Georgia seems to make the most headlines on early voting, I’m assuming they start earlier than most states. I saw something like 600k voted on the first few days.
Any idea why Georgia is this way? More concerns about interference on the actual voting day?
Some partial details - they passed a law a few years ago that let them purge voter rolls, Kemp and Abrams have had some high profile races for Governor, and I suppose the fact they are now a purple state gets them more media attention. Poking around online, they are one of the earlier states to start…North Carolina just started on Thursday.
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I wonder if some people in swing states are so tired of the endless ads and publicity that they want to just vote and get it over with.
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Many years ago Minnesota introduced early voting. After taking advantage of that, even though the ads kept playing (of course), I was so relieved that I knew they no longer applied to me.
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Sort of how I felt today when I got all the robocalls urging me to vote (I voted a week ago).
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So the BC election results were delayed by 10 days as there were so many ridings with vote differentials of less than 100 votes and the mail-in and absentee votes had not been counted. The incumbent party in power, the NDP, was one seat short of a majority government pending the final count.
After counting the mail-in votes, one riding flipped giving the NDP a majority government. All parties accept the result.
Couldn’t help but thinking what would happen in the US if the Electoral College vote majority came down to one state which flipped from Trump to Harris after mail-ins were all counted! Or if the House or Senate majority changed on the basis of one seat flipping due to the delayed mail-in vote.
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In the old days, the result would have been accepted here; but we are not living in the old days.
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Trudeau must have gritted his teeth while sending his congratulations given their mutual dislike. However Trudeau will only have to deal with Trump until the next Canadian election. After that Trump will have a soul mate in our Conservative Party leader.
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Trump is definitely going to go after Canada.
Not sure how that helps the Conservatives in Canada.
Yeah he’s coming. I think it’s going to hurt both our economies.
I don’t know how this will help cons, because my brain doesn’t function like that.
The general consensus is that Trudeau is gone next election. I’m also not a fan, but I do think he’d be a good person to stand up to trump.
Trump has already said he’s coming after our water.
Both US Presidential candidates would have been tough on imports from Canada despite the fact that our free trade agreement benefits both countries and the trade amounts are fairly even. Either POTUS would have threatened tariffs on our exports despite our free trade agreement.
Looks like an 19pt lead for the Conservatives now
I do wonder how a Trump election victory will move the needle in respect to Canadian voting intentions.
I note that there’s a discrepancy between that and the latest projection of the composition of the House of Commons:
Shame Canada doesn’t have some more proportional form of selecting MP’s.
It will help Trudeau to some extent but not enough.
Trudeau promised in his initial election campaign to introduce some form of proportional representation. Funny how that promise was forgotten once his party formed the government. No way the Conservatives will consider PR after their upcoming election landslide!
I think the Bloc Quebecois may well become the official opposition after the next election after the Liberals and NDP split the left of centre vote. For those not familiar with Canadian politics, the BQ is a separatist party that only fields candidates in Quebec.
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Green party has two reps. One is from the left wing fruitbars out Cooke’s way lol. She’s the leader of the party, she basically is the party.
The second one is a guy that’s fairly local to me, reddit talks about him a lot. he got elected I think not because of his party, but because everyone knows him as a solid, nice guy.
I was wondering when this would crop up again.
Its a really odd illness.
Well, you don’t see this in Canada.