# 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:** 173
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3447 "2020-11-06T15:12:28Z")
> [@drm](#): > > I was an Ayn Rand fan when I was 17. We all have our phases [![](https://i.ibb.co/27LLrLf/4l6dk5.jpg) ](https://i.ibb.co/27LLrLf/4l6dk5.jpg) It’s ok. What you believed before you were a critically thinking adult isn’t worth much anyways. ---
**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 6, 2020, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3448 "2020-11-06T15:12:31Z")
I am part of the conspiracy to get rid of Trump. I voted. ---
**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 6, 2020, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3449 "2020-11-06T15:13:34Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Trump complains that he’s being cheated. But he’s ALSO bragging that Republicans made gains in Congress. I have seen it speculated that this is why the republican party and other republicans are being pretty quiet and not joining Trump in saying the elections were fraudulent. While they may lose the presidency they otherwise did pretty good. This is a redistricting year coming and they will mostly control that. They will almost certainly keep the senate. They gained seats in the House. Overall, republicans as a whole aren’t that unhappy about the election (and, I would be willing to bet, many are privately happy Trump is out). ---
**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 6, 2020, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3450 "2020-11-06T15:13:39Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Trump told his voters NOT to vote by mail and to vote in person, My thought was always … that Trump wanted to put D ballots into the filthy hands of Postmaster General, DeJoy and his Postal Glacier Machine. Like warning the four children that he _does_ like _not_ to go into ‘that building’ … the one that he has ordered a bomb to be dropped on. ---
**Author:** ![Wrenching\_Spanners](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecb155/32.png) [@Wrenching\_Spanners](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wrenching_Spanners)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3451 "2020-11-06T15:14:43Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Also, that number is the how many ballots were sent out. We don’t know what the typical return rate is. Are the “8,899 absentee ballots from military and overseas voters that hadn’t yet been returned to election offices in Georgia as of Thursday morning” absentee ballots that were sent out and haven’t been sent back, but may come in late but postmarked on time? Or are they ballots that have been received, but set aside pending some determination on their validity? If it’s the former, then it’s a yawn issue. I read the posts from akwally1 and Ann\_Hedonia as being the latter. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3452 "2020-11-06T15:17:35Z")
Interesting, from Trump’s favorite NYT reporter: > ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3453 "2020-11-06T15:18:14Z")
Okay, let’s all move to Georgia real quick. ---
**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 6, 2020, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3454 "2020-11-06T15:18:19Z")
[![](https://i.redd.it/44titi69mlx51.jpg) ](https://i.redd.it/44titi69mlx51.jpg) ---
**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 6, 2020, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3455 "2020-11-06T15:22:59Z")
I went on trump’s twitter feed just now for s#1+s & giggles. Of the dozen or so most recent tweets, literally every other one is blocked. I hope a ban is coming soon, I would love that. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3456 "2020-11-06T15:26:16Z")
I imagine he’s getting banned on January 20th at 12:01 PM. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3457 "2020-11-06T15:26:27Z")
Did anyone catch this Colbert clip? > ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3458 "2020-11-06T15:27:19Z")
CNN just reporting that Foxnews has told staff that it should not use the term “president elect” for Biden even after it is called. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3459 "2020-11-06T15:30:19Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > CNN just reporting that Foxnews has told staff that it should not use the term “president elect” for Biden even after it is called Hah! I’ve been using the term for the past few days. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3460 "2020-11-06T15:30:37Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Good for Twiiter. That kind of talk is just nuts. I hope trump’s twitter account is next. Nah, let him continue to make a fool of himself. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3461 "2020-11-06T15:31:07Z")
I’d like to reiterate that Democrats should not be feeling upset. Not satisfied or content – there’s still a lot of work to do, but happy and excited. It wasn’t as big a win as we’d hoped, but this was still a big win. The presidential margin is probably going to be pretty significant – in popular vote, possibly larger than 2012, and in electoral vote, probably over 300 votes. And the Senate isn’t out of reach – they’re still counting in Alaska (unlikely but not impossible) and the GA runoffs could decide control. And we kept the House! I know that was expected, but it’s still significant. Trump’s presidency is ending. That was the number 1 goal, and it wasn’t a sure thing. Biden did it. And very notably, he did it against perhaps the highest Republican turnout in decades. ---
**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 6, 2020, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3462 "2020-11-06T15:31:47Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > I won’t relax until I see Biden take the oath of office in January. I won’t relax entirely until then. And I’m certainly going to be antsy during the Georgia senatorial elections, thin though the chances are. But I’m feeling a whole hell of a lot better this morning. I’ve had this running through my head for about a day and a half now, and although the number that goes in there still isn’t certain, I’m going to see if I can get it into somebody else’s: Three states over the line, sweet Biden Three states over the line. Look at the man from the railroad station Three states over the line! (apologies to Brewer & Shipley) ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3463 "2020-11-06T15:32:29Z")
I admit the Georgia senate odds are thin. But there’s a wild card there. Donald Trump outside the GOP tent, pissing into it for the next few months. ---
**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 6, 2020, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3464 "2020-11-06T15:32:37Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > > [@solost](#): > > > > Good for Twiiter. That kind of talk is just nuts. I hope trump’s twitter account is next. > > Nah, let him continue to make a fool of himself. The problem with that is, he makes a fool of himself to rational people, but trumpers happily keep eating the shit he keeps on shoveling. I’ll say it again-- trumpism needs to be consigned to the dustbin of history. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Colossus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.colossus/32/9423_2.png) [@Dr.Colossus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Colossus)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3465 "2020-11-06T15:35:09Z")
Conservative boards are melting down. I guess it’s time to put the MAGA flags to half-mast. ---
**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 6, 2020, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3466 "2020-11-06T15:37:55Z")
From the comment feed on the NYT live election results board: > Katie Glueck, in Wilmington, Del. 4m ago > > A Biden spokesman says that if Biden wins and Trump refuses to concede, “The United States government is perfectly capable of escorting trespassers out of the White House.” I am really enjoying this day. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=172) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=174)