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Who's winning POTUS? Will it be called on election night or drawn out? Congress? Etc

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Whoever wins .... the country will fight about the result for the next four years and completely obscure any reasonable debate or conversation about anything of importance like inflation, wealth inequality, war, the military industrial complex or creeping fascism.

If America doesn't get its act together during this election ... it's just taking another step towards becoming a failed state and will break apart within the next decade or two. But it won't be a war or anything too dramatic ... it will just look and sound like a never ending slapfest between shouting children and crying babies who threaten each other but never actually do anything except leave the room with all their toys.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago

Everyone worth less than 8 figures will lose.

Little else will change. Regardless of figurehead.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm almost positive Trump wins with how close all the swing states are now and how he's improving in polling (what the actual fuck people?!) the closer we get to the election.

I'm also almost positive we will not know for sure on election night as I absolutely expect R controlled states to drag their feet and declare "irregularities" that they need to investigate if they don't like the way things are going.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I hope it will not be Florida of 2000 election all over again, but in a massive scale.

It's insane, Gore won by several thousand votes, if not tens of thousands.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah but Gores brother wasn't governor of Florida! Who evers brother is governor wins, thems the rules.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Before all ballots are counted, Trump declares himself a winner and starts sounding the alarm about illegitimate counts. Trump then contests battleground states and has enough alternate electors that the final score gets escalated to the Supreme Court, who grants Trump the win while they “figure it all out”. They declare widespread “issues” with the election and localized protests ensue. Trump declares martial law and tells the police to “be tough”. Several injuries and deaths set more riots and protests. Trump orders the national guard to help with crowd control. An overzealous soldier opens with live fire on the crowd, killing several due to stampedes and general chaos.

Trump blames chaos on Democrats and claims illegal immigrants were behind the violence, begins his mass deportation exercise. Numerous non immigrants are rounded up “as sympathizers” and taken to holding facilities in Texas and several other border states where they are held indefinitely without trial.

Trump creates a tip line to report “illegal aliens” and people start reporting their neighbours and anyone else they find “suspicious”. People are always keeping their eyes out and keeping their lives to themselves out of fear they may be reported.

Trump and his regime create a committee to oversee and overhaul elections “due to all that bad corruption” and suggests a moratorium on elections until “they figure it out”.

They don’t ever figure it out.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

So basically "how to speedrun dictatorship"

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago

2016 2: electric boogaloo. Harris loses PA and MI due to campaigning on continued genocide, leaving her with a popular vote victory but electoral college loss.

That's what I'd bet on if I were a betting man.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm in a swing state with an abortion measure on the ballot, and while all the polls claim it's close, I'm not really sure they are properly accounting for the number of voters that have been activated by the possibility of enshrining pro-choice into the state constitution.

These polling strategies are complex and a lot of thought goes into them, but they rarely can account for uncommon circumstances that increase voter turnout in local or state elections and how that will effect the national election.

While this is entirely personal reexperience bias, I also wonder how effective these polls are at reaching a representative survey group. I know at least on my phone basically all survey calls and texts go to spam and I wonder if older, more conservative voters are getting overrepresented due to their likelihood of not having those kinds of spam filters in place.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Polsters do not call random people. They will call as many people under 30 as they have to to get a representative sample. They have quotas for different parties, age groups, races, etc. And purposefully target the ones they want and verify with the person that demographic info is right while doing the questions. Atleast good scientific polls will do this. Not all polls are created equal.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

My prediction is that every other country will watch with a mix of concern and popcorn

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

As a non-American, this. And I honestly don't understand why so many people in our neck of the woods aren't more concerned about this. You guys are such a heavy hitter from a socio-economical standpoint, that anything which goes down in your country will inevitably affect everyone else.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Civil war, because Trump won’t accept the result and Musk will be fueling the hate.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

The material conditions aren't ripe for a civil war just yet, nor for a revolution. Things have not gotten dire for the US Empire abroad just yet.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago

It's gonna be a shitshow.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

The 1% will benefit.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

It's going to be a shit show.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

2016 election night again. Kamala has more votes, loses electoral college

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Harris wins comfortably. Lots of lawsuits. Even more violence.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Impossible to say but Harris is winning the popular vote for sure. I think however it goes there's going to be some chaos and violence, I wouldn't be surprised if there's blatant attempts by MAGA cultists to sabotage what they can and drag out the vote counting and electoral processes. Its probably going to be a shitshow, and possibly a horrorshow. I don't expect it to be called on election night unless its a significant and obvious win, which currently seems very unlikely. I would be less surprised if there was a terrorist attack on election night than a clear and obvious conclusion to the election.

Congress I think Dems are likely to outperform, the RNC is no longer what it was and doesn't have the ground game they used to. All their money and resources have been sucked into the black hole of Trumps campaign.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

The current betting odds aggregations have trump at 58%, harris at 41%

https://www.realclearpolling.com/betting-odds/2024/president

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Well that's disheartening. Can't believe that many people prefer a racist con man to a competent woman.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Betting markets don't really have any predictive value. It's all vibes.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A 34 time convicted felon child rapist pussy grabber racist con man

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Jill Stein comes from behind to take the surprise win. Dems and Republicans both claim it's stolen.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Kamala will probably win the popular vote, but Trump will take the presidency either through a technical, electoral college win, or a supreme court decision.

If Kamala somehow wins the popular vote and the electoral college, expect more violence. Probably large scale organized violence like we saw in 2021, but also increases in mass shootings and hate crimes. Unless she wins by a landslide (which is very unlikely) the supreme court will likely be involved and the process will drag on into at least January, if not longer. The court will probably find or invent a legal position that gives Trump the presidency anyway.

No matter who is president, Americans living in red states are fucked and any Palestinians living in Gaza are probably going to be killed.

A Trump presidency would be bad for every American and every person living where the US has influence. If the Republicans also take control of congress when they elect Trump, it's probable that would be the end of the United States as we know it. Trump dismantled a lot of important parts of the administrative state that keeps the gears of government turning during his first presidency. A second round in office, with the other two branches in his pocket, would give him the chance to completely gut the institutions of the united states until the presidency controls everything at the national level.

We would probably see a national abortion ban, a ban on transgender care for adults and minors, the gutting of civil rights protections, most government services privatized, the destruction of countless government agencies and a purge of anyone who might object to any of that.

A Harris presidency would stall some of the efforts of the fascist takeover of the United States but not even a majority of those efforts. Republican controlled states would go into overdrive with their destabilizing agendas. Life will become a lot worse for anyone who isn't a cishet white man living but has the misfortune of living in Maga country.

The good news is regardless of the outcome Trump won't be involved in the 2028 presidential election, if we have one. He's old enough and senile enough that he won't be in any shape to govern by then so at least we get some new horrors to look forward to.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Right now I think Harris is more likely to win than Trump, but it would also not be an enormous surprise if Trump wins.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

My rational side wants to see Harris win, but the anarchist in me wants to see Trump win, just to see what would happen. Not living in the US, obviously.

Trump winning could be a disaster for the whole world since US is such a major player in basically everything, but my anarchist side does not listen.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

You're a piss poor anarchist if you want the the orange fascist to win

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

What does Trump winning have to do with Anarchy?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Thin narrow margin for Harris, several swing states are a new Florida of leaning and ballot counting taking forever. Then right wingers get upset, try to sue as they also then shoot local people for not sieg heiling Trump.

Harris enters office in Jan, makes some statements of how this is horrid, says she'll do something to help it, but won't solve the issues that make people consider being fascists who shoot mosques.

From there we'll see the first 100 days of her term, and if the Senate and House are in favor, we might get some good bills in for a short term solutions to the long term diseases of American necrotic brain damage of conservatism.

For most people, nothing changes. Anti-trans bills are still in place, putting abortion back will be near impossible, and police will still shoot first ask questions second. Maybe some debts are cleared, weed is maybe legalized finally, but the county is the same as it was under Biden.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Trump seems to always exceed expectations, so I fear he will almost certainly win unless a health condition forces him out of the race.

However, I have consistently under estimated Harris, so maybe I'll be wrong yet again and she will be the one to overperform...

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[–] BumpingFuglies 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I've got a feeling we'll see Bush v. Gore style recount shenanigans or worse. Trumpist "stop the steal" people have begun to infiltrate the election process, right?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

No matter who "wins election" Americans will lose

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

We won't have a clear winner. No matter which candidate "wins", there will be widespread allegations of voter fraud. There will be protests. Biden will declare a national emergency. What happens after that? I don't know. But I am prepared for major social unrest.

A large number of people from both major parties are absolutely unwilling to accept a win by the opposing candidate. I've never seen the country so divided.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I'm off that week so I predict I'll be pretty drunk regardless of the result

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Harris by a landslide. I'm optimistic and am choosing to have faith in at least some of mankind.

Trump is power hungry while simultaneously old and simple minded. I remember Jan 6. I followed live feeds throughout and immediately after. I watched Trump's speech, the riot it caused. I watched Ashli Babbitt die on some guy's go pro.

I keep asking myself how in the hell Trump is even still in the running. What the fuck is wrong with his supporters?

Please get out and vote Harris! Harris is the way forward. She's not Trump but also SHE IS NOT BIDEN. We need women in power. Look what men have done . She happens to be a good one, of course a politician, but she's won my confidence. Over Trump it was an easy win.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think she will win but I don't think it will be a landslide. I hope so, but there's a lot of stupid Americans that buy into Trump's crap.

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