With just five days to go until Election Day, Democrats appear to have a significant advantage over Republicans when it comes to voter enthusiasm.

According to new polling from Gallup, 77% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters say they’re more enthusiastic about voting than usual, versus 67% of Republicans and GOP-leaning voters who say the same.

That’s a slightly higher level of enthusiasmfor Democrats than they had just before the 2008 election, when that same poll found that 76% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters were more enthusiastic than usual about voting. Barack Obama would go on to win that year in an Electoral College landslide.

  • 2ugly2live
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    133 hours ago

    I just looked at the current polls and it is close. Like, I cannot believe that this many people have watched all of this shit and are still voting for him.

    Please go out and vote.

  • @[email protected]
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    12 hours ago

    In my household we have already cast 3 votes for sanity. We can only hope that others are quietly doing the same.

  • @taiyang
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    12 hours ago

    I literally just ignored a poll called (phone even IDd them as Survey) so … Let’s try not to read too much into polls. Instead, vote.

  • @[email protected]
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    377 hours ago

    The Democrats have to win by enough of a margin that it can’t be taken away from them by a rush of spurious lawsuits aided by partisan judges. If they’ve won a state but invalidating a few batches of votes would undo that, they haven’t actually won it.

    • @[email protected]
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      Republicans dont even need to win states they lost just to have their results rejected by Congress and the election having no one get to 270. In that case the house votes by state which Republicans win easily.

      • @Dkarma
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        42 hours ago

        The new Congress votes tho…we don’t know the makeup of it yet.

  • @TropicalDingdong
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    The polling/ exit results is so confused in this past week.

  • @Boddhisatva
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    608 hours ago

    Doesn’t matter. Don’t let them make you complacent. Go vote!

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      Even if you think he’ll lose, the House (unless the Dems take it) will very likely try to block certification, force a per-state count instead of a per-delegate count, and punt it it to Supreme Court.

      So give as little leeway as possible. The more he loses by the harder his next little coup attempt will be

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        When the votes are counted, the presiding officer will be VP Kamala Harris, not the House Speaker.

        And the only way to block a state’s certification is if both the House and Senate agree. Otherwise they have to accept the results certified by the governor.

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            That’s not how it works.

            When the EV’s for a state are counted, the House and Senate have one opportunity to object.

            If there is an objection, a vote is called. A majority in both houses is necessary to reject those EVs.

            If there is not a majority in both houses then the motion fails, the EV’s are accepted, and the VP moves on to the next state.

      • @Eatspancakes84
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        The house and the president will almost certainly swing the same way. This is nothing to worry about.

  • @[email protected]
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    418 hours ago

    If only enthusiasm countered the unjustness of voter suppression and the electoral college.

    • @[email protected]
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      Exactly. I have no doubt Harris will win the popular vote. Unfortunately that’s not necessarily good enough to win. And even if she wins, Trump supporters are absolutely not interested in a civilized society.

    • Nougat
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      Less enthusiastic voters don’t cast votes.

  • @gatorgato
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    37 hours ago

    LETS FUCKING GOOOOOO!!! Shit yes.

  • @[email protected]
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    Too bad enthusiasm doesn’t pay the bills. We dont need enthusiasm, we need policy that benefits the working class, instead we get jingoistic platitudes

    • @FlowVoid
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      enthusiasm doesn’t pay the bills

      We don’t need your platitudes either

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