Tom "Vote Blue" Crehan🇺🇸🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦

Pumping out content to save democracy • #VolunteerBlue #FieldTeam6 • #NotreDame grad, Government & IR • Screenwriter & Gamer • Fan of LFC • Been to 6 World Cups

[Tom "Vote Blue" Crehan🇺🇸🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @TomCrehan]

Voting Straight Blue is the easy part.

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Don't get overwhelmed. Get voting. #VoteBlueToday

@fieldteam_6

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

When Russian state propaganda claims that there is cheating, as they have started to do, that is a sign Trump is losing.

[Tom "Vote Blue" Crehan🇺🇸🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @TomCrehan]

@InspiringU2 💙

[Tom "Vote Blue" Crehan🇺🇸🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @TomCrehan]

#VoteBlueGeorgia! You still have time. Polling places staying open later because of the (Russian) bomb threats.

[Janai Nelson @JNelsonLDF]

BULLETIN FOR GEORGIA VOTERS: Polling hours in Gwinnett County precincts 52 and 112 will be open until 7:58 p.m. ET tonight. If you are in line at or before 7:58 p.m. STAY IN LINE—you have a right to vote NO MATTER HOW LONG IT TAKES.

[VolunteerBlue.org @Volunteer_Blue]

You’ve done the hard work. You know you have. Cope with the anxious waiting however you like. You’ve earned that cake, that tub of ice cream, that drink—or drinks!—but know this: we love you!

And we got this!

HAPPY ELECTION DAY! 🗳💙🗳💙 🗳💙

[Tom "Vote Blue" Crehan🇺🇸🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @TomCrehan]

Character.
Competence.
Common Sense solutions.
And most of all: compassion for ALL Americans.

That’s #KamalaHarris. That’s our #BrighterFuture.

So please #VoteBlue. And, if you can, #VolunteerBlue one more time. We are ready to #TurnThePage. https://t.co/1D5897vYkj

[Tom "Vote Blue" Crehan🇺🇸🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @TomCrehan]

@McSpocky 💙

[Tom "Vote Blue" Crehan🇺🇸🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @TomCrehan]

@notcapnamerica Lord, the amount of whining. And also the level of bootlicking from these absolutely spineless treasonweasels. Vance, Rubio... "You were great boss, fabulous, you crushed it!"

These are Senators? Leaders in this nation of ours?

My God, even Republicans must be tired of this!

[Tom "Vote Blue" Crehan🇺🇸🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @TomCrehan]

@StanCollymore Californian here. Feeling pretty good. It's messy, no doubt, and the crazies are doing crazy things, but I have faith we're going to end their toxic movement once and for all. Hopefully we make history tonight (go #Kamala!) and get back to being a reliable ally for Europe again.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

In Plato's famous parable, we are all prisoners in a cave, believing that our shadowy surroundings are reality, but needing to break out into a sunnier, airier, more lively world.

During our American election cycles, polling is the cave.

Very early on, polls establish some baseline of expectation. Then newspapers can report when some poll says something surprising -- which just means different from other polls.  In the cave, we get used to the overlap of shadow, and confuse this with light.

Polls ask people to judge between two candidates.  They rarely ask about policy.  We are looking only at what is placed right in front of us.  Out in the world, though, beyond the polling cave, it is differences of policy that matter in our lives.  And so our polling obsession gets in the way of the knowledge we would actually need to make judgements.

The polling cave is where we pass the time.  And we come to think that our shadowy media domicile is just nature.  The media treat the polls as normative, as describing the world as it should be.  Our own behavior, when election day comes, will then be characterized as a "polling error."

In Plato's story of the cave, we are all driven from this emotion to that by those who manipulate us.  They walk behind us, holding objects that cast frightening shadows on the wall in front of us.  And so it is in our polling cave.  We are told that the polls are close, and that therefore the election will be close.  And so the cave is full of tension.

This is, of course, a convenient situation.  The candidates can tell their supporters that they must vote.  The media can hover at the edge of two dramatically different scenarios.  But we have to remember that this is just a game of shadows. It is not the reality that we will live in after election day.

And the game, it must be said, has not been played fairly.  Since the story of a close race was established early one, the people who accumulate and judge the polls have been dismissing individual polls that tell another story.

And even were that not the case, even were all the polling perfect, it would not mean what we tend to think.  If all the polls were adjudged to predict a very close race, that just means, quite literally, than anything is possible: it could be close, or it could be a landslide for Harris, or it could be a landslide for Trump.

So don't be surprised if this election is not close.  Even the pollsters, if you listen carefully, are telling you that a clear victory by one candidate or the other is more likely than a narrow result.

And above all, get out of the polling cave and into the real world.  Vote, and relish that you can vote.

There is a world out there, one that is not driven by our anxieties and their profiteers, one that, every once in a while, can be changed by our actions.

We have been held for months in the polling cave. But today you can escape that shadowy delusion and help create a better world outside.

So get out there and be part of the big surprise.

(Read this essay and more by going to the link in my profile)

[Tom "Vote Blue" Crehan🇺🇸🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @TomCrehan]

@bonhoefferchild Voted last week. My oldest niece misses this election by four days... but you better believe she'll be voting for a #BlueMajority in the midterms, as well as for a Kamala Harris second term in 2028!

Also, your pic reminded me of this:

[Tom "Vote Blue" Crehan🇺🇸🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @TomCrehan]

@AZ_Brittney 💙

[Tom "Vote Blue" Crehan🇺🇸🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @TomCrehan]

@justcuuper As others have said, not only is this a lie but it is clearly an attempt at voter intimidation. 🤬

CC: @CivilRights @FBIIndianapolis @USAttyMyers

[Tom "Vote Blue" Crehan🇺🇸🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @TomCrehan]

@FPWellman @StaceyBaca4 I'm envisioning adding a chocolate ganache layer to the top. But that's just how I roll.

[Tom "Vote Blue" Crehan🇺🇸🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @TomCrehan]

We are there, friends. Get out there and #VoteBlue. From #KamalaHarris to your local school board. It's time to #TurnThePage, but that takes YOU!

Vote. Vote. Vote. And bring everyone you know with you! ⚡️ 🗳️ 💙

[VolunteerBlue.org @Volunteer_Blue]

Nearly there.
If we vote, we win.

So… VOTE TODAY!
Encourage friends & family to vote.
Encourage like-minded citizens to vote.

Let's do this!💙

[Tom "Vote Blue" Crehan🇺🇸🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @TomCrehan]

@justinbaragona We got some words for you, Donald.

[VolunteerBlue.org @Volunteer_Blue]

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[Tom "Vote Blue" Crehan🇺🇸🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @TomCrehan]

@PeterJHerron @IrishMsKelly A very accurate description. 😂

It's crazy that he was ever able to slither into our collective lives. Tomorrow we course correct. Hard.

[Tom "Vote Blue" Crehan🇺🇸🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @TomCrehan]

@IrishMsKelly @cbouzy Here's something else to look at. You may get misty-eyed. (I did.) But I think it'll leave you with a sense of what women (and many men) are feeling all over the country. The "We Are Not Going Back" groundswell of emotion... it's powerful. I think it carries the day here.

[Tom "Vote Blue" Crehan🇺🇸🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @TomCrehan]

@PeterJHerron @IrishMsKelly Lol. "Word hole."

It is quite remarkable how much damage he's inflicting on himself and his campaign. I love that for him.

[Tom "Vote Blue" Crehan🇺🇸🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @TomCrehan]

@PeterJHerron @IrishMsKelly True. And I'd say a key factor in Hillary's unpopularity is the GOP had nearly three decades to poison the well with respect to her. Fueled by Fox News, it was one of the longest running character assassinations I can recall. And, sadly, very successful. (Supreme Court. 😢)