It says that it was last updated on August 19, the day before Al’s tweet.
Ballotpedia also tells us that: Howie Hawkins is the 2020 Green Party presidential nominee. Jo Jorgensen is the 2020 Libertarian Party presidential nominee.
Under pressure on on the last day of the Democratic convention, Joe Biden “hit a home run” with an “enormously effective” speech that blew “a big hole” in Donald Trump’s efforts to paint him as a mentally faltering captive of his party’s left wing.
And that was to hear Fox News hosts Dana Perino and Chris Wallace tell it.
“It was a very good speech,” added Karl Rove, a Republican strategist respected and reviled on either side of the aisle....
“I went in there with expectations of adequate, and he knocked it out of the park,” said longtime Republican strategist Mike Murphy, a harsh Trump critic, on an overnight podcast Hacks on Tap. “It was so authentic to who Biden is, and … it caught the mood of the country, which is unity, steady, competence, ‘We can rise above this’.
“I thought Biden had the moment of his life, and he ought to feel really good about that.”
... Biden appeared to have won some converts. “Joe wows critics,” the Drudge Report, usually a clearinghouse for the most astringent conservative messaging, exclaimed on Friday morning.
Depending on ones point of view or political proclivities, it's possible to find points of criticism. But it was a well-written speech, well delivered, and highly appropriate for the occasion. So if a reviewer starts with that, I'll listen to their criticism. If a reviewer starts with anything else, I'd tend to dismiss their opinion as "usual right-wing drivel."
Depending on ones point of view or political proclivities, it's possible to find points of criticism. But it was a well-written speech, well delivered, and highly appropriate for the occasion. So if a reviewer starts with that, I'll listen to their criticism. If a reviewer starts with anything else, I'd tend to dismiss their opinion as "usual right-wing drivel."
Sen. Kamala Harris is the first alumna of a historically Black college or university on a major party presidential ticket. And while she understands the impact of her VP nomination, it's not the first time Harris has broken barriers. Her confidence and ambition was fostered at Howard University, sometimes described as the "Harvard of the HBCUs," and she's poised to show the world exactly what those institutions are all about.
If I was still living in the DC area I would spend election night at Howard University or at BLM Plaza. I'll watch whichever network is showing either or both.
... Polls show Biden and Trump locked in a dead heat in North Carolina, perhaps the closest contest of the battleground states.
Trump almost certainly needs North Carolina's 15 electoral votes to win reelection. It's one reason Republicans initially chose Charlotte, the state’s biggest city, to hold their four-day national convention, which starts Monday.
The coronavirus crisis put severe limits on in-person attendance and the party will instead hold most of its events online, as Democrats did last week.
The state is not as critical for Biden given his hold on vote-rich California and New York, and his apparent advantage in other major swing states, including Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
But a Biden win here would almost guarantee his path to the White House.
Go Blue Carolina!
And North Carolina also could hand Democrats control of the Senate, and thus of both houses in Congress, giving a Democratic president the ability to make major legislative changes.
Given the high stakes, the parties are spending a fortune on TV advertising.
Polls show Sen. Thom Tillis, the Republican incumbent, trailing Cal Cunningham, his Democratic challenger. Their campaigns and outside groups are spending $10 million a week on television ads, according to a Democratic operative who tracks the money.
The presidential race, including the Democratic primary last spring, has generated nearly $160 million in television spending so far, the operative said.
“It’s going to be very expensive and brutal and you’re seeing unknown third-party money coming in in droves,” said Pat McCrory, a former Republican governor who is now a radio host.
I've never been so annoyed by so many ads so early.
... In addition to statewide races, Democrats in North Carolina are expected to pick up at least two U.S. House seats and hope to win back the state legislature, in large part because the courts struck down gerrymandered district maps last year and ordered new ones more favorable to Democrats.
If Democrats win either the state House or Senate, they will have a voice in drawing up the next set of maps following the 2020 census, which could help their party at the national level for the next decade.
But Democrats have seen their hopes dashed here in the past.
In presidential races, Democrats have won only once in the past four decades — when Barack Obama eked out a tight win over Sen. John McCain in 2008.
Four years later, Democrats nominated Obama for a second term at a convention in Charlotte, but Obama lost narrowly to Mitt Romney. North Carolina was one of only two states that flipped that year.
In 2016, Trump beat Hillary Clinton here by 3.6 percentage points.
Since then, the state’s voter rolls have grown by about 160,000 people, almost as many votes as Trump's winning margin. To win, Biden would need many of the new residents, and also inspire more young and Black voters — who make up about a fifth of the electorate — to turn out....
If the article above is correct, we would know that Biden will be POTUS the moment that NC (or FL) is called for him, even though the networks won't call the race for 3 more hours. If both go to PINO, we don't know that Biden has lost. PA and the Midwest will decide in that instance.
If the article above is correct, we would know that Biden will be POTUS the moment that NC (or FL) is called for him, even though the networks won't call the race for 3 more hours. If both go to PINO, we don't know that Biden has lost. PA and the Midwest will decide in that instance.
:confusion-scratchheadblue: It was on ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, PBS, C-Span, and Faux Noise starting at 2200 ET. No wonder he got demoted.
This idiotic shithead is likely referring to how Faux Noise cut away from the individual state delegate statements of fealty to trump. Faux cut away to feature a different and bigger shithead named Hannity.
:confusion-scratchheadblue: It was on ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, PBS, C-Span, and Faux Noise starting at 2200 ET. No wonder he got demoted.
Yeah, it was at 7:00 here, not that we watched it. But that means that it was on at 9:00 CDT, covering a bunch of Trump territory.
Maybe confusing grammar on my part. Only Faux Noise waited to start coverage at 2200 ET, Hannity was on at 2100. All of the others began coverage at 2100 ET, with a couple starting pre-RNC reports earlier. Brad Parscale is an incompetent crybaby.
Fwiw, I did not watch a second of it either. The tweet GoCubsGo posted got me to look it up. The headlines look like there were a bunch of crybabies speaking.
As Albert Einstein once notably stated, "The problem with quotes you find on the internet is they are often untrue."
Lara Trump, President Trump's daughter-in-law, learned that the hard way on Wednesday night. During her speech at the Republican National Convention, Trump declared that Abraham Lincoln "once famously said, 'America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.'"
Last year, a Facebook meme crediting Lincoln with that statement went viral in right-wing circles, but both PolitiFact and Snopes have debunked it.
Too stupid to check? Too dishonest to care?
Lincoln historian Christian McWhirter said this is a "corruption" of something Lincoln said about "the perpetuation of our political institutions" during a speech delivered in Springfield, Illinois, on Jan. 27, 1838.
Lincoln asked the crowd, "At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
It turns out, Lincoln's words actually are eerily relevant today. Michael Burlingame of the University of Illinois Springfield explained to PolitiFact that Lincoln was "denouncing mob violence which would lead to chaos, provoking the public to demand law and order, which would be provided by an ambitious leader who would rule tyrannically."
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