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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[facilitatorn]

http://www.dcreport.org/2020/10/27/trump-asserts-dictatorial-power-over-top-government-employees/

[bodiddley]

Google searches of the phrase "can I change my vote" peaked Tuesday morning in the U.S. around 6 a.m. ET.

What could that be a bot?

6:AM is the giveaway.
Unless you had a lot folks waking up in a cold sweat panicked about their mis-vote.

[LarryBnDC]

This should play well in Middle America...

Pray for these people for they are in thrall to a guy who doesn’t give a shit about them.

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/cold-stranded-donald-trump-omaha-hospitalized/33499/

[bambu.]

If people hate me just because I'm White...they are racist, plain and simple.
Racist they surely are.

Dear love, I only hate you so far as you are a witless asshole. Not a sou farther.

That is acceptable, and not racist.

[bodiddley]

Interesting.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/business/media/hunter-biden-wall-street-journal-trump.html

The Trump camp peddled the Hunter Biden story to the WSJ.  Hoping for the story to break circa Oct 19.  Intending that Biden corruption would be a main story the last two weeks of the campaign.  But the WSJ looked into whether Joe Biden was implicated, found it all a bit dodgy and delayed. 

So Rudy went rogue and got the story out through the NY Post and some rightwing websites.  The Post and WSJ both are Murdoch publications, but the Post decidedly more low rent and partisan with lower standards.  The WSJ actually performed traditional media gatekeeping function instead of just running with whatever dirty tricks and illegally obtained info sketchily sourced that was partisanly passed around.  Have to wonder how things would have gone had the WSJ gone ahead and ran with the story.  Would they have looked cheap and partisan?  or would it have spread throughout the mainstream media?

Did Rudy (and even just his involvement) bullocks things up again?  Or was the story just too iffy for the WSJ and other respectable media outlets.
But the story is that legit credible journalism stood up to the anything-goes web and fulfilled its traditional role as gatekeeper for credible info.

[facilitatorn]

If people hate me just because I'm White...they are racist, plain and simple.
Racist they surely are.

Dear love, I only hate you so far as you are a witless asshole. Not a sou farther.

That is acceptable, and not racist.

 

[facilitatorn]

http://www.theweek.com/speedreads/946325/virginia-governor-remove-robert-e-lee-statue-judge-rules

Keep marching.

[bambu.]

You watch...if the Dems win... the Electoral College will be the greatest system ever invented. lol

[bambu.]

http://www.theweek.com/speedreads/946325/virginia-governor-remove-robert-e-lee-statue-judge-rules

Keep marching.

All good...done legally, thru the courts.

[bambu.]

The fires in Orange County are horrific...just shown on my TV news.
Some fire-fighters critically injured.
100,000 people told to evacuate their homes. Hopefully they will all get out alive. Hope they learnt from the fires in Australia that you can't beat a  fire storm with a garden hose.
Power cut to 1 million. Best to have silent back up power in your home that no one knows about...generators can be heard by neighbours, causing a stampede.

[bodiddley]

For 31 years in early America women were allowed to vote in NJ:

New Jersey's state Constitution, originally written in 1776, noted that "all inhabitants of this colony, of full age, who are worth fifty pounds … and have resided within the county … for twelve months" could vote.

The impetus for that language? Counties in South Jersey, heavily influenced by Quakers and Dutch settlers, which granted their women suffrage.

The state Legislature in 1790 went a step further, changing the wording of the law to "he or she," spelling out clearly that women, including free Black or African women who met the financial and residency thresholds, could vote.

Though married women could not own property — all their assets legally belonged to their husbands — single and widowed women could.
And vote they did, at least until that right was taken from them in 1807 in the midst of a political dispute.

Whaley noted one scenario in which Black people, and Black women in particular, were symbolic of the new nation's conflicting views on equality and freedom: A Black person might be at a polling place to vote — but he or she might also have been brought to a polling place by a master or mistress as proof of assets worth 50 pounds or more.

A political compromise between the two main parties of the time, the Democratic Republicans and the Federalists, codified voting as a right granted only to free white men, stripping all New Jersey women and free Black men of their voting rights.

New Jersey had passed a gradual abolition act in 1804 and Black people may have been too worried about its tenuousness to press for enfranchisement.

[kiidcarter8]

What I hear in these polls is REMARKABLY SIMILAR to four years ago.  I trust no polls.

[kiidcarter8]

The fires in Orange County are horrific...just shown on my TV news.
Some fire-fighters critically injured.
100,000 people told to evacuate their homes. Hopefully they will all get out alive. Hope they learnt from the fires in Australia that you can't beat a  fire storm with a garden hose.
Power cut to 1 million. Best to have silent back up power in your home that no one knows about...generators can be heard by neighbours, causing a stampede.

COLORADO also getting hit very hard currently, Bambu

[kidcarter8]

https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2020/more_voters_plan_on_voting_in_person_at_the_polls

Voting in person picks up.

And we know there are more new Republicans registered than Dems

We also know new independents are in no way siding so quickly with the former Veep.

[LarryBnDC]

Interesting.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/business/media/hunter-biden-wall-street-journal-trump.html

The Trump camp peddled the Hunter Biden story to the WSJ.  Hoping for the story to break circa Oct 19.  Intending that Biden corruption would be a main story the last two weeks of the campaign.  But the WSJ looked into whether Joe Biden was implicated, found it all a bit dodgy and delayed. 

So Rudy went rogue and got the story out through the NY Post and some rightwing websites.  The Post and WSJ both are Murdoch publications, but the Post decidedly more low rent and partisan with lower standards.  The WSJ actually performed traditional media gatekeeping function instead of just running with whatever dirty tricks and illegally obtained info sketchily sourced that was partisanly passed around.  Have to wonder how things would have gone had the WSJ gone ahead and ran with the story.  Would they have looked cheap and partisan?  or would it have spread throughout the mainstream media?

Did Rudy (and even just his involvement) bullocks things up again?  Or was the story just too iffy for the WSJ and other respectable media outlets.
But the story is that legit credible journalism stood up to the anything-goes web and fulfilled its traditional role as gatekeeper for credible info.

WSJ is a legit news organization EXCEPT when it comes to their editorial writers. They’re a bunch of conservative hacks.