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The States: Maybe A National Divorce Is A Good Idea After All

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Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
Ohio special election seems to have big turnout so far
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Turnout is off the charts, says an AP headline.

I've been doing the old fashioned, grassroots GOTV for Issue 1 and while few people answer their phones or their doors for political canvassers nowadays, the ones who are are overwhelmingly opposed to Issue 1 and in favor of adopting the reproductive rights measure that will be voted on in November.

While my door knocking has been confined to Cuyahoga County, my phone calls are to all corners of the state, including plenty of places won by trump by big margins in 2016 and 2020. This has been a daily topic in virtually every conversation I initiate with my members for weeks now, and virtually my whole organization is now spending at least some time every day on it. We canvassed all weekend in and around Cleveland and Columbus, making sure we turn out friendly voters.

I'm glad the issue of women having at least some control and autonomy where their own bodies are the question is driving people to the polls. I wish we could translate that to some of the other pressing topics of the day too, like gun safety issues, gerrymandering and taxes.
 
WeAreNDHockey said:
Turnout is off the charts, says an AP headline.

I've been doing the old fashioned, grassroots GOTV for Issue 1 and while few people answer their phones or their doors for political canvassers nowadays, the ones who are are overwhelmingly opposed to Issue 1 and in favor of adopting the reproductive rights measure that will be voted on in November.

While my door knocking has been confined to Cuyahoga County, my phone calls are to all corners of the state, including plenty of places won by trump by big margins in 2016 and 2020. This has been a daily topic in virtually every conversation I initiate with my members for weeks now, and virtually my whole organization is now spending at least some time every day on it. We canvassed all weekend in and around Cleveland and Columbus, making sure we turn out friendly voters.

I'm glad the issue of women having at least some control and autonomy where their own bodies are the question is driving people to the polls. I wish we could translate that to some of the other pressing topics of the day too, like gun safety issues, gerrymandering and taxes.
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Does this election run through Tuesday? I was confused by the Friday voting.

I honestly wouldn't canvass door to door anymore. It only takes one MAGAt f-ckwit. I am very glad there are people who are willing to take the risk.
 
Kepler said:
Does this election run through Tuesday? I was confused by the Friday voting.

I honestly wouldn't canvass door to door anymore. It only takes one MAGAt f-ckwit. I am very glad there are people who are willing to take the risk.
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Just standing their ground dontcha know.
 
Kepler said:
Does this election run through Tuesday? I was confused by the Friday voting.

I honestly wouldn't canvass door to door anymore. It only takes one MAGAt f-ckwit. I am very glad there are people who are willing to take the risk.
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Ends tomorrow when the polls close at 7:30 p.m. Ohio has pretty good early voting and mail voting rules. I voted at my kitchen table 10 days ago.
 
Currently sitting in the public library in Charles City, IA, between public agency meetings I'm attending for a client, and got a full display of rural Iowa from 2 tables over. One guy, who I later learned from dropping eaves (not that it was hard to do given they were taking in normal conversational voices in an otherwise silent library) is a 68-year-old local preacher, was showing photos of his trip to the Ark museum in Kentucky. He told the other gentleman he should really go because he spent 10 hours there without getting bored for an instant. Apparently spent like $100 on admission, but the restaraunt had an all you can eat buffet for $13 which was a steal.

Thereafter, the conversation turned to politics and I learned Obama is an anti-semite who hates Israel because of the connection to Jeremiah Wright and the fact that he didn't get along with "all of Israel's leaders." Also, young people are delusional fools because of BLM while these two upstanding people of the land can see the sinister political operatives behind it. The preacher noted he saw through all of Obama's hidden agenda from the beginning. Reagan was apparently the best president ever while JFK and Obama were essentially the devil. JFK was also apparently pro-Hitler.

Also all educators believe in Karl Marx and only their local superintendent keeps sex books for kindergarteners out of the schools. They also whispered something about parents who send their kids to the local Catholic School, which was notable only because it was the only time they lowered their voices for the entire 15 minute conversation. They then both lamented how they just had to be engaged in local politics because the actual parents are too busy working and no one else would protect the kids but these guys.

It then turned to the caucuses, and both agreed they liked Tim Scott. One guy claimed he never voted for Trump, the preacher admitted he did but is going for DeSantis this time because he thinks DeSantis can win while Tim Scott (and presumably Trump) cannot. He is worried about the crap he'll get for being anti-Trump but had to do it. Biden is also apparently senile but no comments about Trump.

The one guy then left after directing the preacher to read a specific article in the WSJ. He is currently reading it while making random noises every 15 seconds, presumably when he finds a word longer than 5 letters that he understands.
 
bronconick said:
Well, that was quick. 30+ minutes after polls close.
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The NFW vote from Cuyahoga (Cleveland), Franklin (Columbus), Hamilton (Cincinnati), Lucas (Toledo) and Montgomery (Dayton) counties equals the entire statewide Yes vote and that doesn't include any of the Cleveland collar counties which are all strong NFW. Yeah, it's over.
 
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Issue 1 vote is getting tighter as more votes are counted, but its still a huge margin for "no." 60% of the vote counted and its 57.2% to 42.8%. There are also about 170,000 votes left to count in Cuyahoga County, where the right side is up 81.5% to 18.5%.
 
Ohio went blue shift to red in 2020 based on early/absentee voting so I wouldn't be surprised it ended around 54-55 no.
 
WeAreNDHockey said:
Issue 1 vote is getting tighter as more votes are counted, but its still a huge margin for "no." 60% of the vote counted and its 57.2% to 42.8%. There are also about 170,000 votes left to count in Cuyahoga County, where the right side is up 81.5% to 18.5%.
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Right as in correct?
 
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