Comments on: Put Not Your Trust In Early Vote Counts http://www.chrisweigant.com/2018/11/05/put-not-your-trust-in-early-vote-counts/ Reality-based political commentary Tue, 05 May 2026 04:46:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: ListenWhenYouHear http://www.chrisweigant.com/2018/11/05/put-not-your-trust-in-early-vote-counts/#comment-129954 ListenWhenYouHear Tue, 06 Nov 2018 23:43:07 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16077#comment-129954 I just wanted to thank all of you who got out and canvased your communities and encouraged folks to vote this year! It says a lot about you that you care enough to give of your own time for this country, and I think you deserve our gratitude. I tip my cap to ya! — Russ I just wanted to thank all of you who got out and canvased your communities and encouraged folks to vote this year! It says a lot about you that you care enough to give of your own time for this country, and I think you deserve our gratitude. I tip my cap to ya!

— Russ

]]> By: neilm http://www.chrisweigant.com/2018/11/05/put-not-your-trust-in-early-vote-counts/#comment-129951 neilm Tue, 06 Nov 2018 20:05:36 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16077#comment-129951 Interesting article on how right wing news organizations view their charter: https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/conservatives-trust-conservative-media-heres-why.php Interesting article on how right wing news organizations view their charter:

https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/conservatives-trust-conservative-media-heres-why.php

]]> By: Balthasar http://www.chrisweigant.com/2018/11/05/put-not-your-trust-in-early-vote-counts/#comment-129950 Balthasar Tue, 06 Nov 2018 19:22:08 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16077#comment-129950 In case you missed it: Randy Rainbow just posted another video titled 'Voting' - a parody of the song 'Loathing' from "Wicked". enjoy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jDGQHaWiNQ In case you missed it: Randy Rainbow just posted another video titled 'Voting' - a parody of the song 'Loathing' from "Wicked". enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jDGQHaWiNQ

]]> By: Balthasar http://www.chrisweigant.com/2018/11/05/put-not-your-trust-in-early-vote-counts/#comment-129949 Balthasar Tue, 06 Nov 2018 17:55:54 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16077#comment-129949 Paula [9] <i>Getting anecdotal reports of high turnout in parts of Ohio</i> Don't read too much into that, P: the Republican Sec of State of Ohio has a history of providing too few voting machines in poor areas and college towns, causing long lines to form. Paula [9] Getting anecdotal reports of high turnout in parts of Ohio

Don't read too much into that, P: the Republican Sec of State of Ohio has a history of providing too few voting machines in poor areas and college towns, causing long lines to form.

]]> By: John M http://www.chrisweigant.com/2018/11/05/put-not-your-trust-in-early-vote-counts/#comment-129948 John M Tue, 06 Nov 2018 16:51:44 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16077#comment-129948 [5] goode trickle "My challenge to all of you activists is to get out and get 5 people to vote in my place. Tell them that it is their duty to step up and participate for those of us who can't." I got 5 of 6 people I know to vote here in Florida. Hopefully number 6 will also. Hardly compares to Kick, but hey every little bit helps! [5] goode trickle

"My challenge to all of you activists is to get out and get 5 people to vote in my place. Tell them that it is their duty to step up and participate for those of us who can't."

I got 5 of 6 people I know to vote here in Florida. Hopefully number 6 will also. Hardly compares to Kick, but hey every little bit helps!

]]> By: Paula http://www.chrisweigant.com/2018/11/05/put-not-your-trust-in-early-vote-counts/#comment-129947 Paula Tue, 06 Nov 2018 16:24:50 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16077#comment-129947 [8] Kick: 476! So cool! Off to do one last canvass - in part to distract me while the hours pass. Getting anecdotal reports of high turnout in parts of Ohio. Hoping Sane and Decent America prevails. Good luck to all! [8] Kick: 476! So cool!

Off to do one last canvass - in part to distract me while the hours pass. Getting anecdotal reports of high turnout in parts of Ohio.

Hoping Sane and Decent America prevails.

Good luck to all!

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2018/11/05/put-not-your-trust-in-early-vote-counts/#comment-129945 Kick Tue, 06 Nov 2018 15:16:21 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16077#comment-129945 GT 5 <i>My challenge to all of you activists is to get out and get 5 people to vote in my place. Tell them that it is their duty to step up and participate for those of us who can't. </i> Five people, you say? We had a goal of 500. At the end of early voting, my peeps and my loaned vehicle had collectively transported a count of 476 people to the polls. By the end of election day today, we expect to easily surpass that goal. There are lots of vehicles doing the same thing with the aim of flipping the heavily gerrymandered district of TX-32 from Red to Blue. It is no small order to flip <b>any</b> district in deep Red gerrymandered Texas. Texas <b>will</b> flip Blue eventually or Republicans will be forced to soften their far-right positions in order to maintain their hold on power. The fact that Republicans nationwide are promising to protect preexisting conditions and aren't running on killing the Affordable Care Act a.k.a. Obamacare speaks volumes. <i>In the meantime I will continue to be out on a project with a big white ship that truly shows how great Americans can be. </i> :) GT
5

My challenge to all of you activists is to get out and get 5 people to vote in my place. Tell them that it is their duty to step up and participate for those of us who can't.

Five people, you say? We had a goal of 500. At the end of early voting, my peeps and my loaned vehicle had collectively transported a count of 476 people to the polls. By the end of election day today, we expect to easily surpass that goal. There are lots of vehicles doing the same thing with the aim of flipping the heavily gerrymandered district of TX-32 from Red to Blue. It is no small order to flip any district in deep Red gerrymandered Texas.

Texas will flip Blue eventually or Republicans will be forced to soften their far-right positions in order to maintain their hold on power. The fact that Republicans nationwide are promising to protect preexisting conditions and aren't running on killing the Affordable Care Act a.k.a. Obamacare speaks volumes.

In the meantime I will continue to be out on a project with a big white ship that truly shows how great Americans can be.

:)

]]> By: James T Canuck http://www.chrisweigant.com/2018/11/05/put-not-your-trust-in-early-vote-counts/#comment-129944 James T Canuck Tue, 06 Nov 2018 14:42:18 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16077#comment-129944 It was said best..."Muscled, black with steel green eye Swishing through the rye grass With thoughts of mouse and apple pie Tail balancing at half-mast ---And the mouse police never sleeps-- Lying in the cherry tree Savage bed foot warmer Of purest feline ancestry Look out, little furry folk He's the all night working cat Eats but one in every ten Leaves the others on the mat --And the mouse police never sleeps--- Waiting by the cellar door Window-box town crier Birth and death registrar With claws that rake a furrow red Licensed to mutilate From warm milk on a lazy day To dawn patrol on hungry hate No, the mouse police never sleeps Climbing on the ivy Windy roof top weathercock Warm blooded night on a cold tile. GTFO and vote. Happy voting day, my friends. LL&P It was said best..."Muscled, black with steel green eye
Swishing through the rye grass
With thoughts of mouse and apple pie
Tail balancing at half-mast
---And the mouse police never sleeps--
Lying in the cherry tree
Savage bed foot warmer
Of purest feline ancestry
Look out, little furry folk
He's the all night working cat
Eats but one in every ten
Leaves the others on the mat
--And the mouse police never sleeps---
Waiting by the cellar door
Window-box town crier
Birth and death registrar
With claws that rake a furrow red
Licensed to mutilate
From warm milk on a lazy day
To dawn patrol on hungry hate
No, the mouse police never sleeps
Climbing on the ivy
Windy roof top weathercock
Warm blooded night on a cold tile.

GTFO and vote.

Happy voting day, my friends.

LL&P

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2018/11/05/put-not-your-trust-in-early-vote-counts/#comment-129943 Kick Tue, 06 Nov 2018 14:28:05 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16077#comment-129943 TS 3 <i>Russia wii be very unhappy if all states follow Oregon and " go postal" Much less vulnerable to cyber attack. </i> *laughs* All states going postal would be the Republicans' worst nightmare. <i>I voted 3 weeks ago. </i> I would wager it feels like 3 months ago. :) TS
3

Russia wii be very unhappy if all states follow Oregon and " go postal" Much less vulnerable to cyber attack.

*laughs* All states going postal would be the Republicans' worst nightmare.

I voted 3 weeks ago.

I would wager it feels like 3 months ago. :)

]]> By: goode trickle http://www.chrisweigant.com/2018/11/05/put-not-your-trust-in-early-vote-counts/#comment-129942 goode trickle Tue, 06 Nov 2018 11:32:31 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16077#comment-129942 So... this is the first election I will not be able to vote in quite some time. Mostly due to the inadequacy of our absentee voting system and the fact I have not been back to the US to collect my ballot. My challenge to all of you activists is to get out and get 5 people to vote in my place. Tell them that it is their duty to step up and participate for those of us who can't. In the meantime I will continue to be out on a project with a big white ship that truly shows how great Americans can be. So... this is the first election I will not be able to vote in quite some time.

Mostly due to the inadequacy of our absentee voting system and the fact I have not been back to the US to collect my ballot.

My challenge to all of you activists is to get out and get 5 people to vote in my place. Tell them that it is their duty to step up and participate for those of us who can't.

In the meantime I will continue to be out on a project with a big white ship that truly shows how great Americans can be.

]]> By: LeaningBlue http://www.chrisweigant.com/2018/11/05/put-not-your-trust-in-early-vote-counts/#comment-129941 LeaningBlue Tue, 06 Nov 2018 02:57:56 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16077#comment-129941 Here's a knee-slapper. But first the background. The RCP Generic Ballot polls post 10/24 are (all +Dems, oldest first): 7,9,9,5,9,8,13,7. Except for one more, this morning. Wait for it. Rassmussen : Republicans +1. That was good enough for <i>Zero Hedge</i> to trumpet the headline <b>Stocks Surge After Latest Poll Shows GOP Retaining The House</b>. Their justification for believing the Rassmus bullshit? <i>"Rasmussen was the only major pollster in 2016 to predict a Trump victory."</i> Okay, fair enough, except for one thing. They were polling the national <i>popular</i> vote in that poll. CW is right. Believe nothing and no one. Go out to dinner. Take in a movie. Watch the Santos-Vinnick election <i>West Wing</i> episode on Netflix. Check back when CA is being counted, if then. Here's a knee-slapper. But first the background. The RCP Generic Ballot polls post 10/24 are (all +Dems, oldest first): 7,9,9,5,9,8,13,7. Except for one more, this morning. Wait for it.

Rassmussen : Republicans +1.

That was good enough for Zero Hedge to trumpet the headline Stocks Surge After Latest Poll Shows GOP Retaining The House.

Their justification for believing the Rassmus bullshit? "Rasmussen was the only major pollster in 2016 to predict a Trump victory."

Okay, fair enough, except for one thing. They were polling the national popular vote in that poll.

CW is right. Believe nothing and no one. Go out to dinner. Take in a movie. Watch the Santos-Vinnick election West Wing episode on Netflix. Check back when CA is being counted, if then.

]]> By: TheStig http://www.chrisweigant.com/2018/11/05/put-not-your-trust-in-early-vote-counts/#comment-129940 TheStig Tue, 06 Nov 2018 02:52:31 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16077#comment-129940 Russia wii be very unhappy if all states follow Oregon and " go postal" Much less vulnerable to cyber attack. I voted 3 weeks ago. Russia wii be very unhappy if all states follow Oregon and " go postal" Much less vulnerable to cyber attack.

I voted 3 weeks ago.

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2018/11/05/put-not-your-trust-in-early-vote-counts/#comment-129939 Kick Tue, 06 Nov 2018 02:39:56 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16077#comment-129939 I hear you, CW, but FYI: Jon Ralston in Nevada informs that Democrats have built up such an early vote lead there that he predicts a good night for Democrats. Ralston says if the first results from Clark show double digit leads, then the math from the rural counties is not going to be enough to save Heller. He's predicting... based on math and not polls... a win by Jacky Rosen. I've never known Ralston to be wrong, but there's obviously a first time for everything. :) I hear you, CW, but FYI: Jon Ralston in Nevada informs that Democrats have built up such an early vote lead there that he predicts a good night for Democrats. Ralston says if the first results from Clark show double digit leads, then the math from the rural counties is not going to be enough to save Heller. He's predicting... based on math and not polls... a win by Jacky Rosen.

I've never known Ralston to be wrong, but there's obviously a first time for everything. :)

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2018/11/05/put-not-your-trust-in-early-vote-counts/#comment-129937 nypoet22 Tue, 06 Nov 2018 02:12:48 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16077#comment-129937 you fooled me CW, you were quoting psalms and i thought it was yoda. anyhow, with only a few hours until the election you could still write a column about pie. it wouldn't be as good as if you'd lived up to your "reality-based" moniker sooner, but it would still be pie. JL you fooled me CW, you were quoting psalms and i thought it was yoda. anyhow, with only a few hours until the election you could still write a column about pie. it wouldn't be as good as if you'd lived up to your "reality-based" moniker sooner, but it would still be pie.

JL

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