This ad. Wow.
Someday, when the next generation asks us
what we did in this moment to protect our freedoms,
will we be able to say: everything we could?Voting ends November 8th.#ProtectOurFreedoms. #VoteDemocrats. pic.twitter.com/C3MHBPXiEv
— Way To Win (@WayToWinAF) November 1, 2022
h/t Mousebumples
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Can we forget about *Elon Musk and Twitter and whether Trump will run and all the other distractions for the next 4 days and focus on each of us doing at least one more thing that increases the chances of the outcome we want.
As Obama said in multiple speeches last week – SQUIRREL (!)
Can we focus for the next 4 days?
Let’s win this!
*This was written before the latest post by mistermix, nothing personal intended.
Baud
Hahahaha.
Mousebumples
I’m going to do some more texting tonight/this weekend.
Posted this in the M*sk thread, but this seems like a better home for it –
Let’s leave it all on the metaphorical field. Just win, baby!
I’m “adopting” a few friends who haven’t voted yet, are planning to vote on Election Day for Democrats, and I’m planning to blow up their phones until they text me an I VOTED sticker. (I told them I’d be doing this, and they said that it was a deal, to make sure they follow through.)
Who can you turn out, among your friends and family?
WaterGirl
@Mousebumples: Thanks for that, Mousebumples. And for the ad. I added it up top.
Anyway
As our President sez ” we can walk and chew gum at the same time …”
TaMara
Some interesting news out of CO – Boebert is within margin of error in her campaign and could lose her seat. It was a fairly reliable poll, I’m going
to try and findfound that link for ya…Keating Research Poll, Colorado Sun
citizen dave
I liked a recent tweet (sorry can’t recall from who): If you’ve ever wondered what you would have done during the rise of fascism in Europe in the 20s and 30s, the answer is what you are doing right now.
zhena gogolia
The ad is good, but has a bit of that heroicizing cartoonishness that that artist does who always paints TFG as a superhero. Is that intentional? I guess I’m not the intended audience.
And who is the woman whose portrait is on the wall of the enemies of freedom? I see TFG, Kavanaugh, Andrew Jackson, and Clarence Thomas, but I can’t recognize some of the others.
zhena gogolia
@zhena gogolia: Like who is the guy in the middle right? Looks like Hosni Mubarak. And is that Roberts in the lower left?
zhena gogolia
Oh, fuck the NYT. I always look forward to taking their Friday News Quiz. But this week it’s a special “midterms edition.” Deleted with extreme prejudice.
zhena gogolia
Where is everybody?
Steeplejack
@zhena gogolia:
Still downstairs on the Musk post, apparently.
WaterGirl
@TaMara: Please please please let her lose.
Cameron
I don’t know if anybody’s already posted on this, but something I read this morning seemed like it should be a big deal in the Florida elections. I haven’t seen anything about it before, though. What’s the score?
https://www.levernews.com/in-climate-change-ravaged-florida-ron-desantis-insurance-giveaway/
WaterGirl
@Cameron: Betty will know better than I do, but I believe Crist has been talking about this for quite awhile
Will it affect the race? I don’t know. Does hate and prejudice and tribe beat out good sense and pocketbook issues?
I guess we’ll find out.
BenCisco 🇺🇸🎖️🖥️♦️
@TaMara: From your lips to the FSM’s noodly appendages.
Geminid
@TaMara: Colorado has a lot of unaffiliated voters. Some are staunch conservatives, but a lot aren’t and these might not want to keep hearing that babbling bonehead embarrass their district and state.
TaMara
@Geminid: As I said to someone yesterday, Boebert was an unknown quantity to most when she ran last time (except to those in Rifle, where she lost), and they just voted for the R on the ballot. She’s no longer unknown and is, in fact, an embarrassment. So yes, I’m hopeful they’ll either not vote at all or vote for the opponent.
Old School
@zhena gogolia:
My guess is Ted Cruz.
Mitch McConnell is in the top row.
Geminid
@TaMara: I think Boebert carried the Colorado 3rd CD by 6 points in 2020, same as trump. The Dem candidate was decent, but other good ones may have held back because they thought the incumbent wasn’t vulnerable. Boebert’s win over Scott Tipton surprised people including Tipton; he had $300,000 in campaign funds he apparently was saving for the general election.
The big question in the 3rd and everywhere else is, who will show up? It will be a different set of voters for sure, but how different?
RaflW
UU the Vote is phone and text banking late this afternoon through to election day. Partners include Poor People’s Campaign. And targeting states like Texas and PA.
RaflW
@TaMara: There was a thread over at that musty place the other day saying that despite the GOP having high hopes, CO at least statewide is really on the blue end of ‘purple’ now.
The conventional wisdom is still split between a 5-3 or a 4-4 House delegation with CO-08 (Yadira Caraveo’s new dist under CO’s new census allocation) being the swing. Wouldn’t it be great .if it was 6-2! .. and more in keeping with the statewide margin that carried Biden 55.4 to that other guy’s paltry 41.9%).
WaterGirl
@Geminid:
oops!
Mousebumples
@RaflW: thanks for the texting recommendations!
UncleEbeneezer
SwingLeft San Gabriel Valley has a Canvass Day Trip from Pasadena up to Palmdale to canvass for Christy Smith this Sunday, 11/6 from 9:30 am to 8:00 pm. An awesome friend/colleague of ours us captaining the bus.
zhena gogolia
@Old School: Thanks, that must be right. Not a good likeness.