Poll: How did you vote for president?

[editor]

Early voting is over.  The 2024 election is two days away.  46% of registered voters in Harris County have already voted.  So, how did you vote?

Note: Just like in a real voting booth, nobody can see your choice in this HAIF poll, so feel free to be honest.    As far as I know, your user names are not actually recorded with your vote, and even if they are, since I no longer control the server that runs the HAIF software, I don't have access to them anyway.

Comments are welcome, but not necessary.  

This poll will close at noon on Friday, November 8th.

[EllenOlenska]

I put in my two cents. I'll be excited to see how it conforms to the Harris County vote. 

[editor]

12 hours ago, EllenOlenska said:

I put in my two cents. I'll be excited to see how it conforms to the Harris County vote. 

I agree.  It'll be interesting to see if the vote in this poll matches real-world numbers.  And since you can't vote in this poll unless you're already a long-established HAIF contributor, it's resistant to being manipulated.

It'll also be interesting to see how it compares with the overall tone of HAIF.  Certain members are much more vociferous with their opinions on HAIF, but this might show if they actually represent the HAIF majority.

There's an Old South expression: "The empty wagon is the noisiest wagon."

[hbg.50]

😂 Current results are what I would expect from HAIF

[editor]

1 hour ago, hbg.50 said:

😂 Current results are what I would expect from HAIF

I'm just happy that people are voting.  I was worried nobody would use this.

[august948]

21 hours ago, EllenOlenska said:

I put in my two cents. I'll be excited to see how it conforms to the Harris County vote. 

I think you may find this particular vote may skew a little more blue than what the real-world outcome is for Harris county.

[editor]

1 minute ago, august948 said:

I think you may find this particular vote may skew a little more blue than what the real-world outcome is for Harris county.

Well, there's currently a vote in for Jill Stein, so we may all be surprised!

[august948]

2 hours ago, editor said:

I'm just happy that people are voting.  I was worried nobody would use this.

It's a good idea.  Better yet would be to see one for Whitmire when he comes up for election next.

Or do a poll on whether he should be impeached?  😄

[Houston19514]

On 11/3/2024 at 6:34 PM, EllenOlenska said:

I put in my two cents. I'll be excited to see how it conforms to the Harris County vote. 

HAIF vote:

• Harris:  76%
• Trump:  20%

Real World Harris County vote:

• Harris:  51.77%
• Trump:  46.6%

For some additional context:

2020 Harris County vote:

• Biden:  55.96%
• Trump:  42.7%

2016 Harris County vote:

• Clinton:  53.95%
• Trump:  41.61%

[Twinsanity02]

Numerous of my fellow college professors in the real sciences voted for Donald Trump. In our area, Atascocita, the Trump signs are way more numerous than the Harris signs. Still, I have many true friends who voted for Harris. We are old school, we still respect and like each other. 

[editor]

3 hours ago, Twinsanity02 said:

Numerous of my fellow college professors in the real sciences voted for Donald Trump.

From the maps I've seen, he picked up people of almost every stripe in almost every geography.  

I think part of it was that he promised everything to everyone, and was such a firehose that nobody had time to think about or digest what he was actually saying a lot of the time.  Each seemed to pick their own sound bite and use that as their rationale for voting for him.

An example is my neighbor, who has a smarty-pants job at NASA.  She said she was going to vote for him because he promised to end Russia's war on Ukraine as soon as he got elected.  "Within 24 hours" was his promise.  It wasn't even within 24 hours of being sworn in.  He promised within 24 hours of being elected, and then stopped short before what seemed like the next line was going to be "…with just a phone call."

Well, it's been 24 hours and then some.  Russians are still killing women and children in Ukrainian cities.  So much for that one.

His message always seemed tailored for whatever audience was before him.  He loved electric cars when GM started building battery plants in Tennessee.  Then he met with oil executives, and started saying how awful electric cars are.  Then Elon Musk jumped on his train, and suddenly he started talking about how great electric cars are again.  Then three days before Election Day, he started saying how awful electric cars are once more.  

I know a lot of people are unhappy with how the election turned out, but they'd better get used to being unhappy for a very long time.  After Trump, 2028 starts eight years of Vance, and I don't see anyone in the horizon for the Democratic party that can best him.  So, the next shot for a blue wave is 2036.  I'll be dead by then.  Good luck to you all.

 

[august948]

4 hours ago, editor said:

From the maps I've seen, he picked up people of almost every stripe in almost every geography.  

I think part of it was that he promised everything to everyone, and was such a firehose that nobody had time to think about or digest what he was actually saying a lot of the time.  Each seemed to pick their own sound bite and use that as their rationale for voting for him.

An example is my neighbor, who has a smarty-pants job at NASA.  She said she was going to vote for him because he promised to end Russia's war on Ukraine as soon as he got elected.  "Within 24 hours" was his promise.  It wasn't even within 24 hours of being sworn in.  He promised within 24 hours of being elected, and then stopped short before what seemed like the next line was going to be "…with just a phone call."

Well, it's been 24 hours and then some.  Russians are still killing women and children in Ukrainian cities.  So much for that one.

His message always seemed tailored for whatever audience was before him.  He loved electric cars when GM started building battery plants in Tennessee.  Then he met with oil executives, and started saying how awful electric cars are.  Then Elon Musk jumped on his train, and suddenly he started talking about how great electric cars are again.  Then three days before Election Day, he started saying how awful electric cars are once more.  

I know a lot of people are unhappy with how the election turned out, but they'd better get used to being unhappy for a very long time.  After Trump, 2028 starts eight years of Vance, and I don't see anyone in the horizon for the Democratic party that can best him.  So, the next shot for a blue wave is 2036.  I'll be dead by then.  Good luck to you all.

 

I won't be dead by 2036, but I'll be pushing hard on the retirement door by then.  I don't think you'll have to wait that long, though.  I'd lay odds on the dems taking the house or senate (or both) in 2026 unless something extraordinary happens.

My guess is we'll see a repeat of the first trump years from the dems as a baseline.  Antifa and other left-leaning miltia/movements will reappear.  No chance of this for the next two years, but if they take at least the house in 2026 you'll see a raft of impeachment moves again.  I hear Trump failed to rewind a vhs tape before he returned it to blockbuster back in the '80's.  I'm sure they'll find something similar to push for impeachment on.  Even before the election, dem party operatives were floating the Trump-as-a-Nazi propaganda theme again.  I've already seen some of that post-election as well.  Today some nut at the Selective Service posted a tweet on X saying we're back in 1936 Nazi Germany.  The cluelessness on who the Nazi's were and how history unfolded in Germany in the 1930's is truly astounding.  The sad part is that there are people who will genuinely believe that and act accordingly.

Anyone who really believes Trump can stop the Russo-Ukrainian war in 24 hours, any given 24 hours, is going to be sorely disappointed.  The silver lining, though, is that the Europeans have been and will be forced to step up.  This is, after all, a European war and they are the ones on the front lines.  All the indications I've seen are pointed to them doing just that.  Plus the strategy of the last three years seems to have been to give the Ukrainians just enough aid to keep grinding the Russian stockpiles of Soviet weapons down.  That stockpile is about to run out, which is going to limit anything the Russians can do directly against NATO. 

At any rate, we have to get prepared to fight China as NATO isn't going to be of much practical help there.  And we are woefully unprepared for a pacific war.

[editor]

1 hour ago, august948 said:

The cluelessness on who the Nazi's were and how history unfolded in Germany in the 1930's is truly astounding.

Agreed.  ;)

[editor]

1 hour ago, august948 said:

Anyone who really believes Trump can stop the Russo-Ukrainian war in 24 hours, any given 24 hours, is going to be sorely disappointed.

“I will govern by a simple motto,” Mr. Trump told supporters in Florida on Tuesday: “Promises made, promises kept.”

 

[august948]

6 hours ago, editor said:

“I will govern by a simple motto,” Mr. Trump told supporters in Florida on Tuesday: “Promises made, promises kept.”

 

I suspect he will try the best he can to do that, but some things are obviously not possible.  Wouldn't be surprised to hear him someday claim that he made a series of phone calls within a 24 hour period and got things rolling or something along those lines.

I haven't kept track of all the promises he made on the campaign trail.  I hope someone did somewhere so we can track what actually gets done.

[editor]

10 hours ago, august948 said:

I haven't kept track of all the promises he made on the campaign trail. 

I don't think anyone did, or even could.  In some of his rallies and speeches he made dozens and dozens of promises, each more unlikely than the last.  I remember reading in a newspaper that at one speech (not the convention), he made over 120 promises; and some of them contradicted each other.

[samagon]

16 hours ago, august948 said:

I suspect he will try the best he can to do that, but some things are obviously not possible.  Wouldn't be surprised to hear him someday claim that he made a series of phone calls within a 24 hour period and got things rolling or something along those lines.

I haven't kept track of all the promises he made on the campaign trail.  I hope someone did somewhere so we can track what actually gets done.

if he can manage to remove income tax like he said he wants to and not tank the government, I'd consider it a successful presidency.

5 hours ago, editor said:

I don't think anyone did, or even could.  In some of his rallies and speeches he made dozens and dozens of promises, each more unlikely than the last.  I remember reading in a newspaper that at one speech (not the convention), he made over 120 promises; and some of them contradicted each other.

you know, he made the best promises, the most beautiful promises, they are promises no one has ever made before, and now that he made them, everyone else is trying to claim that they were really their promises, that's how great they are. and he has a team that is going to implement these promises, they are the best people, they are all really beautiful people, really. great people. he wouldn't want to work with anyone else, that's how great they are.

Edited November 8 by samagon