a couple of extremely interesting polls

[solarbird]

A couple of extremely interesting polls dropped on Saturday. At least one of them is making big news, and for good reason. These polls are exactly what I would expect to see if what I think has been happening has in fact been happening. MAGA are freaking out and have gone into maximum reality-denial mode, and that’s very, very good news for the election.

(Maybe a little less good what happens right after the election and through January, but good news for the election itself, and that’s what comes first.)

Despite all that, I’m not linking to them, because we need to act as if these didn’t come out, as if we never heard of any of them, and keep at the work. This is not the time to leave off, this is not the time to relax. This is instead the time to

bring.

it.

home.

Maybe the last thing you can do while there is still time to do is make sure people know about downballot races, such as the MAGA initiatives in Washington State, because they matter too.

If you can do some door-to-door on Monday (and depending upon where you are, even Tuesday), sign up for that. If you can do some calling, sign up for that. It’s all about GOTV – Get Out The Vote – now.

And if you can’t do those things, that’s fine. Do something else. Maybe make sure that the worst people you know – the “Voting Trump for My Wallet” zero-info voters who still think that’s a thing – know that Elon Musk says outright that Trump’s and MAGA’s plans will crash the economy, and that’s what they want.

Make sure they know this.

Make sure they know that their very last excuse for voting Republican is another goddamn MAGA lie, and make sure they know you know it too.

And then make sure they know that they can still step away. The best time to step away was nine years ago; the second best time is right now.

Give them permission to step back from the brink. You never know; they might just take it.

In other words – keep carrying on. Stay at your posts, stay on target, keep up whatever work you can do. We need every vote in every district in every state, no matter how blue, to make it too big and too obvious that all their plans to overturn the result will fail, so that most of them won’t even try.

We’re almost there, team.

One day remains.

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Comments

[gorgeousgary]

Agreed on the downballot races. My county may be a particularly blue county in a blue state, but I am aware of a Moms for Liberty-type in one of the school board races. She's very subtle about it, mostly campaigning about returning SRO's to the county schools, but she uses some of the key buzzwords like "parents rights" and "grade-appropriate assignments." I can guarantee I will not be voting for her.

[canyonwalker]

Same here. I live in a very blue district. Democrat candidates routinely win with 75% of the vote in two-person cross-party races. I've always voted down to the city council... but in the past I've ignored races for school board and the hospital district. Not anymore. It's critical to keep the conspiracy-theory nutjobs out of leadership at EVERY level.

I note the nutjobs have gotten sneakier in blue districts like mine. It used to be they'd lead with their right-wing bona-fides and conspiracy theories. Now they've learned to cloak in superficially inoffensive language.

How do they hide it? One person I voted against for the local hospital board had a campaign website full of dozens of endorsements from local politicians and nonprofits she'd worked with. Her site said almost nothing about what she supports, other than America and Equality and Health Care. Then, buried about 80% of the way down a long page of political pabulum, was one actual accomplishment she touted: BANNING 5G TOWERS NEAR SCHOOLS. Yup, tin foil hat = voting NO.