Steerpike

No, I had not heard that. Here's a link with more context:

https://www.newsweek.com/pelosi-alex...strict-1397640

Nancy Pelosi: Glass of Water Could Take Districts Like Mine and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's—'That's Not Where We Have to Win the Election'

old.sparkles

Me too - I was going to post the same.

old.sparkles

Thanks Steerpike

scrubbedexpat091

Well Pelosi certainly isn't wrong there.

My voting district is the same, there is no way a republican would win, the republicans put little effort even trying, the last 3 elections its been the same Republican running.

zzrmark

Not something this Floridian has heard before. I thought it might be some obscure saying, something along the lines of 'two birds with bushes in Trump's hands is worth more than a glass of water in Biden's'...

cranston

I believe that enough people are telling pollsters lies on who they are voting for that Trump wins this. The polling industry is dead.

Time will tell.

username.exe

I think there are a lot of people too embarrassed to admit publicly that they will vote for Trump. The question is, are there enough of them in sing districts/states to win the GE? I'm hoping that there isn't, but it's probably going to be a factor here.

RICH

My county is already showing 44% turnout. Of 712k registered voters 315k already voted. I wonder what that means!

Lion in Winter

And yet they'll do it anyway. One wonders what it could possibly take to make them understand that this man is not a Republican. He's a public danger.

zzrmark

Interesting, didn't even think about checking those figures.
So, your neighbour in his squarely red county can report that we have had a 41.04% turnout of eligible voters.
Those who have voted are:
48,552 (of 118,375) registered Republicans;
41,213 (of 83,648) registered Democrats;
22,455 ( of 71,404) other.

Breaking that down even further:
Republican: 30,405 (mail), 18,742 (in person)
Democrat: 32,927 (mail), 8,942 (in person)
Other: 16,317 (mail), 6,513 (in person)

Note that nearly half the registered Democrats have already voted, compared with just over two-fifths of Republicans and under a third of the rest.
The comparison between mailers and in person voters makes for interesting perusal, one should not forget that this is a county where I can, if I were bloody stupid enough, shop in stores without a mask being required and you wouldn't know that the world were in the grip of a pandemic if it weren't for the appearance of masked persons in the supermarkets - not that this goon goes in them very often as one of the first things the missus did when the apocalypse struck was to fork out for home delivered shopping.

Leslie

I remember it from when she said it and I still didn't make any connection to his intentionally opaque comment. He does that on purpose and it's boring.

Anyhoo, it's a great reference. When I made my comment about Graham, I wasn't thinking about Pelosi but that is exactly what I meant and exactly what she meant when she said it. I remember thinking at the time that it was an odd thing for a politician to admit but it was a true statement.

Leslie

Thanks for this uplifting post. I love your story and I also love to vote here. Voting is always good even when it's bad --- meaning long lines or rude election workers It is a shared experience like no other. I hope more BEers tell their voting experience in whatever way see fit --- I love to read about the scenes in the different states.

Lion in Winter

This year my voting was a rather dull "stick it in the mail". Normally I vote in person and on the day and the people running the polls are always lovely and very keen. My polling place is in a little community house in a park. The first time I voted in this country they were thrilled to have a newbie and having to show me how to operate the machine etc. In 08 I took the then 9-year-old Little Lion into the voting booth with me so he could see how it was done and watch me vote for the first black President the country had ever had, historic by any measure.

Leslie

Historic indeed. What a wonderful age to be to absorb the whole thing. I grew up in the Nixon era and remember all of that very well. My home went from being completely devoid of politics to being glued to the TV and daily newspaper. It was all very dramatic and shocking for the nation. Then Carter ran against Ford. We lived in a tiny northern Maine town and the Democrats set up an election site in an empty commercial property. Somehow I got it in my head that I would volunteer for Jimmy Carter. I was ten.

The election was hilarious with peanuts and horse teeth choppers being the fashion. The Democrats wouldn't let me work without permission from my parents . My mother, who was pregnant with my youngest sister, went down there (it was a couple of blocks from our house) and checked out the whole thing and said it was okay. She knew most of the people down there and that's how things were back then. They tried to recruit her and she wasn't having any of it --- IIRC she was already grumpy about being dragged there but my parents rarely told me "no" when I got something in my head.

I stuffed envelopes and hung door hangers. I was sincere and idealistic in a childlike way but, still to this day, haven't wavered on Jimmy Carter. I didn't become a Democrat but I did stay interested in politics.

Steerpike

Hard to believe we went from Obama to Trump in one election cycle. Talk about one step forward, two steps back ...