Election Night Simulation: What Happens In A Contested Election? - Full Frontal on TBS

[Drome]

Sep 3:

Love that Sam!

[Illumination]

1. Just think that this video creates fear & we have enough of this now.

[Drome]

2. In 2020, Fear is NOT a Bad Thing

Had we had more of it four years ago, it would be President Hillary Clinton running for reelection now. Complacency kills!

[Illumination]

3. You have your opinion & I have mine. Welcome to DU!

[Merlot]

4. Knowledge is better than fear.

Better to be prepared and have a plan now, not the day after the election.

[struggle4progress]

5. 18 USC 241

If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or

If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured—

They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/241

[struggle4progress]

6. Don't assume trying to scare up a win will work

Opinion by Eugene Robinson
September 3, 2020 at 4:54 p.m. EDT


... Recall those desperate days of 2018, when the nation was sacked, pillaged and reduced to smoking ruins by vast, unstoppable caravans of marauding Latino migrants.

... the invading force .. never even existed ...

... Democrats seized control of the House, flipping 40 seats and transforming Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) from minority leader into speaker.

... Americans are under great strain from the covid-19 pandemic and the economic consequences of suppressing it. But 2018 does provide some context for Trump’s decision to use the continuing protests for racial justice as a wedge issue, abandoning any pretense of trying to promote understanding or heal long-festering wounds ...

... Maybe there are substantial numbers of infrequent White voters out there, especially in the Rust Belt states Trump won in 2016, who will respond to his divisive appeal for White racial solidarity. So far .. the pollsters haven’t been able to find them ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-trying-to-scare-up-a-win-in-november-dont-assume-it-will-work/2020/09/03/97c1a6ae-ee17-11ea-99a1-71343d03bc29_story.html

[JudyM]

7. A late kick. We are living in Bizarro world.