How the US manages to pretend to be a modern country without the bare basics of public administration like a civil registry is beyond me.
If “registering to vote” was a thing anywhere else we’d all be decrying it as a major democratic deficit, if not outright disenfranchisement.
Ours is a culture of complacency. Even where demonstrably untrue, we for generations regard ourselves as number one in all aspects of nationhood. The propaganda works as designed. We don't expect more because we already think this is as good as it gets.
This allows the slow erosion of rights and denial of progress that we've seen over the last 50 years. We won't be protesting or demanding things most democracies would consider mandatory. We're too busy trying to get by at this point.
Ours is a culture of complacency
All the better for the oligarchs to manage the peons. Helps if they are "poorly educated" too - wouldn't want any critical thinking to pop up.
It's intentional
This is why polling sucks, or rather, that scientific polling can't account for what it can't account for. Unlikely voters, have never voted previously, where why Trump did so much better than his polling showed in 2016 and 2020.
Don't sleep on him.
Exactly. I hate these articles that encourage complacency. Pennsylvania is on a knife's edge and everyone needs to vote. You could write an article about the signs pointing in Trump's favor in PA just as easily if not more.
Register to vote. Check your registration to make sure it's active. Tell your friends to do the same. Make a plan to vote. Help your friends make a plan to vote. These are the only messages that are helpful in PA.
I could read articles from every single paper in the world giving me detailed breakdowns by renowned scientists, statisticians, math experts, and even some geologists if you're feeling frisky, all telling me how Harris is 99.99999999% likely to win, and only 10,000 votes will go to anyone else, and that will still not change my opinion.
GO VOTE
That cuts both ways though. Trump lost the last election, and since then there have been a few things happen. How would Jan 6, and all the crimes Trump is convicted or indicted for affect the likeliness of an unlikely vote to go out and vote for him again?
Something no one can know either way. There's really no reason to bother considering the top line of the polling data. It's all about looking at polling about the issues people are concerned about and addressing those concerns.
Given we really have no way of knowing what will happen on election day, the only thing to do is to keep convincing people to vote for Harris right up to election day.
Good. Glad so many are going to vote.
"cautious optimism!" I expect theft in GA and MI, WI, MN to hold blue; but PA has me worried
If you live in PA, then turn out, and get all your friends to turn out. This is true no matter where you live, but PA is even more so. And this is the plural you, just to make that clear.
But I thought "the black people" loved him because he...*checks notes*... has been indicted numerous times and sells shoes. Are you telling me that's not true? I am shocked, I tell you. Shocked.
The more the merrier
Well, I sure hope so. But only getting out and voting will matter.
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