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L K said:
I hereby claim ownership of tmlfans.ca

I think that's how it works.  I own the site now!

Ive decided that when competitive rowing gets started up again I?m just gonna blast the first ten strokes of the race to make sure I get out ahead then declare to the umpire the race is over and I?ve won and not to bother counting the last ~1900 metres
 
herman said:
What results trackers were people using?

I was flipping between Politico, NYT, AP, and 538, and they all painted a pretty calm narrow victory for Biden throughout the evening. But my timeline looked like it was melting down last night. Were people just expecting everything to cruise into blue?

I had just about all of them open but I mainly relied on 538 and NYT. I think the thing that got people really worked up was watching the NYT needle go so quickly from being very bullish that Biden would win at least one of those states and make his election pretty likely to having him as an underdog in all three and making it a tossup. Especially when it looked like the polling error in Florida was pretty widespread.

The two things that really brought back hope was Arizona and then Minnesota, which was at least a partial indicator that the Midwest wouldn't be as bad for Biden as for Clinton. Once the NYT needle had the crazy jump on Georgia and Milwaukee started releasing their ballots I think people started really breathing again.
 
Zee said:
Biden has got this.  It's like a 4-1 lead late in game 7 of a series, very unlikely to lose.

Thank you Zee, for supplying me with a laugh in this, the bleakest of times..... ;D :-X :-\
 
bustaheims said:
Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Nevada are all likely to end up in recounts, with North Carolina and Georgia potentially heading that way, as well, but, as Nik points out, it's unlikely they'll actually find enough of a discrepancy to change the votes.

The thing to keep in mind about recounts is that after 2000 elections already have poll watchers who can dispute votes. So any recount will, at most, be about disputed ballots and not ones already signed off on. The reason things were so crazy in Florida is because the margin was so close(hundreds of votes) and the fact that due to Florida's confusing ballots and weird way of filling them out(hanging chads) it was conceivable that a few hundred votes were going to be found for Gore to push things his way(and I think they were). That's when Bush and his team sued to stop the recount and eventually won in court.

That's the other thing to keep in mind for people worrying about a court battle here. The Trump-backed Supreme court has made some crummy, undemocratic rulings about counting ballots received after election day and so on but the votes being counted now, the ones that will very likely show a Biden win, are the votes that were received on time. Late votes, like all mail votes, will probably favour Democrats so Republicans won't sue to include them and they have no basis to sue to stop the count of properly received ballots.
 
herman said:
https://twitter.com/stjohns28/status/1324078184845856769

Awesome to see. Wish more players were coming out and talking about the election. They don't even really need to say "Trump is a racist" or anything but more players endorsing Biden would be nice. Johns likely agrees:

https://twitter.com/stjohns28/status/1324129273582596099

On a somewhat related note Tony D either deleted his twitter or was suspended for posting so much false/misleading election information.
 
If Biden can pull this out because of Arizona, Trump's disrespect of John McCain finally gets some comeuppance.  Now that would be extremely satisfying.
 
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1324200240694648834
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1324194825642627073
 
Paula White says Trump has got this in the bag

https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1324175651515949056?s=20
 
Zee said:
Paula White says Trump has got this in the bag

https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1324175651515949056?s=20

I'll be up front that I'm not the most religious person to begin with but if this insanity is what gets you into heaven I think an eternal sauna doesn't sound so bad.
 
https://twitter.com/bluestein/status/1324360112190951424

I didn't realize until last night that Perdue had to get 50% as well to avoid a run-off election. Hopefully this holds and the Dems have a chance to get the Senate with the two run-off elections in Georgia. Think those will be tough races but still a chance is something.
 

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