How badly will COVID-19 disrupt the 2020 elections?

[SnowLabrador]

I think that vote-by-mail will become necessary, but it won't be instituted due to Democrats' fecklessness and Republicans thinking it benefits them to not have it. This means that turnout will be extremely low.

What do you guys think?

[Hammy]

We're going to see 2014 (or worse) repeated at the presidential level as the people voting for Trump all think this is a hoax and will turn out in droves.

[Person Man]

We're going to see 2014 (or worse) repeated at the presidential level as the people voting for Trump all think this is a hoax and will turn out in droves.

That didn't work out in Wisconsin.

[Progressive Pessimist]

We're going to see 2014 (or worse) repeated at the presidential level as the people voting for Trump all think this is a hoax and will turn out in droves.

That didn't work out in Wisconsin.

Yeah, honestly I was worried about this prospect before that election. It truly does seem like Democrats and other anti-Trump voters will risk the worst if it means that they can vote against him, and I'm one of them. I will touch the filthiest, most contaminated "Cast Vote" button if I have to, even in my unimportant state.

Sure, it would be ideal and responsible if we had vote-by-mail as an emergency backup; but that doesn't seem very realistic with Republican legislatures controlling so many battleground states, unfortunately.

[Landslide Lyndon]

If coronavirus is still disrupting everyday life to such a degree in November, then vote-by-mail will probably be the least of Trump's problems.

[Tekken_Guy]

Democrats are going to walk on broken glass to vote out Trump. We saw it in Wisconsin, and people will risk their health to cast the decisive vote on how the crisis will end.

Besides, I don't think the situation with the virus will be as bad as it is now.

[Hammy]

We're going to see 2014 (or worse) repeated at the presidential level as the people voting for Trump all think this is a hoax and will turn out in droves.

That didn't work out in Wisconsin.

Yeah, honestly I was worried about this prospect before that election. It truly does seem like Democrats and other anti-Trump voters will risk the worst if it means that they can vote against him, and I'm one of them. I will touch the filthiest, most contaminated "Cast Vote" button if I have to, even in my unimportant state.

Sure, it would be ideal and responsible if we had vote-by-mail as an emergency backup; but that doesn't seem very realistic with Republican legislatures controlling so many battleground states, unfortunately.

But how many people stayed home for the primary? Turnouts are only about 15% so those cannot by any means be used as any sort of indicator for the GE.

[Dr. Arch]

We're going to see 2014 (or worse) repeated at the presidential level as the people voting for Trump all think this is a hoax and will turn out in droves.

That didn't work out in Wisconsin.

Yeah, honestly I was worried about this prospect before that election. It truly does seem like Democrats and other anti-Trump voters will risk the worst if it means that they can vote against him, and I'm one of them. I will touch the filthiest, most contaminated "Cast Vote" button if I have to, even in my unimportant state.

Sure, it would be ideal and responsible if we had vote-by-mail as an emergency backup; but that doesn't seem very realistic with Republican legislatures controlling so many battleground states, unfortunately.

But how many people stayed home for the primary? Turnouts are only about 15% so those cannot by any means be used as any sort of indicator for the GE.

There was actually an increase in turnout relative to the last election in WI.

[Roronoa D. Law]

We're going to see 2014 (or worse) repeated at the presidential level as the people voting for Trump all think this is a hoax and will turn out in droves.

That didn't work out in Wisconsin.

Yeah, honestly I was worried about this prospect before that election. It truly does seem like Democrats and other anti-Trump voters will risk the worst if it means that they can vote against him, and I'm one of them. I will touch the filthiest, most contaminated "Cast Vote" button if I have to, even in my unimportant state.

Sure, it would be ideal and responsible if we had vote-by-mail as an emergency backup; but that doesn't seem very realistic with Republican legislatures controlling so many battleground states, unfortunately.

But how many people stayed home for the primary? Turnouts are only about 15% so those cannot by any means be used as any sort of indicator for the GE.

No, it's not an indicator of the GE but showed that any notion that Democrats are too scared to leave the house and Republicans aren't will throw the election to Trump is just as big as a hoax as 5G causing Coronavirus.

[Grassroots]

I don't think it will be too bad. As long as there isn't a second surge by November we should be fine.

[Meclazine for Israel]

We already have a thread that discusses this exact issue:

https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=367850.2525

[emailking]

Wisconsin was nice, but Democrats had a Presidential Primary to vote for which probably skews things blue. I don't think Corona helps Trump, but I'm not sure Wisconsin tells us much.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

On line donations and political rallies and phone banking have been affected by COVID 19. That's why Bernie ran out of steam, Michael Moore crowd could substantial the movt any longer with donations

[T'Chenka]

I don't think it will be too bad. As long as there isn't a second surge by November we should be fine.

There likely will be.

[Inmate Trump]

I don't think it will be too bad. As long as there isn't a second surge by November we should be fine.

There likely will be.

I think it’s likely if not by November then December or January. Most definitely sometime in the winter.

But it happening in November is a major possibility and vote by mail should be allowed if not encouraged.

[Person Man]

I don't think it will be too bad. As long as there isn't a second surge by November we should be fine.

There likely will be.

I think it’s likely if not by November then December or January. Most definitely sometime in the winter.

But it happening in November is a major possibility and vote by mail should be allowed if not encouraged.

I'm not a meteorologist despite the fact that I got really into the weather when I was 7 after I missed Hurricane Andrew because a family trip didn't work out. Had we stayed, we would have been in the keys during the worst of it.

However, it is my understanding that a mild hurricane season (where hurricanes don't form in great numbers and if they do, they stay offshore or in the deep tropics with the remainder coming ashore the US as underdeveloped or remnant Tropical Storms) is usually proceeded by an early fall. If the corona is really that weather dependent and if my assumption about the climate is generally true, wouldn't that mean ironically that a severe hurricane season means that the next outbreak may happen only after the election?

[Tekken_Guy]

I don't think it will be too bad. As long as there isn't a second surge by November we should be fine.

There likely will be.

Why?