#Election coverage

[iwriteaboutfeminism]

This is clearly NOT an issue of people voting third party.

This clearly IS an issue of people voting Republican.

Let's focus our time and energy where it is warranted by the facts.

[theoverstimulated]

From sitwithwhit on IG

[windsails]

why don't we just use google forms or something to come up with a better candidate than all these prehistoric bozos in washington??? why not use a series of polls on social media or something to organize a method of determining a better write-in-candidate?

of course, i don't actually believe in representative democracy, i believe in collaboration. there's a huge difference. democracy is a sort of public theater, whereas collaboration actually asks your thoughts

we could build some kind of online polling system to pick a candidate the media doesn't want us to pick. anyone at all, as long as we all agree on it. but again - you can't make everyone think the same things, so you'd better pick somebody who can hold multiple contradictory thoughts in their head at once

i'm not going to set this up. it's all you, if you even care

[insightfultake]

From Exit Polls to Heated Debates, the Obsession with Predicting Election Results Reveals Media’s Misplaced Priorities

In the days leading up to the Delhi State Assembly election results on February 8, 2025, Indian media channels were awash with speculation, exit polls, and heated debates about who would emerge victorious. For weeks, the airwaves were dominated by pundits, analysts, and politicians arguing over hypothetical outcomes, while social media platforms buzzed with predictions and counter-predictions. This frenzy of guesswork, however, raises a critical question: why are so much time, money, and resources exhausted on predicting election results when the actual outcome is just days away?

The answer lies in a media ecosystem that has increasingly prioritized sensationalism over substance, entertainment over enlightenment, and profit over public interest. This article delves into the futility of this exercise, the resources wasted, and the broader implications for Indian democracy...Expand to read more

[ciquery]

Probably going to cry, either way. Reflecting deeply, and planning, on how to diplomatically eat my feelings.

On a lighter note, my gratitude exists for:

- Ranked choice voting (RCV) initiatives

- NPR, and journalistic integrity across the world

- Grassroots social & environmental justice activists

- Pigeon content on social media

[dont-lick-my-foot]

I’m a queer PoliSci student planning on doom-watching election coverage Tuesday night & I might live blog about which states actually get called the night of/tight race updates (I doom-watched the 2020 election coverage on NBC and thought it seemed alright so I’ll probably do that again — I might check other channels periodically tho, idk yet). Might also include any Congressional races that are highlighted because tbh elections are what I’m interested in academically anyway lol

I plan to use the tag ‘#dlmf election updates’ if any of my followers/mutuals want to block/filter this tag out beforehand!

[daughterofdessalines]

The Article from 2019

[tama-the-toe]

John Stewart Is BACK.

Jon Stewart is back at the The Daily Show. After a year-long search for Trevor Noah’s replacement, the longtime host and Noah predecessor has agreed to return on Monday nights through the 2024 election.  “Jon Stewart is the voice of our generation, and we are honored to have him return to Comedy Central’s The Daily Show to help us all make sense of the insanity and division roiling the country as…

[deadpresidents]

The media keeps saying things like "this is unheard of". NO, IT'S NOT.

JFK. RFK. George Wallace. Gerald Ford (twice). Ronald Reagan. Steve Scalise. Gabby Giffords. Not to mention Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and MLK. And that's all since 1960. This happens pretty often in the United States.

And is anyone surprised that there's been an act of political violence in 2024? Every conversation I hear is dancing on the edge of "political violence."

[iwriteaboutfeminism]

is it still possible for trump to lose?

Yes .

None of the swing states have been called yet.

(11:07pm, ET)

[ravenkings]

[windsails]

in politics today the liberal centrists are a negation of a negation, there is no affirmation and no affirmative dimension to their politics. they present themselves as figures of pure lack or inadequacy. whereas, the political “right” present themselves as figures of pure excess

these two psychological categories of lack and excess are politically dissocated from each other in the public consciousness. The democrats repress their own excessive qualities, whereas the republicans make every effort to repress their lacking qualities. What’s needed is for someone to politically express BOTH, lack AND excess simultaneously.

This coincidence of lack and excess also happens to be a formula for comedy. The fact the political dimension has no expression of the coincidence of lack and excess in the same moment, also speaks to the failure of recent comedy

a great example of this may play out during dnc convention protests. the dnc cannot consciously confront the excessiveness of protest, and so will represss the entire experience in one way or another. The protesters represent the excess, which the democrats repress in their politics

all this to say, the reason the idea of “infinite joe bidens” might sound funny is because he is so clearly an incompetent and pathetic figure. Infinity represents the missing excessive quality

If donald trump got sucked into a black hole and was never seen again, this would be funny because he is such an excessive figure. the encounter with the black hole, with his own lack of ability to stop it, would be comedic

what needs to happen politically is that this needs to be made more conscious publicly, only at that point will things start to make sense

[strawby-frogy]

[cleolinda]

Reporting from Birmingham

HOLY SHIT THE LINE

I’m in a blue oasis so this will probably not hold true for the rest of the state, but holy shit. This line wound through a hall in the library, around a big outflow room, and doubled back into the hall again. My mom said that when she drove past early this morning, the line was ALSO down the block. Later, she saw three buses from a senior living facility pull in on her way to our house. And then she and I went at lunchtime.

People were there to VOTE. I saw—well, on second thought, I’m gonna cut out some people-watching detail here, but I saw a lot of things that struck me about ages, health conditions, personal responsibilities. A number of people had clearly gone to a lot of effort to be there. Some of the voters looked young enough that this might have been their first chance to vote. Somewhere behind me, I heard a man say something in part like “…what a turnout like this…,” and the woman who must have been with him reply, “Well I think we know what it means.”

In other words, a big turnout for Kamala Harris. I’m sure there were Trump voters in that line, but this is, on the whole, not a Trump town. We always go blue. I haven’t seen many yard signs in my neighborhood at all, but I’ve only seen Harris/Walz. My mom has seen exactly one Trump sign this year. (This is why I say my observations will not hold for all of Alabama.) So this is what I expected, but at the same time, THE LINE. I know I’ve stood in line out on the street before, but I do not recall the line ever winding around and doubling back like that. The observation that women over 50 who remember what shit was like before Roe v. Wade are turning out to vote with a vengeance—I think I was seeing that as well, yeah. There were some seniors on a mission in that library.

The thing is that a lot of people are pissed off for a lot of different reasons this election, and then on top of that, there’s a lot of excitement. It’s like the thrill of 2008 plus the urgency of 2020. And everyone in that line still knew that Alabama’s nine electoral votes will go red anyway. Sure, we have downballot races—I just chose the “straight party voting” option, you make one mark and that’s all you have to do, plus one (1) Walker County measure we were voting on—but we all knew that we couldn’t do much to help in this big generational event of a presidential election. Run up the popular vote a little, maybe. But we were all still there by the hundreds on people’s lunch hours, not missing out on this.

Imagine what the enthusiasm’s like in states where it’ll make a difference.

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