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To: i-node who wrote (974126)

10/21/2016 2:09:40 AM

From: koan

Respond to of 1571964

You betcha-lol.

North Carolina began early voting today and our ground game is scouring the state for votes and driving them to the polls. We will do so for three weeks. Lines today were around the corner.

And Trump must have North Carolina.

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Yeah, you guys hope like hell she can run the clock out. Early voting is part of that deal.

To: i-node who wrote (974126)	10/21/2016 9:35:16 AM
From: combjelly	1 Recommendation Recommended By gronieel2 Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1571964

Not really. Because it doesn't matter. Trump has irretrievably damaged his campaign. Even if he hadn't, he never developed a ground game, he never really invested in GOTV drives or much else that the conventional wisdom considers important to win a modern election. Hillary has. Now it very well may be that those things are not important. But they apparently were in the last two presidential elections. Obama invested heavily in those things and Hillary has followed suit. Given that Obama outperformed the polls, they still seem to be necessary. Granted, I realize that y'all cling to the myth that it was widespread voter fraud that made up the difference, but reality doesn't seem to be y'alls strong suit. Reality is that it takes more than an enthusiastic minority of voters to win. Even if they have guns. This would seem to be a no-brainer, but y'all keep getting blind-sided by this simple fact. For good or ill, to win the presidency requires appealing to the majority of the country and making sure they go to the polls. There was a time when the presidency could be won by only pitching to white males and sort of hoping that others could get sucked in. That time has passed. If for no other reasons is that white males are not a monolithic bloc. Nor can their wives and/or significant others be counted on to vote for whomever they are told. And there just are not enough self-loathing minority members to make up the difference. Mittens was just about the last candidate who had a shot by appealing to a narrow demographic. Trump was apparently hoping by catering to the alt-right he could bring in enough first time voters and hold the Romney coalition to squeak his way to victory. He was wrong. He couldn't hold the Romney coalition, especially white women, because catering to the alt-right made him toxic to many who otherwise would support him. And the fact of the matter is even if he hadn't of worked so hard to alienate others, he most likely still wouldn't have had enough voters. But this is just speculation. We will never know because I doubt if anyone else will try this again.