I expect the Republican nominee for president to declare victory shortly after the polls close in California on Nov. 5, regardless of how many votes are counted. It’s his thing and it will tired us constantly until the next president is sworn into office on Jan. 20. When Trump loses, his malarkey will drag on past inauguration day. Dude may not be able to put two coherent sentences together, yet saying he lost to Kamala Harris is not in his vocabulary.
I’m not saying Harris will win the election. Voters need to speak. I am a reasonable person and attempt to follow logic in seeing the election unfold. What I do know is Republicans swept Big Grove Precinct in 2020. The margin with which Trump won here was small enough we could flip it to Harris with 18 more votes. Whether that will be done is an open question on October 16 as early voting begins in our county.
A lot of balls are in the air three weeks before the election. The main issues are a strong economy, the Hamas-Israel War, Republican efforts to flood the stream with malarkey to discourage voters from voting, and a general inoculation injected into the body politic during the first Trump administration. We became tolerant of lies, extreme hyperbole, and the egregious actions of Republican state government: enough so to let them flow through our hair like warm water from a shower head. Only we never fully cleanse the toxicities.
To say it plainly, my expectations are low.
That doesn’t mean I gave up. Clearly, I didn’t. I also admit it takes more work than expected to help people make a plan to vote. I plan to continue to do that work.
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My wife and I voted yesterday, two votes for Harris, none for Trump! I’m more interested in down ballot, but get depressed over things that bother me about both parties and their candidates. I say “their candidates” because we simply don’t seem to have many from Iowa these days, which means someone pulls them from out of the woodwork to run here! An Admiral from Washington D.C. to run against Grassley whise last connection with Iowa was much like Harken, as a farm boy years ago! Our first district candidate for the House, raised and educated in Florida that comes to Iowa to teach and ends up running for a House seat. I know it sounds trite, but sometimes you have to let it work in your mind to see their is a difference! The Republicans tacked on an extension to the farm bill promising to pass one in the next session, then they didn’t get around to it! I would think this would be an obvious failure on their part that should be greatly advertised both in the population centers as well as the rural communities considering the hold up is SNAP and food programs for the poor. Lighting a fire under the farmer support of Trump certainly might bring some people around to not voting for him even if they don’t vote for Harris! So what do I hear about a very big issue with farmers…..NOTHING! One has to think it isn’t the first thing that comes to mind to a engineer and lawyer from Florida that happens to be a woman. On the opposing side, bringing it up pnly highlights how she didn’t help get the farm bill to where it was supposed to be! Consequently she says nothing about it either! Just my two cents worth, I’m pretty well convinced it isn’t much of a concern for anyone even in a “democracy” like ours; you know, the kind of “democracy” that says it is all right to murder innocent civilians by the thousands because we are “allied” with Israel no matter what! The kind that propigates a news media that only speaks for the rich 90 percent of the time, and will spend more time on Panda bears than real news, that kind of democracy; not the kind the Constitution talked about. Sort of the samething that happened to all our laws on monopolies and vertical intergration, turned upside down and the only way to do business these days! Steve Hanken
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