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Despite all the doom scrolling, Harris has a comfortable lead in the electoral college right now.

The time for vibing is over. It’s too late to change anyone’s opinions (especially because national level events like debates are over). Harris will finish her Media Blitz soon (including a Fox News showing) while Trump retreats into his shell hoping no one notices how damn stupid his mouth is.

This is the time for doing. The focus should be on voter drives and other get out the vote pushes. It’s mid October, and the October surprises are against Trump and in our favor.

It’s not the lead we wanted but it’s a lead nonetheless. Don’t talk yourself out of believing this lead because of a bad poll or two.

  • sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world
    210·
    1 month ago

    Hey Dems, stop doomscrolling and go win the election

    Im not running this time. Talk to Harris about winning this election.

  • kometes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 month ago

    If you can vote early, vote as early as possible. Part of the Democratic mission is to turn out the vote, and if you vote the earliest, we can focus on those who have not yet voted.

    • dragontamer@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      https://www.instagram.com/p/DBCzHeiNSVH/

      The James Comey-esque “October Surprises” are coming in on the other side, in support of Kamala.

      Trump seems to have completely lost it this past week. Maybe Trump’s mental abilities recover in a few days, but we already got the clips we need to damage his campaign further.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    327·
    1 month ago

    Harris has a comfortable lead in the electoral college right now.

    2016 DNC Campaign literally moments before disaster.

    I just came from the utterly brain dead “Harris cares about Gaza” meme post , so I can safely start labeling posts like these as hopium and accepting the status quo.

    People really out here thinking the money from the biggest PAC is gonna both allow the dems to win and somehow convince them to actually pass significant legislation to improve literally anything for the middle class beyond token handouts and continuing to repair what Trump destroyed in like only 3 months of hime being in office.

    Dunno how Republican turnout is gonna be, but Democrats are about to get a kick in the nuts from all the constituents they willingly chose to ignore. Might still win, but thinking it’s going to be easy is a false hope.

    • modifier@lemmy.ca
      10·
      1 month ago

      I don’t think anyone is under the illusion this will be easy. Winning will be hard enough but even then there will be massive hurdles to actually being inaugurated.

    • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml
      141·
      1 month ago

      Note though that a number of states have already started both mail and in person early voting. You are likely able to vote sooner than you may think

      https://www.vote.org/early-voting-calendar/

      I’d also encourage voting early. It can save you from any issues popping up like getting sick on election day. Campaigns will stop bugging you as much once they see that you have voted (though they obviously cannot see who you voted for)

      • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
        11·
        1 month ago

        Though I think early voting is a good thing to take advantage of be aware of your voting board if you’re in a swing state. Georgia is making some pretty overt moves that they may try and disqualify mail in votes and call the count early. It’s sad that we need to consider this but Trump has already used the “we were winning until they found mail in votes” line of attack and true believers in that bullshit have taken over Georgia’s election board.

        • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          1 month ago

          This is why I (a Georgian) am doing early in-person voting and not mail-in voting. Between the tactic you mentioned, the possibility of disqualification due to a bullshit “signature mismatch,” and sabotage from DeJoy (who is still the fucking Postmaster General because Biden apparently hates the USPS as much as he does and failed to make board appointees who would remove him), mail-in voting is unacceptably risky unless you have no other choice. And that’s sad, terrifying, and – most importantly – fucking infuriating.

        • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml
          91·
          1 month ago

          Early in person voting is also an option. Also it varies state to state when mail ballots are counted. Michigan for instance, is actually going to start counting some of them a bit before the election day as they arrive. (Michigan now has a democratic trifecta in local government)

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 month ago

    We got our ballots here in Colorado area. I plan on researching the ballot measures and filling it out on my leisure, then dropping it off.

    God, I love this state! When some dipshit like dementia donnie trashes this great state of ours, it sure does anger me. Every state should have this option for voting, as a for instance.

    Get out there and vote, people (or fill out your ballot and mail/drop it off if you have the option)! Like your life depends on it.

  • Tillyrblue@lemmy.world
    162·
    1 month ago

    I’ve been canvassing twice so far. The second time I wasn’t able to talk to anyone, but hopefully I will next time.

    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 month ago

      Hey, me too! This election is giving me too much anxiety to just sit around doing nothing. I live close to a swing state and spent last weekend canvassing there. At this stage in the campaign, the “convincing people” part is over - the focus is now on “get out the vote.” It was encouraging to talk to level-headed people who’d made plans to vote or who’d already dropped off their mail-in ballots.

      Still, we can’t afford complacency. If anyone else feels the restless need to do something, but you don’t live in/near a swing state, you can volunteer for phone banking.

      That election anxiety is there for a reason - let it empower you to leave your comfort zone for a few hours and make a difference where it counts.

    • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml
      82·
      1 month ago

      Nice, keep up the canavassing!

      One thing I was told is that ringing the doorbell a second time after waiting a bit can increase the response rate. I haven’t tried it myself but was told by a couple of people that it helped a good amount

      It can also just varies a lot day to day and location to location on the response rate. Some days more people answer the door, others day it seems emptier

    • Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 month ago

      Not if it’s knocking doors, offering to drive folks to the polls (where that’s still legal) or handing out water in under served districts with long lines (where that’s still legal)