Biden v Dump 1: If not now, when? If not us, who?

[Handyman]

Biden +8 and Peters rebounded to +8 in the final NYT Michigan poll. I suspect an increase in straight party voting on the Dem side might end up bailing out Peters.

Joe and Obama are both coming to Michigan on Saturday, location and time still TBA.

So it would seem the poll that had him tanking was most likely an outlier like the poll saying Smith is up only 1 here?

Scooby,

I think she will...but yeah she is not very inspirational. If she survives this one though I think much like Amy she will have the spot as long as she wants it. Why the MNGOP ran Lewis I will never know.

[Handyman]

Oh, geez, it was a light-hearted jibe poking at all kinds of prior posts on this board suggesting that the guy wearing wrap around shades is a republican or that woman complaining about wearing a mask is a republican or those people sitting on the beach without masks are definitely republicans. I usually just chuckle at the skills of posters around here to make that assessment like a bunch of phrenologists or something.

I probably should have gone with the Potter Stewart porno reference "they'll know them when they see them," which was my first impulse, but it's so overused.

Fair enough.

[Handyman]

https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/1321603536426278914

The Supreme Court allows the counting of ballots in North Carolina received up to nine days after the election as long as the ballots are postmarked by Election Day

edit: The AP updated the story. ACB abstained because she was too new. Alito, Thomas and Gorsuch dissented while Roberts and...Kavanaugh joined the Liberals :-o

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

So someone help my non legal brain here- why did kavanaugh treat nc different than WI? I’m guessing there’s a reason I’m not understanding

[Spartanforlife4]

So someone help my non legal brain here- why did kavanaugh treat nc different than WI? I’m guessing there’s a reason I’m not understanding

I believe both reaffirmed the current state laws.

[RaceBoarder]

So someone help my non legal brain here- why did kavanaugh treat nc different than WI? I’m guessing there’s a reason I’m not understanding

He likes Miller products over some uppity micro brewery out of Ashville?

[unofan]

So someone help my non legal brain here- why did kavanaugh treat nc different than WI? I’m guessing there’s a reason I’m not understanding

If I had to guess without reading the opinion, NC previously allowed votes received post election day to count and Wisconsin didn't. SCOTUS is generally loathe to have courts switch rules this late in the game.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

If I had to guess without reading the opinion, NC previously allowed votes received post election day to count and Wisconsin didn't. SCOTUS is generally loathe to have courts switch rules this late in the game.

Thank you.

as dumb and partisan as I think Brett can be, I’m also sure he based it on something

[WeAreNDHockey]

At this point I think we should just start saying that Trump was in the shower at PSU with Sandusky and the kids...

Honestly, would it make any difference with his supporters? I am asking that as a serious, albeit rhetorical I guess, question. I doubt it would. The lowest form of human filth is a person that can intentionally harm a child. trump is only one step above that already. Unless one of his supporters actually walked in on him in the shower raping a 12 year old boy, they would either blow it off as fake news, or make an excuse for it. trump is not the only problem when a third of America thinks like this. Electing Biden is essential, but it is not sufficient.

[Handyman]

Here is the AP Story

In reality the GOP argument was kind of crap anyways. They are saying (in part of it) that it is unfair to the people who turned in their ballots earlier under the original November 6th deadline.

The appeals, including one led by the state’s Republican legislative leaders, argued that the deadline change put in place by the State Board of Elections usurped legislators’ constitutional authority to set rules for elections. They also said the change made after early voting started would create unequal treatment of voters who had cast ballots under previous, stricter rules.

I mean that is true...but all it did was give them less time to turn in a ballot...they already turned in like a month ago. And the GOP is arguing it on behalf of people who arent really making that argument themselves and havent been harmed in any way because of it...unless they are saying those people would have waited and instead of putting in their vote in late September/early October they would have done it on Election Day. But I dont know how that would be A) provable or B) make a difference anyways since the vote would be counted the same either way. (unless they assume the mail is delayed that long)

It was a desperate grasp at straws hoping to prove that an election board doesnt have the authority over...elections. That would be a rather dumb precedent to set.

As for why McRapey joined...well I would like to think he did because his opinion in the WI case was so ripped to shreds he decided not to go against his own personal history in Gore v. Bush...but more likely Roberts swayed him on the "states have the right to decide for themselves" idea. As uno said they dont like to change the rules this late.

[French Rage]

The documents are in Canada, you wouldn't know them: https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1321608091503366144

[dxmnkd316]

I doubt any of these state are called on Tuesday.

The media is going to be TERRIFIED of early calls. They are going to need to be 99.5% sure. My guess is no race closer than 10 points will be called and Tuesday's election coverage will literally give us no new information.

It's going to be really weird, with counts and calls dribbling in over the full week. Maybe by 11/8 we will have some idea of the "first pass" result, before the lawyers and the Nazi judges get started.

you’re smarter than this. The media isn’t making these calls. A bunch of stats hypernerds and computer jockeys make calls. There is usually a literal wall between the stats dept and news/talking heads.

[Handyman]

The documents are in Canada, you wouldn't know them: https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1321608091503366144

Wow...they were stolen in the mail? That is what they are resorting to now? What's next his dog ate the files?

This is pathetasad...we have to invent words now for how pathetic this crap is. I mean at least when Alex Jones makes crap up he actually makes up the evidence too so he can present it. This would be downright hilarious if 37% of the population didn't nod their head and go "I totally buy that! "

The replies are friggin great though!

[dxmnkd316]

It just sounds like a bad ruse

“We took photos of the package, but not the contents.. no we don’t have copies “


ok

[Jimjamesak]

Who had Kevin Nash as an ardent anti-Trump critic?

https://twitter.com/RealKevinNash