderators he likes. After all, he skipped a primary debate after Megyn Kelly asked him mean questions. But wouldn't it be convenient for him to avoid all sorts of uncomfortable questions and control the narrative of the campaign with tweets and rallies?

[Tero]

Polling Biden vs Trump this month still puts us in a danger zone. Trump won Hillary, getting 46% to her 48%. Anywhere in the 44-46% gets him in the range where he can carry all the Rust Belt states
CNN 12/12 - 12/15 888 RV 4.0 Biden 49% Trump 44%

[Tero]

Gabbard, a DINO, in trouble with home Democrats
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4757 ... culation=1

[pErvinalia]

But she's hot.

[Joe]

Yeahbut, she's a bad girl. Can't follow instructions.

[Tero]

Yang argues that the used up human robots of industry (now doing services such as lawn care and handyman jobs) voted for Trump:

On Yang's campaign website,[65] more than 160 policies are listed.[66] Central to his campaign is the proposal of a monthly $1,000 "Freedom Dividend" to all U.S. citizens over the age of 18 (a form of universal basic income, or UBI) in response to worker displacement driven by technological automation.[67][68] According to Yang, the Freedom Dividend's benefits include "healthier people, less stressed-out people, better-educated people, stronger communities, more volunteerism, [and] more civic participation. There's zero bureaucracy associated with it [because there is no] need to verify whether [people's] circumstances change."[69] Citing forecasting by the Roosevelt Institute, Yang has said that the dividend "would create up to 2 million new jobs in [American] communities".The dividend is opt-in.[71] For those receiving welfare benefits, opting in to the dividend would replace some benefits while stacking with others.

Yang proposes a value-added tax to finance the dividend and to combat tax avoidance by large American corporations. He argues that automation-driven job displacement was the main reason Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, saying that based on data, "There's a straight line up between the adoption of industrial robots in a community and the movement towards Donald Trump."

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