There hasn't been any public polling from Nevada available lately. The last one I found was a Fox poll in January that showed Trump down by 8 points (47-39%). Unless Nevada is entirely in its own universe, that chasm is much wider now. In 2016, Hillary beat Trump 539,260 (47.92) to 512,058 (46.50%), kind of close.
Hitler wasn't legitimately elected either-- by Nancy OhanianTrump is screeching from the rooftops that the November election will be "the greatest election disaster in history," when everyone knows that the greatest election disaster was the one engineered by Vladimir Putin in 2016. "This will be catastrophic for our nation," Trump insisted. "You’ll see it. I’m always right about things like this.
People are looking at two big national polls this weekend, one by Marist, released by NPR and PBS that shows Trump losing with just 44% of the vote (and a sky-high disapproval of 57%!) and one from Kaiser showing Trump losing w
Georgia's primary elections were a mess yesterday. Look at the race for the Democratic slot in Georgia's first district. Progressive Lisa Ring, the progressive in George's first district will be in a runoff with Joyce Griggs. With 96.89% of precincts reporting (204 out of 225), Lisa had 17,181 votes to Griggs' 17,164. Every vote counts.
John Oliver should have a canned laugh track until the pandemic is over. But he's still the best of the TV news and opinion shows even without the laughs.As you know, we've been writing a lot about vote by mail, but not as well as John Oliver has this week. As he notes, Missouri Governor Mike Parson (R) is an asshole.
-by Harvey WassermanVote by Mail will decide the 2020 election. Trump and 50,000 of his armed backers will try to say otherwise.But VBM could turn us forever from hackable touch screens to paper ballots.
Donna EdwardsSunday morning Donna Edwards' column in the Washington Post must have triggered Señor Trumpanzee. At 7:00 AM he was attacking vote-by-mail again.Donna wrote that he had just done something that she hadn't done in 20 years and that tens of millions of Americans plan on doing this year as well-- she voted by mail.
I think everyone sane can agree with this tweet from Republicans for a New President: "Trump is a failed president who abuses his power to enrich himself and destroy constitutional checks.
Americans hoping for a clean, fair, and reliable vote count this fall must pay attention to how their state and local officials intend to handle this election.-by Harvey WassermanThe more we learn about COVID-19, the more likely it seems most of us will be voting by mail this fall. Voting in person has become, and will likely remain, too dangerous.Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, Colorado and Utah have long been voting by mail.
Texas has a crackpot extremist as its Attorney General, Ken Paxton, a very far right and very partisan Republican. He somehow thinks preventing Democrats from voting is part of his job description.
