Funny? Funny how?
Posted on 10/29/2020 10:49:09 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Minnesota went to Clinton in 2016 by a margin of just 44,000 votes, among the smallest margins of victory in the country. That tiny margin, coupled with the economic boom created prior to the Coronavirus outbreak, placed Minnesota within striking distance for team Trump. Polling for the state has Biden up 6 for the Real Clear Politics average, and 270 to win had Minnesota leaning blue. To compare to 2016, the last two polls had Clinton with a 10 and 8 point lead respectively, in a race that had Clinton win by 1.5 points.
Now, the latest poll from Trafalgar Group, among the most accurate of polling firms in 2016 and 2018, shows that Biden leads Trump by just 3.2 points, well within the massive swing that occurred between polling and final result in 2016. Particularly of note, is that Kanye West, also running this year, is drawing 3.3% of the vote in Minnesota....
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“Real Clear Politics average”
Which is my opinion is a joke.
I wonder if Biden’s remark about Abe to Trump was similar to Hillary mentioning JFK to Obama. Desperation will make people say things.
Jokes are supposed to be funny.
Funny? Funny how?
“Wouldn’t it be cool if Kanye could give his share of the vote to Trump right after election day?”
That would be excellent!
Does Minnesota election law specify that can be done?
No.
When he concedes-it will fall one way or another.
I don’t know. I don’t know how that works.
Even if in actual practice this could not be done, Kanye could certainly on a rhetorical level tweet out that he would like his votes to go to Trump.
Even better, Kanye should drop out and tell his supporters to vote for Trump.
The average size of ten piles of cow dung is still cow dung.
It’s an average of polls, so it’s only a joke if the constituent polls are a joke.
One of the polls that Rush mentioned yesterday had Biden up SEVENTEEN in Wisconsin. Now that is a JOKE. Outliers like probably get averaged into the RCP number.
“Kanye could certainly on a rhetorical level tweet out that he would like his votes to go to Trump.“
I don’t think such a tweet would accomplish all that much.
He could, he can drop out of the race, endorse Trump, and direct his electors to vote for Trump.
I don’t think the electors would be required to take his advice, but most of them probably would.
No it can’t be done, but in essence he is in the race to pull voters away from Biden. So via the backdoor he is assisting President Trump.
Why do you think crazy polls like the one a few days ago showing Biden up 14 in WI exist? Purely to skew the average aggregators
Doesn’t matter. If it appears to be close, car trunks full of ballots for Biden will magically appear.
Remember Al Franken?
The problem is Minneapolis. The City Council there intends to kick out all of the Republican election judges and instead will do all the counting behind closed doors.
After the Al Franken fiasco, where he won by just 312 votes, the MN legislature passed a law that requires that all absentee ballots must be counted by election judges selected from both major parties. Minneapolis is booting out the Republicans, and a leftist judge rubber stamped it ignoring the plain wording of the law.
Below is an excerpt of the email I received from the Minnesota Voters Alliance (mnvoters.org):
After months of research and preparation, the MVA has been challenging several major cities and counties for preventing Republican election judges from serving on the absentee ballot boards and from reviewing absentee ballot envelopes that are mailed in.
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The law requires (1) that the ballot board be composed of election judges from lists submitted by the major political parties, (2) that each member of the ballot board declare his or her party affiliation, (3) that city and county staff (except for bona fide“deputies”) may not serve on the board, and (4) that election judges from both major parties review each absentee ballot envelope that is mailed in and either accept or reject it.
On Friday, July 31, 2020, the Minnesota Supreme Court ordered the consolidation of our four petitions for Writs of Mandamus (against the cities of Duluth, Minneapolis, and counties of Ramsey and Olmsted) into the Ramsey County District Courtroom of Judge Thomas A. Gilligan, Jr.
Judge Gilligan heard the case wrongly opined that 203B.121 doesn’t require election judges to perform the primary duties of the ballot board, namely, the accepting and rejecting even though the statute is totally obvious to anyone with a high school diploma. We filed for an appeal.
Note: This is the same judge who had two of his opinions overturned in 2020 by the MN Supreme Court, 7-0.
Even before Gilligan’s ridiculous ruling came out, realizing the law is clear to reasonable thinking people, both Ramsey and Olmsted Counties began inviting in republican election judges along with democrats to accept and reject ballots to achieve party balance. Other municipalities also began inviting Republicans to serve on the ballot boards as well.
In spite of the fact that these legal battles will continue well after the election, more republican election judges are participating on absentee ballot boards right now than at any time in the past, as well as serving as election judges in early voting centers and on election day!
However, Minneapolis doubles down on its abuse of authority.
On October 2, 2020, following the court riling, the Minneapolis City Council appointed 102 temporary “deputy city clerks” without legal authority to do so, just to circumvent the law. The City thinks it has found a clever way to shunt aside Republican and Democrat election judges and instead have all the rejecting and accepting of absentee ballots done by elections staff insiders.
The problem for the City of Minneapolis now is that the city does not have any “deputy city clerks” on its payroll nor does any authority exist for them to appoint anyone it chooses to the non-existent position of deputy city clerk. In our view, the city is now boxed in a corner.
In the 2008 Senate race between Al Franken & Norm Coleman, there were 300,000 ballots cast and 12,000 were rejected. Al Franken won by a mere 312 votes. In that race, there were admittedly far too few observers of this process, so the legislature adopted a brand new law in 2010, which passed 194 to 2. The new law was intended to provide stronger oversight and requires election judges from different political parties, rather than city insiders and selected seasonal staff, examining EACH absentee ballot.
The solution it required was just good common sense: citizen judges from the competing parties could keep the process honest. Otherwise Republicans have been almost entirely excluded from the process... until now!
This unlawful and phony practice of appointing temporary deputies was a sham created by none other than the hyper-partisan Secretary of State, Steve Simon (DFL), who implemented a POLICY that makes balance law optional (re-writes the law). We have caught on to Simon’s trickery.
The MVA filed another lawsuit against Minneapolis on Monday, October 5, 2020.
In an effort to keep on a full-court press, the MVA filed yet another lawsuit against the City of Minneapolis.
See MVA’s Writ of Quo Warranto filing against Minneapolis
The Petition for Quo Warranto asserts that Minneapolis has no “deputy city clerks” and no authority to appoint them. Beyond that, the Petition points out that the duties (serving on the ballot board) are not those of a “deputy” which always means a person who is able and authorized to assume all of the duties of, in this case, the City Clerk. And, of course, the idea that the City would have scores of “deputy city clerks” is absurd and the attempt to designate that many is clearly aimed at flooding the absentee ballot board.
Minneapolis election officials have made it clear in email messages to citizen election judges that none of them will be involved in accepting and rejecting ballots. All of that critical work will be done by seasonal staff with name tags on them that say “deputy city clerks.”
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In 2016 Hillary won Minnesota in three places: the Minneapolis-St Paul metro counties, Olmstead County(Rochester) and the Iron Range in northeastern Minnesota. The rest of state was solidly red. While Biden will carry the metro and Rochester, he has lost the Iron Range. Trump has picked up endorsements from Democrat mayors in that area and the union mine and iron workers are behind him too. Trump will take Minnesota.
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