Alex1Powell Categories Politics
Statewide: 2,097,269 (+26,075)
Fulton: 272,057 (+14,360)
Gwinnett: 182,924 (+9,753)
Columbia: 32,920 (+175)
Houston: 32,876 (+126)
Cherokee: 53,860 (+320)
Forsyth: 58,066 (+437)
Coweta: 26,575 (+203)
I'll post the rates tomorrow with the racial breakdown. For now, let's go with the raw totals.
What do we have from today? Well, Democrats probably added about 8K votes to their margin, per @joe__gantt's estimates. That's not as much as they'd have been hoping for, to be blunt.
But let's also remember that the second weekend in the general election was a pro-GOP day. So this is certainly not the worst-case scenario everyone worried about. All of that helps the Democrats. They'd have liked more, but...it's Boxing Day.
In the general election, for example, our estimate was that Biden won the first two days of early voting, three of the four weekend days, and Trump won basically every other day of early voting pic.twitter.com/9JID24eq3I
— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) December 15, 2020
Tomorrow, it appears as if DeKalb, Columbia, Fulton, and Gwinnett are open. This will likely result in another pro-Democratic day, but almost certainly with more votes cast. How much? I got no idea, but probably around 30K-40K. So Democrats will look to add about 10K to the lead.
We'll enter the last 4 days of early voting with approximately a (roughly) 190K vote lead for Democrats, in all likelihood. That'll leave the GOP with some ground to make up.
how we found out about Zients' purchase of a surprise medical billing operation. (btw, "long term holdings" wannabe Berkshire Hathaway funds like Cranemere engage in EXTENSIVE due diligence, they knew what they were doing). https://t.co/9bXcWYhg0s (2/x)
How do you write about @revolvingdoorDC criticism of Zients without taking into account Zeints' leading role in NorthStar Anesthesia? (3/x)
Does @DaHalperin maybe have some thoughts about Zients, the predatory for profit Kaplan college empire, and the Washington Post???? https://t.co/u7UIKAZ2bF (4/x)
What did NorthStar -- that Zients buddies at the Post Editorial Board think is unimportant -- do? During Cranemere's due diligence AND post-purchase, they engaged in surprise medical billing. (5/x)
When you see something like this we need to investigate a little and join the dots.
https://t.co/GIsIzIct4B
This guy always pops up somewhere along the way, so what is the true agenda here? Who are the players?
https://t.co/HOR94sif64
And now we tie George Soros to Lord Malloch Brown and the Privy council. Soros has just made Malloch Brown head of his Open Society foundation.
https://t.co/6ss7Brnzo4
Malloch Brown one of the heads of Smartmatic.
https://t.co/hvjUICnB3S
And of course let's not forget Domonion.
https://t.co/d3DlCLGoYO
At the same time I am overwhelmed with how far we are from where we need to be.
I have such a flood of thoughts, it is hard to know where to
Words turned into action. Labour leadership in the past would not even meet Syrians, let alone follow up on the meeting with a letter to Gov asking them to do more on Syria! Previous labour used to ask for less, muddy waters and spread disinformation on Syria. What a change!! https://t.co/iB8r7bCqUW
— Ibrahim Olabi (@IbrahimOlabi) December 4, 2020
One difficulty is having too much to say. Another is that so many of my thoughts are by now steeped in bitterness.
I think it is very important to say that Labour’s problems on Syria don’t begin and end with Jeremy Corbyn and his associates.
There is too much bitterness on Twitter, but I think I need to write a little on mine here, and how it colours my view.
This year’s anniversary of the Srebrenica Massacre comes to mind. Labour leader Keir Starmer marked it here:
https://t.co/jaf27nIEuh
Inevitably some couldn’t help think of Corbyn’s record of siding with mass murderers.
The month after came the anniversary of the Ghouta Massacre. I don’t believe Starmer mentioned it. I don’t think @lisanandy said anything about it either.
Lusk speaking about "the danger of Christians claiming privilege within the state and the persecution of Christians which that led to...
If you have a political system which gives privilege to Christians then that system have to define what a Christian is"
A Christian who doesn't think the church should have a privileged voice in the public square? Isn't that like a turkey voting for Christmas? Listen to the new episode of our podcast #GunsandGod, with @HelenEPaynter & @matthew_feldman with guest Paul Lusk.https://t.co/O3t2C41gsM
— Centre for the Study of Bible & Violence (@CSBibleViolence) December 7, 2020
Paynter: "If Christians are pursuing political power, what ... they are essentially saying is that might makes right."
Lusk: 1/ "The basic problem w/a religious right is that it says that the state has been established by God to enforce law & all law has a religious basis."
Lusk: 2/ "And therefore whatever the state does must reflect a religious position. And therefore if there are diverse religious positions at work, then the inevitable result is that one will oppress the other."
Lusk: "To say we are post-Christian does not mean we are ex-Christian ... Although Christain belief is a small minority, certainly our culture, our values, our system- these are very much part of a Christian heritage and sensibility which is inherited."
Who has a good paper on why the US has just two parties?
— Matthew Yglesias \U0001f366 (@mattyglesias) November 28, 2020
It\u2019s not first past the post (Canada, UK) or presidentialism (Mexico, Brazil) so what gives?
I think the electoral systems, more so first past the post than presidentialism, come into it, but they’re not the main factor. Most of it comes down to America’s, all together now, material conditions.
As @cushbomb has been noting a lot recently, America’s wealth of wide open land which you could keep settling allowed potential labour unrest to be diffused. There was always more to get.
So you don’t end up with a Labour party, and around the time other countries did, America was going through the progressive era, which both parties were flirting with. The Socialists and Communists were repressed, so they couldn’t be the left alternative either.
The Progressive Party probably came the closest of anyone to breaking the GOP-Dem dynamic but honestly if they did they probably would have supplanted one of those parties entirely, just as the Republicans supplanted the Whigs, so it would have just been another 2 party system.
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First, we learned Alberta’s chief electoral officer asked the gov’t for a four-month extension for a complex investigation during the pandemic. The government said no. #ableg
https://t.co/CJtx0vFGkG
Elections AB won’t say what the case is the timelines suggest it could be the investigation into the UCP leadership race. The office has handed out more than $200,000 in fines connected with election financing irregularities in the 2017 race.
Several people have appealed those fines and findings to the court.
You may also recall leaked documents suggested Jason Kenney and Jeff Callaway’s leadership campaigns shared strategy and information https://t.co/NX91cdQQsN
And the RCMP are investigating. #ableg
The NDP says the government needs to come clean about whether it turned down the chief electoral officer’s application to extend the time to investigate the governing party.
#ableg
Also at today’s committee meeting, seven independent officers of the legislature had their budgets up for approval. The committee approved six of them.
MLA Brad Rutherford then moved to delay a decision about the auditor general’s budget. He says he wants more information. #ableg