Weekend Open Thread

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1. Morning.

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   1. And a hearty” not quite morning” to you.

      Watching college football now that my water hauling chore is completed, for the nonce.

      This day is a beauty. I hope they are sprucing up that “hell hole” they call Aurora. 

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2. Secretary of State reported on CO voter registration in a press release

   Prior to the debate on September 10, the Colorado Secretary of State’s office saw an average of 1,604 voter registrations and updates each day in September.

   On September 10, the day of the debate and Taylor Swift’s social media post, nearly 4,500 voters registered or updated their voter registration online, with most coming between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. MT. More than 1,000 voters registered or updated their voter registration during the nearly two-hour debate, and an additional 900 registered or updated their voter registration in the hour after Swift encouraged her followers to visit vote.org. 

   On September 11, there were nearly 5,000 online voter registrations and updates, and on September 12, the day that Meta launched a voter registration banner on their social media platforms, there were almost 12,000 registrations and updates. 

   An additional 11,300 registered to vote or updated their registration on September 17 — National Voter Registration Day. Since the start of September, more than 60,000 Coloradans have either newly registered to vote or updated their voter registration online.

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3. Make your MAGA friends watch this. All of it.

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   1. That was entertaining.

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4. Nebraska is trying to erase Democratic electoral votes, assuming that Trump will get 3 to Harris’ two. This would be a last minute change to Nebraska’s current divided electoral vote system, to a “winner takes all” model.

   But what if Harris gets three to Trump’s two? 
    

   *corrected to show Nebraska, not Nevada….brain fart moment.

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   1. It is NEBRASKA …. and the status quo is each House district gets an Electoral vote, and the other two from the state go with the overall vote.

      Chances of Harris winning anything beyond the 2nd District are slim and none.  So this will be a matter of one Electoral College vote, with Nebraska’s 5 unified or split 4-1. How could it matter? Washington Times spelled out one scenario

      The single electoral vote could decide November’s contest.

      In one scenario, Mr. Trump flips Arizona, Georgia and Nevada back into his column and Ms. Harris takes Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, leaving both with 269 electoral votes. If Ms. Harris wins the 2nd District in Nebraska, it would clinch her victory.

      The chance of Trump flipping those 3 states back from Biden’s win (AND no others) and Harris keeping only the “blue wall” (AND no others) seems far-fetched to me. 

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      1. Lady Graham would like to have a word with you 🤣

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5. This article reveals just how close Trump came last time to perverting the DOJ and IRS to punish his enemies. 

   As president, Trump demanded investigations of foes; he got them 

   In a second Trump administration, the restraints would not be there with a new set of willing toadies to do his bidding.

   Interviews, court filings and secret White House documents shed new light on how Trump’s demands for prosecutions in spring 2018 ignited a behind-the-scenes push by some of his top aides to contain his impulses, protect the rule of law and insulate the White House from legal and political blowback — issues that some of them say are arguably even more acute today.

   “When Trump says things like this, he’s serious about it — I know from experience that he constantly voiced the idea and it’s something he will come back to until it gets done,” said John Bolton, who served as Trump’s national security adviser and said he witnessed the president discussing whom he wanted investigated before himself becoming one of Trump’s targets.

   And thanks to SCOTUS, he would get away with just about all of it.

   If elected again, he also would return to the White House bolstered by the Supreme Court’s ruling in July that former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution for official acts taken while in office.

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6. Disgraced attorney John Eastman is still struggling to hold on to his law license in California,according to the Orange County Register.

   Stuff you shouldn't have to say to attorneys, but do now thanks to Eastman:

   A group of attorneys will be watching for Eastman-like antics. Ads are set to run in swing state legal journals reminding lawyers that they’re ethically barred from bringing false claims on behalf of any client.

    

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