Republicans are realizing the "stolen election" thing is pretty substantially suppressing their voters.
So they're gonna "fix" it.
The story may be generated out of whole cloth. Or it will be based on some meaningless resolution passed by both parties in Congress that is just like "We hereby agree elections shouldn't have fraud in them"
QAnon and the Trump campaign will pretend they have decisively dismantled the Democrats' election fraud machine that won 2020 for them. We did it! Oh my god we're back in action! Now's our chance to take it to them and PROVE what happens when we have a REAL election.
Calling it right the fuck now. It's on the tip of their tongues.
he'll probably just call for his fans to stand outside of polling stations and watch for suspicious behavior
hmm I think you're right. but just considering might they not also go with "they're going to try again so you have to vote even harder to overcome it"
I think that doesn't work on people, I think it backfired. It seems like they're finding out that even unengaged voters understand that if the Deep State is going and changing the numbers, they can change it to anything.
But yeah I'm sure like 30% of the party will be shouting one of these two things while the rest is shouting the other.
Both parties screaming violently that the political institutions are completely morally bankrupt and illegitimate while at the same time begging you with tears in their eyes to just go out there and vote as hard as you can
I want a lathe-of-heaven emoji but it’s Babe Ruth pointing to the outfield. Either way that’s a great called shot. I’m looking forward to hearing about this bullshit for the next 8 months to 2 years
Oh yeah they're never gonna stop talking about the 2023 House Election Integrity Resolution
Is it also possible that covid really has killed too many republicans? My theory is that it mostly kills poor people (who tend not to vote) and republicans (who tend to take zero precautions in the midst of a pandemic), giving democrats (who get vaxxed and sometimes take precautions) the boost they need to win elections and overcome any bellyaching from the progressive/soccdem wing of the party. Is this valid or not?
Is it also possible that covid really has killed too many republicans?
COVID killed a lot of people, full stop. But we're also in the thick of a realignment, as Democrats ditch the working poor for the college crowd and Republicans scope up all the disaffected high school dropouts with Joe Rogan's Disease.
I don't think you can point to COVID, exclusively, as any kind of electoral culprit, because these voting cohorts aren't fixed. Look at how pro-war Reddit's gotten just in the last four years for instance. The bleeding edge of Ron Paul Libertarianism is now overrun with gormless Reagan Democrats.
I think the COVID survivors will be just as waffly as they were prior to the epidemic. And the party leaderships will continue to be a bunch of empty suits who simply exist to shepherd wealth into the hands of their local corporate bosses. So we'll see people doing the "I voted for D/R before I woke up and realized I needed to vote R/D" dance without really making any change in how the national government functions.
My uneducated guess on this is the difference in numbers between dem and rep deaths is eaten up almost completely by advances the reps have made in gerrymandering. So no net voters?
That is my 0 research guess though.
Most covid deaths are from densely populated areas, I.e. cities. Cities are mostly liberal. Also, only 1.2million or so died. No where near enough to swing elections that significantly
1 mill in may 21 in the us . I expect rigth now its 2 or 3 times that. They fudged the numbers all tgey could and then stoped counting even if half of those exes deaths are covid it is still closer to 2 million.
