# 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:** 129
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/2564 "2020-11-05T21:44:21Z")
The fact that McConnell is already making reference to doing battle with the “Biden administration” tells you everything you need to know about where he’s coming down on the question of fighting for Trump. And the fact that Trump Republicans are trying to bully long-time Congressional Republicans into supporting them is also a big fat hint. ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/2565 "2020-11-05T21:45:07Z")
For those mentioning that Joe Biden has received the most votes beating Barry O’s 2008 record 72 million to 69 million… There’s still 16 million votes to be counted nationwide. Joe is going to end up north of 80 million. Truly astonishing. ---
**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 5, 2020, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/2566 "2020-11-05T21:45:53Z")
Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/2567 "2020-11-05T21:46:30Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > Pennsylvania is under 100,000 vote difference now More detail on that: “Around 14,000 Pennsylvania votes were just reported by Erie and Philadelphia counties (roughly split between them), and Biden captured more than 80 percent of those ballots. This updated count brought Trump’s lead in Pennsylvania below 100,000 votes to about 98,000 votes, or 1.5 percentage points (50.1 percent to 48.6 percent).” Drip, drip, drip… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/2568 "2020-11-05T21:46:53Z")
Nate Silver just reposted a claim that, of the 190,000 votes left to count in Nevada, 90% are from Clark County. Silver says that, if this is true, “Nevada should be projected for Biden, IMO.” > **[Biden Is Projected To Be The President-Elect. Here’s How It All Went Down.](https://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/2020-election-results-coverage/)** > > Live election results and coverage of the 2020 presidential election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, and the race for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/2569 "2020-11-05T21:47:02Z")
No doubt forced to eat hamberders. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/2570 "2020-11-05T21:47:46Z")
More from Nate Silver: > If 90 percent of the remaining ballots are from Clark County, Nevada should be projected for Biden, IMO. Ref: [https://www.nvsos.gov/sos/Home/Components/News/News/2888/309?backlist=%2Fsos](https://www.nvsos.gov/sos/Home/Components/News/News/2888/309?backlist=%2fsos) [ninja’d] ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/2571 "2020-11-05T21:49:20Z")
NT Times just reported 6327 votes from very red (Trump+44) Crawford County (PA) that was 64% Biden. Philly mail-in votes have been running 92% Biden, Philly suburbs 70+%. ---
**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 5, 2020, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/2572 "2020-11-05T21:49:59Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > For you and me, yes. We’re participating in this thread because we get involved in politics (probably to an unhealthy degree, at least lately for me 😉). But for a decent part of the electorate, they’ll see their job is done. Biden won! Back to something else. The Senate just isn’t that interesting to them. Even if only 10-20% of people feel like that, you’re into landslide territory. > > R’s won’t have that problem - they’ll be pissed off and ready to something to regain a little bit of control. We’ll find out, won’t we? Here, I’ll walk out on a limb and make a prediction: that, if Biden wins the Presidency, the turnout in the Georgia senatorial runoff/special election will be high on both sides. (I don’t know if they hold them at the same time; if they don’t, I’m making this prediction for the one they hold first, and also for the second one if and only if the D’s manage somehow to win the first. If the D’s lose the first, they may well not show up for the second – though they should, who knows if McConnell really is sick and will need replacing soon?) If I’m wrong, you’re entitled to one genuine No-Prize (anybody else remember those?) sent by No-Mail, and most likely Not Arriving; but it comes with Bragging Rights Over thorny locust About This, which will arrive. ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/2573 "2020-11-05T21:50:07Z")
I’m taking every Nate Silver utterance with a pillar of salt… ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/2574 "2020-11-05T21:51:20Z")
> [@susan](#): > > No doubt forced to eat hamberders. …And Melanie, walking around with too much makeup, drunk and belligerent, yelling, “Who gives a FUCK about The Christmas!”. Oh, I hope somebody at SNL has already thought of this and writing the script. ---
**Author:** ![yarblek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/71e660/32.png) [@yarblek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yarblek)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/2575 "2020-11-05T21:52:06Z")
Oooh watch out! The streams are gonna cross! [![](https://i.imgur.com/fjcPiAm.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/fjcPiAm.png) ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/2576 "2020-11-05T21:52:39Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Here, I’ll walk out on a limb and make a prediction: that, if Biden wins the Presidency, the turnout in the Georgia senatorial runoff/special election will be high on both sides. (I don’t know if they hold them at the same time; if they don’t, I’m making this prediction for the one they hold first, and also for the second one if and only if the D’s manage somehow to win the first. If the D’s lose the first, they may well not show up for the second – though they should, who knows if McConnell really is sick and will need replacing soon?) I believe the date for senatorial runoffs is January 5. Hopefully GA will send an absentee ballot to everyone who got one for the general (but they probably won’t). ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/2577 "2020-11-05T21:55:46Z")
Thanks for that. It’s good to see that there’s some push-back. ---
**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/2578 "2020-11-05T21:55:51Z")
The Georgia margin is under 10,000 now: Trump: 49.48% (2,439,678 votes) Biden: 49.29% (2,430,153 votes) ---
**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 5, 2020, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/2579 "2020-11-05T21:55:52Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > If I’m wrong, you’re entitled to one genuine No-Prize (anybody else remember those?) sent by No-Mail, and most likely Not Arriving; but it comes with Bragging Rights Over thorny locust About This, which will arrive. You’re on! 😃 (I sincerely hope you’re right, so if you’re not, I’ll let you keep the No-Prize so you can save the no-postage.) ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/2580 "2020-11-05T21:57:28Z")
In this case, I’m willing to make an exception to the general rule. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/2581 "2020-11-05T21:57:53Z")
> [@yarblek](#): > > Oooh watch out! The streams are gonna cross! > > [i.imgur.com/fjcPiAm.png](http://i.imgur.com/fjcPiAm.png) Looks kinda like a lightsaber 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/2582 "2020-11-05T21:57:54Z")
> [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](#): > > I’m taking every Nate Silver utterance with a pillar of salt… Same. ---
**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 5, 2020, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/2583 "2020-11-05T21:58:07Z")
Read this. Curious if it changes your mind: > **[I’m Here To Remind You That Trump Can Still Win](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/im-here-to-remind-you-that-trump-can-still-win/)** > > It’s tempting to write this story in the form of narrative fiction: “On a frigid early December morning in Washington, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that disputed… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=128) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=130)