I feel hope from all the reports about the increased voter turnout for the early voting, and how a lot of it are the student-youth voters turning up at a record pace.
I feel dread from all the reports about the GOP using every voter suppression tactic in the books and getting away with most of them.
I feel hope from the reports of how people are helping minorities - especially in North Dakota and Kansas - work around the suppression efforts so that their votes WILL count.
I feel dread that the GOP is still gonna try to steal the midterms like they stole 2016 (GET OUT OF HERE, RUSSIAN SOCIAL MEDIA BOTS).
The best thought I have is "Turnout Beats Suppression". The GOP can't stop every vote, and can't flip every ballot false. If the final polling says Dems won by +6 it's gonna cause a stink if the GOP get +6 of the results. So they can only cheat just a little bit, just enough to eke out "wins" at +1 or +2 while claiming the polls were wrong after all.
But the more people vote - and the more they vote BLUE - the harder it gets to cheat. Too many people will figure out there should have been no way the votes went for the Republicans, and there will be hell to pay when they figure that out.
THIS IS WHY TURNOUT MATTERS. Especially when the numbers point to a majority of voters being Democratic or Left-Leaning (especially in an election cycle where the Indy voters are adamantly opposed to trump and the GOP). This is why I hope enough voters have had enough of decades of state misrule by Republicans here in Florida.
I am hoping Andrew Gillum's campaign to be Florida's Governor succeeds, and he can clean up the decades of mess the Republicans have made.
I hope Bill Nelson (GO GATORS) beats Rick "Medicare Fraud" Scott, a crooked SOB who SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN Governor in the first place (twice!) >:( I hope Nelson's win will be part of flipping control of the Senate away from that obstructionist monster McConnell.
I hope enough voters hating trump know they can change control of the US House to Democrat and force that corrupt con artist to answer to the law.
GET THE VOTE OUT THIS TUESDAY NOVEMBER 6th.
Vote Blue.
This matters.
For the LOVE of GOD, this matters.
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Gillum seems smart, and it would be good to have a Democratic governor in Florida for the 2020 election, if you know what I mean...
-Doug in Oakland
The thing keeping my hopes up is that the polling on Gillum has a spread (plus-6 last I looked) that it's well outside margin of error (the range where the GOP could cheat / steal votes). There's been buzz of Gillum having coattails not only for Nelson (who is painfully in a tighter race against that damn Medicare Fraud Scott) but for a lot of purple districts in Central Florida that can hopefully flip Congressional districts for Dems to win the US House.
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