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Eight days a week

by DougJ|  October 29, 20181:27 pm| 60 Comments

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Only eight days til the election. Vote early if you can! Otherwise, make a voting plan for election day. Mine is to go to the poll on the way to work after we drop the baby at daycare.

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  1. 1.

    goblue72

    October 29, 2018 at 1:44 pm

    New York Times doing its best to serve the interests of the plutocrats and sandbag Democrats by playing stenographer to GOP oppo research – https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/29/us/politics/beto-orourke-el-paso-texas-senate.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

  2. 2.

    Mnemosyne

    October 29, 2018 at 1:51 pm

    Stevie Wonder always votes early here in Los Angeles. Be like Stevie:

    https://mobile.twitter.com/LACountyRRCC/status/1055640762375843841

  3. 3.

    Mary G

    October 29, 2018 at 1:53 pm

    HA HA HA HA HA HA

    Quite a drop. Trump slides from 44-50 to 40-54 in Gallup.https://t.co/j39pfxP9SM pic.twitter.com/O19ou3aSEy— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) October 29, 2018

  4. 4.

    geg6

    October 29, 2018 at 1:55 pm

    We live right next door to our polling place. And since John goes to work over an hour before I do in the AM, we’ll go right after I get home from work.

  5. 5.

    geg6

    October 29, 2018 at 1:56 pm

    @Mary G:

    I saw that earlier today. That is quite the slide. Nothing could make me happier than to see that dip below 40% before election day.

  6. 6.

    japa21

    October 29, 2018 at 2:02 pm

    @Mary G: So that too. Of course Gallup and CNN are both purveyors of fake news. For GOP, this slide in Trump’s popularity couldn’t have come at a worse time. For Dems, it is the perfect time.

  7. 7.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    October 29, 2018 at 2:13 pm

    @Mary G:
    Could this be a result of the MAGAbomber and the Pittsburgh mass shooting agianst the synagogue and Trump’s callous response to it?

  8. 8.

    waratah

    October 29, 2018 at 2:18 pm

    @goblue72: They are a little late that has already been bought and did not stop the newspapers from endorsing him. I have not read the article because they will not let me but I think it is about his father in law and trying to redo inner city El Paso.

  9. 9.

    wmd

    October 29, 2018 at 2:19 pm

    Going before I catch commute bus. thanks

  10. 10.

    Mary G

    October 29, 2018 at 2:26 pm

    I think this will get some Republicans, the ones uncomfortable with the ignorance and racism but who had been wavering because they were feeling wealthier to jump off the fence to the left:

    (CNN Money) Bank of America keeps a running tally of “signposts” that signal looming bear market. The bad news is that 14 of these 19 indicators, or 74%, have been triggered. Two more were toppled earlier this month: the VIX volatility index (VIX) climbed above 20 and a growing number of Americans expect stocks to go up.
    The recent market mayhem has been sparked by a variety of factors that all speak to an underlying theme: Investors are contemplating the eventual demise of the bull market. The bull run, which began in March 2009, is now the longest in American history.

    It’s long overdue, but the tax giveaway boosted prices for a while, but that was a short term sugar high and now it’s not looking too good for investors. B of A says volatility will last through 2021. CNN Money’s Greed and Fear index is way over in Extreme Fear territory at 9 out of 100, whereas a year ago today it was way up in Greed is Good land at 74 of 100.

  11. 11.

    SenyorDave

    October 29, 2018 at 2:26 pm

    @Mary G: Quite a drop. Trump slides from 44-50 to 40-54 in Gallup.

    The thing to remember is that if Trump beheaded a baby on national TV, dismembered it, put it in a blender and drank the remains, he would still poll at least 30% favorable. My guess is his supporters would admire his honesty, strength, and good eating habits.

  12. 12.

    JPL

    October 29, 2018 at 2:27 pm

    @goblue72: There’s also an article questioning Sinema’s childhood account.
    Of course the lawsuit against Trump Org is not on the front page, or wasn’t when I looked earlier.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/29/nyregion/trump-acn-lawsuit.html

  13. 13.

    Chyron HR

    October 29, 2018 at 2:28 pm

    @goblue72:

    “They’re spreading Republican propaganda about Beto, too? That wasn’t part of our deal, Blackheart Sulzberger! That wasn’t part!”

  14. 14.

    JPL

    October 29, 2018 at 2:29 pm

    @SenyorDave: After all, the baby could grow up to be hitler.

  15. 15.

    Shalimar

    October 29, 2018 at 2:33 pm

    I will be away from home for the next few weeks so I can’t help this year with getting voters to the polls. I did vote about 2 hours ago for all the Dems that Florida offers, at least.

  16. 16.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    October 29, 2018 at 2:35 pm

    @SenyorDave:

    he would still poll at least 30% favorable

    I think the number you’re looking for is 27%.

  17. 17.

    Barbara

    October 29, 2018 at 2:36 pm

    @Mary G: The highest he ever got was 45%. This looks like a reversion to the mean. Also, every time his approval gets that high it’s usually because he has (for him) been relatively quiet. It’s like being in a place where active gunfire is going on. As soon as you peak out thinking the coast might be clear, or Trump might have become just a little bit more presidential, all of a sudden, the shooting starts up again.

    ETA: I would note that his 54% disapproval rate is definitely down from the high of 60%. Except for right at the beginning of his term, his disapproval rate has never been lower than 50% in the Gallup poll.

  18. 18.

    piratedan

    October 29, 2018 at 2:38 pm

    @JPL: trying not to worry about the Sinema/McSally race, the vitriol coming from the GOP is nearly running around with hair on fire levels…. they’ve equated her telling some libertarian dipshit that if he wanted to go join up with the Taliban he was certainly welcome to do so, which was conflated by the McSally GOP camp with being akin to treason and her indicating that AZ state politics as being a weird but strange as something beyond the pale when anyone living here over the last 30 years would have no reason not to corroborate that statement (after you’ve lived thru Ev Mecham, Fife Symington and local legislators nominating their districts as potential nuclear waste dump sites because it would be considered a “money-maker”)…. and the majority of the Sinema ads have focused on McSally’s ACA votes in favor of the GOP removal of pre-existing condition coverage and McSally lying about that… its been a very heated race that makes you want to avoid the idiot box altogether (so that’s what I do)… all of the polling says its a close race with Sinema slightly ahead and while she’s not perfect, Sinema is a damn sight better McSally (who’s even running ads that if we strengthen the border/build the wall with Mexico that will help resolve our opioid crisis, I shit you not).

  19. 19.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    October 29, 2018 at 2:39 pm

    @Barbara:

    Trump might have become just a little bit more presidential, all of a sudden, the shootingTwitter starts up again.

  20. 20.

    Eural Joiner

    October 29, 2018 at 2:40 pm

    Here at my workplace I’ve had two R’s tell me – quietly, when we’re alone – that they are upset that all GOP members are getting painted with this broad brush like they’re all Trump supporters. They say this – quietly, when we’re alone – and yet I haven’t heard or seen any of them (actually anywhere!) make a dissenting cry or protest over anything he’s done.

    Fascist cowards, all of them.

  21. 21.

    Barbara

    October 29, 2018 at 2:41 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Yes, bullets in the form of words.

  22. 22.

    Shalimar

    October 29, 2018 at 2:44 pm

    My phone number appears to have gotten on the Republican voter list as belonging to some poor misguided fool naned Linda. I told them to die in a fire a few times, but it might be more fun to pretend to support the sociopath parry.

    edit: I am suddenly getting many text messages about a Trump rally in Pensacola. They are in deep trouble if Gaetz is one of the congressmen they’re worried about. My county was the most Republican in the whole state in 2016.

  23. 23.

    George Spiggott

    October 29, 2018 at 2:45 pm

    @Eural Joiner:

    Send them this helpful link!: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_German

  24. 24.

    Mnemosyne

    October 29, 2018 at 2:50 pm

    @Shalimar:

    If you’re really bored and want to waste their time, you can egg them on to give you their arguments and then pretend that everything they say is actually convincing you of the opposite and that you should vote for the Democrat instead. ?

  25. 25.

    Gelfling 545

    October 29, 2018 at 2:53 pm

    So apparently some Methodist ministers were thrown out of a freedom of religion event for quoting scripture at Jeff Sessions.

  26. 26.

    Raven Onthill

    October 29, 2018 at 2:56 pm

    My family voted yesterday.

  27. 27.

    JanieM

    October 29, 2018 at 2:57 pm

    Voted this morning. As someone else here said last night, I’d rather vote on election day — I like going to my polling place in the town hall and seeing all the folks there, and chit-chatting with people I don’t see very often. But I have an already-postponed root canal scheduled for Tuesday, so I thought I’d better not chance it.

    Feels good to have made sure!

  28. 28.

    EmbraceYourInnerCrone

    October 29, 2018 at 3:01 pm

    Because it’s a day that ends in Y: Student shot and killed at North Carolina high school

    https://www.wccbcharlotte.com/2018/10/29/one-shot-at-butler-high-school-officials-say/

    “Students who witnessed the fight say one of the students involved in the fight was shot in the back by the other student.”

  29. 29.

    ruemara

    October 29, 2018 at 3:02 pm

    @Gelfling 545: They only want religion of hate preached at AG KKK.

  30. 30.

    LuciaMia

    October 29, 2018 at 3:04 pm

    Is Trump still planning to visit Pittsburg? Cause Pittsburg obviously doesnt want him.

  31. 31.

    sempronia

    October 29, 2018 at 3:05 pm

    Donated to Campa-Najjar and Morse, my fellow Californians. I want Duncan Hunter to go down. I can’t believe that’s even a race – he’s been indicted! Filled out my sample ballot yesterday and will turn in the real thing to my local library dropbox today.

  32. 32.

    Mnemosyne

    October 29, 2018 at 3:05 pm

    @EmbraceYourInnerCrone:

    Gotta love the school administrators who decided to try to put the kids back in class and pretend that nothing happened. It sounds as though neither the kids nor the parents were putting up with that shit.

  33. 33.

    Barbara

    October 29, 2018 at 3:09 pm

    @Mnemosyne: Or the idea that school administrators can prevent parents from insisting that their kids leave the school, absent an ongoing threat to safety.

  34. 34.

    Mike in NC

    October 29, 2018 at 3:10 pm

    Voters have another whole week to think about how Fat Bastard cared more about his “hair” getting wet than about 11 people being slaughtered by a Jew-hating nut with an assault rifle.

  35. 35.

    EmbraceYourInnerCrone

    October 29, 2018 at 3:11 pm

    @Mnemosyne – Yup, and having a school resource officer at the school(they have one) did not stop this from happening. Where did a high school kid get a hand gun? I am betting Mom or Dad’s weapon but who knows?

  36. 36.

    Roger Moore

    October 29, 2018 at 3:12 pm

    @SenyorDave:

    Quite a drop. Trump slides from 44-50 to 40-54 in Gallup.

    Not really. That’s easily within the margin of error of their poll. A swing that size in a single poll tells you very little.

  37. 37.

    Spanky

    October 29, 2018 at 3:12 pm

    @Gelfling 545: That makes me proud of the denomination I was accidentally born into and left (along with the rest of Christendom) as soon as I was able.

    Maybe I should give them more credit for how I turned out than I have been, eh?

  38. 38.

    JPL

    October 29, 2018 at 3:12 pm

    @piratedan: My family voted yesterday in GA. One son is going to be in Phoenix on election day so it was important that he vote early. It would be nice for him to be in a state that elected a democrat to the Senate, because it’s going to be awhile before that happens here.

  39. 39.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    October 29, 2018 at 3:13 pm

    @Barbara:
    If they just would have had metal detectors at every entrance and turned the school into a fortress none of this would have happened!

    /Gun nut enabler

  40. 40.

    goblue72

    October 29, 2018 at 3:19 pm

    @JPL: Yup. I mean, any newspaper employing Maggie Haberman (and having previously employed Judith Miller) is clearly in the bag for the plutocrats. But its still galling from the newspaper touted as the country’s “Newspaper of Record”.

  41. 41.

    Ocotillo

    October 29, 2018 at 3:21 pm

    @goblue72:

    Meh, Ted Cruz or one of his PACs has been running ads about that for a month now.

  42. 42.

    goblue72

    October 29, 2018 at 3:24 pm

    @piratedan: Sadly, I can see a significant number of white voters believing that “illegals” are responsible for the opiod crisis. I’m pretty sure the GOP could convince its base that “illegals” are responsible for gluten.

  43. 43.

    Gelfling 545

    October 29, 2018 at 3:25 pm

    @Spanky: The Methodists, to a greater or lesser extent depending on time & place, have traditionally been the church of the common person in contrast with the Episcopalians as traditionally the church of the upper classes.

  44. 44.

    goblue72

    October 29, 2018 at 3:25 pm

    @Ocotillo: Which just makes it more galling that the NY Times would give it any bandwidth. And shows how the right wing continues to “work the refs” by promoting garbage at the margins until the mainstream press picks it up with “some people say….”

  45. 45.

    Doug!

    October 29, 2018 at 3:25 pm

    @Shalimar:

    Waste their time.

  46. 46.

    Mandalay

    October 29, 2018 at 3:29 pm

    Not a race that I’d been following, but this looks encouraging even though the two most recent polls show that Rohrabacher is ahead:

    Harley Rouda (D) Forecast vote share 51.3%
    Dana Rohrabacher (R) Forecast vote share 48.7%

    I don’t think I’d bet the farm on Rouda winning, but he’s certainly got a chance of showing that asshole the door.

  47. 47.

    Yutsano

    October 29, 2018 at 3:30 pm

    @Roger Moore: Dammit Roger just give us this one for once. :P

  48. 48.

    Gelfling 545

    October 29, 2018 at 3:30 pm

    @Mnemosyne: I can tell you from years of sad experience that a good many school administrators primary concern is that there be no bad publicity.

  49. 49.

    Gelfling 545

    October 29, 2018 at 3:33 pm

    @Eural Joiner: They’re always very quiet about the truth. And if forced into confronting it they hedge it around with obfuscating language. It’s their lies they trumpet to the skies.

  50. 50.

    bemused

    October 29, 2018 at 3:37 pm

    @Eural Joiner:

    If the shoe fits.
    If they can’t say out loud they aren’t trump supporters to their own tribe, far right family, neighbors, they have no guts nor principles.

  51. 51.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    October 29, 2018 at 3:45 pm

    I just got home from the dentist. He claimed that canvassers know who you voted for in past elections. That seemed unlikely to me. What say you? (I didn’t argue with him. He had a drill in his hand.)

  52. 52.

    Mandalay

    October 29, 2018 at 3:45 pm

    @goblue72: And working the refs doesn’t have to be overt. Here’s a headline from today’s NYT: Gillum’s Dilemma: Florida Is Actually Five States.

    Putting aside the silliness of such a dogmatic assertion, assume that it is true. Why isn’t the headline “DeSantis’s Dilemma: Florida Is Actually Five States“? Why is Gillum facing the “dilemma” but DeSantis is not?

    Of course the skeptic might argue that I’m reading too much into an isolated example, but these isolated examples seem mighty common to me.

  53. 53.

    WaterGirl

    October 29, 2018 at 3:47 pm

    Great quote from a story at the Washington Monthly

    After a week in which we’re all still coming to grips with hate crimes, my thoughts turned to the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. at a memorial service for the four little girls killed in a hate crime in Birmingham, Alabama fifty-five years ago.

    These children—unoffending, innocent, and beautiful—were the victims of one of the most vicious and tragic crimes ever perpetrated against humanity.

    And yet they died nobly. They are the martyred heroines of a holy crusade for freedom and human dignity. And so this afternoon in a real sense they have something to say to each of us in their death. They have something to say to every minister of the gospel who has remained silent behind the safe security of stained-glass windows. They have something to say to every politician who has fed his constituents with the stale bread of hatred and the spoiled meat of racism. They have something to say to a federal government that has compromised with the undemocratic practices of southern Dixiecrats and the blatant hypocrisy of right-wing northern Republicans. They have something to say to every Negro who has passively accepted the evil system of segregation and who has stood on the sidelines in a mighty struggle for justice. They say to each of us, black and white alike, that we must substitute courage for caution. They say to us that we must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderers. Their death says to us that we must work passionately and unrelentingly for the realization of the American dream.

    .

  54. 54.

    Mnemosyne

    October 29, 2018 at 3:48 pm

    @Gelfling 545:

    If that’s what their plan was, they seem to have failed miserably. But, then, most administrators seem fairly clueless about how to actually prevent an event from blowing up in their faces.

  55. 55.

    Starfish

    October 29, 2018 at 3:50 pm

    SwingLeft had a list of House elections that it considers really close where the Republicans have more money than the Democrats.

  56. 56.

    Woodrow/Asim

    October 29, 2018 at 3:52 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: “He claimed that canvassers know who you voted for in past elections. That seemed unlikely to me. What say you?”

    They — and the campaigns they work for — really don’t need to see your actual vote, in order to make a really good guess based upon demographics/publicly available info, including social media. This is what Cambridge Analytica(sp) and similar firms were built upon.

  57. 57.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 29, 2018 at 3:58 pm

    I’m standing in a looo-o-ing line at the USPS waiting to buy stamps for my Heidi Heitkamp postcards, and there’s a woman behind me on the phone with a roofing contractor or something, and she’s telling him about a hole in her roof and she keeps talking about how all the rain water is getting into the addict. I didn’t mishear; she’s said it three times.

  58. 58.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    October 29, 2018 at 4:02 pm

    @Woodrow/Asim: That makes sense and they may know which primary ballot you took, which tells them something too.

  59. 59.

    WaterGirl

    October 29, 2018 at 4:04 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: I strongly suggest that you not remind her to vote next week.

  60. 60.

    WaterGirl

    October 29, 2018 at 4:08 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: I got calls for years after I voted in the Republican primary in order to vote AGAINST Daddy Bush in the primary that year. Political calls and right to life calls for decades, not just years.

    For ages, I would string them along saying things like “I hate to say this, but won’t be voting for X because of this terrible thing they just did / position they just took. That is really disappointing and is a bridge too far”.

    If they are stupid enough to have me on their list, I’m all for wasting their time.

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