Well, with Joe Biden accepting the Democratic nomination... It's time for the general election thread, right?
Whatever the hell happens, for the sake of the entire country, I really hope the election doesn't pivot on Michigan this year. Michigan's results are going to look messed up. I can't say who will win the state, but I can make this guarantee, right now: Trump will win in-person voting, and Biden will win absentee voting. Both by pretty decent margins, I expect. This is exactly the case that President Trump is already calling fraud on. But it won't be fraud. The division is how we've handled Coronavirus.
No one is excited about Joe Biden. Is it even possible to be excited about Joe Biden? I don't think so. But the people who believe our governor has done a good job on the virus will vote for him.
See, Governor Whitmer has made a lot of people really angry with the 120 some executive orders we've racked up, so far. No one is quite sure what we can and can't do on any particular day. And the state of emergency is extended past mid-July, too. Which might be stretching things. But, we're also one of the few states with declining Coronavirus numbers, and one of only 3 states now listed as having Coronavirus on track for containment. That's a pretty damn impressive feat, considering how long it was running around here before the federal government would even admit it was in the US at all.
President Trump angered a lot of people here with his talk about re-opening everything before we even had any kind of grasp on the depth of the situation. Plus his refusal of supplies for Michigan, etc... And no help for the massive flood caused when the Edenville dam collapsed, putting all of Midland under several feet of water. Those _were_ his voters. Now, maybe not so much. A lot of people here have really taken a beating, and are feeling quite left out. We're also still 6th highest total deaths from Coronavirus, so a whole lot of us have got friends, family, and co-workers, actual people we know, who have died from it. This wasn't just a fart in the wind like he predicted. People remember those things.
But due to the population distribution, Michigan always falls the way southeast Michigan falls. And right now, it's as divided as I've ever seen it in my lifetime. If you just go by signs, Trump is somehow still winning bigly. I think there are already more Trump signs than I saw in 2016. But if you go by polls, Biden is winning. But I don't buy either of those metrics for this election. I wouldn't even venture a guess, right now.
Interesting times ahead.
Whatever the hell happens, for the sake of the entire country, I really hope the election doesn't pivot on Michigan this year. Michigan's results are going to look messed up. I can't say who will win the state, but I can make this guarantee, right now: Trump will win in-person voting, and Biden will win absentee voting. Both by pretty decent margins, I expect. This is exactly the case that President Trump is already calling fraud on. But it won't be fraud. The division is how we've handled Coronavirus.
No one is excited about Joe Biden. Is it even possible to be excited about Joe Biden? I don't think so. But the people who believe our governor has done a good job on the virus will vote for him.
See, Governor Whitmer has made a lot of people really angry with the 120 some executive orders we've racked up, so far. No one is quite sure what we can and can't do on any particular day. And the state of emergency is extended past mid-July, too. Which might be stretching things. But, we're also one of the few states with declining Coronavirus numbers, and one of only 3 states now listed as having Coronavirus on track for containment. That's a pretty damn impressive feat, considering how long it was running around here before the federal government would even admit it was in the US at all.
President Trump angered a lot of people here with his talk about re-opening everything before we even had any kind of grasp on the depth of the situation. Plus his refusal of supplies for Michigan, etc... And no help for the massive flood caused when the Edenville dam collapsed, putting all of Midland under several feet of water. Those _were_ his voters. Now, maybe not so much. A lot of people here have really taken a beating, and are feeling quite left out. We're also still 6th highest total deaths from Coronavirus, so a whole lot of us have got friends, family, and co-workers, actual people we know, who have died from it. This wasn't just a fart in the wind like he predicted. People remember those things.
But due to the population distribution, Michigan always falls the way southeast Michigan falls. And right now, it's as divided as I've ever seen it in my lifetime. If you just go by signs, Trump is somehow still winning bigly. I think there are already more Trump signs than I saw in 2016. But if you go by polls, Biden is winning. But I don't buy either of those metrics for this election. I wouldn't even venture a guess, right now.
Interesting times ahead.
