Early voting is underway in what many are calling the most consequential presidential election in generations, and already Vineyarders have been casting their ballots in large numbers early in this too-close-to-call race.
Town clerks have been seeing a steady flow of voters, with Tisbury and Oak Bluffs both reporting more than a quarter of registered voters casting a ballot already.
“So far, it’s been very busy,” Edgartown town clerk Karen Medeiros told the Times at the polls. It was the same in Aquinnah, where town clerk Kayla Darcy said more people seem to be coming out to vote early.
Vineyarders expressed dread and anxiety in this election as the reason for casting ballots early. A contingent of Island Democrats have even headed to battleground states, including Pennsylvania and Michigan, to enlist in the ranks of those getting out the vote for Vice President Kamala Harris over former President Donald Trump.
“I think it would be a disaster if he got in again,” said Donna Autuori, a Tisbury resident who voted early for the first time on Tuesday. “A lot of people are worried, but hopeful that the Democrats will get in.”
“If we vote for Mr. Trump, we’re going to lose all of our freedoms,” said Jessica Townes, an Edgartown voter. She told The Times she couldn’t believe around half of the country support Trump, pointing to racist remarks he has made, and the “nastiness” the former president brought with him.
“The man is not qualified,” Gene Townes, Jessica’s husband, said. “He’s just not qualified to be president.”
Most voters who spoke with The Times at various town polls did not want to share their names to avoid alienating their Republican neighbors when they discussed the elections. However, they expressed fears and anxiety over the possibility of Trump returning to the White House, particularly after last week’s rally in Madison Square Garden, which the New York Times called a “A Closing Carnival of Grievances, Misogyny and Racism.”
Aside from the steady flow of early voters, data from the state elections division also show that the number of registered voters on the Island has increased, perhaps helped by the 25 percent population boost the Vineyard experienced between 2010 and 2020. State records show more than 17,000 voters were registered in Dukes County this year, up from 15,125 in 2016.
Islanders aren’t just casting their ballots to keep Trump out of office. A small contingent of Islanders have volunteered on phone banks, and some have even traveled to battleground states to help get out the vote for the Harris-Walz ticket.
Thomas Dresser, a Vineyard author, was one Islander who traveled to eastern Pennsylvania to canvas from Oct. 24 to 27, to encourage Democrats and independents out to the polls.
Dresser worked with an organization called MA Flip PA, canvassing not only for the Harris-Walz presidential ticket but for congressional candidates Matt Carthwright and Bob Casey. He said he canvassed roughly 120 houses, and spoke to around 40 people.
“There’s a lot of anxiety over there,” he said, saying the tensions between Harris and Trump supporters seemed higher in Pennsylvania than in New England. “We have Trump signs here, but nowhere near the levels of Pennsylvania.”
Dresser told The Times that while he’s canvassed in other areas in the past, he felt a sense of “urgency” over the current election. That was heightened by the rally Trump held in Madison Square Garden in New York on Sunday, which Dresser called “outrageous.” Rally speakers have been widely criticized for making crude, misogynistic, and racist comments — especially a joke made by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who called Puerto Rico a “floating Island of garbage.”
Dresser, like others on the Island, said he cast his vote early just in case something happened.
“I never voted early before,” Dresser told The Times on Tuesday. “But if I get run over by a bus, at least I cast my ballot.”
It’s not surprising that Vineyarders are strong supporters of Harris. In 2020, Vineyarders favored Joe Biden over Trump 9,762 to 2,587. In 2016, Vineyard voters chose Hilary Clinton over Trump 8,344 to 2,449.
And Democratic votes outnumbered Republican votes nearly 2 to 1 during the presidential primaries in March.
It isn’t just the presidential election that is looming over the Vineyard. There are some contested local races, such as the Martha’s Vineyard Commission, the Cape and Islands state Senate seat, five ballot questions, and congressional races as well: Sen. Elizaben Warren and Rep. Bill Keating are up for re-election.
The last day to vote early in person is on Friday, Nov. 1. Election day is on Tuesday, the same date by which mail-in ballots need to be postmarked. Polls are open from 7 am to 8 pm across the Island on Tuesday. Check with your town hall to find polling locations.
My goodness get over yourselves. It’s an election. The best person will win. I’m confident the endless babbling of hatred from the Left will be overcome and the country will not elect a candidate who was the recipient of essentially a coup and has never gotten a vote for the presidency. Democracy will prevail!
John– I am sure you are not ignoring the
right wing calls for armed “poll watchers” and even the story
about the woman who was told that she couldn’t wear
trump paraphernalia in the polling station. Her response was to disrobe and tell the poll workers to “suchk on my ****
Yeah, that’s 4 letters there–
John, with all the gerrymandering by red states, there is no such thing as democracy. If we wanted fair representation in this country, we would have each person’s vote for the president count.
I could not agree with you more John! We might be totally outnumbered but “Democracy will prevail”!
I was totally outnumbered when I returned to a totally “ungrateful nation and fellow citizens” who hated and some still hate our guts for serving in Vietnam.
However, the Marines taught me well and although after a few bumps in the road I survived and have a excellent wife, daughter, son in law, home on our island and I still let my voice be heard although totally outnumbered!
I actually predicted all that is happening now within our country ‘Many, Many` years ago and like the Civil War our country survived!
Woodrow, how can democracy prevail
in a gerrymandered district?
The republicans have unfairly
Gerrymandered all over the US.
https://www.aclu.org/court-cases?issue=gerrymandering
It is a real shame you practice CENSORSHIP just like the Gazette!
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Ps….. I had a feeling the Times was buddies with the Gazette but I wasn’t convinced until now for sure.
I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt!
However, I can and am able to Cancel my paid subscription!!! 💸 ~~DONE~~
No more defending our invasion of Vietnam?
Woody, the Times and the Gazette are buddies with the super majority of the Island.
Censorship?
You have no right to be published.
You have been threating to cancel for years.
Do you finally have the courage of your convictions?
Thank you for that very well-thought – out and logical synopsis. I hear all this riff-raff from the left—things like voting for Trump means chaos. The chaos has existed for the last four years with multiple wars, inflation, a failing economy, rise in crime, riots, our flags burning by Hamas worshippers, lies ( the left lied about October job-gain by 100,000). What other country would accept/allow this without consequences? Peace existed with Trump. Yet, the reason Dems and Rinos are so pumped up is not because they believe in Kamala ( she was selected not elected), but because they hate Trump. They would vote for a rock than vote for him. The country and its wellbeing should come first regardless of personal feelings. Doomsday a’coming with Kamala at the helm. She had influence as a VP, but a Marxist will never uphold a democracy. She will just pick up where Joe left off.Doenhill.
The post Covid inflation is over.
Biden ended our our participation in the Afghan war.
Our economy has never been stronger.
Crime is down.
The riots were under Trump.
We burn our own flags, that is how ended the Vietnam War and expanded Civil Rights.
We had October job gains.
Trump lost 1,248,000 jobs in 2020.
Four years of being led by a billionaire business man.
There was peace in Afghanistan and Syria under Trump?
There are reasons to hate Trump.
Being grabbed by the genitalia is a good reason.
Paying off porn stars with political funds should be considered.
When the primary is over and the winner chooses to step down how should they be replaced?
If Trump had succumbed to McDonald’s French Fries On August 1 who would replace him.
In 2020 we selected Kamala to replace Joe should he step down.
I would vote for a rock before I would vote for Trump.
A rock is a weapon.
She will just pick up where Joe left off.
Continuing to make America better than it has ever been.
We are not going back to the good old days.
Golden escalators.
“Brown” grins
Memo to aspiring journalists: this is an opinion piece, not a news story. The article writer must have forgotten to interview even one person not voting for Harris. Hey, it happens. Lol, MVTimes, for your idea of balanced reporting.
I, for one, can’t wait for November 5th. It is my darling pooch’s fifth birthday. Congratulations to my Jennie.
My darling Male pooch ran out of the room every time MSNBC or CNN or ABC or any of them came on the TV as I pushed my remote to see what the enemy was doing. Churchill came back happily and sat next to me when FOX returned. He always snarled at Democrats and knew how to distinguish. Smart dog.
Real Men have Male pooches…
Let’s not push our luck, Andrew. My dog is such a smart cookie she knows FOX and CNN are cut ON THE BIAS from opposite ends of the same kind of cloth. 😉
The reason why I voted for Trump in the end as the least-worst option, is that, one, voting is my obligation as a citizen who loves my country regardless of her flaws or incompetent leadership, and two, I cannot align myself with the political party that hates “frothing” Jews and blames them, either as individuals in it’s leadership or as a group, for the atrocities visited upon them in an end goal to annihilate Israel and Judaism. Trump is a lot of things, including a non-Jew with Jewish descendants whom he will protect. The Harris/Emhoff family has no Jewish descendants. It has adult children who fervently reject their father’s Jewishness, and Ella Emhoff, one of two non-Jewish descendants, goes so far in her hatred for “frothing” Jews, that she donates to terrorist, Hamas causes.
Really, for those who care about our allies, democracy, and western, civilized ideals, including the rights of women, gay folks, AND Jews to exist freely and without threat of hanging, raping or being pushed off buildings, you’d have to be crazy to vote for Harris and her inarticulate promises and frightening agreement that antisemitic protesters’ accusations against Israel are not “wrong”. The now accepted antisemitic mindset within the Democratic Party, certainly not limited to the unoriginal Jew hatred expressed in the MVTimes, is bad for America, worse even than another 4 years of Trump.
May all innocents be spared from the kind of evil hate infiltrating our own country and globally. It’s the American liberal dems who hate “frothing” Jews who have made Trump look less unreasonable. Sad, but true.
But–Jackie– you have many times here emphatically stated that
you were not going to vote for trump, and railed against me for even
suggesting that you would . You of course are free to vote for whoever
you want. But to go after me a while ago for inferring you were
going to vote for him and calling me a liar about it is a little —-hmmm
I don’t know ? Bull ?
Now since you have proven me right, you could now admit
that you are lying about my alleged anti-semitism.
And speaking of discrimination– You seem to be saying that
you voted for trump, not because you like him, but because you
hate Harris– for not having enough Jews in her family !!!!!
Wow ! I couldn’t make this up ! Talk about racism >>>
But you really made my day today thanks— HA !
And thanks for voting.
Jackie,
Welcome to the dark side.
As a black Trump voter, I have come to expect to be called a racist loving, nazi sympathizing, Uncle Tom, radical right wing extremist.
Just remember that one of the people calling us these names drives a pickup truck with an actual weed plant growing perched above his tailpipe and has a reputation far and wide, even off the island as being a colander wearing nut job.
I’m so glad to have watched your progressive shift in ideology over the years. It brings hope to my heart.
Bill
Bill- Growing marijuana is legal in Massachusetts.
My truck with that plant growing through a hole in the tailgate
probably made that plant and my truck the most photographed
plant / truck combination on the Vineyard this summer. It brought
absolute delight to many tourist and locals alike.
What’s wrong with that ? Unfortunately. it turns out it
was technically illegal as the law states that plants cannot be
visible from public roadways. I removed it at the request of a police
officer. As far as my colander wearing nut job reputation;
Well again, I have seen a lot of smiles and laughs about that one.
I don’t wear it around town, but I exercised my constitutionally
protected first amendment right to wear it as religious headgear
For my drivers license photo.
The same right that people have to wear Yamakas, Hijabs,
prayer veils or any other
religiously appropriate head covering. Do you think that
people who wear those things are all “nut jobs” or just the
ones that have a religion that you know nothing about, or
don’t approve of ? But let me tell you, no one has ever
detonated a suicide vest in a crowd while yelling
“the Flying Spaghetti Monster is great” or has to drop bombs
on civilian populations to insure the survival of their religion
and culture.
And , yes, many people know about me since I made the front
page of the Times in June of 2022,
https://www.mvtimes.com/2022/06/08/penne-for-his-thoughts/
It was talked about on
NPR. Even Howie Carr mentioned it on his talk show in 2017.
Nearly every police officer and everyone else that has seen it
has gotten a good laugh about it and said they appreciate
the humor. But I get it– some people just want to be miserable
and hope that everyone else is also. Like all those miserable
childless cat ladies.
I’ll happily accept the “nut job” moniker for that.
And in case anyone is searching for a peaceful religion that does
not need an enemy, has no dogma, you can keep
any other religion you may like, no one will kill you if decide
to quit it, and all you have to do to be a
Pastafarian is to want to be one,
Here is a link to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Peace, Love and Pasta.
https://www.spaghettimonster.org/about/
Raamen
By the way, my original expired license with that photo is in the
Martha’s Vineyard museum. They were delighted to accept
my donation.
Hi Bill, yes, folks would rather sleepwalk through woke hypocrisy, rather than consider any possibility of differing perspectives. The majority, non-fringe of the dark side, although you understand I am not entirely in the door, looks to be a brighter shade of decency–and a lot less smoky from cannabis-laden trucks around island. The October 8th reaction among liberals to the October 7th brutality cured me of anymore liberal baloney. Really, it’s the Jew-hating lies of the liberal left and their extraordinary lack of compassion for the Jewish people worldwide that clinched it for me– and for many others. I’m reading that the race is not as close as pollsters are (mis?)leading us to believe. One expert put it at a 10 point lead for Trump. Maybe when the liberals move off-island to Canada, the island’s housing crisis will ease up a bit. I hope both will happen.
Or when they move off island to New York.
Jim, NY and MA vote presidential races exactly the same deep ultramarine blue and have for the last 20 years. I doubt this year will be any different. In any event, the city is no escape for liberals if Trump wins. It’s Canada or bust, lol.
Bill– you seem to be describing me in your comment.
I have never called anyone an “uncle Tom”
here or anywhere else. Nor have I ever seen that term
used by anyone here.
But I guess you feel free to make up stories or just lie
about what people say. I don’t think that’s ok, but I kind of understand, because you have drank so much of the trump Kool-Aid.
If it’s ok for him to lie about what people say, who are we mere
mortals to say you can’t.
Should Don be arrested for that plant.
He would have been back when America was great.
America will will never be that great again.
It is God’s will.
John, Mussolini wasn’t the “best” yet, he came into power with only about 30% of the population supporting him.
Mr. Axel, please give examples of hatred coming from the left. Are you prepared for the fact that JD Vance is likely to become President in that Trump well may not survive four years? That by itself should make you querolous at least to select Trump.
Your right Kamala called Trump a facist in a joyful loving way.
Joe Biden said Trump supporters were garbage.. but he meant nice garbage, you know like when Obama throws out his 900 dollar deck chairs because they no longer match his new pool tile
Trump IS a fascist. Just ask his former staff and the generals who served in his administration. Harris didn’t invent that out of nowhere.
Carla, do you mean to say that staff and generals who served under Trump for years, and said nothing for the next 4 years about Trump being a fascist, were all cowards who never made a peep until a month before an election when dems used a fascist-like coup-process to get Harris on the ticket? How do smart people fall for such obvious propagandizing manipulations and assume that smarter people don’t notice?
Why have so many of Trump’s appointees turned on him?
Is Trump a poor judge of character?
I really wish you would look up the words “fascist” and “coup” in the dictionary before trying to appear intelligent. And while you’re at it, look up Dunning-Kruger effect.
Jackie–Many of his staff and generals have been talking
about this for years.
from April 2024 :
Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper has called him a “threat to democracy.” Former national security adviser John Bolton has declared him “unfit to be president.” And former Vice President Mike Pence has declined to endorse him, citing “profound differences.”
https://apnews.com/article/former-trump-officials-criticize-2024-e202861911ab37cadfcf058b5b163fb9
note the 2022 date on this one.
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2022/08/12/mark-milley-the-trump-administration-and-the-resignation-letter-he-never-sent
or this–
Kelly told NBC News in 2022 that when Trump complained about U.S. generals, he would tell Trump that their foremost loyalty was to the Constitution and the rule of law.
Trump wanted them to be more like Hitler’s generals.
The Atlantic reported earlier Tuesday that Trump had privately admired Hitler’s generals “who were totally loyal to him” and followed orders, privately saying in a conversation at the White House, “I need the kind of generals that Hitler had.”
I noticed– you didn’t I guess.
Carla, the group-think of dems, who’ve had their leader selected for them, not democratically elected, just is the reality. I know what fascist means. Look how dems treat people who don’t fall into line with their group think—from garbage, to Jew-holes, to too stupid to use words. Perhaps dems should look up the definition of fascism—- of McCarthyism, too. I remember when you accused a Jewish lawyer of that, and added the old antisemitic trope that he was all about the money he would get from giving a book talk, even though he donated the book sales from that talk. Words matter. And I have a good memory. I don’t like who dems have become because they’re so antisemitic and intolerant and want me to believe something that is not true.
Sara, have you missed the comments about garbage Trump supporters, maggots, and genocidal, occupying, frothing Jews? Hate knows no party. And it won’t stop on November 6th, I’m sorry to tell you.
Hi, Jackie — well, despite the fact that Bernie Sanders, a Jew, is my favorite senator of all time (I still have his 2016 sticker on my car), who this morning is talking about his resolution to stop sending offensive weapons to Israel because of the devastation of the Palestinian people in Gaza, I take your point. But you undoubtedly wrote this comment before Trump called for the assassination of Liz Cheney by a nine-gun firing squad, something I hope one of his supporters (or nine of them) don’t take it upon themselves to carry out. You probably wrote this before the comedian at Trump’s MSG rally called Puerto Rico a floating pile of garbage, and Trump himself alluded to black people feasting on watermelon. Less we forget Trump also thinks Latino people are rapists and scum (but some, he admits, may be “very fine people”). The list goes on and on. The degradation he proposes for anybody who is not a white male is obscene. And he is an adjudicated sex offender. Who can forget his comments to Billy Bush before the 2016 election? What woman can forget his stance on health care for women? I’m exhausted by listing these things as I’m sure you are by reading them. I hate to resort to “whataboutism” but there you have it.
Sara Sara Sara. you read the quote did you not? He didnt call for assassination of Cheney and you know it. You lose all credibility when you make statements like that. By all means support Kamala and hate Trump but try to keep it real.
He’s not the president yet, so he can’t call for her
execution– He just mused about how she would feel
when she was facing a military execution.
And I will muse about how happy he would be to
see her execution.
And if i may step out of the bounds of civility,
I wonder how you would feel when you faced a lethal injection
for the needless deaths of thousands of people while you
were being complicite as a CEO of Union Carbide.
I wonder of you remember this one ?
https://www.ft.com/content/3e2388f4-d8d1-11de-99ce-00144feabdc0
Sometimes people are held accountable..
Jackie– stating that genocide is a bad thing is hatred ?
Or is it just some genocides and military occupations
that are bad ? By the way, thanks for your personal
hate email to me and finding my quote that confirms
I never said I regretted donating to the ADL.
Having said that, your repeated slanderous comments
about me being anti semitic
and your blind denial of what is going on in
Gaza have persuaded me to not donate to the ADL
this year. I’ll pick that one back up when Netanyahu
is out of office and replaced by someone reasonable.
Does that PROVE I hate Jews ?
Maybe in your mind—
So I donated what I would normally give to the
ADL to Harbor homes, on top of what I usually
give them. I’m just mentioning that to let you
know I am not donating to some fringe Palestinian
organization.
And just to be clear, my donation to Harbor Homes
does not mean I hate people who have housing.
Yes Keller. Stating that Israel is genocidal is a bad thing. It shows profound anti semitism particularly when you dont denounce on going genocide by other nations–real genocide. When one is selective and only points out Jewish behavior one is anti semitic. I dont think you hate Jews. I think you are anti semitic. By the way you accused me of poisoning children due to my work for a Multinational.
Puerto Rico is garbage . . .
How about practically every Trump supporter I know, is too afraid to show support in public for fear of retribution? I know quite a few people on this island alone who had their Trump signs vandalized. This is happening a lot more to Trump supporters than the other candidate.
Yawn, usual dribble from trashy commenter’s.
PS Calling Jewish leaders “Nazis” is the ultimate antisemitic tactic used by every terrorist promoting the Islamic regimes’s final solution. Many antisemitic liberal leftists and progressives have taken up this terrorist battle cry, (see above), aiding and abetting terrorists as if these useful idiots were soldiers. When antisemitic liberal democrats call trump supporters Nazis and maggots, they use actual Nazi tactics themselves in dehumanizing half of the American electorate.
Jackie– I took your advice and
looked very carefully at the article and the comments here.
I don’t see anyone claiming that Jewish leaders are nazis.
Jackie, what is the final solution to the Palestinian Problem?
Maga is the root word of Maggot…..
How much bleach will it take to remove this Orange stain of our history?
Four more years.
Today’s MAGA Republican party has launched itself into the dark abyss, nominating once again a serial criminal grifter who hawks any cheap bauble with his name on it like a sideshow carnival barker. This twice-impeached convicted felon and adjudicated rapist led an armed violent insurrection against our Capitol based on made-up stories of election fraud and stolen victories. Trust me, if Democrats had the power to steal elections, we would have ousted Mitch McConnell decades ago. He stole top-secret classified documents, hid them in a gaudy bathroom next to his golden toilet, then lied to the FBI about it.
He inherited and coasted on a thriving economy for 3 years. His only legislative accomplishment was a 2 trillion-dollar tax cut for his billionaire donor class, which exploded the deficit. When a global pandemic struck, he bungled that so badly – lying to the American public about its severity “it’s like the flu” “it will be gone by Easter” “it’s a Democrat hoax” – that thousands of Americans suffered and died needlessly. Four years ago, we were stacking up dead bodies in refrigerator trucks, we were on lockdown for months, supply chains broke down, the global economy collapsed, unemployment was at record highs, and people were walking around like masked zombies afraid to breathe on each other. Meanwhile, 45 was refusing to send help to “blue states” and hoarding ventilators. So no, we were definitely NOT better off 4 years ago.
Thankfully, we elected Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in 2020 by a margin of 7,060,347 votes (306-232 electoral college victory). With their slim majority in Congress, they were able to pass four major pieces of legislation that turned this country around – The American Rescue Plan, The Bi-Partisan Infrastructure Law, the CHIPS and Science Act and The Inflation Reduction Act – all of which invested in America’s recovery from the COVID-19 collapse. Today, inflation is down to 2.4%, unemployment is at record lows, the Stock market is at record highs, gas is below $3.00 a gallon (everywhere but here), and wages have outpaced inflation. We have the strongest economy in the world, but you wouldn’t know it if you watch only doomsday cable news. Google it and thank the Democrats.
And thanks to Joe Biden’s PACT Act (the most significant expansion of benefits and services for toxic exposed veterans in more than 30 years), which every single Republican voted against, more than 1 million PACT Act related claims have now been granted. More than 888,000 veterans and survivors across all 50 states and U.S. territories are now receiving new service-connected disability benefits. Thanks Biden!
BUT THE BORDER THE BORDER THE BORDER – about that…. Migrant crossings at the US Mexico border are at their lowest levels since 2020 – again, look it up. One of the most conservative Republican Senators, James Lankford from Oklahoma, drafted a bi-partisan border security bill (The Border Patrol Enhancement Act) that Joe Biden was ready to sign into law. But enter Mr. “Build the Wall” who demanded from his lackeys in the Senate that they kill the bill because he’s really not interested in solving problems, he wants an issue to run on. He wants something to blame the Democrats for. He’s a chaos agent who is only out for himself.
The choice in this election is between a supremely qualified Black woman (degrees in economics and political science, law degree, prosecutor of international criminal cartels, United States Senator and Vice President) or a tired old, bloated criminal ra(c)(p)ist whose spray-tanned face is the color of a soiled baby diaper. A guy so devoid of humanity and morals that his big promises are to round up millions of undocumented workers, put them in detention camps, then deport them – which would result in an economic collapse on a scale we cannot imagine, deploy the military against his political enemies, and put crackpots like brain-worm, vaccine conspiracy theorist RFK JR in charge of public health policy. He’s such a dimwit, that he thinks tariffs will punish China when every single economist is screaming from the rooftops that it will hurt the economy and cost the average American almost $4,000 a year. He’s a pathological lying imbecile. People from his own administration, John Kelly and 4 Star General Mark Milley, all say he’s a fascist. It’s the last desperate gasp of a wannabe tyrant, an agenda of hate that I believe the majority of Americans are sick of and will reject on November 5.
Hmm Trump had 2 months to devise a plan to take over the country on Jan 6. The best he could come up with was to send a guy in a Fred flinstone water buffalo hat to sit in Nancy’s chair. Was the whole government going to say ” he’s sitting in the chair he must be in charge
Your faith in kamala is naive and dangerous…
Carla, thank you for sharing this information.
Thank you Carla for putting this all out there. I support every single word of this.
I am hopeful for our future and am a PA voter, voted early and my new friends in PA went together to early vote.
I have 2 women (one my daughter and one my daughter from another Mother) and I voted for US to have freedoms for our own health decisions also.
I WAS NOT BETTER OFF 4 years ago. I was anxiety riden and deflated.
I can NOT do another 4 years of that.
Carla, so well put. Thank you so much!
Thank you for being wrong, Carla. The venomous, dehumanizing way you list your dislike for Trump above, applauded by many who think it was “put well”, “support every single word”, “well said”, and “ditto to EVERYTHING”, as opposed to attempting to concoct reasons to positively support Harris, is why so many Americans have rejected the entire democrat agenda. It’s nasty. All of it. I’m not talking about the candidates here. I am speaking about their respective supporters. Democrats are never about listening. The truth is, most of America, even people like me who never before voted R for President, dislike liberals for exactly the sort of meanness and hypocrisy you express and expose here so well. The hate-lists coming from dems, and you are certainly not the only one, are what did in her candidacy. There was nothing positive about her, not even her fake, uncomfortable laugh. Although, personality-wise, she was more pleasant than Trump. But that was all she had. And really, for a political party to welcome in and harbor such incredible antisemitism, that was the final straw for me. I felt there was no one to vote for this election. There was only who to vote against. Democrats and their hate lists are not the party for America. Trump behaves one way, but most conservatives do not. Democrats spew a venomous hate and intolerance, largely across the board, that I never before really understood. Now I do.
If elected, this “supremely qualified” candidate would not be a graduate of the top 14 law schools, unlike 4 out of 5 modern lawyer presidents. Harris’ law school, Hastings, ranks 82nd. Biden was the other modern lawyer president not to graduate from a top 14. His law school is ranked 120th, lol. Harris failed the bar exam the first time she took it. This supreme mediocrity matters because the message we get from woke, elite liberals, is that a Trump voter with nothing more a high school diploma is dismissed as too uneducated to be smart enough to believe the untrue extolling of Harris. What Harris is, is ambitious, not that smart, and a politician who accomplished nothing she was tasked with as VP. There are brilliant high school grads with more on the ball, better able to think on their feet, and most important, don’t scam their way onto a ballot by lying about her boss’s demented mental status.
What law school did Trump graduate from?
Nixon was a great president?
Ford?
They are the only two modern Republicans presidents to have been awarded law degrees.
Four Democrats.
How many lawyers pass the bar exam on the first try?
What Trump is, is ambitious, not that smart, and a politician who accomplished nothing she was tasked with as P.
There are brilliant high school grads with more on the ball, better able to think on their feet, and most important, don’t scam by lying.
Kamala’s did not lie her boss’s demented mental status.
That is why she encouraged him to step down.
Forget Halloween ghosts and goblins…the harris/walz tax and spend ticket is the real horror this season! He’s a dope and she’s not much better. The worst vp in modern history. Unqualified. Unserious. Take away the abortion issue and she’s an empty pant suit. Let the voters decide.
GDP is up.
Jobs are up.
Unemployment is down.
Deficit spending is down.
Peter, Trump is a bigger tax and spend, by far.
He literally caused farmers to lose their family farms that had been in the family for generations.
Please, examine the facts.
When people say Trump is a good businessman, it’s only true if you think cheating people is good business. Trump didn’t pay what he owed a piano store owner. Trump didn’t pay all the city fees for some of his rallies. Trump is a cheat.
Thank you Carla!
Carla – well said Carla. As we get closer it is more and more clear that a handful of desperate crazies, as illustrated in some of these comments, are following their bigoted, fascist leader right off the cliff. I say we step aside and let them.
Ditto to EVERYTHING Carla Cooper said because every word she said is the truth. And if you don’t believe it, like she said look it up.
If you care about our allies and what it means to be an ally, you will not vote for Harris because she has told us who she is, in a supreme and brilliant way, of course:
She lied to the American people every time she said Joe Biden was fine.
She boycotted Netanyahu’s address to joint members of congress, neglecting her duty as VP.
She voted against BDI legislation and aid to Israel as Senator.
Her step daughter raises money for Hamas terrorist organizations like UNRWA.
Her husband’s law firm has represented Qatar and THE PLO.
She threatened consequences if Israel went into Rafah. The world should be thanking Israel for not listening to her and Joe.
She praised pro-Hamas students for their participation in uprisings on US college campuses.
There’s much more she’s done to tell us who she is, but antisemites don’t care. This weekend, in a personal email I received, I and all Jewish folks who do not want an anti-Israel president were termed “Jew-holes”. That alone tells us what liberals voting for Harris really think.
You are off the rails. Her husband is Jewish.
Sarah– you forgot to mention when trump referred to Maggie
Haberman as “maggot Haberman” — Feb 11 2022
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-calls-reporter-maggie-haberman-maggot-slams-upcoming-book-1678563
Some people here seem to be VERY upset that
anyone would resort to referring to an individual as “maggot”.
just a few examples of trump “nicknames” ;
Low IQ war hawk– Lix Cheney
Slimeball James Comey
Meatball Ron or Ron DeSanctimonious
Birdbrain –Nikki Haley
Ditzy DeVos
Comrad Kamala
Mad dog — James Mattis
Fat Jerry–Jerry Nadler
Governor Newscum
pencil neck– Adam schiff
Tampon tim– Tim Walz.
Yes– some people are outraged if a normal
“nut case” on a local forum makes a general derogatory
remark about some group of people.
But then vote for a guy to be the president of the united states
that routinely calls people derogatory names
and talks trash about cities , cultures, and groups of
people based on nothing but their heritage.
Go figure
Don, in Florida, HART buses 🚌 were not allowed to advertise a skating event with a picture of a menorah.
Florida is happy with their Republican politicians.
Mary–
I have to ask– could the busses advertise
a skating event with a cross or a picture of Jesus
lovingly protecting the skaters from injury ?
Don, that’s an excellent question.
The only way we can be sure that this is a free and fair election is if Trump wins by a landslide, of the popular vote . . . .
Albert, if Harris had won the vote, Trump would be saying the election was stolen. And rigged. But if he wins he just smiles and accepts the result. Interesting. Hopefully republicans remember this 4 years from now when Sarah Sanders is installed.
DEMOCRACY WON!!
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