Idiocracy
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Kin
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herman said:
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.
Kin
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bustaheims said:
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:
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.
https://twitter.com/tictactomar/status/1324142595174502402
Phileas Fogg
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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.
Phileas Fogg
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CarltonTheBear said:
Maga twits aside, that was a hell of a nice goal.
bustaheims
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It sounds like really bad beatnik poetry or really awful folk music.
Guilt Trip
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Sounds like a wacko. Perfect supporter for the orange man.
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.
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.
https://twitter.com/POLITICO_Steve/status/1324390018337693697