Mega-Thread: 2020 United States General Election

[Edge-]

So...what have I missed? Other than apparently someone in the WH is still talking to Papadopoulos for some reason and he's still out there being a "conservative influencer"? - https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/sta...67519195029505

[Breccia]

Can someone tell me what this ObamaGate nonsense is?

It's Trump's claim that Obama spied on his campaign.

It's been discussed ad Trumpium, and it's always been false. If Obama was spying on Russians and found Trump, that's not Obama's fault.

[PhaelixWW]

Can someone tell me what this ObamaGate nonsense is? I keep seeing people post it on twitter, but no one is saying what it actually is, just that it's a coup.

I know it's definitely nothing, but for my curiosity, what do they think Obama did this time?

Hopefully this will clear some things up... /s:

With the phrase floating around on Monday, the Washington Post’s Philip Rucker asked President Trump to define it at the White House coronavirus press conference:

Rucker: In one of your Mother’s Day tweets, you appeared to accuse President Obama of “the biggest political crime in American history, by far” — those were your words. What crime exactly are you accusing President Obama of committing, and do you believe the Justice Department should prosecute him?

Trump: Obamagate. It’s been going on for a long time. It’s been going on from before I even got elected, and it’s a disgrace that it happened, and if you look at what’s gone on, and if you look at now, all this information that’s being released — and from what I understand, that’s only the beginning — some terrible things happened, and it should never be allowed to happen in our country again. And you’ll be seeing what’s going on over the next, over the coming weeks but I, and I wish you’d write honestly about it but unfortunately you choose not to do so.

Rucker: What is the crime, exactly, that you’re accusing him of?

Trump: You know what the crime is. The crime is very obvious to everybody. All you have to do is read the newspapers, except yours.

[kaid]

I would find out where official drop boxes are in your area. If you find one that is close to you, I'd do a quick google maps search so minimize wandering around and then drop it off.

Then you can go to your state's voting website and track it. I dropped my ballot off on Saturday and I got an email saying that it was received by the local election officials on Monday.

Pretty much this combined with take your time and read the instructions carefully just make sure you follow the instructions on the ballot so that they don't have any excuses.

[alexw]

New poll out... teehee!... from Rasmussen... hahahaha!... that has the race... hahahaHAHAHAHA!... at Biden +12... BWAHAHAhahahahaHAHAHAHA!...

Ahem... <wipes tear> That is all.


EDIT: Not quite all, actually. 538 aggregate has Biden +9.3 right now, and once RCP adds Rasmussen's new poll, they'll have Biden at +9.4.

Drug induced psychotic Trump is a wonderful thing.

[Not A Cat]

Hopefully this will clear some things up... /s:

Saw this poor dude get lambasted on twitter for simply asking what it was and all of the replies were along the lines of, "Found the Biden bootlicker"

I can't keep up with these buzzwords

[Elegiac]

Hopefully this will clear some things up... /s:

I mean it's obvious to everyone that "you know what the crime is" is code for "governing while Black", lol.

[Edge-]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dz7...mmune-to-covid

Reminder that Mark Zuckerberg is a pro-money anarchist and cares nothing about the truth or facts.

Trump's blowing hundreds of thousands running his, "I MIGHT BE IMMUNE" video, which is somehow not triggering disinformation protections at Facebook because Facebook gets to ignore any of their rules whenever it's financially convenient.

[Zan15]

New poll out... teehee!... from Rasmussen... hahahaha!... that has the race... hahahaHAHAHAHA!... at Biden +12... BWAHAHAhahahahaHAHAHAHA!...

Ahem... <wipes tear> That is all.


EDIT: Not quite all, actually. 538 aggregate has Biden +9.3 right now, and once RCP adds Rasmussen's new poll, they'll have Biden at +9.4.

Wait why isn't this poll posted by @Ghostpanther ????

It's his favorite polling go to.

Hmmm it's almost as if he is too embarrassed??

[DarkTZeratul]

Not surprising. He's been ahead for a while now as McSally has been deeply, deeply unpopular.

That tends to happen when you lose multiple elections and then get appointed by the governor to fill the seat left by a well-regarded Senator who died of cancer.

[Edge-]

That tends to happen when you lose multiple elections and then get appointed by the governor to fill the seat left by a well-regarded Senator who died of cancer.

And then spend years in that seat shitting on his legacy and being a general asshole.

And then asking supporters to skip meals so they can donate to your campaign. I don't think she'll ever ever live that one down, and I genuinely hope it follows her for the rest of whatever political career she may have.

[PhaelixWW]

I mean it's obvious to everyone that "you know what the crime is" is code for "governing while Black", lol.

I think it's more aptly D(C)WB: "driving the country while black".

[Rasulis]

It is good to be TV stations in battleground states.

Biden Is Outspending Trump On TV, And Just 6 States Are The Focus Of The Campaign

Where the major party presidential campaigns are spending their money on TV advertising can tell you a lot about where they're focusing their efforts.

And based on that, it's pretty clear that the race between President Trump and Joe Biden is coming down to just six swing states — Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona. They are getting the lion's share of the TV advertising money from the campaigns and outside groups supporting them.

More than $700 million has been spent on TV ad bookings so far in 14 key states, with almost 85% of that money going to the big six, according to data collected by ad-tracking firm Advertising Analytics through Friday, and analyzed by NPR.

And Democrats have keyed in even more closely on the six states: The Biden campaign and supporting groups have spent almost 90% of their money there, while Trump and Republican organizations have spent 78 cents of every dollar across the six.

What all of this spending shows is Trump is having to defend a lot of territory, while the Biden campaign has remained focused on the core states they set out to compete heavily in to begin with.

To put that in context, in states Trump won in 2016, the president and groups supporting him have spent $356 million, while Biden has spent just $21 million in states Clinton won.

[Edge-]

https://theweek.com/speedreads/94226...-barrett-event

So the White House think's Trump got the virus at the Rose Garden Massacre. You know, the Saturday before the debate, otherwise known as 3 days before the debate.

That's not to say Trump "had" the virus and was contagious in any way during the debate, but the White House refuses to say when his last "negative" test was and will only say that he tested positive on Friday Oct. 2

When did Trump know he was exposed to the virus, and when was his last positive test? Did he show up to the debate knowing he was testing positive, risking infection for Biden, Wallace, their families and guests, and event/debate/campaign staff?

[DarkTZeratul]

It's about ISIS terrorism. Nothing to do with 'Obamagate'.

Well that can't possibly be true. ISIS was totally destroyed. Trump said so, and it'd look really bad for him if he was wrong.

[PhaelixWW]

If anything it shows all the supposed bias of said poll were fixed and shouldn't be trusted were unfounded.

Lol, no. 95% of their polls are way lower than aggregates from a similar time frame. Either their methodology is sound and 95% of their polls have been low outliers, or their methodology is screwy and the 5% are outlier polls from that base.

Occam's Razor would tell us which scenario is more likely to be true.

[Edge-]

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/sta...90335928582151

NOTE/ Maggie Haberman of the New York Times has already euphemistically reported that the White House was not "regularly" testing Trump prior to the September 26th event in the White House Rose Garden.

I'm saying that the full story will be that he was barely ever tested at all.

So...When WAS Trump last tested? And what was his testing schedule?

[Breccia]

Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona

This is where things could get a little tricky for Biden.

At time of writing, Biden has a significant lead in Pennsylvania, Michican, and Arizona. The lead in the other three is less. Biden is ahead in EC votes but nowhere near enough to stop campaigning, and he's got a lot of territory to defend, and only so many troops to do it.

If nothing else changes, Biden wins all states stay where they are, but Trump takes up to three of that list of six. Things get ugly if Trump takes four. Trump has nothing to lose and rarely acts in ways that make sense or follow logic. Biden won't know where Trump is moving in until it happens.

[Bakis]

I wonder how Pence will appeal to both of the two key camps of voters they so desperately need support from.
The rabid die-hard Trumpsters that demand a conflict-oriented aggressive show (which usually equals not taking responsibility for anything nor accomplishing anything but tweets)
and
the large amount of voters who are either undecided or republicans but have a hard time to put up with a total lack of responsibility for another 4 years, who request a president that spent less time pulling the country apart but healing it instead.

[Breccia]

Coming out of nowhere, the latest poll has Biden up by 13 in Pennsylvania, 5 in Iowa, and 11 in Fuck Florida.

That's gotta be an outlier. But Biden's on his way there pretty much now. I know I've advocated trolling in Florida and saving the real ammo for winnable states, but...damn, Florida's looking winnable.