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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Most Americans have heard of Biden family allegations, more than half believe them
[JustTheNews] Among 27% of Americans who haven't heard of Biden family allegations, knowing about them doesn't push them to support Trump.
So the attempt to hide the information from voters by Twitter, Facebook, et al failed spectacularly, even with the audience that would not be upset by it.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  REAL News is what people in power don't want you to know...

That's why Biden's Laptop Matters and it's news that the establishment's gone to such lengths to censor it.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/03/2020 7:41 Comments || Top||

#2  I patiently await the discovery of a Hunter Biden-Jeffrey Epstein connection.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/03/2020 7:45 Comments || Top||


Britain
British Home Secretary will ban protests involving more than TWO people

[MSN/Daily Mail] Protests of more than two people will be banned during the month-long lockdown set to start on Thursday, according to Whitehall sources.

Ministers have said the rules need to be clear and Home Secretary Priti Patel is said to have briefed chief constables over the weekend to tell officers to enforce the rules.

However, it is believed that some senior officers are worried that the move is too oppressive for a liberal society.

And one barrister is concerned the move could breach human rights.

A Whitehall source told The Times that even though protests won't explicitly be prohibited, the previous exemption - which allowed demonstrations of more than two people - would be removed.

The new edict has allegedly been enforced to make it easier for police to enforce the rules.

Some UK citizens reportedly complained during the country's first lockdown that they weren't allowed to see their families while thousands of others were allowed to demonstrate together.

Priti Patel read the riot act to Bristol police chief, Andy Marsh, whose officers failed to stop Black Lives Matter protesters ripping down a slave trader's statue in June....

Posted by: Clem || 11/03/2020 11:50 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So have 5000 protests, of two people each, all in a row.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/03/2020 13:09 Comments || Top||

#2  And ban in-person voting as well, right?
Posted by: Vernal Hatrick || 11/03/2020 14:31 Comments || Top||

#3  I was expecting The Bee.

Whatever their personal reasons, I am *so* glad my ancestors fled Europe.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/03/2020 16:11 Comments || Top||

#4  Ditto Steve.

1903 from Germany here.
Posted by: AlanC || 11/03/2020 17:28 Comments || Top||


Economy
Doomsday for many NYNY landlords is this Tuesday.
[NY Post] New York is about to kill a whole lot of landlords

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and President Trump made sure to protect tenants by banning evictions during the pandemic, but public officials have done almost nothing for property owners. That’s inviting disaster.

Many of these landlords, particularly mom-and-pop small-building owners, have been struggling for months to make ends meet as the COVID crisis drags on.

Thousands of tenants haven’t paid full rent. Others, looking to escape the virus, violent crime and plunging quality of life, have fled, pushing up the vacancy rate and forcing owners to grant concessions.

Meanwhile, landlord bills — including property taxes and water and sewage fees — have mounted, without letup. Cleaning and other costs have actually soared, thanks to the pandemic.

The latest nightmare: an upcoming tax-lien sale, where the city sells owners’ unpaid tax bills to a third party, which then moves to collect on them, along with 18 percent interest charges. Waves of foreclosures may soon follow.

Cuomo had placed a moratorium on lien sales, but it expires Tuesday. That could spell doomsday for owners on the hook. And not just small landlords, but also owners of private homes as well.

Anyone who recalls the housing-market horrors of the 1980s knows where this is headed: landlords unable to do basic maintenance, some ditching properties altogether. Decaying and abandoned buildings spreading urban blight. The city taking possession of vacant buildings — which takes them off the tax rolls, depriving it of vital revenue.

The prospect has pushed some owners and real estate advocates to call for a halt to landlord-debt sales altogether.

“If the City Council doesn’t end tax liens,” warns Rent Stabilization Association president Joe Strasburg, the “housing crisis of the 1980s will pale in comparison.” No one “will be spared.” And New York’s “property-tax base, the city’s top revenue producer, will come crumbling down.”

Yes, the city needs a way to collect taxes it’s owed. But those levies can eat up as much as 50 percent of a landlord’s income. That’s not sustainable even in good times.

Landlords need relief. If they don’t get it soon, they won’t be the only ones to suffer
Posted by: 3dc || 11/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

I guess the NY Gov did not think that one all the way thru either.

With NO Rent money coming in how will building upkeep and repairs be made?

With NO Rent Money coming in how will the money for property taxes be collected to pay NY/NYC?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/03/2020 5:28 Comments || Top||

#2  How can you charge a property tax when you've closed the property and made the property less valuable.

I'm all for title taxes (as im a capitlaist not a socialist) but they MUST be related to title value created by the state.

i.e. the great value of property taxes to the state is telling them what they are doing is harmful to them as well as the serfs....
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/03/2020 7:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Watch for a Soros type to swoop down and buy whole blocks of these properties so that, if and when the pandemic ends, small owners are gone and super landlords rule. They'll have their tenants by the short hairs.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/03/2020 11:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Who'd live in NYC if they didn't have to?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/03/2020 12:03 Comments || Top||

#5  Some people say it's pretty cool if you have LOTS of money. But with the pandemic, I don't hear anybody with anything good to say about it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/03/2020 13:07 Comments || Top||

#6  Good luck following the money but you can bet the best foreclosed properties will be scooped up for pennies on the dollar by politically connected.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/03/2020 13:08 Comments || Top||

#7  How are REITs doing. Been working too much to check.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 11/03/2020 13:42 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
In the Riot city of Kenosha tens of thousands come out for Trump Rally.
[Breitbart] ‘Red Sky at Night’: Massive Crowd for Trump in Kenosha, Wisconsin

Tens of thousands of supporters of President Donald Trump gathered under a red evening sky in Kenosha, Wisconsin, for the penultimate rally of the 2020 presidential campaign.

With temperatures at 47º Fahrenheit, and the wind blowing steadily from the west, the weather was cold, with the wind chill at 41º. But that did not deter the faithful from attending a rally in a town that was devastated by Black Lives Matter riots in August — as Democratic Party nominee Joe Biden criticized police.

Much of the damage in the town is still visible, with rubble in the central business district, and public buildings boarded up.

Trump visited the town immediately and backed local law enforcement, over the objections of Democrats.
Posted by: 3dc || 11/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Biden's strapline
"Make America Rubble Again"!

Mind you he'd do anything for a rouble.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/03/2020 4:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Why don't these people come out protesting against a local law enforcement and prosecution who were and are objectively supporting a mob of looters and arsonists that devastated parts of their city?

Why aren't people protesting against a DA who apparently colluded with BLM?
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 11/03/2020 8:40 Comments || Top||

#3  That far north, 47F is shorts weather.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/03/2020 12:59 Comments || Top||


Trump Campaign Claims Democrats Plan To Delegitimize Election Day Results
[DAILYWIRE] The Trump campaign on Monday warned that Democrats are seeking to "delegitimize Eletion Day results" and "create a smoke screen by casting blame all around."

"Democrats are panicking because Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier...
has not run up a large enough lead in early votes in battleground states and they know that President Trump’s in-person votes on Election Day will make up the difference and propel him to victory," Justin Clark, Trump 2020 deputy campaign manager, said in an email to news hounds.

"Biden’s wardheelers have already been distributing talking points and research to delegitimize Election Day results by coaching surrogates to refer to the President’s Election Day success as a ’Red Mirage.’ The operatives are advising surrogates and media to create a smoke screen by casting blame all around — imagining postal delays or falsely claiming that mail-in ballots that have simply not been returned should be considered legitimate votes that need to be counted. None of this will be true, but it will be held up as proof that President Trump’s victory is a so-called ’Red Mirage.’ No one should fall for it," Clark wrote.

"We are aware that Democrats have already cut television ads they are prepared to deploy to further cement the ’Red Mirage’ misinformation, seeking to convince people that all Joe Biden would need for victory is more time, extending well beyond Election Day. At the same time, we fully anticipate that Democrats will be in court arguing to extend deadlines for accepting and counting votes mailed and received well past deadlines enacted by individual state laws."

"Americans should remember that Biden has assembled a massive team of lawyers who will try to loosen election integrity so they can steal this election, and also recall that Crooked Hillary Clinton
...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do...
advised Biden not to concede defeat ’under any circumstances.’ The last gasp of the Biden campaign will be ugly and it will be ruthless," Clark said.

Posted by: Fred || 11/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Trump Campaign Claims Democrats Plan To Delegitimize Election Day Results AGAIN.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/03/2020 7:37 Comments || Top||

#2  They have been talking about this openly for months. So, yeah. Does seem to be the strategy. Delegitimize the election, then keep counting until they get the result they wanted.
Posted by: Iblis || 11/03/2020 11:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Unions announce they will go on strike if Biden refuses to accept Trump victory.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 11/03/2020 19:48 Comments || Top||

#4  7:03 Central time Trump has 33 electoral college votes to Biden's 16.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 11/03/2020 20:04 Comments || Top||


More than 94 million ballots have been cast ahead of Election Day, over two-thirds of 2016′s turnout
[CNBC] Numbers as of 2.November at 10:30 a.m. ET:
  • Voters have cast more than 94 million ballots in the U.S. ahead of Election Day, according to the U.S. Elections Project.

  • That figure represents more than 68% of the total votes counted in 2016, according to the site, which is compiled by University of Florida political science professor Michael McDonald.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Joe Biden confuses Philadelphia Eagles logo with his college emblem
[NYPOST] Former Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. I had the great honor of being arrested with our UN Ambassador on the streets of Soweto, trying to get to see him on Robbens Island...
confused the Philadelphia Eagles logo with the emblem of his own undergraduate university at a Sunday campaign rally in the City of Brotherly Love."I know Philadelphia well," the former vice president told the crowd at a drive-in rally in a church parking lot. "I married a Philly girl, by the way, and by the way got my Eagles jacket on."

But Biden’s parka bore the logo of the University of Delaware Blue Hens — where he received his bachelor’s degree.

The mix-up was quickly noticed by President Trump’s campaign.

"I hope all of my fellow @Eagles fans saw Joe Biden claim to be wearing an Eagles jacket today in Philly," Trump campaign front man Tim Murtaugh wrote on Twitter. "It was a Delaware Blue Hens jacket."



Posted by: Fred || 11/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Understandable. The chicken hawk is the Democrats' favorite bird.
Posted by: Whusosh Slomble1535 || 11/03/2020 1:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Down $1
Posted by: Black Charlie tse Tung5518 || 11/03/2020 14:23 Comments || Top||


A woman says American flags are 'disgusting' and a 'public display of force'
[AMERICANTHINKER] For four years, the media have told every lie in the book to convince Americans that Trump is a Russia-loving, racist totalitarian. We know that the Russia collusion claim is a proven hoax; the racism accusations are proven lies; and Trump has shrunk, not grown, government power. Still, credulous people believe the media's propaganda. You can see how this propaganda affects people in a video showing a hysterical, frightened woman begging the police to disperse Trump-supporters with American flags because they're a dangerous "public display of force."The video's sound quality isn't very good. However,
ars longa, vita brevis...
you can easily hear enough to understand what's going on. To keep this post a reasonable length, I'll focus on the highlights.

The police officer apparently tells the woman that if she's uncomfortable, she can leave the park, and the woman pushes back. "I don't want to leave the park. My children were playing."

Eventually, after screaming at an older man, the woman screeches at the police, "Can you not see it, this public display of force?" Gesturing at the American flags and Trump banners, she says, "This is disgusting."

The police deny she's in danger, but she pushes back. "I was here peacefully exercising with my children. They created the scene. This [the flags] is an intimidating show of force."

Eventually, dissatisfied with the police, the woman snaps at them, "You guys are part of it. You're complicit." She then makes her demand: "I want an escort out of here." The police refuse.

The video ends when the woman shrieks at the police, "How come you're only talking to me?!"

The beleaguered police officer has a simple answer. "Because you're the only one yelling."



Posted by: Fred || 11/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Karens gotta hate
Posted by: 746 || 11/03/2020 0:17 Comments || Top||

#2  She's intimidated? Strange way to behave if you're intimidated. I usually just try to avoid offending those who intimidate me.
Posted by: gorb || 11/03/2020 1:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Maybe she'd prefer a Liberian flag?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/03/2020 3:28 Comments || Top||

#4  This why many Liberal Socialist Democrat Women & Karen's should be required to carry a tranquilizer injector pen.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/03/2020 5:21 Comments || Top||

#5  A woman says American flags are 'disgusting' and a 'public display of force'

...do what my ancestors did when they felt the same where they were born, emigrate.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/03/2020 6:41 Comments || Top||

#6  - She's been told by the media and her friends that Trump supporters = KKK

- Everyone agrees KKK = bad

- Therefore, Trump supporters = bad

- Add hysteria for effect
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 11/03/2020 7:27 Comments || Top||

#7  She's not been told KKK = old armed wing of Dem party before the fascist Antifa.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/03/2020 7:39 Comments || Top||

#8  Those children should be put in protective custody.
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/03/2020 10:00 Comments || Top||

#9  So many other countries to choose from, certainly a few of them have flags that aren't disgusting and a public display of force.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/03/2020 14:51 Comments || Top||

#10  Bangladesh would be perfect for her
Posted by: 746 || 11/03/2020 15:00 Comments || Top||


Residents Call Trump Caravan in Marin County 'Terrorists'
[BREITBART] Residents of Marin County near the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
claimed that a caravan of Trump supporters that rolled through the area reminded them of "terrorists," according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

The Chronicle reported:

Allen-Peirson said she was worried that the Trump convoy had purposefully selected Marin City as a minority-majority community in a county that is 80% white. Marin City has had a strong African American presence since World War II, when many people worked in wartime shipyards.

"I’m concerned about Marin City, because it’s the only Black community in Marin and there is only one entrance and one exit," she said. "Are they going to attack us in the future? What was their point? Were they trying to make a statement?"

She said she was grateful nobody was hurt "because the tension was high and the environment was definitely unsafe."

"It was like the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
had come to town. It felt like local terrorism, especially since it was Sunday, which is a holy day for the black community," she said. "If this is what is happening on November 1st, then what is going to happen on the 3rd or 4th? It makes me scared of what we can expect moving forward."
Posted by: Fred || 11/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Did they set fire to the place and loot? That's the Left's modus apprendi for communicating.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/03/2020 6:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Certainy not, Procop; they invited the residents to join them.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/03/2020 9:19 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ Spot on. I'm 45 minutes out from Marin City. This was last minute community outreach that can actually work. Marin City feels little affiliation for their surroundings. 1000 Trump vehicles come in and entreaty those citizens to come aboard for the big win. Marin City hasn't seen 1000 Democrat vehicles over the last 30 years. Winning.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 11/03/2020 13:51 Comments || Top||

#4  If Trump is re-elected, I want his administration to pore over granular election returns, and then bus in as many Vibrant! citizens as possible into high income lefty areas, and permanently settle them there.
Posted by: charger || 11/03/2020 14:12 Comments || Top||

#5  Outreach, not outrage.

"Terrorism" translated means, Trump is likely to get twice as many black votes as any Republican has in 60 years.
Posted by: Omoluter Unemble5050 || 11/03/2020 14:27 Comments || Top||

#6  Residents in Marin have no idea what a terrorist is.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/03/2020 16:29 Comments || Top||


'I Will Never, Ever Forgive Them': Maxine Waters Blasts Black Voters Who Choose Trump
[DAILYCALLER] Democratic Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Rep. The Ageless and Downright Brilliant Comrade Maxine Impeach 45! Waters
...U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, serving since 1991, a total of 28.92404 years. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the most senior of the twelve black women currently serving in the United States Congress, and a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before becoming a member of Congress she served in the California Assembly, to which she was first elected back when Disco was in flower, in 1976, which would make it 43.92199 years. She has been a politician for virtually all her adult life. If she was a little brighter she'd be a Communist...
said Friday that it was "shameful" that young black voters might consider casting a ballot for President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
Waters joined SiriusXM’s "The Joe Madison Show" to discuss the state of the presidential election, and she had harsh words for any "black young men who think somehow they can align themselves with Trump."
So the Black Men are not aligning with the Dem Party orders?
Posted by: Fred || 11/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She doesn't want to think she's wrong?
Posted by: gorb || 11/03/2020 1:11 Comments || Top||

#2  "How *DARE* you attempt to leave the Democratic Plantation!".
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/03/2020 1:17 Comments || Top||

#3  There is a young black Republican guy running against this tramp and campaigning very hard and more effectively than her past challengers. He is probably the one she is referring to.
Posted by: Angeater Omick2705 || 11/03/2020 1:21 Comments || Top||

#4  You mean Navy veteran Joe E. Collins, Angeater Omick2705?

Posted by: trailing wife || 11/03/2020 1:28 Comments || Top||

#5  Who is there to forgive Maxine Waters?
Posted by: Grampaw Phavish2227 || 11/03/2020 5:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Dear Maxie Mouth.
I am sure a lot MORE of America will never forgive you.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/03/2020 5:23 Comments || Top||

#7  So...

She's admitted to racism.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/03/2020 7:45 Comments || Top||

#8  Back at ya, Maxie.
Posted by: cingold || 11/03/2020 10:32 Comments || Top||

#9  Joe Collins is making a credible run for Maxine's seat. It'd be funny as hell if he won.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/03/2020 11:23 Comments || Top||

#10  I bet all the black Trump voters really want her to remember them until the day she dies.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/03/2020 16:02 Comments || Top||

#11  who died and made you cuntess, i mean countess?
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 11/03/2020 16:44 Comments || Top||

#12  TW. That's the guy. Seems like a great guy.
Posted by: Angeater Omick2705 || 11/03/2020 17:14 Comments || Top||

#13  I'll never forgive Maxine for being a racist bitch and a partisan fuck.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/03/2020 18:42 Comments || Top||


Trump Campaign's Internal Numbers Explain Why Team Biden Is Freaking Out About Election Day
[PJMedia] In a blockbuster press call on Monday, the campaign to reelect President Donald Trump went through its internal numbers explaining why Democrats are panicking in the lead-up to Election Day. If the campaign's numbers are accurate, President Trump will win in most of the swing states.

"Election day is going to look like a Trump rally," Nick Trainer, the campaign's director of battleground strategy said on the press call.

"Democrat are really panicking because Joe Biden hasn't run up a large enough lead" in absentee ballots and mail-in ballots in order to counter the expected Trump turnout on Election Day, Deputy Campaign Manager Justin Clark said. "They know that Trump's margin on Election Day will make up the difference for victory."

Therefore, Democrats are working to delegitimize the Election Day results as a "red mirage," claiming that postal delays with mail-in ballots are giving a false impression of a Trump victory. "None of this will be true," Clark argued.

"Make no mistake, this isn't about time, this isn't about having patience… it's about getting states to count illegal late ballots to steal victory from Donald Trump," he warned. Democrats "fielded a candidate in Joe Biden who has not energized his base… they haven't built a ground game."

Turning to the numbers, Trainer cited Biden Campaign Manager Jen O'Malley Dillon, who warned last month that "this race is far closer" than people think. Trainer predicted specific margins of victory in various battleground states based on the partisan make-up of voters.
Posted by: Whusosh Slomble1535 || 11/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I don't know why 'internal number' polls are any better than non-internal polls.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/03/2020 7:01 Comments || Top||

#2  ..cause the non-internal polls are intentionally skewed to 60% party Donks, 20% independents, 20% Trunks. It's like Covid reporting, lumping people who died with Covid along with those who died of Covid.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/03/2020 7:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Today Biden's team is talking about not conceding on Election Night. Trump is talking about winning.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/03/2020 11:25 Comments || Top||


Hot Takes: If the Early Return Data Is Correct, Democrats Should Be Preparing Themselves for a Bad Tuesday
[RedState] On Friday, I posted over at VIP all of the early returns that have come in thus far for all of the battleground states. That data is a combination of voter registration data, ballot data of how many ballots were requested, and commercial data that explains voter behavior. The data has updated since then, but that data was bad news for Democrats Friday, and it was even worse for them by Sunday night.

Democrats really needed to run up the score in early voting in order to overcome the large Trump leaning turn-out expected for Election Day. At this point, in 5 of the 12 Battleground States, Republicans currently lead in early returns, including in Texas, Georgia, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Short of a massive Dem turnout on Tuesday, those states all fall to Trump. Furthermore, Dems only lead by 1 point in returns in Arizona, 3 points in Nevada, 2 points in Florida, and 5 points in North Carolina. Should the DOE
...I believe that stands for Day of Election rather than US Department of Education...
vote carry for Trump in those states, Trump should win those states as well. If Trump wins those states, He ends up with 284 electoral votes, and the biggest part of that is that leaves Pennsylvania, Iowa, and Minnesota on the table.

Furthermore, Dems should be terrified of the fact that in most of the states in which they lead, Democrats have burned through more of their registered voters than have the Republicans. In Pennsylvania, for instance, only 15% of Republicans have voted to date, compared to 35% of Democrats. In every state in which Republicans trail in returns, except for North Carolina, Republicans have more voters to turn out than Democrats. In North Carolina, Dems have 2 points more of their registered voters to push out to the polls while Republicans have a 1 point lead in the number of voters to turn out in Florida. In every other state in which Dems lead, Republicans have a double-digit advantage in election day voting.

The other huge factor for Dems is the amount of outstanding vote in the states in which they lead. In Pennsylvania, between 64 and 65% of the vote has yet to be cast. In Minnesota, that number is between 51 and 52%. Iowa? Between 44 and 46%.

These numbers are why you have seen the collective panic from the left in the last few days. The major push for mail ballots that was going to solidify a massive, insurmountable lead only occurred in one state, Pennsylvania, where estimates have Dem ballot returns up by 43 points. The problem again? More than 60% of the state has yet to vote and Trump is expected to do extremely well in DOE voters.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  article doesn't mention independent voters

what is deal with that
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/03/2020 7:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Article doesn't mention cheating. Cheating matters two ways, stealing the election of delegitimizing it. Actual cheating almost certainly benefits Biden. The mere belief in cheating also benefits Biden.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/03/2020 9:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Exactly Garth.

This is what Colorado's early numbers are:
Unaffiliated voters not aligned with a political party have turned in the most ballots with 988,864 (43.54% of the total), followed by registered Democrats with 875,822 (38.56%) followed by Republicans with 744,283 (32.77%)

The Ds only have a 5.79 point lead. If the Unaffiliated break even 60% for Trump, Colorado flips red.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/03/2020 10:08 Comments || Top||


DOJ is sending personnel to 44 jurisdictions in 18 states to “monitor for compliance with federal voting rights laws.”
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 11/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  probably several hundred maybe several thousand law students and others for Trump are doing similar work today

I forgot where I read this
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/03/2020 6:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Adjacent rather than related, when I went to vote today — no line at all, I was in and out in a few minutes — there was a policeman sitting in his car at the back of the parking lot. He said they had officers stationed at all the potential trouble spots in the township, he said, just in case of trouble because of all the talk of Election Day Antifa/BLM riots.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/03/2020 16:57 Comments || Top||

#3  TW, same here. I doubt that there will be much trouble here in the wilds of NH though we're not all that far from Dartmouth.
Posted by: AlanC || 11/03/2020 17:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Hmmm. It says 67 jurisdictions in 28 states in the last election (2016).
Posted by: Bobby || 11/03/2020 19:02 Comments || Top||


Kamala Harris BODY DOUBLE at Palm Beach Polling Place!
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT]
Posted by: Fred || 11/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I looked at the video and it’s fairly convincing. Have no idea why in the heck she would do it.
Posted by: anymouse || 11/03/2020 0:07 Comments || Top||

#2  All good Communist Dictators have at least one body-double.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/03/2020 8:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Although not a commie, Saddam Hussein had one or two also.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/03/2020 8:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Frightening, that there could be more than one of them.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/03/2020 8:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Making an appearance in one of Hunter B's live-cam productions?
Posted by: Jolump Bourbon3954 || 11/03/2020 8:57 Comments || Top||

#6  'Trump's still in the hospital and all those campaign appearances are by an army of doubles or robots.' (I bet that's been claimed somewhere...)
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/03/2020 9:27 Comments || Top||


Philadelphia mayor: Counting mail-in ballots will take 'several days'
They're expecting at least 120 percent turnout...
[NYPOST] Philadelphia’s mayor warned that election workers won’t start counting mail-in ballots until Election Day — and will take "several days" to tally results — adding a critical wrinkle to the election in the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania, according to a report.In an open letter to Philadelphia residents, Mayor Jim Kenney urged patience, WCAU reported Monday.

"After the polls close, and in the ensuing days, we will continue to need your patience," reads the letter signed by Kenney and Lisa Deeley, the chairwoman of the Philadelphia City Commissioners.

"Never in the history of this city have so many people voted by mail. By law, staffers are not allowed to start opening and counting these ballots until Election Day itself," it continued. "That means getting a tally of mail-in ballots will easily take several days. This may determine the outcome in Philadelphia, and in the Commonwealth as a whole. So, again, please be patient."



Posted by: Fred || 11/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They only have so many fingers and toes to add up the totals on.
Posted by: Angeater Omick2705 || 11/03/2020 1:25 Comments || Top||

#2  It takes time to steam open envelops and replace 'wrong' ballots with 'corrected' ones before validating them.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/03/2020 1:30 Comments || Top||

#3  How can it take longer to count 5 postal ballots than 5 DoE ballots?

Just hire one person extra to open the letters.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/03/2020 4:59 Comments || Top||

#4  The election bureau is a county level operation. Something's fishy if the mayor has any insight into their operations at all...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/03/2020 9:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Total bull crap.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/03/2020 11:36 Comments || Top||

#6  Ballots will be counted until the right results are obtained?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/03/2020 11:41 Comments || Top||


#8  Beavis, historically they drive vans around and gather up potential voters, hand them a filled-out sample ballot and 'car money' (typically $5) and drop them at the polls.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/03/2020 13:13 Comments || Top||

#9  Called and raised hell.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 11/03/2020 13:46 Comments || Top||

#10  #8, these days a pack of cigs or a short dog costs more than $5, even if you are buying in bulk.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/03/2020 16:21 Comments || Top||

#11  He's just trying to hold off the rioting.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/03/2020 16:30 Comments || Top||

#12  Thats why the margin in the western PA need to be huge. Time for the mountain folk of western PA to rise to the occasion. And with 2-3+ hours of waiting in very long lines, it looks like the turnout is massive in those Republican areas, while its "walk up no waiting" in Philly.


There will be a day where the West fails, BUT IT IS NOT THIS DAY!





Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 || 11/03/2020 16:32 Comments || Top||

#13  ^ In PeeAye it's called the T. The northern half of the state and a stripe down the middle, shaped like a T. It's rural and conservative, but lots of it is sparsely populated. If you could give Philthy to New jersey and Pissburgh to Ohio (not that either would want them) PA would be as red as Texas.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/03/2020 17:16 Comments || Top||


Former NY Times Reporter On The Trump Movement: 'Most Serious Populist Repudiation Of Elite Opinion Since Andrew Jackson'
[TRENDINGPOLITICS] Former NY Times news hound Alex Berenson has spent most of the year challenging the fear-based mainstream coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
narratives, but on Sunday evening he gave an incredible summary of the Trump movement that everyone needs to see.

Berenson perfectly laid out the case for why the "Trump movement" is the most fierce populist repudiation of elite opinion since Andrew Jackson.

Here's his entire thread. Make sure to read it from start to finish:

Look, I don’t know if President Trump wins or not - the polls say one thing and the rallies say something else, and it feels like it’s going to be close either way - but this is already the most serious populist repudiation of elite opinion since at least Andrew Jackson.

Remember, in 2016 the elites thought Trump was a joke. They didn’t think he could possibly win and they treated the election that way. This time they are treating him as a deadly threat, and practically EVERY center of gravity in the United States is aligned against him.

Not just conventional media and Hollywood and the social sciences, as in 2016, but big technology companies/social media, non-profits, the physical sciences and medicine, which have been relatively non-partisan, and most shockingly much of the national security community.

And yet, despite all of this, and despite the efforts to frame the Coronavirus as an end-of-days plague, and despite now running at a big fundraising deficit to Uncle Joe (as he did to Crooked Hillary Clinton
...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do...
) Trump is clearly in striking distance. People are FED UP.
Posted by: Fred || 11/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Jackson and Trump : American Lions
Posted by: 746 || 11/03/2020 0:23 Comments || Top||

#2  'They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That's against their interests.' — George Carlin “It’s a big club & You ain’t in it”

Posted by: Airandee || 11/03/2020 6:29 Comments || Top||

#3  All I know is this - today I exercise my second 'FUCK YOU!!' vote on the national level.
Posted by: Raj || 11/03/2020 7:40 Comments || Top||



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