# Election Day \[Week\]\[Month\[s\]\] \[Year\] 2020 follow-along thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 3, 2020, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618 "2020-11-03T05:36:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/181 "2020-11-03T23:56:52Z")
Awww. For a brief moment Kentucky was blue on CNN. Lasted about five minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/182 "2020-11-03T23:57:20Z")
It is still waaaaaaaay too early to even make guesses but FWIW: - [Democrats return nearly three times as many mail-in ballots as Republicans in Pennsylvania](https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/03/democrats-more-mail-in-ballots-pennsylvania-433951) (take with a massive lump of salt) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/183 "2020-11-04T00:00:26Z")
Stereotypical southern Trump supporter arrested for open carrying a firearm outside NC polling place. > **[Banned man who returned to Charlotte polling site after leaving jail arrested...](https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/armed-man-arrested-charlotte-polling-site-charged-with-trespassing/56KCCUCSHNES5NWF5FAR6M4Z3A/)** > > Police said Tuesday that they have arrested a 36-year-old man who was wanted for trespassing at a polling site he was banned from in University City on Election Day. > Channel 9 did some digging and found that Dunn is registered as a Democrat and as a Black man. Election officials said they questioned Dunn about that discrepancy and he allegedly told them that he “wanted to test the system to see how he would be treated.” ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/184 "2020-11-04T00:00:31Z")
Loser Donald takes Indiana. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/185 "2020-11-04T00:05:07Z")
WHAT? Next you’ll be telling us that Trump has Wyoming too! ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/186 "2020-11-04T00:05:35Z")
Florida just closed. Early and mail vote totals are being reported. Trump is running several percentage points behind his 2016 numbers in most of the counties. We will see how the Election Day vote plays out. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/187 "2020-11-04T00:07:24Z")
So he’s running behind his 2016 numbers, but do we know if he’s ahead of Biden in the early votes? ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/188 "2020-11-04T00:09:29Z")
I have a Zoom planning board meeting starting in 25 minutes. Bah. Hope it’s a short one; but it won’t be extremely short, we’ve got three or four applications to deal with. Voted last week myself, but swung by my polling place this afternoon as I had to do another errand, and saw something I’ve never seen before in this village of about 1500 people: a line extending out the door and nearly all the way down the drive. Roughly 4:00 in the afternoon. We generally have a good turnout, but I’ve never had more than half a dozen people ahead of me in line. Now for one thing the length of line was extended by distancing, and for another it may not be a good sign considering the usual political makeup of the area. But it was something to see, nevertheless. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/189 "2020-11-04T00:09:44Z")
He’s leading in some counties he won in 2016 but not by as much. In Pinellas county with 75% of the vote reported Biden has 53% to Trumps 47%. Trump won Pinellas in 2016 49% to 47% for Clinton. It looks like Biden is performing better with early and mail in votes. No idea yet how he is doing with people who voted in person. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/190 "2020-11-04T00:10:46Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Stereotypical southern Trump supporter arrested for open carrying a firearm outside NC polling place. > > A 36-year-old armed man was arrested Tuesday at a polling site in University City. > > > Channel 9 did some digging and found that Dunn is registered as a Democrat and as a Black man. Election officials said they questioned Dunn about that discrepancy and he allegedly told them that he “wanted to test the system to see how he would be treated.” 🤦🏻‍♂️ Kinda disappointed he did not try to take the experiment all the way and register as a black _woman._ ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/191 "2020-11-04T00:10:48Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > Florida just closed. Early and mail vote totals are being reported. Trump is running several percentage points behind his 2016 numbers in most of the counties. It’s critical to know how they are counting the ballots. If a county starts with all the mail-in/absentee, it is likely to skew Biden initially, but it doesn’t really tell you if the county as a whole has changed. ---
**Author:** ![tripthicket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripthicket/32/297_2.png) [@tripthicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tripthicket)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/192 "2020-11-04T00:11:12Z")
Okay, color me ignorant. According to the _NewsNation_ site, only 16% of the expected vote for Indiana has come in. How has that state then been called for Trump already? Or would it change as the night goes on? ETA: inserted ‘for Indiana’ ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/193 "2020-11-04T00:12:47Z")
It’s Indiana. VP Pence is the former governor and it tends to skew very Republican. Obama won it in 2008 but that was a serious exception. It’s like calling NY or CA for Biden the minute the polls close. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/194 "2020-11-04T00:13:26Z")
Fuck you, Indiana. Dumbasses. I know lots of Hoosiers. I work with them. They come to work in Illinois because we have jobs here. ---
**Author:** ![Skypist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skypist/32/169_2.png) [@Skypist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skypist)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/195 "2020-11-04T00:13:52Z")
This feels like 2016 already. Stepping out on the ledge… ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/196 "2020-11-04T00:15:25Z")
Don’t get ahead of yourself. Still a lot of votes to be reported. ---
**Author:** ![Boycott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boycott/32/6741_2.png) [@Boycott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boycott)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/197 "2020-11-04T00:15:42Z")
Fox News Decision Desk projects Biden wins Vermont and Virginia ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/198 "2020-11-04T00:16:27Z")
Biden winning Virginia this early in the night would be a good sign, but I’ll wait for a news network to report it. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/199 "2020-11-04T00:18:24Z")
Networks will often just call a state the moment the polls close if it’s a foregone conclusion. Everyone knows Biden is going to win Virginia and Vermont. I know it’s easy to think of Virginia as being a battleground state because it’s part of the South, but it’s not. It’s dead blue. Biden will win it by at least ten points. ---
**Author:** ![tripthicket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripthicket/32/297_2.png) [@tripthicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tripthicket)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/200 "2020-11-04T00:18:43Z")
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