Monday, October 26, 2020

Republican registration drops 6 percent in Encinitas

From the Secretary of State’s web site:

DemocraticRepublicanMinor PartiesNo Party Preference
September 202043.11%25.95%5.83%25.10%
March 201636.46%31.96%5.64%25.95%

San Diego County data here.



55 comments:

  1. A victory by Biden would be a green light for a return to power of neoconservatives like Bill Kristol, Max Boot, and Jennifer Rubin (who have more or less defected to the Democrats, but they would be happy to return to the GOP so that fanatically pro-Israel policies like war with Iran would be bipartisan). Another group eager to seize power in the wake of a Biden victory would be political operatives like those associated with the Lincoln Project, such as Rick Wilson and George Conway. Forget about a populist GOP. The GOP would once again be the party of Big Business (and hence liberal policies on legal and illegal immigration), wars for Israel, and tacit, if not overt, support for Critical Race Theory indoctrination. I realize that Trump has been gung-ho about doing things Israel wants, but he has stopped short of war and, in my opinion he has done all he can to extricate U.S. troops from the Middle East in the face of powerful opposition from the military (Trump accused them of gunning for post-career sinecures with defense contractors), the Israel Lobby, the media (where the left is dominated by liberal interventionists), and many politicians on both sides of the aisle. Just today Trump renewed pressure on the Pentagon to lower troop levels even further in order to fulfill his election promise, but the Pentagon is resisting the move.

    On the other hand, another Trump victory would cement the populist wing of the party, where opposition to immigration is a major issue. Trump’s victories on immigration have been largely ignored by all sides, but as the LA Times notes,

    He has targeted the Silicon-Valley based tech industry by squeezing high-skilled foreign labor, and has restricted immigration based on family reunification even as he’s separated thousands of migrant families at the border.

    He has attempted to repeal federal protections for young immigrants who entered the country illegally as children and sidestepped the Supreme Court’s rejection of his plans. California has more residents covered by those protections, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, than any other state. He has also ended Temporary Protected Status for refugees from El Salvador and other Central American countries, a disproportionate number of whom live in the state.

    And his administration has discouraged thousands of other students, refugees [refugee admissions dropped precipitously], asylum seekers, workers, and entrepreneurs — many headed to California — from coming to the United States at all, most recently by using the COVID-19 pandemic as a justification for largely shutting the nation’s borders.

    Even more importantly, legal immigration has dropped by an astonishing 92 per cent in Fiscal Year 2020. Moreover, the fall in immigration workforce population predates Covid—apparently due to regulatory tightening. “Thanks, in part, to Trump’s (relatively) hard line on immigration, expressed basically via administrative measures, the Trump years saw a labor market where native-born Americans lost relatively fewer jobs than immigrants. This is not quite what Trump supporters had in mind in November 2016. But it’s something.”

    Yes, and a Biden victory would end up being a radical reversal of these trends.

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    1. 1:20 is a plagiarist

      https://www.thepoliticalcesspool.org/jamesedwards/

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    2. Trump is the Republican Party. The Republican Party is Trump.

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  2. A Trump victory would exacerbate the social unrest and polarization that has already reached levels not seen at least since the 1960s, but another Trump victory would unleash far greater violence than in the wake of his 2016 win. We have already seen the huge BLM-antifa crowds in urban areas and seen what they can do. It would be much worse as the left, anticipating another victory, would be plunged into despair and become further radicalized. Rioting in all the major cities is to be expected; indeed, the NYPD has already issued a memo saying “We should anticipate and prepare for protests growing in size, frequency, and intensity leading up to the election.” Riots are sure to exceed the violence that occurred after the 2016 election and the riots of this past summer, and continue for long thereafter. Attempts to shut them down, especially by the feds would likely look a lot like civil war—a civil war that I think the right would win at this point. But the longer this thing festers, the less likely that becomes.

    As noted at the outset, the 2016 election was a huge defeat for our hostile elite, including the media. Another defeat would be an even greater catastrophe for them and a great victory for everyone else. Not only are the liberal-left media going all out to defeat Trump, now we have social media companies actively censoring information on covid from high administration officials and medical experts. Recently the social media companies and left-leaning newspapers and television (i.e., virtually all of them) have buried the New York Post series on the Hunter Biden-to-Joe Biden kickback scandal. The Trump administration is finally fighting back, suing Google under antitrust laws and reviewing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. “If Trump wins, Big Tech will know it’s screwed. The tech giants want to rig the election. Trump won’t forget that, and he will have the power and political capital to pay them back.” If Trump loses, this iron grip on information would be further empowered, even without going after the First Amendment. In effect, it would be a Ministry of Truth run by the private-sector and decidedly on the left.

    Finally, the #1 reason to want a Trump victory would be simply to see massive crowds of Trump haters weeping on TV, a repeat of 2016, but much worse. I would just love to see the likes of Nicole Wallace, Joy Reid, Chris Hayes, Chris Cuomo, Don Lemon, and Lawrence O’Donnell, their faces grim, lashing out at Trump voters as racists, misogynists, haters, etc. Get out the popcorn!

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    1. Pathetic. Have an original idea or cite your quotations

      https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2020/10/21/why-its-important-for-trump-to-win/

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    2. lol, "hostile elite". Imagine being so out of touch with reality you think this is a thing.
      The only actual hostiles are right wing clowns like this Karen.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSkwuQ2Whhg
      Hostility in response to shitstain behavior like that is called being a normal fucking human. LEARN

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  3. From D+4 to D+17. That’s a 13 point swing in favor of Dems.

    No wonder Julie Thunder is lying her ass off!

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    1. Hahaha still at it, Olive Branch Verdu? Or is that "Environmental Who?" Margo? Either way, you funny.

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  4. Trump has a good chance of "winning" considering the Republicans have used every dirty trick in the book to block opposing votes. I don't have any problem with valid voter I.D.. I have major problems with long voter lines in opposition districts. In many red states now the voting lines are not a factor in red districts . In blue districts the lines are often 1 to 8 hours. In blue states this doesn't happen based on affiliation. There is a long list of other tactics.
    I'm getting the impression that folks like you actually want a dictatorship as long as it is your candidate.

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    1. Blakespear is often compared to DT in how she "leads."

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    2. In Texas, you can use a gun license with no photo as voter ID, but you can’t use a university student ID that has a photo.

      Why?

      Because university students tend to vote more D and gun owners vote more R, and Republicans can’t win a fair election.

      They have backed themselves into a corner, and can only win by cheating.

      Either the GOP is going to be blown up, or they will be successful in implementing apartheid and destroying democracy.

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    3. Republicans now control the US Senate, Presidency, and Supreme Court despite not winning a national election since 2014 (and not a high-turnout one since 2004).

      They lie and cheat to win. How long can it last?

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  5. What no one points out is Biden voters. He is riddled with dementia and they will still vote for him. Harris is a fraud claiming she is BLACK. It's a lie, SHE IS NOT BLACK.
    What the older Democrats do not take into consideration is the Democratic party is NOT like it was 50 years ago. But they fail to notice. I'm in cash so I don't care.

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    1. Which dementia-ridden candidate said we took the airports during the Revolutionary war?

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    2. 3:47...I hadn't heard that one but it had to be dementia joe. Right? Or you made it up?

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    3. Not black. It's unbelievable how low people will sink.

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    4. 8:13am. Harris isn't black, it's a lie. So telling the truth is people sinking low?

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    5. 8:53 The truth is you're a racist POS

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  6. 3:09 Thanks for your perspective Mr. McCarthy. By the way, you forgot to say "Communist" several times. Your game is old. Please get a real JOB.

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    1. Socialist would be the word 4:04.

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  7. I just listen to dementia Joe making a speech. Half way through a sentence, he starts a new sentence over and over. And remember, during the debate, dementia Joe state over 200,000 people were going to die between last week thru Christmas. And Trump built the cages for the illegals. Ya' Joe...sure.
    Keep voting for the left, see what happens.

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  8. Biden voters are pedophiles, haters, racists, and totally completely corrupt as well as national security risks.

    I just voted Joe !~

    Please join me and call 1000 of your pedo buddies !

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    1. And you wonder why you are losing.

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    2. Hey dummy, you misspelled Trump.

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  9. Biden reminds me of an actor in "one flew over the Cuckoos nest"
    Only in Bidens case, it isn't acting.

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    1. 6:23 - thanks dum-dum... any actor in particular or do you expect readers to be as lazy (and stupid) as you and accept your drivel as something to be pondered? You make a compelling case for leaving the Republican party - especially if morons like you are crawling out of your soiled lair, believing that you have something 'portant to say.

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    2. How about "all the actors" as they didn't know what planet they were on. It doesn't matter in the long run. If whacky Joe wins, it will be in reality a win for the fake "black woman" that poses as a woman.

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  10. Dear resident Nazi: I truly feel bad for you. People need to realize that you endured eight years of Obama. Your guns and liberty were ripped from you. Your loved ones fell victim to the notorious death panels. Eight years of Communism destroyed our once great economy. You had to endure those years in the FEMA re-education camp along with your children. God bless and God speed. You have my thoughts and prayers my friend.

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  11. Remember everyone. When you provide the truth you are a Nazi.
    Example is America is racist. But somehow a half black man is reelected to a second term. Well, that reads racist all right.
    I am convinced that people on the left cannot be happy. They seem to always be angry. What a sad life they live.
    Perhaps a few years in the military should get a leftist mind right.

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    1. This is hilarious. Perhaps a few years in the military should get a leftist's mind right? You do realize that the military is the largest brainwashing program in this country, outside of Fox News, right?

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    2. Here it is people. Men and women who serve in the military are brainwashed...got it. And America hating leftist are completely normal. People that fought and died for America were brainwashed, now I understand.

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    3. That isn't a controversial statement. Soldiers have to be brainwashed to do what they do. That's why they go to bootcamp. I'm not saying it's necessarily a bad thing. Here is an interesting, first hand account of US Military brainwashing techniques from an Air Force Staff Sergant.

      https://medium.com/@the_wise_sloth/how-and-why-military-basic-training-brainwashes-recruits-6ac795e1b21

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    4. So, in your mind, training of any kind is brain washing. Police, Fire, FBI, CIA, laborer. How about America hating leftist professors in colleges telling mush brain students how bad America is, how about that? And a certain segment of the American population that think another segment hates them...hmmm? That isn't brain washing? To quote "dementia Joe", "come on maaan"

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    5. You obviously didn't read the article written by a former Air Force Staff Sergeant. Why do you hate the military? Why do you shun them, and instead idolize draft dodgers like Trump?

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    6. 1:55 There hasn't been a military draft since 1969.
      This may be a shock, it's almost 2021.
      When was Joe Biden in the service?? Ohhh' that's right,
      HE WASN'T. But Hunter Biden was, well for while until he got kicked out for drug usage. You see 1:55, two can play your twisted game. But you, will always lose.

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    7. What you just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response, were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on this blog is now dumber for having read it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

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    8. 7:55...are you sure you heard it and didn't read it?
      And, it would help you point out to whom you are referring.
      Also please address the specifics you are displeased with.
      This of course is all in the name of clarification.

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  12. ha ha, of course people are embarrassed to admit they're republican

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  13. glad to see other parties are growing and many people are independent. These two parties are the problem not the solution.

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    1. Only the left is different, it has become so rancid with lies I have changed sides, the right has always been the same. The left is now, the enemy within. No longer the party of Jack Kennedy but the party of socialists.

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    2. There are a few social democrats. The great majority are traditional Democrats. The Republicans are uniformly greedy, selfish wackos.

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    3. Many of the richest people in the United States are Democrats. Ohhhh' I get it. They aren't greedy. Only Republicans are greedy and whackos. It all makes perfect sense now. Biden doesn't have dementia, only Trump. Because only Trump is greedy.
      And let us not even bring up the elephant in the room, biden, the chinese and Ukraine. And payoffs. Gawd no, wouldn't want to mention that. I left out the crooked FBI hiding the proof since the beginning of the year.
      How could I have been so blind.

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    4. 12:50 Welp, you've done it 12:50. You've overloaded my logical fallacy detector.

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    5. Welp my good friend 1:38. Name one thing I wrote that isn't true, just one. I'll have a cocktail while I wait.

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  14. 12:50 Nothing you wrote is true. That's what's so sad and destructive. You've been taken for a bad ride, and you're too dumb to see it.

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    1. Wake up. The entire issue of biden is being proven day by day. The U.S Senate, what is left of the FBI you can trust. biden has made millions over the last two years while unemployed. China, Russia, Ukraine. Ohhh' it's ugly. The crooked biden family made tens of millions. All PROVEN.

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    2. Trump and Fox lies. Show the proof from an objective source.

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    3. 6:25 Like the FBI (the few you can trust), the U.S Senate and Federal law enforcement? Those objective sources? So the corrupt Biden clan including dementia Joe are telling the truth and dozens of people familiar with the corruption are lying? right? You pathetic sap.

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  15. People are finally seeing the light!
    Or maybe their just trying to hide like Julie?

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    1. there is no light with Dementia Joe and homeless promoting Blakespear only dark. If you love backroom deals and the government doing things against their people, these two are your pick. Good luck with that...... prepare for masks and rules to keep you from living your life for the next 4 years.

      Minion without minds need to be told what to do. If you are a minion vote accordingly. Us free minds will also vote.

      I sure hope the incumbents loose. This City has not done anything right in 8 years since Kranz has been in office. Their focus has been on approving massive more high density developments and approving doubling the allowable new dwelling units in Encinitas and approving measures to promote homeless. Uggg

      Simplified - they are selling out Encinitas and running or town into the ground. Future is going to look like PB.

      ABC.....Shame, shame, shame.

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  16. The Republican base is getting older, whiter and more racist by the day. They're going to disappear into the Q-Annon fringes of society, but probably not without a fight. I guess that's one thing we can thank Trump for?

    But the Democrats will probably splinter too. Their coalition is too diverse. The moderate Republicans will probably hijack/team up with the neo-liberal Democrats to form the new right and the folks on the left will have to figure out how to prevent climate disaster on their own.

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    1. Accurate assessment.

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    2. 6:49. Stay away from mind bending substances. It isn't doing you any favors. I would be curious as to why you hate President Trump. Is it because he makes fun of
      dementia Joe? Or, the America hating left. Whada' you think? Could it be both?...Hmmmm?

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  17. 6:49 - You win the most ignorant comment award. I'm so bummed I read your comment.

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