2024 Presidential Election -- new thread for the final week

[Mal]

Alright, time to put some real money on the table: how many total votes for President of the United States will be cast in 2024? Recent past numbers: 2008 - 131M; 2012 - 129M; 2016 - 137M; 2020 - 158M.

I'm going with a whopping 172 million votes. About a 10% increase from 2020. Both candidates eclipse Biden's record of most votes garnered by a single candidate in one election four years ago (a little over 81 million).

 

[BandAlum83]

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Not everywhere

Doesn't it extend through Thanksgiving?

 

[MChambers]

Years from now I will think back on today and chuckle to myself about this election. Then I will pick up my machete and walk across the wasteland. Traveling at night to avoid the marauders.

Years and not weeks? You’re an optimist.

 

[BandAlum83]

Lord have mercy. Am I really going to abandon my pessimistic ways if Harris wins? I mean, that’s been my bread and butter approach for as long as I can remember. It has served me well all these decades.

I’ve got myself quite a conundrum here. The election results pale in comparison.

I, for one, will encourage you to keep your pessimistic ways if Harris wins.

I will declare you the God of the Reverse Jinx and follow you!

 

[CDu]

Do you know, offhand, the registration comparison for context?

Registration edge is about 800K for the GOP. But in fairness, that's because the GOP purged voter registrations. There are fewer registered voters in FL now than in 2020, despite the population there growing.

That said, by party registration, a higher percentage of GOP have voted than Dems so far. Though it's pretty close to the overall distribution.

 

[OldPhiKap]

Expectations on timing for Georgia results, per Sec./St.:

Polls close at 8pm.* approximately 70% of votes will have been tabulated and should be available soon thereafter. These are all the early votes and mail votes.

Same-day votes will be counted and reported by counties thereafter. Smaller (expect red) counties should come in first starting around 10pm or 10:30, and larger counties "by the end of the night" (which I presume means "before dawn.")

No mention of overseas mail ballots, but they still have three days to come in I believe if postmarked on or before today.


* polls technically close at 7 but if you are in line by 7 you can still vote IIRC. Also, a few in the Atlanta Metro area may be open a bit longer because of some delays/threats.

 

[bundabergdevil]

I voted this AM and then came home to a Harris door knocker at my house asking if I had voted yet. Then I just got a call from another person asking if I had voted yet. The Harris machine is rather impressive.

That’s been my observation in PA, too. Trump has mostly outsourced his canvassing operation to musk and others.

Yesterday on my 16-house block I saw three different Harris units from NY, DC all with very specific targets for low propensity/ questionable voters.

They knew we had a high pattern of voting and we’re in the clear so they steered clear.

Other than median signs, haven’t seen evidence of a Trump field op.

 

[Kdogg]

Lord have mercy. Am I really going to abandon my pessimistic ways if Harris wins? I mean, that’s been my bread and butter approach for as long as I can remember. It has served me well all these decades.

I’ve got myself quite a conundrum here. The election results pale in comparison.

Old Persian adage: This too will pass.

 

[bundabergdevil]

Bouzy had the song of the summer, too. What can’t he do?!?!

 

[Kdogg]

Years from now I will think back on today and chuckle to myself about this election. Then I will pick up my machete and walk across the wasteland. Traveling at night to avoid the marauders.

I told you to go out in the first wave like I plan on doing.

 

[Chicago 1995]

I doubt it means anything, but since it's been mentioned at points in this thread (or its predecessor), the bottom fell out of DJT this afternoon. They had to stop trading.

 

[OldPhiKap]

Years from now I will think back on today and chuckle to myself about this election. Then I will pick up my machete and walk across the wasteland. Traveling at night to avoid the marauders.

I always pictured you as a Cormac McCarthy hero. Just not that one.

 

[dudog84]

This is honestly not partisan because I have never paid any attention to "Dr. Phil", but this is pathetic.

“I’m just not here to endorse Donald Trump. I do not like celebrity endorsements,” McGraw said in a teaser clip posted to X.

The Dr Phil host went on to tell Morgan that he doesn’t like a lot of what the former president says or does, explaining that his speech at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally was more so “an act of rebellion on my part"...“I requested 25-plus times to speak to Kamala Harris,” he claimed.

How do these whiny, self-centered people get such followings?

Dr. Phil: "Mwaaaah!"

 

[crote]

I always pictured you as a Cormac McCarthy hero. Just not that one.

More a Child of God type?

 

[CDu]

Bouzy had the song of the summer, too. What can’t he do?!?!

It appears that he can’t predict FL very well. Barring some crazy amount of crossover and Indy support, it seems like his biggest call and the one he has been riding hard all season will be wrong.

 

[SouthernDukie]

If it makes you feel better, there is plenty to be pessimistic about this country even if/when Harris wins

 

[Indoor66]

It might be just you

No, I think it is just him.

 

[crote]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1853894381440561176

 

[Furniture]

Something is going on at Trump Media. Trading halted twice.

 

[CameronBornAndBred]

I doubt it means anything, but since it's been mentioned at points in this thread (or its predecessor), the bottom fell out of DJT this afternoon. They had to stop trading.

According the chart I'm looking at, his stock is up 1.885 for the day at $36.225