While the plan seems to be: hope it’s a close election and try to invalidate as many ballots as possible (as of now, a potential, though no means most likely, outcome) the flip side is that there’s a lot of poli sci research that says talking like this only demotivates voters.
This is all coming from a good place but I cannot overstate how unhelpful this rhetoric is towards encouraging people to vote.
This isn’t what Chris and other liberal pundits are doing. They’re presenting a potential scenario as likely and then implying that it will hand Trump the White House again. It’s not preparing people, it makes people feel as if voting is useless.
Like, yes, this is basically what Bush did in Florida in 2000, but it would’ve been close to impossible if we were talking about a few thousand vote difference versus a few hundred. Take a deep breath. Keep your head down and focus. 42 days.
One more thing: if you are a professional election forecaster with a twitter following and you're spending your time doomcasting low-probability scenarios to scare Democrats instead of level-headedly engaging with the likelihood of these scenarios, pick a different profession.
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