The US Election.

So Trump is the father of IVF!!! How can anyone vote for him?
I have a nephew in the US. At the last election, he was vociferous in his support for Trump on Facebook. Not so this time. That gives me a little hope.

I bet an awful lot of voters are closet Trump supporters. 😁

FriedGreenTomatoes2

Three weeks to go and it’s too close to call.
Now who’d have even thought those words were possible at the time Biden was persuaded to step down? Media frenzy greeted Kamala those first few weeks. Now?

Now she’s maintaining a narrow lead in the polls? Summary of latest results here.
www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024/10/16/trump-vs-harris-2024-polls-harris-leads-by-2-points-in-latest-survey/

FriedGreenTomatoes2

I bet an awful lot of voters are closet Trump supporters. 😁

You would, wouldn't you?

Re polls.

In 2016 all the polls and 'experts' had Hilary nailed on to win with a 97% confidence factor. Same with polling here that failed on the 2015 general election, the 2016 Brexit referendum and the 2017 and 2019 elections.

I take my hat off to the polling companies raking in the dosh despite consistent failure. A bit like data modelling at Imperial College (Neil Ferguson).

She did win, actually.

Now the US is at war.

Not under the US electoral system she didnt. Obviously if you want to live in an imaginary world where Clinton was the president go for it, it's the same as those who live in the imaginary world where Corbyn won the election against May.

I think Trump will win. The wheels are coming off the bus for Kamala.

FriedGreenTomatoes2

Re polls.

In 2016 all the polls and 'experts' had Hilary nailed on to win with a 97% confidence factor. Same with polling here that failed on the 2015 general election, the 2016 Brexit referendum and the 2017 and 2019 elections.

I take my hat off to the polling companies raking in the dosh despite consistent failure. A bit like data modelling at Imperial College (Neil Ferguson).

I had bets on both of those and won a nice little sum of money.
I have a bet on Trump for this election, not because I support him, just because you can see which way the wind is blowing.
Soooo many Americans are saying they had more dollars in their pockets with Trump in power.
The racist card is working against the Democrats. So many black people are angry that their vote is taken for granted, the same view from the Latino community.

petra I also think Trump might win.

His propaganda machine is in full swing against Kamala Harris.

He is now odds on to win. Even after his comments about IVF . Up until yesterday they were neck and neck. And if Harris wins narrowly I dread to think what will happen. Civil war?

I dread to think what will happen if he does win.

It's a parody of democracy. Elon Musk has recently donated another 75 million pounds to the Trump campaign. Elections bought and sold.

CNN reports that Trump is avoiding press interviews and any debates: no doubt under advice he doesn't come off well in them. Harris continues, facing a stiff Fox News interview.

Meanwhile Trump supporters (no doubt well paid) continue to try and "clean" up voter rolls

www.cnn.com/2024/07/29/politics/voter-rolls-ballot-challenges-true-the-vote-elections/index.html

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Police officers in Texas, senior citizens at a nursing home in Pennsylvania and people who had registered to vote at a Marine base in California.

They are among the thousands of voters whose right to cast a ballot has been needlessly challenged ahead of this November’s election by activists — many of whom have been inspired by conspiracy theories — seeking to prevent voter fraud.

“My simple right as a voter is being attacked,” said Daniel Moss, a university administrator from Denton County, Texas, whose registration was challenged by one of the activists even though he has lived in the county and voted there for about two decades. “It’s kind of un-American to do that.”

Election officials across the country have been inundated with dubious complaints about inaccurate voter rolls, which have wasted government resources and sapped taxpayer money spent reviewing lists of registered voters that officials say are already carefully maintained, a CNN investigation has found."

Having just returned from the US my parting message was
“I hope you get a decisive result” if they don’t there will be trouble for sure, currently it’s too close to call.

They all wait for the election, we all wait for the budget.

Well I really, really hope Kamala gets trounced at the election. She is an absolute danger to the American people and, possibly, the western world. You really need to hate Trump in order to vote for this turnip. Trump has already been President and the sky didn’t fall down. This “vibe” presidential candidate is laughably out of her depth.

In what way is Harris a danger to her country and the Western World FGT? I can understand why Trump (narcissist, isolationist, friend of dictators, liar, misogynist and convicted felon) would be seen as a danger but Harris? I think we need some meat of that particular bone!

Trump is mentally ill, possible dementia. This, in addition to his convictions, history of sexual abuse, multiple bankruptcies, and my own "favourite"; mocking a disabled reporter, his lies, vicious name calling.........which of these admirable characteristics make you think Trump is a better person for president than Harris, Friedgreentomatoes?. Oh, and his admiration for Putin and Netanyahu.

Just seen this, sums up the situation.

Cavery

Rig the election?
I guess maybe you haven't heard of Biden-Harris suing Virginia, it's own citizens by the way, for not allowing non U.S. citizens to vote, which they cannot but present administration doesn't care about that. Guess you also heard about Governor Newsom in California issuing a state law for counties not to ask for I.D. This was the whole plan with the open border here, which I might add is also against the law but present administration refuses to enforce the law. All for votes they allowed a takeover.

You are wrong.

The National Voter Registration act says states cannot remove voters from registration lists within 90 days of a federal election because this is long enough to prevent voters from being disenfranchised by being removed in error. The 90 days is known as the "Quiet Period".

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, signed an executive order that led Virginia to violate the quiet period by doing list maintenance "as recently as late September," the Justice Department alleged. The department has also sued Alabama for violating the NVRA in recent weeks.

The Justice Department is simply enforcing a deadline for voter roll maintenance that election officials have followed for about 30 years.

And Alabama too - not just Virginia.

It seems to me that Trump supporters are the ones trying to rig things!

I see I'm late to the party!
Apologies!
Was just very cross.
I see this has already been said!

Trump is an abomination. How he's the best Republicans can come up with is astounding and speaks volumes for the collective IQ of American voters.

It’s clearly going to be very close if anything Harris is loosing votes, from what I can gather it’s because voters in the swing states are not comfortable with the way her home state California is run.

I think he might win. The Democrats seem quite anxious to me. I thought trump looked beaten a few weeks ago but I dont think thats the case now.

Had a good look around CNN - too close to call.
Trump busy as usual with lies. I think there is going to be a lot of trouble round the election process itself.