leedrake@mastadon.green
Joined February 2009
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18 Jun 2019
2016: lol, they named it Boaty McBoatface
2019: Boaty McBoatface has determined that increasing winds have cooled surface ocean temperatures, causing them to subduct and cause turbulence, which is amplifying the rise of sea level, threatening billions.
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Lee Drake retweeted
9 Feb 2025
Representative McCaul has been a steadfast champion of our wartime allies.
Today, he made it clear that @potus should immediately rectify the unintended consequences of the USRAP and foreign aid executive orders.
Thank you @RepMcCaul!!
9 Feb 2025
Representative Michael McCaul is right -- we have an obligation to our SIV and USRAP wartime allies AND these folks are well-vetted. @StateDept @SecRubio and @DHSgov Sec @KristiNoem must take action today.
Thank you for standing with our #wartimeallies, @RepMcCaul!
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Lee Drake retweeted
6 Nov 2024
No. Russia wants Trump to win. If he does, our foreign policy will become much more favorable to the Putin regime. Making bomb threats was a gamble with tons of upside and very little downside.
6 Nov 2024
Have the Russian bomb threats targeted any Republican-majority polling places? or only Democratic ones?
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Lee Drake retweeted
6 Nov 2024
Alright, well, hats off to Nate Cohn for nailing the whole low-propensity voters/race depolarization thing. Will readily admit that I was wrong about that
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Lee Drake retweeted
6 Nov 2024
Almost identical story in #WISen and #MISen, where Slotkin and Baldwin are now in serious, serious danger of going down. Not too many pre-election polls showed them trailing, but this is looking very dicey for both of them.
6 Nov 2024
#PASen is going to come down to the absolute wire here. Bob Casey outrunning Harris by somewhere between 1-2 points, which is less than what many pre-election polls had. This is not getting called anytime soon — Dave McCormick still has nearly even odds of winning the seat.
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Lee Drake retweeted
6 Nov 2024
One big takeaway: This was a 50/50 election, and the polls are very likely to simply have been right. The anecdotes about ground game, enthusiasm, late movement etc don't square with the simple reality we're seeing, which is that polls were broadly fine.
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6 Nov 2024
I know Ohio looks good right now. Wait for complete counts. This happened in 2020 too.
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Lee Drake retweeted
6 Nov 2024
Just in: 12 polling places in Georgia are having their hours extended due to Russian-originated bomb threats, according to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
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Lee Drake retweeted
6 Nov 2024
Well, the polls showed a closer (albeit still blue-leaning) race in Virginia than we got in 2020 — and they look correct for that. Because Kamala Harris is winning Loudoun County by only 17, which is an 8 point underperformance on Biden's 2020 performance when he won by 25.
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Lee Drake retweeted
6 Nov 2024
MASSIVE WARNING BELL FOR HARRIS:
Loudoun County, VA (91% in):
2020: Biden 25
2024: Harris 17
8% swing right atm in VERY educated suburb
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Lee Drake retweeted
6 Nov 2024
First complete county of the night is Taylor County, KY
87% white, 23% college
Trump 78%
Harris 21%
Shift from 2020: Trump 6
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Lee Drake retweeted
5 Nov 2024
Friends. Please. Do not post half-completed counties and then say "do not extrapolate" unless you know how e-day/early votes will split, which none of you know yet.
This is just going to mislead 95% of the audience the tweets will reach. Wait for counties to complete.
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5 Nov 2024
Not a fan of the Russian bomb threats being added to the election.
5 Nov 2024
BREAKING via @wsbtv: A polling place in Tucker (metro ATL suburb) is being evacuated due to a bomb threat.
Polls in GA close at 7pm ET
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Lee Drake retweeted
5 Nov 2024
BREAKING via @wsbtv: A polling place in Tucker (metro ATL suburb) is being evacuated due to a bomb threat.
Polls in GA close at 7pm ET
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He’s not! SCOTUS had to rewrite the Fourteenth Amendment so he could run again.
5 Nov 2024
until the day I die I will never understand why he was even still allowed to run after this
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Lee Drake retweeted
5 Nov 2024
Nevada’s secretary of state, seeing high number of rejected ballots in Clark and Washoe, says one of the biggest issues is that the signatures of younger voters don’t always match what’s on their driver’s licenses:
“It’s mostly the fact that young people don’t have signatures these days. And when they did register to vote through the automatic voter registration process, they signed a digital pad at D.M.V., and that became their license signature.”
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5 Nov 2024
Seeing the “Voted” sign on minivan across the street for most Trump flags. Not sure they had their intended effect.
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Lee Drake retweeted
5 Nov 2024
New: Michigan authorities have received threats to polling locations that are “serious in nature,” but deemed to not be credible after investigation by law enforcement, Attorney General @dananessel tells me. “We’re acting immediately upon any information we receive and we seek to verify it,” Nessel said. “And, again, so far none of the threats have been deemed credible.” Authorities are still seeking to determine whether the threats originated from inside or outside the state or country.
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5 Nov 2024
RT @gringsam: Several polling places in Fulton County received threats and had to be temporarily closed.
County election officials are se…
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