Election Day Forum
It has finally arrived.
Steven L. Taylor
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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
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About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a retired Professor of Political Science and former College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored
A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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I’ll be voting in an hour and a half and then will attempt a media blackout until this time tomorrow
Fingers crossed
@MarkedMan:
I suspect you may need to extend that media blackout in the event the race is called for Harris.
You got a bunker?
I don’t. My plan: get under my desk and cover my head, Cold War style.
Borrowed from a forwarded FB post:
Hey, what are you guys wearing for the civil war this week?
Tonight we are heading over to the neighbor’s garage to watch the returns and eat Tim Walz’ hotdish – the sparkling wine is chilled and we are cautiously optimistic that our noble experiment can continue another four years.
Dixville Notch results: Harris 3, Trump 3.
In line at the fire house waiting to vote. Twenty five people ahead of me and a few behind. They open up in one minute. Downtown Baltimore
Dear Wife and I voted already. We left for the polling place just after 6:30. DW is working today and has a doctor’s appointment this afternoon.
It is good we got to the polls early. There was 4 people in line already. By the time we were finished voting, there were about 20 people lined up.
No political advertisements on television. I’m going to so miss them. NOT!
@Kurtz:
Duck and cover!
We never did that when I was in school. Instead we were shown the video of the lemmings going off the cliff. Are American voters going to vote for something similar today? Stay tuned.
@Franklin:
I’ll be wearing my Florida Panther Stanley Cup Champs hat.
Will I survive wearing it when I’m in the Boston area soon? The Panthers have eliminated have eliminated the Boston Bruins in the last two Stanley Cup playoffs.
Here in the Houston area, it is pouring rain (yea, we needed it) but the front should be through by around 0900. Already early voted, so that’s done. What is different this year is that in many cities and suburbs, school is out due to the fact that schools are often voting sites and with the increasing threat of guns, districts thought it prudent not to subject their kids to the possibility of nut cases with guns. Whether the parents make that connection with their voting choices, I have my doubts.
Anyway, many people had to take the day off so voting may be more spread out during the day and actually have a higher turnout. Making election day a national holiday is a good idea by itself.
@Jen: I liked the Daily Beast headline: “Dixville Notch tortures America with first six votes of the election”
@Scott: Same here with schools off for election day. The reason, iirc, was that you couldn’t ban guns from election sites, even if guns are generally banned in school. So to keep the kids safe, the administrators decided they couldn’t be there with wackos running loose.