Early Voting starts later this week for These States:
Kentucky: Oct 13
Tennessee: Oct 14 – 29
Massachusetts: Oct 17
Nevada: October 17 – 30
North Carolina: Oct 15 – 31
Rhode Island: Oct 14
Texas early voting: Oct 13 – Oct 30
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Early Voting starts later this week for These States:
Kentucky: Oct 13
Tennessee: Oct 14 – 29
Massachusetts: Oct 17
Nevada: October 17 – 30
North Carolina: Oct 15 – 31
Rhode Island: Oct 14
Texas early voting: Oct 13 – Oct 30
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Early Voting Has Already Started!
Arizona
*California
Georgia
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Maine
Michigan
Minnesota
Montana – October 2 to October 30 at county Board of Election offices
New Mexico
Ohio starts on October 6
South Carolina
South Dakota
Vermont
Virginia
Wyoming
*California: All counties offer in-person early voting, but they vary by dates and times. They can start on October 5th and all must have early in-person voting starting at least 4 days before Election Day.
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Alaska: Oct 19
Colorado: Oct 19
Wisconsin: Oct 20
New York: Oct 24 – Nov 1
West Virginia: Oct 21 – Oct 31
Florida early voting: October 24 – 31 (Oct 19 in some places!)
* Voting absentee in person (a bit of an oxymoron) started on September 9 in Alabama
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NO EARLY VOTING
Missouri does not offer an early voting period. If you will be unable to vote in person on Election Day, you can request an absentee ballot/mail-in ballot by mail or by visiting your local election office – beginning on Sept 22.
Mississippi does not offer early voting. In Mississippi, the only “early” votes are absentee ballots that are available beginning 45 days before an election, but only for specific excused reasons including the voters knowing that they’ll be out of their home county on Election Day or disability or voters past age 65. College students and members of the armed forces can often vote absentee ballots.
Always check your state and county websites for specific information about voting times and voting locations.
Remember, if you vote – in person or drop it off or put it in the mail – stop by and post a comment in the I Voted post. It’s in the sidebar on computers and in the hamburger menu on mobile.
If you know the first date for early voting, and your state isn’t on one of these lists yet, please let me know in the comments.
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Flyover country!
North Dakota farmer goes viral for Biden Harris message plowed into field https://t.co/wqVWPvxEsX pic.twitter.com/ea7wKtdaOd
— The Hill (@thehill) October 12, 2020
Tis a good ad. https://t.co/VQLGcX7EEs
— Steve Saidemonster ??????????????????? (@smsaideman) October 11, 2020
As Trump stumbles, voters finalize their choices, and Biden’s lead grows https://t.co/RMK3xgJ49k
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 11, 2020
There was a 100 hour period where we found out Trump's broke, pays less in taxes than a frycook, caught COVID & spread it to 40 people.
Somewhere in there, Biden told him to shut up.
Easy to think nothing matters but that's also about when Biden's lead went from ~6 to ~11.
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) October 11, 2020
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A lot of people who say endorsements don’t matter anymore look pretty silly today.??
‘A senior Taliban member told CBS News, "Trump might be ridiculous for the rest of the world, but he is sane and wise man for the Taliban."’ https://t.co/JXpBeCIKti
— Isaac Chotiner (@IChotiner) October 10, 2020
huge tactical error by the taliban here. if they’d endorsed sooner they coulda got a sweet speaking spot at the gop convention right after the mcloskeys warmed up the crowd for them https://t.co/Vp9VhzRT9W
— kilgore trout, acting president (@KT_So_It_Goes) October 10, 2020
Given Trump’s… unusual… political instincts, can you blame them?
I am surprised he didn't go for a simpler and more elegant solution: wearing his underwear over his pants. https://t.co/rp9YD3Gk81
— Slava Malamud (@SlavaMalamud) October 10, 2020
Late Night Open Thread: The Coveted Taliban EndorsementPost + Comments (93)
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Classic:
Biden: “If every investment banker in New York went on strike, nothing would much change in America. If every plumber decided to stop working, every electrician, the country comes to a halt. I mean, literally, not figuratively, literally, it comes to a damn halt." pic.twitter.com/aI09Xl11NP
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) October 10, 2020
The Very Serious Media Village Idiots, on the other hand…
Biden is again asked why voters don’t deserve to know his views on court packing. He responds: “The only court packing going on right now is going on with Republicans packing the court right now … I’m going to stay focused on it so we don’t take our eyes off the ball here." pic.twitter.com/E9H5rIXMX2
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) October 10, 2020
I’ve seen more journalists complaining about Biden not indulging hypotheticals than I’ve seen cover Trump’s recently uncovered massive tax fraud. https://t.co/7Wojg9ofMH
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) October 10, 2020
The fact that you consider those things equivalent is the whole fucking problem. https://t.co/dpGOjCmQtY
— Tentin Quarantino (@agraybee) October 10, 2020
No, it should not be framed this way, as Democrats have expressed a different rationale, namely: If McConnell proceeds to apply different rules than he did in 2016, he will have effectively stolen at least 1 seat. A reasonable response to this would be to expand the court. https://t.co/GiOT8Yvyon
— Mangy Jay (@magi_jay) October 10, 2020
if you are insisting that a dem president and a dem congress should be forced to swallow an unrepresentative, SCOTUS that will block any attempt at progress, that’s the argument you’re making. that dems are simply placeholders until the GOP cheats themselves into another win.
— GETFUCKINGMADABOUTITmachine (@golikehellmachi) October 10, 2020
not all politics reporters, sure, but most politics reporters thinks the country is center-right and that IT IS THEIR JOB to ensure they portray a center-right country in their reporting.
— GETFUCKINGMADABOUTITmachine (@golikehellmachi) October 10, 2020
The political press doesn’t give a shit about Biden’s answer re: court balancing. The point is to be seen “hounding” Biden in order to have CYA insurance against claims of liberal bias. It’s de facto favor-trading with Republican sources.
— Nobody (@isquithian) October 10, 2020
Biden blowing off the political press entirely is entirely the press’ own fault for rewarding transparency by fucking the EMAILZ chicken to death https://t.co/s42AIfFa1d
— Dave Hyde, Boat Suppressor (@x_t_pd) October 9, 2020
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Last fall, Trump picked The Villages to promote his support for Medicare and its private insurance option
But on Wednesday, an armada of 500 golf carts gathered there to caravan to the nearby elections office, so folks could drop off ballots for Biden https://t.co/PMxqF8BXOm
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) October 10, 2020
Well worth a click, if only for the photos:
Sara Branscome’s golf cart whizzed down the smooth asphalt path that winds through The Villages, the nation’s largest retirement community, an expanse of beautiful homes, shops and entertainment venues that bills itself as “Florida’s Friendliest Hometown.”
Branscome’s cart was festooned with two American flags that flapped in the warm afternoon breeze. A line of oncoming carts bedecked with balloons and patriotic streamers chugged past while honking. Branscome jabbed her left foot on the horn pedal, then gave a thumbs-up.
“This gets you rejuvenated and ready for the next month or so, so we can do this and win. It gives you hope,” the 60-year-old retiree said.
Then she let out a whoop and two surprising words: “Go Biden!”…
Mostly, it seems, older voters have been put off by Trump’s handling of the coronavirus, which affects these voters more acutely than others. They were particularly alarmed by Trump’s performances at daily task force briefings in the spring because his remarks showed an uneven handling of the crisis and inspired little confidence…
Last fall, Trump picked The Villages to promote his support for Medicare and its private insurance option.
But on Wednesday, the scene told a markedly different story. An armada of as many as 500 golf carts gathered at the Sea Breeze Recreation Center to caravan to the nearby elections office, so folks could drop off ballots for Biden.
As each cart rolled into the parking lot and slid a ballot into a locked box under the watchful eye of elections supervisors, dozens lined the sidewalk, cheering and clapping every time a vote was cast.
“I think we all came out of the closet for this election,” said Branscome…
It’s not a cry that might be expected to resound in The Villages, and it’s certainly not one that is encouraging to President Donald Trump. Older voters helped propel him to the White House — the Pew Research Center estimates Trump led among voters 65 and older by 9 percentage points in 2016 — and his campaign hoped they would be a bulwark to cement a second term…
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On the other side… here’s part of a thread from an overseas (Telegraph) correspondent:
At a Mike Pence rally in The Villages, Florida. I’d say about a quarter of people here are wearing masks. People have pushed their socially distanced chairs together. The Villages is America’s largest retirement village, aka the most vulnerable to Covid-19 pic.twitter.com/8KshlGs79r
— Josie Ensor (@Josiensor) October 10, 2020
I asked Secret Service guy if there was an upper limit to the event. His response “you’d think so, but no”
— Josie Ensor (@Josiensor) October 10, 2020
Mike Pence is the head of the Coronavirus task force. This is his event in a retirement village today when numbers in Florida are rising pic.twitter.com/kmSgsizhBT
— Josie Ensor (@Josiensor) October 10, 2020
I asked people at the rally if they were worried about COVID. One 70-year-old (in a face shield but no mask) told me: "I’m not worried about me, but I’m worried about other people here because obese people get it. I don’t hang around with overweight people so I’ll be fine”
— Josie Ensor (@Josiensor) October 11, 2020
You’re not supposed to cull your voters until after the election, Dense!
Pro tip: if Trump doesn't win Sumter Co. (The Villages) at least two-to-one, he's not winning FL – or a second term. In 2016, it went 68%-29% Trump.
84% of Sumter's '16 vote was cast early/by mail (vs. 69% statewide), so we should have a good sense pretty early.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) October 10, 2020
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It seems as though the White House prioritized the appearance of a packed crowd over social distancing. Cool cool cool. https://t.co/sI2ZC5DKEy
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) October 10, 2020
As it turns out, after distributing 2,000 invitations, looks like they did scrape up ‘a few hundred’ non-Caucasians this afternoon. They’re wearing matching tracksuits t-shirts because they were bused in from a ‘Blexit’ convention…
You know the opening of Batman Begins where a swarm of bats swirl together to form a huge bat symbol?
This is that but with coronavirus. pic.twitter.com/VkKW3h7m77
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) October 10, 2020
About 400 or so here at White House, just by rough estimating, for Trump’s 1st in-person speech after his coronavirus hospitalization. pic.twitter.com/SczM8tLh6t
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) October 10, 2020
To be clear, the WH said it wasn't a campaign event. But attendees were wearing Trump campaign hats, and the president repeatedly bashed Biden and called on his supporters to vote.
— Grace Segers (@Grace_Segers) October 10, 2020
Per the turncoats at the NYTimes:
… Mr. Trump, who emerged wearing a white surgical mask, peeled it off as he began his remarks. His voice sounded strong and his aggressive message playing down the threat of the virus was unchanged. But the event that the White House had previewed as a huge “peaceful protest for law and order” was uncharacteristically brief.
White House officials said the president would speak for 30 minutes, but he kept his remarks to just 18 minutes in total. A typical Trump rally, in contrast, often runs for at least 90 minutes. A large bandage on top of his right hand was a reminder of the treatments and infusions he had received over the past week. And atypical for a president who usually keeps his crowds waiting, Mr. Trump started right on time…
For days, Mr. Trump has been pressing advisers to let him resume campaigning, and the White House event on Saturday was a compromise from advisers who wanted to delay the president’s re-entry on the campaign trail.
The gathering was also the latest effort by the president to show he was not as sick as news outlets, including The New York Times, reported last weekend, when he was said to have been administered supplemental oxygen. In a Fox News interview on Friday night, Mr. Trump denied that he had experienced any trouble breathing and said he was no longer taking any medications.
In several phone calls last weekend from the presidential suite at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Mr. Trump shared an idea he was considering: When he left the hospital, he wanted to appear frail at first when people saw him, according to people with knowledge of the conversations. But underneath his button-down dress shirt, he would wear a Superman T-shirt, which he would reveal as a symbol of strength when he ripped open the top layer. He ultimately did not go ahead with the stunt…
Still slapping on too much orange foundation, to ‘correct’ the sickly-pale skin tone…
President Trump takes his face mask off before delivering remarks from the White House balcony to speak to supporters for a campaign rally dubbed as a “peaceful protest”. (Reuters/Tom Brenner) pic.twitter.com/rSfBCzZFHF
— Tom Brenner (@tombrennerphoto) October 10, 2020
It was illegal for Donald Trump to hold his nominating convention at the White House in August.
And it is morally bankrupt for Donald Trump to hold another super-spreader rally at the White House today.
The law and ethics don’t matter to this President. Nor does our health.
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) October 10, 2020
From balcony at WH, Trump told crowd the virus is “disappearing.” But that’s not true. Yesterday, Johns Hopkins reported 990 deaths and 57,420 new cases, a high level of spread that continues to worry health experts. Trump and top aides are still recovering from COVID-19
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) October 10, 2020
I know there’s some struggling to accept this idea but every day that goes by the president outwardly demonstrates total insanity and no interest in appealing to the normals is a blown opportunity to save his own ass and we should embrace it
— kilgore trout, acting president (@KT_So_It_Goes) October 10, 2020
Incredible Drudge homepage pic.twitter.com/6ElncapdNb
— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) October 10, 2020
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Dems in Array https://t.co/c3e3ypOOfV
— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) October 10, 2020
Consider the circumstances!
Are we still cosplaying The Masque of the Red Death or have we moved on to The Fall of the House of Usher now? https://t.co/KwYGEk9374
— Maryn McKenna (@marynmck) October 10, 2020
Only thing this sumbitch has ever wanted to share — presumably to spread the blame around:
… Guests for Saturday’s event won’t be tested for the virus and won’t be required to wear masks, setting off fresh concerns that the White House itself has become a vector for the disease. Earlier Friday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, decried a previous gathering at the White House to celebrate Trump’s Supreme Court nominee as a “superspreader event.”…
On Saturday, Trump will speak to a crowd gathered by conservative activist Candace Owens, whose Blexit Foundation encourages Black Americans to leave the Democratic Party.
[Gonna be interesting to see how many not-paid-to-do-so non-Caucasians actually show up for this.]
His speech is being billed as “Remarks to Peaceful Protesters for Law & Order,” according to an invitation. He’ll address the crowd from the Truman Balcony off of the Blue Room, a large state room on the main floor of the White House. More than two thousand guests have been invited, according to a person familiar with the event.
In a statement, the White House said attendees will be “instructed” to wear a mask while at the complex, but will only be screened for Covid-19 with a temperature check and “brief questionnaire” — not a test. The statement added that attendees will be “strongly encouraged,” but not required, to follow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s coronavirus guidelines, such as social distancing and mask wearing.
“The health and safety of all attendees is our priority,” the statement said…
Guys, relax.
It’s just an infectious man holding an illegal campaign rally at risk of death to federal workers. https://t.co/muUHVGmJvu
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) October 9, 2020
Correctamundo https://t.co/XNrgd4QRjt
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) October 10, 2020
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