my fellow americans, if you have not already done so, then please destroy all expectations you have that we will know any results on election night. upwards of 40% of voters plan on voting by mail. many states do not allow counties to even begin counting mailed ballots until election day. it’s very likely will not know who is president, who will take the senate, or even who your city’s mayor will be until mid to late november. internalize that now.
Analysts are calling it the Red Mirage. Election night will almost definitely look like a win for Trump, which will be terrifying, since so often election night is the decider. Don’t be discouraged by the red haze, don’t fall for the mirage.
It’s great that Biden is leading in the polls. Cool. That’s very encouraging.
Don’t let it make you complacent in your civic duty to vote.
I remember the day in political psychology that I learned this: if people see that the candidate they like is leading in the polls, they’re less likely to go vote. Because they think they don’t have to. Because they think “oh they’re gonna win” and don’t bother.
DO. NOT. DO. THIS.
Ignore the polls. Don’t even pay attention. Whoever you want to win, whoever you want to vote for - Just. Go. Vote. Because if you don’t, those polls are literally meaningless.
Those polls are based on the likelihood that you will vote for your preferred candidate. If you don’t go vote, the polls are moot.
Don’t let the polls make you complacent. It doesn’t matter if Biden is in the lead. It wouldn’t matter if Trump was in the lead. It all comes down to how you vote between now and November 3rd.
In the afterlife, souls can see how many living people still know you once existed. You, who had lived a fairly normal life, finally saw the count drop to 0 just 200 years after your death. 500 years later, 95% of the Earth’s total population suddenly knows about you.
And they all know I sold really, really shitty copper.
