Unlikely cause i turned my ballot in almost 3 weeks ago!
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just quoting this to help me think harder about it.
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the beauty of phonebanking/door knocking is that you get to see how terminally online concerns like “policy” and “qualifications” are. it’s vibes all the way down baybeee
I can report at least two cases of “I can’t decide because I like Trump and Kamala both!”
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Yup. It feels too familiar with some things you said on recent years, and I wonder whether I could do something else apart from standing Up to fascists because it’s getting really tiresome.
Also, a Big difference with other countries is that our equivalent to the democrat party and the judges aren’t doing anything about it, which feels like things are getting rampant, and it’s hard when people are too tired to organize and the neoliberal mindset is corrupting everything day by day.
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That’s so scary and very much not exclusive to the US I’m afraid.
I’m not sure what’s scarier: that people don’t care about policy and qualifications or that people vibe with Trump.
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working on a theory that the covid $$$ amounted to a state intervention in favor of nvidia graphics cards and the nintendo switch
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This is beautiful and fills me with existential dread.
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When I knocked on doors for Bernie in 2019/2020, there was a lady who screamed at me through her Ring doorbell thing because Kamala was still going to win. She had already dropped out by then.
The most mind blowing though was a very old lady who said he was too old and she was voting for Biden. I actually went off script for this just to say Biden is only a few months younger than him, and she said well it’s better than being a few months older
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Voted for weed and abortion and communism.
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Voted and then went to a Bengali breakfast place and got a pretty darn tasty breakfast sandwich.
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The benefits of living in a sparsely populated area - I voted and was in and out in exactly 15 minutes.
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How widespread are advanced voting days in the states? I haven’t voted on election day in like a decade and a half cause doing it early has been so frictionless no matter where I’ve lived (except when they fuck up my name).
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I’m in Wisconsin and I think we had early voting for 2 weeks and vote by mail maybe 5 weeks early? Voting by mail is super easy and you can also just drop off your ballot early if you want to hand it off in person. Pretty sure it depends on the state.
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I’m in Missouri and it was totally impossible to vote early until 2022 outside of submitting an absentee ballot by mail, which you needed to justify somehow. Now we have no excuse walk ins for a few weeks before the big day, and it’s very easy. For the midterm I was in and out in 5 minutes, for this election it took me half an hour or so in mid-October.
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Did early voting myself and it didn’t take long at all. Happy to get my vote in, now the worst part: waiting.
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Early voting and voting by mail has been around but it got a lot more popular post-2016, since broadly people started getting more vigilant about politics, especially in places like Georgia where the suppression tactics and polls closing early were big local political issues. Early voting was definitely a thing that was more common among partisan democrats, so during the 2020 pandemic Trump postured as anti-early/mail votes guy, in order to cast aspersions. But that strategy kind of backfired particularly in Arizona, where they counted mail votes first, so you had that spectacle where trump protestors were chanting “Stop Counting the Vote” and “Keep Counting Votes” at the same time.
This year voting early is not as partisan, but because of the nature of these races being very close and a lot of votes to go through, we’re probably not going to get results tonight unless there’s a significant change not captured in the polls. Either way, Trump will probably claim victory and even if there aren’t protests in the streets there will be lawyers activated in all of these swing states to try to interrupt the process as much as they can.
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What’s a reasonable hour to cut myself off from staring into the dark abyss of the internet tonight hoping for some clarity?
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I luckily have a curling match at 8PM EST, so I can just not look at my phone when I get home and get to sleep
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Basic calendar:
5 PM EST - start getting exit polls & tv coverage will start
7 PM EST - Georgia & North Carolina close but results will not be immediate.
8 PM EST - Pennsylvania closes, they only started processing votes today, so we probably won’t know until morning, it’s the state that matters the most. Dems need a huge turnout in metro Philly, so maybe there will be indications of dem victory if Kamala performs on a similar scale to Biden.
9 PM EST - Michigan closes, they have already started counting votes, should get results sooner during the night, we will probably know by midnight EST.
9 PM EST - Wisconsin closes, results will lag from mail in, could have it around 1 AM EST or not be clear until the morning
9 PM EST - Arizona closes, all the votes pretty much happen in Maricopa county which goes slow, probably won’t have results until later this week.
10 PM EST - Nevada closes, they don’t share votes until after all counties release results so again very late at night. They also accept votes after election day, so if it’s razor thin we might not know until later this week.
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The second I get home I am laying in bed with my Steam Deck and turning my phone off.
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