POL November 3: The 2020 U.S. ELECTION DAY MAIN THREAD

Dennis Olson

Chief Curmudgeon
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Why Tucker Carlson Opened His Election Eve Program With a Photo

Leah Barkoukis
Posted: Nov 03, 2020 6:30 AM

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Fox News’s Tucker Carlson began his Election Eve program on Monday with a single image from President Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, over the weekend. While he said the picture does not predict how the race will turn out, it is the perfect metaphor for the 2020 election the state of the U.S.

“Butler is like a lot of places you will find in this country once you head inland from the coasts,” he said. “It’s a former industrial town, the made Pullman railcars there for many years, but it’s been losing population for decades. They still have nice people in Butler. For $60,000, you can buy a decent house there. It’s a place you might be happy in, but our professional class is not impressed by Butler. They don’t consider Butler, Pennsylvania, or places like it, the future. To them, places like Butler are embarrassing relics of a past best forgotten, the men of Butler may have built this country and they did but they mean nothing to our leaders now.”

Carlson said no one in D.C., New York, or L.A. cared when suddenly large numbers of people in Butler started dying from overdoses. Things got so bad there that residents built a memorial at the center of town.

“Given all of that, it was interesting how the people around Butler feel about Donald Trump. Here’s a picture of the president’s rally there on Saturday night. Tens of thousands of people came, so many people that the crowd obscured the horizon. It looked like a visit from the Pope,” Carlson added. “When was the last time a political speech drew that many people?”

Instead of looking at why so many people in such a small town would show up to a political rally, the mainstream media panned it as a superspreader event and left it at that.

“Why did all those people come? Why?” Carlson wondered. “They must’ve known that Donald Trump is the most evil man who’s ever lived. They’ve heard that every day for five years. They know people who support Donald Trump are also evil. They’re bigots, they’re morons, they’re racist cult members. They know that Americans have been fired from their jobs for supporting Donald Trump, not to mention kicked off social media, belittled by their kids’ teachers, shunned by decent society. Only losers and freaks support Donald Trump. People in Butler knew all of that, but on Saturday, they went to the Donald Trump rally anyway.”

Carlson continued: “Why exactly did they do that? We should be pondering that question deeply as we watch tomorrow’s returns and as we live through the aftermath of them. Millions of Americans sincerely love Donald Trump, they love him in spite of everything they’ve heard. They love him often in spite of himself. They’re not deluded, they know exactly who Trump is, they love him anyway. They love Donald Trump because no one else loves them. The country they built, the country of their ancestors fought for over hundreds of years has left them to die in their unfashionable little towns mocked and despised by the sneering half-wits with finance degrees, but no actual skills, who seem to run everything all of a sudden.

“Whatever Donald Trump faults, he’s better than the people in charge. At least he doesn’t hate them for their weakness. Donald Trump in other words is and has always been a living indictment of the people who run this country, that was true four years ago when Trump came out of nowhere to win the presidency and it’s every bit as true right now, maybe even more true than it’s ever been and it will remain true regardless of whether Donald Trump wins reelection. Trump grows because they failed, it’s as simple as that. If the people in charge had done a halfway decent job with the country they inherited, if they cared about anything other than themselves even for just a moment, Donald Trump would still be hosting “Celebrity Apprentice,” but they didn’t. Instead, they were incompetent and narcissistic and cruel and relentlessly dishonest. They wrecked what they didn’t build, they lied about it. They hurt anyone who told the truth about what they were doing. That’s true. We watched.”

Carlson concluded that the United States is "still a great country, the best in the world,” but called America’s ruling class “disgusting.”

“A vote for Trump is a vote against them,” he said. “That’s what’s going on in that picture, that’s what’s going on in this country.”
 
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psychgirl

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Central Indiana ; I already voted early due to medical thing, and possible work issues.

This morning hub got up at 5:30, to go get in line. He works later and wanted no chances of waiting too long but after I started my coffee and laid back down, I hear him unlock the door at about 6:40.... must have gotten right in and out.

I waited Saturday morning for an hour with probably 100 people ahead of me in freezing wind and 29’, lol.

But I’m glad he didn’t have to stand out there too long :)
 

poppy

Veteran Member
Wife and I voted at 8:00 in our small rural precinct. It is at least 75% republican every election. One of the precinct workers is a lady I know and I asked her if they had been busy. She looked at her book and said wife and I made it 55 so far and that is more than they usually have all day. Some elections it is in the 40's total.
 

thompson

Certa Bonum Certamen
Line was well over 100 when I got into it. (0715)
When I left, it was longer.(0830)
That was my experience here in College Station TX.

I had tried - multiple times - to vote early, but the lines were always very, very long and I decided to just wait until today because my regular polling place is close. Got there just after 7 and already there were lots of people. By the time I left (7:45-ish) the number of people waiting had at least doubled.
 

Laur

Veteran Member
Are they individual Voting machines??? I’m in Missouri.
I thought we all still voted by paper ballot then dropped them into the voting counter machines as we left.

I voted early in Independence using a touch screen. The ballot was then printed out and I had to feed it into another machine.

eta: I was asked if I minded using a touch screen so perhaps both touch screen and paper ballots are being used. I didn't really pay attention to what anyone else was doing.
 

CaryC

Has No Life - Lives on TB
That was my experience here in College Station TX.

I had tried - multiple times - to vote early, but the lines were always very, very long and I decided to just wait until today because my regular polling place is close. Got there just after 7 and already there were lots of people. By the time I left (7:45-ish) the number of people waiting had at least doubled.
College Station isn't that like Go Aggies?
 
Voted. Went very smoothly, had to wait about 2 minutes.

Funny, there was only one correct name to really vote for in each group, so I did, seemed the rest of the names were typo's.

Hopefully the rest of the nation keeps their collective heads out of their collective asses and gets this correct.
 

IceWave

Veteran Member
In all the years I've lived in this area, I've only voted in the morning once and that took 90 minutes. I drove by that same polling location after work and there was no line. I typically vote after work but this year _may_ go over at lunch and see how things look.
 

jward

passin' thru
Clay Travis
@ClayTravis
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Florida’s @GovRonDeSantis says based on data he has seen & expected large turnout of Republican voters today he believes Trump will win Florida by as much or more than he did in 2016. Says Florida will have full results out tonight & we should know state winner by around 9 pm et.
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Practical

Veteran Member
Went to vote this morning. Put on my Biden T-Shirt, it burned my skin a bit, I'm worried about that. After I voted I was talking to a couple of crazy ladies out front, they asked if I did my part and voted absentee as well as in person. Apparently, the underground message right now is that absentee ballots will not be counted unless the vote is very close, so everyone should vote in person as well. I had my phone recording, was going to play it on the live-stream tonight. They also took a selfie with me =) Fearless democrat voters!
 

kemosabe

Doooooooooom !
My wife and I just got done voting. Got to the polling place before 7 am. The parking lot was full, cars going in and out. We were numbers 174 and 175. We didn't have to wait in a line to vote though. People were getting their voting done pretty quickly and leaving. Constant flow of people in and out. When we left, there was a line of cars waiting to get in. I haven't seen a voting turnout like this ever in this town. Usually I vote after I get off work at the end of the day and maybe 200 people will have voted before me. Maybe, if there's a really important local issue. Most people here don't bother to get out and vote. 10% - 15% turnout is typical. I think this election is going to break records for turnout.


oh yea I believe it,,, I think that this election will break all historical records on voter turnout.. I went to our small poling station for our part of town and there were so many vehicles there it was crazy.. and a line all the way back and around building to the road.. Even in 2016 I had maybe a 10 min wait at most.. I was in and out.. but not this time... I am going to have to come back .. wayyy to many people... It was NUTS !!... .. wish i could post video to get true scope of how many were there when i drove by
 

JasmineAndLace

Senior Member
Southwest Missouri--just got back from voting. It was a toss-up between my walker or wheel chair but my daughter took me so the walker worked out fine. Not a huge crowd so we got right in and out. We saw a little of everything--canes, crutches, wheel chairs and walkers as well as those on two good legs, so I didn't feel out of place with my red (of course) walker.
 
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