(11-15-2022, 10:16 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(11-15-2022, 09:22 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Those sentences are two different trains of thought. They shouldn't be next to each other. I am not a fan of Kari Lake for AZ, and I will say why in the following paragraph. I am also tired of moderates overlooking the appearance of impropriety because they feel like they will be labeled something. You cannot have the appearance of impropriety in elections. 

Personally, I don't like Kari Lake, because I feel like she's too quick to invoke the name of God. It might be genuine. It might be fake. Not my call to make. Arizona is not a highly religious state, and I think it comes across as manufactured, which is bad business if you're considered a Trump candidate. I don't mind a prayer to open public meetings, but, for the most part, I think it's important for candidates to separate church and state, or at least give the appearance of it. In this, I think she has potential to turn off moderates. Only 39% of adults are protestant in AZ.

If we are saying that AZ needs to tweak their system so that each county gets all of its vote counting done faster, I agree.

And I completely agree that it is usually good to pray and invoke God if you are in office, and usually bad to do so if you are campaigning.  It's good to connect the government's day to day activities to a higher purpose.  It's bad to imply that your opponent and the people who support your opponent are going to hell.

Some of these states are not allowed to count their mail in ballots until election day.  Pennsylvania is that way.  Florida counts mail in ballots when they get them.  So even though Florida probably gets a lot of mail in ballots on election day, they are able to count enough of them in advance to be able to project a winner on election night.

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