Archive for November, 2020

Treating Election Anxiety Disease

November 02, 2020 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

This was written by a friend of mine, George Dillingham, the county chair of Washington County, Texas.  It helped me a lot yesterday so I decided to share it with you.

I have received calls from many Democrats who are suffering from what I call election anxiety disease.  This disease has no biological basis but has infected many good Democrats as a result of the memory of the disappointment and shock felt on election night in 2016.  If Democrats gather together with or without masks and begin to obsess about the 2020 election, election anxiety becomes highly infectious.

I suggest that one remedy for calming frayed nerves and anxiety is to refrain from comparing the election in 2016 to 2020.  Joe Biden, the Democratic candidate, is much different from Hillary Clinton.  He is a respected white male who represents an acceptable alternative to swing voters and disaffected Republicans who don’t want to vote for Donald Trump.  While the polls were favorable to Hillary Clinton in 2016, Joe Biden has much larger leads than Clinton and in many states is above the margin of error.  Finally, it appears that there will be a record turnout in battleground states which has historically benefited Democrats.

My view and that of many knowledgeable political pundits is that the “Blue Wall” of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin will be resurrected for Biden/Harris.  But I caution that there may be some anxious moments for Democrats on election night as all three states take some time to count absentee ballots.

The odds of Trump’s re-election are very long when you look at the election map.  He can’t afford to lose any two of the states he narrowly won in 2016 and he must win Florida and Texas with both of these rated very close contests.  The election math is very much against him.

In addition to general election anxiety, I have been questioned by Democrats about the reality of actually turning Texas Blue.  My opinion is that the huge increase in voter turnout in Texas moves a win by Biden in Texas from unlikely to possible.  We have known that for a long time that low turnout in Texas has greatly favored Republicans.  With the dramatic increase in voter participation, we could also see Democrats take control of the Texas House of Representatives and elect several new Democrats to congress like our own, Mike Siegel.  Finally, the trend is favorable to turning Texas Blue.  In 2012 Mitt Romney won Texas by 16 points.  In 2016 Trump won Texas by 9 points.  In 2018 Ted Cruz won Texas by 3 points.  The trend here is definitely our friend.

I hope that some of this information is helpful in dealing with you election anxiety.  As for myself, I already have a bottle of Champaign on ice, but I realize that I might not pop the cork until November 4th or 5th.

 

Poopie Del Pollo

November 02, 2020 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

We have a decision on the drive-through voting.

 

 

The legal term for this is Poopie del Pollo.  The judge heard all the evidence this morning, said he would have a ruling in 15 – 20 minutes.  Left the courtroom and didn’t come back for over a hour.  I guess Bill Barr wasn’t picking up the phone in a timely manner.

(The following was corrected in the comments.  I was 100% wrong. I have too many damn writ twits looking over my shoulder.  LOL.)

 

We Win. For Now.

November 02, 2020 By: El Jefe Category: 2020 Election, Trump, Voter Suppression

Bush appointee Andrew Hanen, a federal judge in the 5th circuit, just threw out the lawsuit filed by GOP activists and shitbags to dis-enfranchise 127,000 Harris County voters, including yo, who voted at a drive through location.  Had we lost, the 10 drive through locations in Harris County would have been shut down AND all 127,000 of us would have had to stand in line tomorrow and VOTE AGAIN.  The only surprise here is that Hanen, known as one of the most knee jerk extreme conservatives on the bench, actually followed the law and ruled correctly against this outrageous tactic to sow chaos into our right to vote.

Harris County

November 02, 2020 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

The Harris County Democratic Headquarters was attacked last night.

 

 

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Superglue was poured into all the locks.

And we are still waiting on the federal judge’s ruling on the drive-though voting.  He said he’d have a ruling in 15 minutes – it’s been almost an hour.

 

White Privilege

November 02, 2020 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

There were over 1,000 cars in a Trump Train in Houston yesterday that shut down traffic on the 610 Loop.  The Loop surrounds downtown Houston.  At some points, the trainees (isn’t that what you call people who form trains?) got out and danced on the freeway. That’s not a big deal, you can do that on most workdays.

You haven’t seen that much blonde hair bleach and Aqua Net outside of Las Vegas since the 1950’s.

It doesn’t bother me because I was doing a phone bank yesterday and making walk lists. And my friends were doing canvassing so we didn’t have time to make life uncomfortable and difficult for everyone else who was trying to do stuff.  We spent our time getting voters.  And come Wednesday, they will wonder why they lost.  Emma Sue will say, “But there were a thousand of us at the parade and that’s a lot of people.”  Yeah, Emma Sue, but there were 2,000 of us getting voters for Tuesday.

But here’s the serious part.  I am sick of Trump’s butt. I am also sick of his supporter’s butts. But, they keep waving their ample asses in my face. They insist on it.

For just a minute, pretend that was black people doing a train and shutting down a major freeway.

Yeah.

All the white people would be up in arms, clutching their pearls and running around their front yards waving loaded guns with mustard on their shirts.

Oh, or say it was Muslims.  Oh be still my heart! A thousand Muslims shutting down a major freeway on a Sunday afternoon?  All the Trump supporters wud be checking their bunker supplies.

That, that right there, that is white privilege.

 

Election Eve Posts

November 02, 2020 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

 

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