powderfreak

Anyone but Trump. Thankful our country barely seems to be pulling its head out of its ass if Biden can beat that guy. Really shows why his approval polls were always so low.

I have to give it to Trump though, I mean he had this playbook running for 6 months. If elected, it’s all good. But the backup plan is voter fraud if he loses and always had been. His legal team had hundreds of lawsuits pre-drafted in the event things started going south and they needed to be deployed. He knew he’d win Election Day months ago but that most mail in votes would heavily favor Dems. They also litigated to not allow early counting of mail in votes so as not to show strong pre-election day numbers for Biden (which is a good idea to not release all those early votes) but then on the flip side if they can’t count them early, it’ll be days afterward to count them. I mean I can’t fault the playbook, he knew what he was doing and is executing it.

You didn’t vote for Biden?! <duck and run>

The polls were wrong but I think some will be saved by all the mail in ballots which everyone knew would be heavily Democratic. Nationally it might not be that far off...some of the state polls though, yikes.

Oh man I didn’t see that, thanks for the heads up.

This really hit it on the head in VT.

He doesn’t lose though. He litigates everything to death that doesn’t go his way, from building permits to debt restructuring. This will be a long legal battle. The one thing I found odd was pivoting from endless voter fraud ramblings to in the same sentence praising all the down ballot wins for Republicans in the House and elsewhere. All of these races are on one physical ballot. If one part is fraud, how is the other part acceptable? One would think he’d be going after all the other races as being just as fraudulent. In this giant conspiracy where the Dems were going to steal elections, they also planned it so they would do so much worse than expected in all other races? Like let’s steal the Presidential election but to throw them off our trail, let’s lose all the other ones?

Do you want that job? It sounds like signing up for a daily colonoscopy for the next four years.

Danger ahead! Locally in north/central VT, in Montpelier there was like 40 cases in the past two weeks associated with an ice rink/arena (Central VT Memorial Civic Center) that was hosting youth and adult hockey leagues. It can spread just as easily in NNE, but luckily deaths and hospitalizations seem decently lower than back in the spring.

How many people are there in Pittsburg to begin with? That is way far north and rural. Edit: Oh I see you are talking total cases, not percentage of population or rate.

Yeah I agree it’s reasonable. Funny how perfectly this has been forecast by numerous political analysts ahead of time. Trumps been sowing seeds of doubt for months and everything I read basically had this as the progression. If Trump wins, it’s legit. Biden wins, someone cheated. Next we’ll do recounts and lawsuits. I’m all for recounts in any close election if it’s less than 1%.

Maybe they’ll find my last Amazon shipment too, lol.

Yeah we’ve never held an election during a pandemic. I thought most states were clear that it would be days before they count everything upfront. The USPS is finding election mail in distribution centers and stuff like that still. I also didn’t know that like many states have regs that they have till early December to certify the results in their state.

But so many great commercials while watching the Red Sox suck this summer!

Yeah, my wife and I have had to pay a lot more the past two years than any time before it. I still haven't figured out why lol. Owed thousands in April when I used to get like a nominal amount back.

Yeah and that’s why I laugh when people say Trump didn’t divide the nation further. He literally divided it so much that more than half our population would vote for anything that wasn’t him, even an inanimate object. It wasn’t policies by any stretch, it’s whenever he opens his mouth or hits a keyboard he loses another voter.

It’s a shame Trump’s personality is what it is, like I said. A lot of people don’t root for the bully or a**hole. It is what it is.

Yup. And most of the COVID stuff was Trump not keeping his mouth shut on some of the sound bites. I honestly think if he just talked less, tweeted less, and didn't seem so contentious about everything he wins in a landslide. It's not about Biden, this whole election is about Trump. They could've ran an Alpaca up there for the Dems and it likely would've gotten the similar vote.

It's all Trump's rhetoric, his attitude, his lying, peddling conspiracies, etc. Very few voted for Biden. They voted against Trump. Trump would've won in a landslide if he just kept his mouth shut and stayed off Twitter. His personality turns so many people off and he may very well lose because of his divisiveness rhetoric. Like has been said, the actual President doesn't matter/effect most people. State and local elections, and senate/house matter more to how it affects your life. A lot of people just want less of a Saturday Night Live skit for a President at this point.

Oh yeah the nation is just 50-50 split at this point and both sides are digging in. It's very easy to turn it off in the mountains though. But agreed with you there.

I would've thought you'd be happy without a blowout by the Dems across the board.

Yeah I agree. PA might not even be in play. Flipping Arizona was crucial.

Final event snow totals from BTV. Nice event for ski country... can tell the flow was a bit unblocked into the east slopes and also because Lake Placid area in the Adirondacks doesn't usually get 9-12" of snow in these events. Good lake effect and upslope connection for them. It actually looked like the "snow map" models had the locations pegged pretty well if you were to average like the prior 3 days of all model runs.

Ha yeah, it's like one person gets murdered in your county in some meth love triangle gone wrong... and all the sudden you've got the highest murder rate in the state. Edit: Just looked it up and seems true... the White Mountains as a whole is one of the most dangerous places in NH for violent crime. Small pockets elsewhere but those wide open spaces... Be safe out there lol. Using percentages of population doesn't always seem like a good way to look at things.

Yeah the lower population counties take very little to hit that point. One big Thanksgiving dinner outbreak will do it for Coos County.