Tuesday, September 29, 2020

35: OUR BALLOTS CAME!!

 We promptly filled them out and dropped them in the 
secure drop box at the Town Clerk's office!!

 


WE VOTED!!!

57 comments:

  1. Very good! I think ours will arrive next week, probably Wednesday or Thursday.

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  2. New Battleground State Polls
    September 29, 2020 By Taegan Goddard

    From Washington Post-ABC News:

    PENNSYLVANIA: Biden 54%, Trump 45%

    From Susquehanna Polling & Research:

    FLORIDA: Biden 46%, Trump 43%
    WISCONSIN: Biden 48%, Trump 46%

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  3. Via politicalwire.com:

    The Cook Political Report catches up to our consensus electoral map by moving Iowa and Ohio into the Toss Up column.

    “Iowa and Ohio join Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Maine’s 2nd CD in Toss Up. That leaves just one state, Texas, in Lean Republican. Biden is in the enviable position of not having to win any of those states to get to 270, while Trump has to win all of them, plus another two states (22 Electoral votes) to win the Electoral College.”

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  4. Postal Workers Quietly Resist Changes [Click] A little lesson in labor-management relations that probably isn’t taught in MBA school; Boss, meet the Sabocat.

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  5. Trump Secretly Mocks His Christian Supporters [Click] Not surprising at all IMO, but where are the people who will speak out about it?

    Christian????? crowdfunding site raises more than $520K for Rittenhouse legal defense [Click] The Hill engages is sloppy reporting; there is nothing in the story that makes a connection with Christianity. The story is copied from the NY Post, which makes the same unsubstantiated claim.

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  6. Courtroom Showdown: DOJ Tries To Defend Decision To Drop Charges Against Trump Buddy Flynn [Click] Live reporting; WOW. Flynn Lawyer Personally Updated Trump On The Case. This is looking like a potential October Surprise.

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    1. I should wonder if it were time for Mr. Barr to consider a Goebbels-like exit, but I doubt very much that he has the necessary strength of character.

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  7. Rain. Lots of it. River not yet over bridge.

    Talked to Thankful for several hours last night. She's surviving the election as best she can. Sez HI!

    Feels so good to vote doesn't it listener?

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    1. It surely does, puddle!!

      {{{ ♥ Thankful!!! ♥ }}}

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  8. More Battleground State Polls
    September 29, 2020 By Taegan Goddard

    From Quinnipiac:

    GEORGIA: Biden 50%, Trump 47%

    From University of Massachusetts at Lowell:

    NEW HAMPSHIRE: Biden 53%, Trump 44%
    NORTH CAROLINA: Trump 49%, Biden 48%
    TEXAS: Trump 50%, Biden 46%

    From Civiqs:

    GEORGIA: Biden 50%, Trump 47%

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  9. ‘America Has Already Collapsed’ [Click] I accept that this is what it would feel like, but I hope we are not there at this time. Things could get very ugly, though.

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  10. Parscale Under Investigation for ‘Stealing’ Campaign Funds [Click] “It’s unclear whether a campaign-spending audit and scrutiny over his luxurious purchases precipitated Parscale’s latest troubles.”

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    1. Terrible cynic that I am, I note that an unstable man with multiple guns doesn't get blown away by the cops if he is "white."

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  11. Support for Obamacare Hits New High [Click] Are you trying to tell me that deep-sixing Obamacare might not be good politics?

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    1. And who is to say those PA politicians won't denude the envelopes themselves?

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  13. OHIO: As of Tuesday afternoon, there have been at least 152,907 confirmed or probable cases in the state, 4,783 deaths, and 15,413 hospitalizations, according to the Ohio Department of Health.

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  14. Donald J. Trump State Park [Click] Seems it hasn’t changed since I read about it four years ago or so.

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  15. It's a little warmer today,around 100F now (2:30 PM). A little smokey, AQI 77 this morning, 87 now.

    Alan

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    1. It just dawned on me that today is the first presidential debate. Good luck to those watching it.

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  16. Latest Poll, Georgia US Senate special election:

    Loeffler 23%
    Warnock 31%
    Collins 22%

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    1. Sounds like Democrats are uniting behind Warnock while Republicans are still split. But regardless of which Republican comes out ahead, both parties will be represented in the January election.

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  17. Vermont
    Total cases to date: 1749 (+4)
    Still 58 deaths (now for 63days)
    91 active cases in the whole state
    Recovered: 1601 (+11)
    In Hospital 1 (+1)
    Tests 162,747 (+822)

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  18. I won't be watching. But I will be listening. I have to or I can't believe he even exists.

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    1. Reminds me of going out with my dad to our car (which had a better radio than the one in the house) of an evening when I was a kid, to listen to ball games and prize fights once in a while. Not long ago I was moved by memories to check up on short wave radios, and I discovered (I shouldn't have been surprised) that the number of short wave broadcast stations has decreased dramatically. I could spend hours poking around the SW bands back in the day.

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  19. Which State May Indicate a Biden Victory First? [Click]

    If any one of six states (Arizona, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio or Texas) are called for Biden by close of polls on Election Night or the next day, it would indicate a likely Biden Victory. Trump cannot afford to lose a single one of them.

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    1. Another analysis: if Georgia, Iowa, Ohio or Texas goes for Biden it will be indicative of a landslide in both the popular and electoral college votes.

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  20. Somehow it's a pretty great feeling watching a debate when you've already voted.

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    1. No need to take notes to decide for whom to vote, certainly!

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    2. Oh wow.
      It was crazy, fraught with lies and utterly chaotic.

      Jake Tapper: "That was a hot mess inside a dumpster fire inside a train wreck. That was the worst debate I ha ve ever seen. In fact it wasn't even a debate it was a disaster, and that's primarily because of President Trump who spent the entire time interrupting, not abiding by the rules he agreed to. ... We will talk about who won the debate and who lost the debate but the American people lost."

      Dana Bash: "That was a sh!tshow."

      DT really blew it. He got so hot under the collar. I think Biden did really well, all things considered. He laughed a lot, shook his head, said "That's not true" etc. It was good, really.

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    3. This REALLY sums it up...

      Jake Tapper: "The President does not think he's going to win this election, and he wants to bring the rest of us down with him."

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    4. CNN's Van Jones: White Supremacists are celebrating online because DT refused to condemn White Supremacy and even told a racist organization "Stand back and stand by."

      (Stand by for what...!?)

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  21. BULLS EYE!
    September 29, 2020 at 8:06 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard

    “It’s debate night, so I’ve got my earpiece and performance enhancers ready.”

    — Joe Biden, tweeting a photo of Apple headphones and Jeni’s ice cream.

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  22. Early Surge of Democratic Mail Voting Worries GOP [Click] Don’t worry your pretty little heads, my dears. . .

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  23. White House Overruled CDC on Cruise Ship Ban [Click]

    Top Political Strategist Leaves US Chamber of Commerce [Click] It’s not clear whether he jumped or was pushed.


    Live: Presidential debate starts with combativeness between Trump, Biden and Wallace

    Trump tangles with Wallace: 'I guess I'm debating you'

    'Would you shut up, man?' Presidential debate turns feisty early

    Wallace tries to keep Trump from interrupting Biden at debate

    'Dump Trump': Peaceful protests against the president at first debate

    Trump Campaign Sends 'I Finished Debating Joe Biden' Email Hours Before Debate


    Follow-up to previous story:
    NYC resending absentee ballots to roughly 100,000 people [Click]

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  24. I watched the first hour of the debate, mostly because I had never seen Trump on stage. Got very tired to hearing two people talking at the same time. As the Fox News moderator noted in trying to maintain order, it was mostly Trump interrupting.

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    1. Maybe they cold give the moderator a Super Soaker? Or remote controlled cones of silence for the contestants?

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    2. They really need a kill switch on trump's mike. He's like a crazed monkey flinging poo as fast and hard as he can.

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    3. Why has no one thought of simply turning off the microphone of the candidate who is not supposed to be talking?

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    4. I hadn't seen your comment before I wrote mine, Susan. Great minds...

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    5. How about a cylindrical chamber for each contestant, which rises out of the floor when it is their turn, and descends into the floor when their time is up?

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    6. LOL!

      Well, we do need to see how the other candidate is reacting to what the speaker is saying.

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    7. Alan, best not use a super soaker with microphones.

      But cones of silence would be awesome.

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  25. Why Joe Biden is better than Donald Trump for the US economy [Click] “It’s a myth that Republicans handle the economy better – US recessions almost always occur under the GOP.” That’s not news, certainly. But there were a couple of bits that caught my attention:

    (1) “The rally in equity prices this past August coincided with a hardening of Biden’s polling lead, suggesting that markets are not nervous about a Biden presidency, or about the prospects of a Democratic sweep of Congress.”

    (2) “Biden. . . is the only presidential candidate in recent history without an Ivy League background.” This is simply not true unless “recent history” only extends to 1989:
    List of presidents of the United States by education [Click] Then again, maybe that IS a reasonable interpretation of “recent”!

    Perhaps this sounds a bit too much like Democratic hagiography, but do consider the background of the writer.

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  26. CNN poll of undecideds in Ohio

    Who won the debate?

    Biden 60% DT 28%

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  27. Even Rick Santorum said that if he were a Republican running for office right now he'd be angry at the President.

    Well, I sure hope a couple of them are Senators who will now vote against what McConnell wants.

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  28. Late night TV hosts on Trump’s tax returns. [Click] It’s a mixed bag IMO, but there are some very good bits.

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    1. Maybe Trump doesn't realize that as an EX-president he will get Secret Service protection too. Maybe a little weaker, though.

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  29. Sooooo! They were just saying on CNN that DT's performance tonight could affect turnout of Republicans, and if so it could help to bring about a Democratic Senate...!!

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    1. You mean it alienated them? That seems astounding. I will keep an eye on my across the street neighbor's Trump sign (which I noticed has become smaller and been moved back a bit).

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