All the doom and gloom and fear mongering is really bugging me. No we should not take anything for granted and we need to keep an eye on the dirty tricks but what we really need is action - VOTE!
https://crooksandliars.com/2020/09/i...ngs-trump-says
Excerpts:
Trump Is Not King, And Media Needs To Stop Acting Like He Is
There's a lot of fear mongering going on out there, and it's time for it to stop. Trump is not all-powerful; he's the puny coward behind the curtain.
Republicans have a motive for putting this kind of rumor out -- it tells people their vote doesn't count.
This is hardly a power play. They are essentially powerless when the voters speak, while trying to disguise that fact by telling you that they have some secret hidden power. They don't.
Here's the thing: Articles like this, fear mongering like this already suppresses the Biden vote. When you tell people that Trump and his games are more powerful than the people, you're telling them their vote doesn't matter. And if their vote doesn't matter, then why should they bother to vote at all? All the fear mongering about what Agent Orange and his gang of GOP thugs does is suppress the vote. It also creates an environment of fear, which is the soil upon which REPUBLICANS thrive.
I am not saying to ignore the experts. I am saying that the answer to the bullshit Trump spews is to ignore it and vote in numbers the likes of which no one has ever seen before. Even Gellman discounts the possibility of a landslide, despite the fact that all of the evidence points to huge turnout (see Virginia's early voting turnout, or the soaring requests for absentee ballots in a number of states, for example):
This election is a turnout election. There won't be any question about who the winner is on Election Night if everyone votes. Articles telling people it doesn't matter if they vote because Trump has some magical powers to contest things are suppressive, unhelpful and best limited to email lists of election lawyers who can actually do something about Republicans' weak efforts to grab power.