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It's interesting all the way around. As a rule, baseball players fall on the more conservative of the political scale, as do the fans. But by the same token, a lot of conservative people don't like to mix politics and sports so not sure how much they'll really even care if the game moves. To the average fan, it's just a different background on the television as to what ballpark the game is played in.
Yes and the US should pull all manufacturing out of China...GL
I suspect that Delta has calculated that Georgia needs Delta more than Delta needs Georgia.
I agree with this
I think this generates enough money that a lot of people in Atlanta are not going to be happy. If you owned a business or hotel downtown you probably have already invested a good portion in renovations .... and even if not, this was likely going to a top revenue year coming off 2020.
Of course, and as I stated it directly impacted my business, I had to write down revenues that went to the bottom line over this game. So I'm not really happy about it but I'm not even a GA resident so not really anything I can do. The point is when you take a financial shot at someone, the reaction isn't likely to be to acquiesce or come around to the other point of view. It does make it less likely I'll pay that renewal on the next contract just to not have to deal with all the BS so I guess to whatever small extent that contract represents it hurts the Braves, MLB, MLBPA on spending, etc.
Historically speaking, these types of actions seem to cause change. It usually just takes a few years.
I would take that poll with a grain of salt. The real data I would look at is the television and attendance numbers. I think a certain group of people might grouse about sports/movies getting involved in politics, and they might even answer a poll like this by stating they watch less, but the proof will be in the television and attendance numbers (once they can correctly measure these post-Covid).
What do you mean by the voting shows?
Oh I'm not disagreeing that it can but that's not really the part I care about. Financially speaking when politics and sports intersect, it's caused disruptions such as in this case for Atlanta, for that ACC Championship game in Charlotte, etc. It's not good for someone investing in it for business purposes as I do and when it happens it's probably not somewhere I need to be putting my money for business reasons, nothing to do with political. My reaction when I lose money to something like this isn't to double down but to just pull the plug. The question will come as it did from the Charlotte Sports Foundation following the ACC issues of "Why are you not supporting us anymore?" and it's not the political answer, it's the business one that they could do nothing about. There are usually other peripheral issues involved as well but these things just tend to be something that in business I don't like to deal with.
How about we just make everyone show an ID regardless? I mean, an overwhelming majority (72%) want voter id, including democrats:
And in some really strange coincidence 36 states (72%) have some sort of voter ID requirements.
The poll said *photo* id. In my state, a utility bill is enough. It's just to show you live there. According to Wiki only 7 states require photo id, and 10 more request it.
I don't see the problem here.
And? Why do we need millions of absentee ballots printed and hanging out there that will never be used? Not only is it obviously a waste of resources but it's potential for voter fraud having that many blank ballots waiting for someone to fill them in needing only a signature to become valid.Yenrub said:
It says absentee ballot APPLICATIONS. So there wouldn’t be millions of absentee BALLOTS printed.
Will water be provided?Dinsy Ejotuz said:
My mistake then. Still why print millions of applications if only a couple hundred thousand are needed. Mail in ballots should go way down this next cycle so providing applications as needed makes a lot more fiscal sense. And I'm not sure what the problem with the second part is.
Why make it illegal though? The state run by R can clearly decide not to do this. This is the state saying "Know your place Fulton County" and making it impossible for them to use their own money to do this. A bunch of D in a D led city are being prevented from the D gov't providing a service they want.
They are putting an arbitrary limit on something that was not limited before in order to make voting more difficult. How is that not "VOTER SUPPRESSION"?BladeRunner said:I don't see the problem here.
What did they do BEFORE the pandemic? What was the drop box count pre-pandemic?
I'm getting the feeling they DID NOT have 94 drop boxes pre-pandemic and now suddenly it's "VOTER SUPPRESSION" because you're not getting 94 drop boxes again when pre-pandemic it was less than 94 and it was just fine.
Well this is wrong.Sea Duck said:
Yenrub said:
I'm noticing a lot of conflicting coverage out there about what's actually in the Georgia legislation and what isn't. Are these two examples the kind of thing that people are upset about? Because neither seems like a particularly big deal or even very interesting.Yenrub said:
It happened once before. Last election. And it was a changing of the rules non legislatively. Changes in election law are the sole purview of the legislature.
My guess is the reason they are most upset about the drop box reductions and the no food and water handouts is because they realized how successful holding voting events can be. Fire up the BBQ and hold an event, right by the drop box.
I’m guessing that the post office fiasco of 2020 also plays a part in the push back on drop box reduction.
How many boxes did they have before? Did anyone count?
I honestly don't understand what the problem would be if the dropped down to zero boxes. Maybe I'm missing something obvious -- it wouldn't be the first time and it won't be the last -- but so what if they reduce the number of drop boxes? Everybody already has their own private drop box at the end of their driveway. It's hard to get any more convenient than that.
Right? I don't get it either.
According to this site https://www.fultoncountyga.gov/services/voting-and-elections/absentee-ballot-box
I appreciate the link.
Oh. CLEARLY voter suppression then.
I think we make assumptions about people that don’t always apply. Not everybody has a property, or a regular address, or proper ID.
Then that's on them.
What problem?Then that's on them.
If you can't AT LEAST get an ID then you're the problem, not the system.
The D party isn't even remotely capable of doing that.