Posted on 10/27/2024 1:48:53 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
It’s been called the “red mirage” or the “blue shift.”
It’s the recent phenomenon by which an apparent Republican lead early after polls close on election night is erased by the counting of mail-in ballots later in the evening or in the days after Election Day.
Former President Donald Trump has pointed to the red mirage to back up his baseless allegations of election fraud, when in fact it has been a function of the rise of mail-in voting and the often-peculiar rules about when those ballots can be counted.
What happened in 2020? When most Americans went to bed on election night in 2020, on November 3, the end result was far from clear.
The contest between then-President Trump and now-President Joe Biden was still too early to call in the key states of Arizona, North Carolina, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, Maine, Georgia and Pennsylvania.
The following days would include dramatic hours spent watching the counting of votes in these states. The vote count didn’t reflect a Biden lead in Georgia until early in the morning of November 6, when, as CNN’s Phil Mattingly showed viewers on the Magic Wall, small batches of votes were being counted and affecting the very close election.
CNN was able to project that Biden would win the election four days after Election Day, on November 7, but counting would continue. An analysis by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that counties won by Biden counted slower, on average, than counties won by Trump.
There was also a blue shift in 2016, but it was not decisive.
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"How about 'mirage'"?
"That's great! "Red Mirage"! I like it! Now, I need a name for a change. Something that's bound to happen. Something that's due. People smarten up, they recognize what's good, and they make a change. Anyone have an idea for something like that?"
"How about 'shift'"?
"Fantastic! "Blue Shift"! "Red Mirage or Blue Shift" -- that's our headline boys!"
No editorializing here. Nossir.
The Fifth Column has spoken.
It all depends on how determined the Democrats are about falsifying the vote. In Pennsylvania and Georgia and Wisconsin, a least, they will go all out and will manufacture whatever number of votes they need. The Republican Party will go along with whatever vote totals the Democrats can manufacture. The Democrats have an automatic lead in any state that uses computer voting machines. Dominion and the other voting machine makers are all committed Democrats and will sue into bankruptcy anyone who makes accusations or presents proof that the machines are crooked. Some of their machines change votes as has been attested by numerous voters in the last three presidential elections and they and others assign votes by ratios determined by algorithm. I have voted already but I really do no think the voters are in control at all in the large near even states. By not protesting loudly and legally the Republicans have allowed the Democrat system to become intrenched and. like a cancer, probably not removable without killing the patient.
It’s going to be really interesting if the Democrats cheat heavily — but not enough. And if people have evidence that they cheated — and failed. Then President Trump and the Congress can take steps to make our elections honest. States control the process, but federal money (and the withholding of that money) can give an incentive for states to reform their process.
But the risk is that it'll be too obvious if they do it in Georgia and Pennsylvania. So I don't see it happening.
This is how election fraud is legitimized. The pretending that no one injected hundreds of thousands of illegitimate ballots into the system after the polls had closed.
We must fight this if it occurs again.
Total BS. They are getting destroyed. John Ralston in NV, the D statistician, is begging Ds to come out and says it’s bleak. (Rs lead by 32,000-—in 2020 Ds had a 40,000 lead going into election day and won by 33,000.)
In AZ, Rs have aj 87,000 lead.
PA has cut the D lead by TWO THIRDS and they thought they needed over 600,000 “firewall.” At present, they’ll maybe get 100,000.
Biggest problem? In AZ, despite having a massive lead for Rs, the DemoKKKrats HAVE ACTUALLY TURNED OUT 1% MORE OF THEIR VOTERS!!
In all states we are seeing 20=25% of early voters for the GOP are “low-propensity/first time voters,” meaning that unlike the DemoKKKrats, Rs have an army of reserves due at the front on election day.
They are so screwed, they do not understand it. We are now seeing NEW JERSEY a 1% diff between Ds and Rs.
And remember, more Ds will vote Trump than Rs vote Cackles, so there will be a +number there, and Trump will win indies by some amount (I’ve seen 4-10).
CNN presstitution.
Pennsylvania has some sketch vote counting.
baseless allegations - screw you Zach Wolf. They were not baseless. I am sick and tired of that always included adjective by the Democrats and Administrative State.
If we hold back our ballot boxes on election night until AFTER democrats have turned in their boxed they won’t know how many ballots to stuff.
We’ve got to stop playing boy Scouts. Hold back the ballot boxes til past midnight if necessary.
When democrats do voter fraud they vote the people who don’t show up to vote.
Red mirage/blue shift = Fraudulent votes being tabulated to give Harris the win.
That is exactly the purpose. They have to keep the charade going right till the end if there is to be any chance of stealing it.
Just like they make up “news,” they also make up “phenomena.”
The real blue shift is blue collar Democrat voters coming to their senses and voting for Trump.
“ Republican lead early after polls close on election night is erased by the counting of mail-in ballots later in the evening or in the days after Election Day.”
It’s called vote fraud.
Somehow only Democrats win this way.
Remember Al Franken?
The Democrats did not worry about the obviousness of the steal in 2020. They just denied the videos and data that surely proved massive cheating and the Republicans ignored it and the courts refused to touch it. Why would it be different now? The Democrats know that what they are doing is now Tradition.
That is a slim ray of hope but it is not nothing.
Wait until the urban areas stop counting in 2024, hoping the white vans full of Harris ballots show up.
Instead “blue vans” show up, they’re certain will be for Harris, but as they start running ballots it becomes:
“Oh shit! This year it’s different.”
Harris isn’t getting elected or selected, this thing is over.
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