Posted on 11/07/2016 1:43:11 PM PST by Kaslin
The Constitution specifies the Electoral College, not the general election. There is no Constitutional provision for a popular vote for president at all
Federal law does specify election day, and courts have held there is no objection to early voting as long as no votes are assigned to a candidate before election day.
What I am totally against is registration on election day, during the primary or general election. If you can't register at least 3 weeks before, you'll just have to wait to vote.
hard for me to not recall all of the ‘Romney in a landslide’ posts back in the last election. Part of me wants to jump into the hype but part of me subscribes to ‘once bitten, twice shy’. Regardless of the outcome the work must continue and the solution for what ails our country is and always will be in our own hands.
Really? A Constitutional Amendment? Why not have an amendment for every law on the books? Let’s see... amendment to ban pot, murder, rape...
The polling was bad because it was basically limited to Gallup but I believe internals of both candidates showed that Reagan held a slight lead even before the debates. He of course surged over the final weekend which may be another difference with Trump.
I can’t believe that folks are not thinking about their health insurance. Obama Care is going to go through the roof.
Rush constantly uses polls when things look good. Says they can't be trusted when they look bad. Trump has largely done the same thing. In the primary when polling was going his way, he cited polls. When things look bad in the general, they're rigged.
My husband and I voted onetime absentee because we flew to Upstate New York for a Family Reunion.
You mean by someone taking a picture of you laying on the operating table or laying in the hospital bed and someone taking the picture to the election commission?
I was just going to post the very same thing! He was excellent today, but why hasn't he been this good nearly every day since the GOP convention?
What a difference today was vs. his show last Friday. It was one of those "I'm just gonna mail it in" shows. Only a few days before election day!
Thank you, Megan! Same to you and your family! And God bless you, my FRiend.
Election Day sneaks up on no one. If you want to go away on vacation, plan it around the day set aside to exercise your constitutional right...or don’t.
In VA, if you have to vote absentee for medical reasons you have to show proof. Usually if you have some medical justification, you have some documentation. It shouldn’t be onerous but just enough to keep it from rampant abuse.
So I wonder how many others on our side are thinking and doing the same thing (in those states where it applies)? Could be an election day surge if that is the case.
You had to swear out an affidavit that you would be unable to go to the polls on that day for a specific reason.
Seemed entirely reasonable to me.
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Virginia used to be like that.
I was making long distance deliveries and worked by ‘phone calls’ so I had no idea where I may be the ‘1st Tuesday in Nov’ so I voted at the Registrars office for several years.
This is the first year that I have actually heard of people being encouraged to vote early in ALL the outlets....
Saw in paper today that H supposedly up by 6 in VA but she still running the anti Trump ad on daytime TV in DC area - has to be aiming at VA but also have seen ads by Van Hollen in MD (another LIB that should be a lock in the Freak State.)
Could it be that the first-time voters who are motivated by Trump are less likely to do early voting and absentee ballots?
Instead, they want the experience of “going to the polls” for the first time.
Lots of Trump followers are voting for the first time. So that factor could sway the actual poll results on election day toward Trump.
Maybe I’m grasping for straws, but...
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I don’t know, nutmeg. I think he was convinced Trump was going to lose - he always made reference to terrible things “that were going to happen after the election” but didn’t count on things changing. I don’t know. He could have really helped the Never Trumpers but now it’s Never Been.
I still have a sign “Don’t blame me! I voted for Crane”. Not a Reagan slam. See Babylon 5, 2258.
In 2012, Gateway Pundit trumpeted the big enthusiastic crowds for Romney compared to the much smaller crowds for Obama and predicted a Romney landslide. So did Newt Gingrich, George Will, Dick Morris, and plenty of other professors with ‘models’.
Just vote.
We didn't have a family reunion. Didn't you read that we flew to Upstate New York for a family reunion?
Excuse me, I listen to Rush every day and he has never said to ignore the polls. He didn’t today - he simply went through 1980 but consistently said he didn’t know how the vote would turn out. No one has been more critical than me of Rush in this primary season but he has always been bemused by the polls as are most Americans. Even Pat Caddell has cited 1980 and he’s a Democrat although of a JFK variety - God bless them.
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