[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #853 Nog een paar nachtjes slapen.

quote:

Op zondag 1 november 2020 00:43 schreef L3gend het volgende:
Oh jee, een van de weinige polls in 2016 die de Midwest goed wist te peilen.

[ twitter ]

quote:

Op zondag 1 november 2020 00:46 schreef SnertMetChoco het volgende:

[..]

Alleen Iowa toch? Althans, er staat me bij dat ze zich daarin specialiseren.

quote:

Op zondag 1 november 2020 01:06 schreef Puddington het volgende:
Biden's voorsprong is ook een stuk groter dan die van Clinton op dit moment.

Overigens vind ik het nogal opmerkelijk dat independents een shift maken van 26(!) procentpunten in een maand tijd. Niks om af te doen tegen Selzer, dit is gewoon slecht nieuws voor Biden, maar daar zet ik wel mijn vraagtekens bij.

quote:

Op zondag 1 november 2020 01:17 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Kortom, het is een opsteker voor Trump maar an sich moeten we er niet teveel consequenties aan verbinden omdat we het gewoon niet weten.

quote:

Op zondag 1 november 2020 01:15 schreef L3gend het volgende:

[..]

Die House polls die ze net weergeven is wel merkwaardig. Kan een outlier zijn uiteindeiljke, maar Selzer is normaal een accurate pollster

quote:

Op zondag 1 november 2020 01:22 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

[..]

Accurate pollsters hebben ook soms outliers. ABC/WaPo, ook een van de beteren, had laatst Biden +17 in Wisconsin. Ik geloof ook niet dat er iemand is die werkelijk verwacht dat dat de uitslag wordt.

quote:

The Trump campaign sought highly sensitive information about voting security measures in at least one Pennsylvania county this week, alarming the head commissioner, who said he wasn’t comfortable responding to the request.

In an email sent Tuesday and later reviewed by The Washington Post, the Trump campaign asked officials in Cumberland County for the names of people who transport ballots and voting machines once polls close, the names of people who have access to the ballots afterward, and the precise locations where the ballots are stored, including room numbers.

The bullet-point questionnaire, sent from a campaign volunteer’s Gmail account, also sought answers on more generic issues such as where ballots are counted and whether information is wiped from voting machines.

The email was first reported by the Sentinel newspaper.

County Commissioner Gary Eichelberger, a Republican, called the request intrusive and said that responding might disrupt election administration in the Republican-leaning county of 253,000.

“Our responsibility is to protect the integrity and security of the election,” he told The Post on Saturday. “I don’t know if the Trump campaign understands that, but they’re asking to do our job as the board of elections. And that’s our job, not their job.” He said he’d never seen a request like it in 16 years as an election official.

A campaign spokeswoman, Thea McDonald, said the request was for “standard election transparency details.” She said the campaign had been in touch with other counties, “some of which transparently provided answers to these important, reasonable questions via less formal requests.”

“As part of the Trump campaign’s efforts to ensure a free and fair election, we have asked county clerks for information so that we can gain a detailed understanding of voting processes — and the similarities and differences that may exist in different jurisdictions,” McDonald said in an emailed statement.

David Becker, head of the nonprofit Center for Election Innovation and Research, said it was unusual for a campaign to seek information on individual election workers that is typically kept confidential for security reasons. He also noted that other, less sensitive details in the campaign’s request would have been easily accessible had the campaign reached out earlier.

“To do so one week before Election Day, when election officials are at their busiest, in the best case shows a lack of competence,” he said. “The information that the campaigns really need has been publicly available for months. I’m not quite sure what the campaign feels it’s missing here.”

quote:

Two D.C. National Guard helicopters that flew low over protesters in Washington, D.C., on the night of June 1 were not properly authorized to be there — and were directed by a lieutenant colonel who was far from the scene, driving home in his car, according to an initial investigation by the D.C. National Guard.

The superior officer who authorized the deployment claimed he didn’t know that the regulations required him to have higher-level approval to use the helicopters at all, and that in any case, he in no way told the lieutenant colonel that the helicopters should be used for crowd dispersal.

Now the D.C. National Guard and the Defense Department Inspector General’s office appear to be at odds over who should take responsibility for the incident, which became one of the most high-profile examples of President Donald Trump’s militarized response to protests over the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, by police officers in Minneapolis in May.

Senior Army and defense officials have for months claimed that they would soon release their report into the tasking of the helicopters. Yet the report has remained under lock and key, with officials saying nothing more than the report was currently in the hands of Acting Defense Department Inspector General Sean O’Connell, a Trump appointee.

The following article is based on internal Defense Department documents viewed by Defense One and on interviews with officials with knowledge of the events. It paints the most complete picture to date of the circumstances that led two D.C. National Guard helicopters to hover less than 100 feet above street level in what critics described as an unacceptable “show of force” against American citizens — and helps explain why, five months after the fact, there has still been no public explanation.

[..]

quote:

Op zondag 1 november 2020 01:45 schreef L3gend het volgende:

[..]

Klopt, daarom vetrouw ik die polls ook eerder dan de Trafalgar die altijd Trump net +1 geven in alle staten
[ twitter ]

quote:

Op zondag 1 november 2020 00:58 schreef Ulx het volgende:
[ twitter ]

Ze vinden dat Barr niet genoeg doet voor Trump.