A USA TODAY/Suffolk poll shows the presidential race tied, but there's a divide between early voters and those who plan to wait for Nov. 5.
  • nifty@lemmy.world
    31·
    1 month ago

    There is no guarantee of a Harris win, and it may come down to a few thousand votes. People need to get out and vote!! GOP might pull another GW Bush v Gore on us, which would be even worse, so there can’t be anything other than ensuring voter turnout is high. Dems always win with higher voter turnouts, at least that’s what we’ve seen historically.

  • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    1 month ago

    Most crosstabs in polling that specifically ask, “what single issue is so important to you that it will drive your vote?” or something similar, show that the single biggest issue (plurality, not majority) is abortion.

    I think women are going to show up. I don’t think this gamble with young men is going to match polling. Women as a group outnumber men, out-register men, and always show up to the polls in greater numbers.

    Last I checked Harris has a larger lead with women than does Trump with men, with a smaller population size to boot.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 month ago

      I had someone come to my door to make sure I was voting, and they asked me what my number one issue was and I couldn’t pick one. They listed off things like abortion, the economy, foreign affairs, etc. and I still couldn’t pick. It’s all fucked.

  • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
    71·
    1 month ago

    Doesn’t matter. Get out and vote, america! And for all you other people, call america out for the bullshit that is it’s politics.

  • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 month ago

    That tracks. Trump has effectively vilified mail-in and early voting to reduce Republican participation.

    If he’s losing, his strategy is to undermine mail-in votes, attempt to characterize them as fraudulent, and get as many of them thrown out as possible. Even if he can’t get them tossed, he will claim that Democrats are using illegal immigrants and other ineligible voters to steal the election, stirring up his base for more extreme actions. He will point to the “impossible” Democratic bias in those votes as evidence of fraud. If those votes weren’t overwhelmingly Democratic, this strategy wouldn’t be as effective.

    Along with other tactics, such as challenging certification and having armed militias patrol polling places, this is part of his campaign’s multi-pronged approach to undermine the election if he’s losing, and they haven’t exactly been hiding their plans.