The Politics Thread

[Vee]

What is not being said above is that due to some wonkery in NV a few years ago re: party registration and identification, it's common knowledge that much/most of the Other/Independent vote is likely blue. So you have from the outside what looks like a weakness in Dem voting but is likely being funneled through the third category.

Edited October 29, 2024 by Vee

[Vee]

Ignore the usual Politico game where they find any bedwetting Dem they can to write concern troll articles (a practice that goes back over a decade - I remember people telling me we were in real trouble in 2012 because Politico kept saying so) and keep at it.

 

 

 

Edited October 29, 2024 by Vee

[Marco Dane]

another washed up actor is supporting trump... Marcus Patrick watch his latest video on IG.... 

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[Wendy]

Who? (Not being funny. I genuinely don't know who this is! But since he's supporting Dump, I'm obviously not missing anything.)

[Marco Dane]

He was on DOOL and I think AMC. DOOL fired him because of his Playgirl shots.

 

[Wendy]

How ironic since Dump hates people of color.

Rather pathetic. 

[Marco Dane]

Yep

[Gray Bunny]

It's always the out-of-work heartthrobs of yesteryear who were able to land gigs primarily due to their looks, not by talent... Add him to the list of rejects supporting Dumpster Fire. 

Edited October 29, 2024 by Gray Bunny

[janea4old]

Lifelong Virginian among 1,600 voters to have registration cancelled
https://www.nbcwashington.com/decision-2024/lifelong-virginian-among-1600-voters-to-have-registration-cancelled/3753313/

Shantae Martin clearly remembers the first time she voted, at the insistence of her grandmother. She cast her first ballot for Barack Obama.

A big surprise recently arrived in the mail; a letter from election officials told Martin, 37, her voter registration had been cancelled because she’s a noncitizen.

Martin, a lifelong Virginian, was baffled.

“I was confused, to be honest. I was born and raised in Woodbridge, Virginia, so, you’ve got everything about me and now you’re saying that I’m an alien. Why would you let me vote before and not now?” she asked in an interview with News4.

Martin is one of 1,600 Virginians whose voter registration was cancelled after Gov. Glenn Youngkin issued an executive order on Aug. 7 ordering election officials to speed up the process of purging noncitizens form voter rolls.

In many cases, the voters were removed because they checked a box or missed checking a box on a DMV form designating them as a noncitizen.

The Department of Justice and groups representing immigrant communities filed suit and said the purge violated a federal law that bars voter registration cancellations so close to an election.

“So many stories have come out. These are U.S. citizens. They are being prohibited their right to vote,” said Monica Sarmiento, executive director of the Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights.

That’s Martin’s story and why it’s included in the lawsuit.

She got a new driver’s license in the spring and suspects some type of mistake was made.

Both a federal judge and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the purge violated federal law and ordered all 1,600 voters be reinstated.

HOWEVER -- despite that court ruling ordering the reinstatement ...

The State (Commonwealth) of  Virginia asked the U.S. Supreme Court
to block the reinstatement of voters, writing, “States are free to systematically remove noncitizens, as well as minors and fictitious persons, at any time, including within 90 days of an election, without running afoul of the [National Voter Registration Act].”
 

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[Xanthe]

I call that non-responsive, since the problem as described is citizens being incorrectly identified as non-citizens. 

[Vee]

 

[wonderwoman1951]

not that this is news. but, sometimes a picture (or in this case, a graph) really is worth more than 1000 words…

free link.

comparing harris and trump ads

Edited October 29, 2024 by wonderwoman1951

[Vee]

 

 

[Wendy]

Dubya's daughter, Barbara, endorses Kamala Harris - and is stumping in Pennsylvania for her:

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[jasonminer1974]

When i first read the name i thought it was the guy from Six Feet Under.