Friends, I have filled out my ballot and will be happy to insert it into the voting machine tomorrow as I arrive to work at the polls. I'll check in after I'm home...by 10pm, I think. Meanwhile, Keep Kalmala and Carry Onala!
Good. Today marks a full month since I voted. Allan Lichtman's blog goes live at 7PM Eastern Time. I remain hopeful that uppity wimmin and young folk will save the day. ----Alan
Boeing strike over. [Click] Looks to me like a win for the workers, again achieved with discrete arm-twisting by the Biden administration (like the East/Gulf coast longshore strike). Which reminds me of a story I saw recently about record volumes of freight at West Coast ports. ——Alan
Alan, I think it was a partial victory. The machinists voted to go back after Boeing issued an ultimatum that if they did not accept its latest offer, the next offer would include less. More importantly, the union did not get the main reason most of its members were striking -- restoration of the pension it gave away in 2014 under Boeing threats. -- nordy
I am thinking that by 7PM ET we should be getting plausible voter turnout figures, and by 7PM PT we might be getting plausible voting projections. Fingers and toes crossed. -----Alan
Rudy Giuliani showed “up to Trump’s polling station in the Mercedes convertible he was ordered to surrender to Georgia poll workers for defaming them,” the Financial Times reports. -----Alan
From The Guardian: Jocelyn Benson, Michigan’s secretary of state, said that as of this morning, people in Michigan were already voting in record numbers.
Benson said at a press conference on Tuesday that 3.3 million people in the state had already cast their ballot in this election before the polls even opened today, representing 45.8% of active registered voters in Michigan.
“We’re on track to break turnout records” Benson said.
Benson said unofficial results from the state of Michigan will begin to be reported shortly after 9pm ET tonight.
So I voted. Rainy and too breezy for my umbrella, so I'm prety wet. It's tempting to say my vote doesn't matter because Democrats have a lock on every position on the ballot, but there are propositions I care about. We may get ranked choice voting in Oak Park Township.
Lichtman Live Election Night Coverage [Click] 9PM Pacific Time. It is looking bad. I fear that the only thing that might save the situation at this point is late-tallied absentee ballots, and I am not sanguine about that. ——Alan
Friends, I have filled out my ballot and will be happy to insert it into the voting machine tomorrow as I arrive to work at the polls. I'll check in after I'm home...by 10pm, I think. Meanwhile, Keep Kalmala and Carry Onala!
ReplyDeleteDixville Notch isn't being much help in deciding how things will turn out; voted 3 for Trump, 3 for Harris.
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The Duolingo owl mascot just reminded me to vote. (We already did--even Daughter voted from overseas.)
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DeleteGood. Today marks a full month since I voted. Allan Lichtman's blog goes live at 7PM Eastern Time. I remain hopeful that uppity wimmin and young folk will save the day.
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Delete🌟🇺🇸🌟I VOTED!🌟🇺🇸🌟
So did Bernie!
Boeing strike over. [Click] Looks to me like a win for the workers, again achieved with discrete arm-twisting by the Biden administration (like the East/Gulf coast longshore strike). Which reminds me of a story I saw recently about record volumes of freight at West Coast ports.
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Alan, I think it was a partial victory. The machinists voted to go back after Boeing issued an ultimatum that if they did not accept its latest offer, the next offer would include less. More importantly, the union did not get the main reason most of its members were striking -- restoration of the pension it gave away in 2014 under Boeing threats. -- nordy
DeleteI am thinking that by 7PM ET we should be getting plausible voter turnout figures, and by 7PM PT we might be getting plausible voting projections. Fingers and toes crossed.
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Bomb Threats at Polling Places Came from Russia [Click]
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ReplyDeleteGiuliani Driving Car He Was Ordered to Surrender [Click]
—Alan
Rudy Giuliani showed “up to Trump’s polling station in the Mercedes convertible he was ordered to surrender to Georgia poll workers for defaming them,” the Financial Times reports.
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More Than 80 Million Americans Cast Early Ballots [Click] From the NYT, so they have to end by saying that the total voe is not likely to equal that of 2020.
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voe = voTe
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DeleteIt’s looking like at least 75% voter turnout here!
That's acceptable; what is typical?
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Giuliani Moved Possessions From New York Apartment [Click]
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From The Guardian:
ReplyDeleteJocelyn Benson, Michigan’s secretary of state, said that as of this morning, people in Michigan were already voting in record numbers.
Benson said at a press conference on Tuesday that 3.3 million people in the state had already cast their ballot in this election before the polls even opened today, representing 45.8% of active registered voters in Michigan.
“We’re on track to break turnout records” Benson said.
Benson said unofficial results from the state of Michigan will begin to be reported shortly after 9pm ET tonight.
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Explainer from The Guardian: [Click]
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—Alan
Try again:
DeleteGuardian Live tracker [Click]
>US Election Explainer from The Guardian [Click] Some useful tidbits even for well informed Americans.
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Sorry my posts have been rather garbled today. Distractions abound.
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listener!
ReplyDeleteAn old New England custom that could profitably be resurrected!
Election Cake from 1796 [Click]
——Alan
So I voted. Rainy and too breezy for my umbrella, so I'm prety wet. It's tempting to say my vote doesn't matter because Democrats have a lock on every position on the ballot, but there are propositions I care about. We may get ranked choice voting in Oak Park Township.
ReplyDeleteCNN has called Vermont for Harris!
ReplyDeleteIn my little town:
Harris 2656
Trump 826
Bernie 2553
ReplyDeleteMalloy 938
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ReplyDeleteLichtman Live is calling Florida for Trump; New Hampster and Georgia are looking good for Harris.
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Virginia looks like a Democratic win.
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Too early to be sure, though.
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ReplyDeleteStill finishing up at the polls.
Almost done!
Georgia is going to depend on turnout in the big counties, which are not yet reporting.
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Polls will soon close in NC.
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Oops--- that should have been PENNSYLVANIA
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The only thing I ever heard about Pennsylvania was that it is "Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, with Alabama in between." -- nordy
ReplyDeleteLichtman Live Election Night Coverage [Click] 9PM Pacific Time. It is looking bad. I fear that the only thing that might save the situation at this point is late-tallied absentee ballots, and I am not sanguine about that.
ReplyDelete——Alan
‘Fat Leonard’ gets 15 years plus huge fines for plotting one of the US military’s biggest scandals [Click]
ReplyDelete—Alan