My main concern at this point is Trump supporters showing up at polling places, armed, in order to intimidate potential voters. People who won’t take “no” for an answer. There may not be any formal organization to it, but I expect that some Trump supporters will try it.

THAT, if and where it may happen, may just be the straw that breaks the camel’s back and gets the 2nd Amendment rewritten.

I am guessing that mainstream GOP Republicans do not want to be known as the “Grab Our Privates” party, and I suspect that they are going to torpedo the Trump frigate the first chance they get. My magic 8 ball further suggests that Trump will be a mere shadow of his former self by 2017. However, his legions of befuzzled fools will still be around, and that should be a real source of concern. To everybody.

Empirical evidence suggests that the third sentence overrides the first. Several Republicans tried to distance themselves from Trump the weekend after the Access Hollywood tape was released, but by the following Tuesday they were all back on board with the nominee, the few exceptions being the ones who were never with Trump in the first place. The reason is because most GOP officeholders fear Trump’s supporters, who are the Republican base, and fear that they would be primaried at the next opportunity if they aren’t on board (or that their base would fail to support them in November and they would lose this election).

“There’s a real disconnect between the intensity of the buzz at the national level and anything we’ve seen on the ground,” said Al Schmidt, a Republican who is the vice chairman of Philadelphia’s election board. “We haven’t received a single call from somebody outside of Philadelphia looking to be a poll watcher.”

Mr. Schmidt assumes without evidence that any would-be poll watchers would go through formal party mechanisms. The base doesn’t trust the party elite: the latter have been promising the former an agenda on which they haven’t delivered. The House has not even attempted to impeach Obama, abortion is still (in principle) legal, etc. And many of these potential volunteers may not be aware that there are procedures that must be followed to become an official poll watcher.

My main concern at this point is Trump supporters showing up at polling places, armed, in order to intimidate potential voters. People who won’t take “no” for an answer. There may not be any formal organization to it, but I expect that some Trump supporters will try it.

My polling place is at a school, so Federal law prohibits carrying firearms there without a concealed carry permit. Unfortunately, I live in an open carry state, and the state Attorney General has issued an opinion that state and local law enforcement cannot enforce the Federal law. I’m also in one of the state’s most diverse and bluest towns, and a university town (i.e., many students voting), so I expect my polling place to be high on the list of polling places in my state for such yahoos to target.

Trump hotels and golf clubs, which in the U.S. are concentrated in cosmopolitan blue states, are losing customers.
http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2016/10/16/the-current-trump-clinton-electoral-prediction/#comment-637993

The most comprehensive summary of Trump’s predicament is here:
https://newrepublic.com/article/137864/donald-trump-citizen-pain

Recent articles, some of which are linked to above, show that Trump Media would have little chance of success and that his brands are being boycotted and are losing revenue. The falsified businessman who always wins has become the loser who always whines.

Trump is now in such bad shape that even if Republican efforts at voter suppression are successful, he’d still lose. And it should be remembered that the Democrats are far better organized and that they are recruiting legions of lawyers to challenge Republican obstruction. According to the Times, Trump’s appeals to his supporters to monitor the “rigged” election are as organizationally disorganized as everything else he does:

But as Mr. Trump casts doubt on the integrity of the presidential election, there are no signs of a wave of Trump poll watchers building. Like much else about his campaign, his call to “get everybody to go out and watch” the polls seems to be a Potemkin effort, with little or no organization behind it…

…His call to monitor polling places betrays an ignorance of election laws in most states, which require poll watchers to be registered in the county or precinct where they operate.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/19/us/politics/donald-trump-voting-election-rigging.html?_r=0

My belief is that Trump will be so resoundingly defeated that the narrative of a stolen election will find difficulty gaining traction among all but his most deluded supporters, and I don’t think there are enough of them to cause serious problems. I believe that Trump will quickly become as insignificant as Sarah Palin. (But I also believe that the Republican Party is in serious trouble.)
http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2016/10/16/the-current-trump-clinton-electoral-prediction/#comment-637993

All of which is not to say that you can relax and sit out the election or waste your vote on Johnson or Stein. We’ve already heard McCain’s Supreme Court comment.

(I promise you that we will be united against any Supreme Court nominee that Hillary Clinton, if she were president, would put up,” McCain told WPHT in Philadelphia. “I promise you. This is where we need the majority.
https://www.salon.com/2016/10/17/john-mccain-republicans-will-block-any-supreme-court-nominee-of-hillary-clinton/)

It’s essential for you to make an across the board Democratic victory as overwhelming as possible.

Now, it stands for the “Grab Our Privates” party.

Good one. I’m sure there are more…

Perhaps his greedy family will pressure him to step down and depart politics just to save their hopes for a slice of the billions — while it’s still worth something.

I am guessing that mainstream GOP Republicans do not want to be known as the “Grab Our Privates” party, and I suspect that they are going to torpedo the Trump frigate the first chance they get. My magic 8 ball further suggests that Trump will be a mere shadow of his former self by 2017. However, his legions of befuzzled fools will still be around, and that should be a real source of concern. To everybody.

Let’s look to what’s happening with voter registration in places like, oh, Indiana… North Carolina… Florida…

Why yes, we can see the Republican elements in government conspiring to rig the election — through fraudulent action against non-existent voter registration fraud.

Trump is right, only he needs to point his finger towards his “former party” as the guilty ones…