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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, October 17, 2024

October 17, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

MAGA Americans Dissociating from Reality by Monte Wolverton, Battle Ground, WA
MAGA Americans Dissociating from Reality by Monte Wolverton, Battle Ground, Washington.

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Weather: Sunny, with a high near 72. Northeast wind 11 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 63.

  • Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
  • Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
  • Check today’s tides in Daytona Beach (a few minutes off from Flagler Beach) here.
  • Tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.




Today at a Glance:

Drug Court convenes before Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols at 10 a.m. in Courtroom 401 at the Flagler County courthouse, Kim C. Hammond Justice Center 1769 E Moody Blvd, Bldg 1, Bunnell. Drug Court is open to the public. See the Drug Court handbook here and the participation agreement here.

The Palm Coast City Council meets in a closed-door session at City Hall at 3 p.m. to discuss whether to accept or reject a settlement offer in the lawsuit challenging the city’s referendum on a charter amendment that would essentially end voters’ say on city borrowing and leasing beyond a certain level. See the details of the offer here: “Settlement Offer Gives Palm Coast Council Chance to Pull Embattled Debt Referendum from the Ballot.”

Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, from noon to 2 p.m. in Central Park in Town Center, 975 Central Ave. Join Bill Wells, Bob Rupp and other members of the Palm Coast Model Yacht Club, watch them race or join the races with your own model yacht. No dues to join the club, which meets at the pond in Central Park every Thursday.

Palm Coast Concert Series: 6 to 8 p.m. at The Stage in Town Center, 1500 Central Avenue, Palm Coast. The United States Navy’s popular band “Pride”. They will be playing top 40/ pop music. This free event is for all ages.




Notably: The graph above is a little surprising, if not suspicious. Are Americans really more politically engaged than the French? by that much? Higher than Canada’s? Lower than Mexico’s? Turnout rates alone raise further questions. In 2020 turnout for the presidential election in the United States, though very high relative to previous elections, was just 62.8 percent overall, if calculated by eligible voters–the more correct way to calculate turnout. Among registered voters, turnout was 94 percent. But that’s an artificial figure. In France in 2022, overall turnout was 65.7 percent. If you take turnout among the registered, the figure rises to 72 percent. But the disparity only underscores French engagement: a far greater proportion of the French electorate is registered, compared to the American electorate. That alone suggests more interest in politics there than here. In Mexico, the turnout rate was 66 percent at the last national election, though somehow only 63.4 percent of those registered turned out. Among democracies (excuse me, among republics), the United States is a middling voting nation, well below the majority of nations that hold elections, with Uruguay at the top, followed by Turkey, Peru, Indonesia and Argentina, which also suggests that turnout does not equate to quality governance. See the curious graph below.

—P.T.

election turnout

 

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August 2025
Wednesday, Aug 27
9:00 am - 12:00 pm

River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) Meeting

Airline Room, Daytona Beach International Airport
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Wednesday, Aug 27
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Separation Chat: Open Discussion

Pine Lakes Golf Club
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Wednesday, Aug 27
1:20 pm - 2:30 pm

The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group

Contact Aynne McAvoy
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Wednesday, Aug 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library

Flagler County Public Library
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Wednesday, Aug 27
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Joint Workshop of Local Governments

Government Services Building
Thursday, Aug 28
10:00 am - 11:00 am

Flagler County Drug Court Convenes

Flagler County courthouse
Thursday, Aug 28
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center

Central Park in Town Center
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Thursday, Aug 28
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Palm Coast Beautification and Environmental Advisory Committee

Palm Coast City Hall
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Thursday, Aug 28
5:30 pm - 10:30 pm

Flagler Beach City Commission Meeting

Flagler Beach City Hall
Thursday, Aug 28
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Palm Coast Concert Series

The Stage in Town Center
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Michael Podhorzer, a senior adviser to the president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., which invested deeply in expanding Democratic turnout in 2020, suggests that the two parties now have irreconcilable beliefs about whose votes are legitimate. “What blue-state people don’t understand about why the Big Lie works,” he said, is that it doesn’t actually require proof of fraud. “What animates it is the belief that Biden won because votes were cast by some people in this country who others think are not ‘real’ Americans.” This anti-democratic belief has been bolstered by a constellation of established institutions on the right: “white evangelical churches, legislators, media companies, nonprofits, and even now paramilitary groups.” Podhorzer noted, “Trump won white America by eight points. He won non-urban areas by over twenty points. He is the democratically elected President of white America. It’s almost like he represents a nation within a nation.”

–From Jane Mayer’s “The Big Money Behind the Big Lie,” The New Yorker, Aug. 9, 2021.

 

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  1. Pogo says

    October 17, 2024 at 11:32 am

    @Eliminate the Electoral College

    Period.

    Oops, too late. America almost survived.

    And so it went — until it didn’t.

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