SweetSplotchyCat

That crazy Appalachia cat! Firm believer in the Appalachian Home Region Effect. Against Appalachian status gatekeeping. Vermont is in Appalachia.

[SweetSplotchyCat @CatSplotchy]

@tolstoybb There were 3 in Dubuque, which has about that many residents

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@AnonymousLeftie I can't help but think she probably would have won the primary if she hadn't waited until 3 months beforehand to enter

[Drord @Polit_eurOpines]

I remember this because I used to get bad coughing fits and it was a joke it was ebola—that said, the concern about that Ebola led to us developing a vaccine for that strain. There’s an Ebola outbreak now, with a far more lethal strain, and virtually no attention.

[SweetSplotchyCat @CatSplotchy]

@avrilbradley23 @David_E_Jimenez Yes. If anything the abortion referendum results suggest that if Democrats ever make a comeback or become more competitive in those states, there's a good chance abortion will be a major factor.

[SweetSplotchyCat @CatSplotchy]

@mattyglesias A few years ago someone accused me of making it up when I said Ebola was a major issue in the 2014 elections

[SweetSplotchyCat @CatSplotchy]

@LowRhoUfo ...or at any point since 2008. Like I often see claims that El-Sayed is unelectable just because of his name but I remember hearing that about Barack Hussein Obama and it didn't pan out.

[SweetSplotchyCat @CatSplotchy]

@Hoibthe3 @Aurelian987 @BasedIllinoisan Yes it seems like almost everyone including Wall Street is whistling past the graveyard on the whole oil shock situation. It's going to grt ugly soon if the War doesn't end which it seems like it won't any time soon.

[Stephen Richer @stephen_richer]

Sure. You'd just need to:

1) Forge her signature (commit a felony).

2) Hope your forgery is sufficiently accurate

3) Hope that she (intended voter) doesn't call election office and ask about why she never got a ballot (in which case that mail ballot would be deactivated, and it would be investigated if returned)

4) Hope that she doesn't send back a replacement ballot or show up to vote in person (in which case the same as #3 would happen).

But more importantly, instead of showing us a picture of a mail ballot (which could just be from anywhere and is not evidence of material fraud), why don't you answer:

Where are the mass arrests? Trump has been in office for 18 months now. And there have been lots of ambitious Republican prosecutors and sheriffs in office for 6 years since the 2020 election.

And together they've scraped up a handful of individual voters. A few noncitizens vote. A few people voting in multiple jurisdictions.

Hundreds of thousands of hours have been searching. And yet...

What you have is, at best, evidence of a clerical error that yielded no harm.

[SweetSplotchyCat @CatSplotchy]

@davidslosttt 80% chance El-Sayed wins

[ettingermentum @ettingermentum]

Amazing new phenomenon of prediction markets juiced by dumbass Republicans being cited by Republicans as proof of fraud when their dipshit candidates lose

[SweetSplotchyCat @CatSplotchy]

@souljagoyteller Also the fact that he came that close in a midterm under an unpopular Democrat President means he'd have an excellent chance in a midterm under an unpopular Republican President.

[daeveningglow @InlandCaGuy]

I suspect she's telling the truth, and I'm not going to trash her, but I honestly won't feel bad for what people are going to say about her after reading this. It's one thing to have supported Kavanaugh in that situation, it's another to have done it like this:

[SweetSplotchyCat @CatSplotchy]

@BillTheKid1603 Sure they would, that was a major talking point Cuomo supporters used in the general election.

[SweetSplotchyCat @CatSplotchy]

@VoteHub Republicans made enormous gains in most of those areas in 2024. Hilton overperforming there is a sign they'll make additional gains this November. California's days as a safely blue state are over.

[SweetSplotchyCat @CatSplotchy]

@pikapp30 @TheAleksee At this point I think he has a 30% chance of winning

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@DJBranham Well if they didn't send him, wouldn't they most likely not send anyone at all? I doubt there's an abundance of people willing to canvass for Dem campaigns especially since as I understand it most campaign canvassers are volunteers.

[SweetSplotchyCat @CatSplotchy]

@d_h_sanders That joke was originally about George W. Bush and casualties in Iraq. Imitation is the sincerest firm of flattery.

[Zach Adams @PviGuy2]

The most Republican county in Iowa during this period was Winnebago at R+59, which was settled by ethnic Norwegians. The most Democratic county was Dubuque at D+9.9, which was an industrial area with many German and Irish Catholics.

[SweetSplotchyCat @CatSplotchy]

@AnonymousLeftie I'm already preemptively depressed