Legend, I hope he lives long enough to see the country come back together
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Half the country isn't going to suddenly become sane again on November 6.
You think he's gonna die on Nov 6th?
Just pointing out that the country “coming back together” is a long way off, measured in years if not decades.
And we can hope he lives that long.
I don’t want to lose such a good steward of humanity any more than the next decent person, but at the same time I feel like if anybody deserves to “rest” it would be President Carter.
Idk once you hit like 80, in general, existing itself becomes torture with how your body fails you. Not exactly a torture Carter is deserving of.
If Trump loses, again, I'm betting he gets the hot potato treatment. It'll be like Nixon all over again. Today's supporters will dial it way down.
"Well, yeah, I kinda liked the guy, but I was never crazy about him."
That's pretty optomistic. At every single turn, the guy does or says something that would have completely tanked anyone else's entire political career, and it's still a nailbiter for the presidency. And this has been going on for a decade.
Trump isn't Nixon, and the electorate isn't the same as the early 1970s. This is a whole new ballgame.
Agreed on ALL that! But Trump can't lose again. He'll have no chance at the office again and his legal and mental problems will continue to spiral down the drain.
It's not the immorality that will turn people off, it's the losing. American's don't like failures and conservatives hardly root for the underdogs.
Half? I think you’re being optimistic…
I’m thinking everyone will lose it. No matter who wins
This is out of curiosity but if someone casts a absentee ballot and then dies before the vote is counted, does it still count?
On one hand I see "dead people shouldn't vote" but on the other "he voted when he was alive and it was only counted when he was dead"?
I know this situation doesn't normally come up but is there legal precedence?
To be clear I respect and Carter and hope he is still alive for quite some time but him being in hospice and voting brought the question to mind.
There's a detailed article about that — Georgia doesn't have a law requiring that the ballot be counted, so there may be some level of discretion for election officials to toss it.
A sentence from that article that I love:
"Ten [states] specifically mandate the counting of absentee ballots regardless of the voter’s corporeal status."
"Corporeal status". I love it. I'm probably going to semi-ironically incorporate that phrase into my lexicon
If a person is alive at the time of voting, it makes sense to me to count it. They might die after the election before inauguration too.
Plus removing recently deceased people's already cast votes opens up creative violent ways to help your team which I'm not a fan of either
Regardless, if that were to be the case for Jimmy Carter I think anyone who threw out his ballot would find themselves extremely unpopular.
Seriously. I have family in Georgia, and while there's a ton of right wingers down there, they're still proud of their Christian native raised former president. They'll forgive him for being a Democrat, he didn't know any better.
Depends on the state. Florida would count the vote, but idk about Georgia.
I'm curious what percentage of surviving presidents are also voting for Harris.
All but one.