Do you think there will be violence on Nov 4th?

I have enough toilet paper and ammunition, but my area won't have violence.

Lots of people talk big buy don't have follow through

I think there might be some riot activity if it’s close, and the announcement is delayed. If it’s a landslide, as I’m hoping, I don’t think there will be too much activity or violence.
DH, who is LEO, has already been told to prepare for tactical alert. He absolutely blames Trump for creating this environment. He didn’t at first, but now he does. I guess better late than never.

Yes, thank you for understanding. 🥰  My tolerance for a lot of stuff is running low right now. 

And leowife is gone.

Honestly I don't think there will be mass or large violence.

I do worry about Trump supporters attacking Biden supporters for awhile. That is a real fear.

Trump supporters are down right crazy...

Good riddance to the fucking nutcase.

I noticed the two threads started for her were by similar thinking nutcases. Meh, I really don't care, do you?

The trouble with polls is that they only include the views of the respondents, not everyone in the sample. Most who are asked won't respond with an answer either way. And if the poll is done by phone, most calls will go right to ignore. The ones who respond are those who are older folks still using land lines and those who are more vocal with their opinions in general, so that will heavily skew to the Trump supporters. 

Instead of saying "Americans think this way," the reports should read "poll respondents think this way."

At my university, Election Day is a school holiday in even years, so any time there is a national office on he ballot, we get the day off to vote both in the primary and the general election. I've heard there will be some "poll watching parties" that evening, which is just another excuse for students to gather in numbers higher than recommended.

Our campus community is pretty "blue," so a Biden win could result in some couch-burning which is generally reserved for a big win in football or basketball. Our football team seems unlikely to produce a big win anytime soon. Our basketball team will probably be in the discussion regarding national championship hopes, but given the spike in COVID cases and the fact that the pandemic will probably be worse during this year's season than it was last year (affecting the whole season, not just tournament season), I don't see any reasonable possibility of big celebrations for basketball either. Thus, the students may just take this opportunity to burn couches to celebrate a Biden victory or to protest a Trump victory. Either way, I expect these bonfires will happen sometime next week. I hope not, but our student body never fails to disappoint when it comes to couch-burning. Fortunately, these events rarely involve violence, and couches are the main casualty.

Outside of Morgantown, Charleston, and Huntington, I'm not sure there will be much reaction regardless of who wins. We have mostly small communities in this state, and I just don't see them engaging in violent behavior, primarily due to a lack of numbers to produce a major protest.

jlynnbarth I understand what you mean completely. For me the last presidential election happened on the one day anniversary of my sister's death. And I was in the hospital just to make things worse. All I wanted to do was mourn. I hope you get the peace you seek.

I don't think there will be violence...but I live in South Dakota. If I was in a bigger city I would probably be worried. That being said I have buffed up my stock even more just to be prepared if I am wrong.

In my entire 44 years of living in SD there has only one instance that would be considered a riot and it happened last June. Was it peaceful? No. But it also wasn't a lock up your house and hide your kids type of situation either.

I just hope that both sides can just accept the results and be decent about it. I have voted in 6 presidential elections where my person has won and my person has lost. Never have I had the need to throw fits over it nor had the urge to gloat and celebrate. FTR I have voted for candidates on both sides too. My life has became less stressful when I started focusing on the things I can control and that is the things within my 4 walls. Don't get me wrong though in the privacy of my own home I still yell and curse at the news and just about every politician irregardless of party affiliation.

I’m well aware of how polls work, but it should be interesting to note that he seems to be gaining in the swing states. The landslide one Pea mentioned, might not happen.

This was the CHIEF OF POLICE in a town in ARKANSAS until his social media posts went viral.

"Will you and several hundred more go with me to D.C. and fight our way into the Congress and arrest every Democrat who has participated in this coup?” Chief Lang Holland posted Friday on Parler, a right-wing messaging site. “We may have to shoot and kill many of the Communist B.L.M. and ANTIFA Democrat foot soldiers to accomplish this!!!”

“Death to all Marxist Democrats. Take no prisoners leave no survivors!!” Chief Holland added."

Then we wonder why law enforcement is broken.



www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/us/arkansas-police-resigns-parler.html

I almost want to explain to him that Marxists aren't Democrats but it'd be a waste of time

Replace "people" with "Americans".

They like to throw around words like "socialist" "baby killer", "Marxist", "lazy", "communist" without either comprehension or evidence. And the brainwashed American masses respond to their trigger words like a Pavlovian-trained dog responds to a bell.