# 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:** 180
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3588 "2020-11-06T17:24:11Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > Frog-marched out of the White House would be great, El Chapo style, with a female LEO twisting his head toward the cameras. And [not cushioning his head](https://youtu.be/1eVPKpBKGCE?t=19) when putting him in the squad car. ---
**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 6, 2020, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3589 "2020-11-06T17:24:13Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > I bet Bill Barr has just stopped answering his phone. As has Mike Pence. > > I wish I was a fly on the wall in Barr’s house or office or wherever he is now. I wish I was the fly on Pence’s head. I thought the schadenfreude of Trumpies loudly protesting in front of Barr’s house after he made it clear he wasn’t going to arrest Joe Biden was perfect and probably somewhat persuasive to his current hide-in-the-bunker approach to finishing out his term. > **[Pro-Trump protesters picket Attorney General Barr's house in Virginia, demand...](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/01/protesters-william-barrs-virginia-home-demand-joe-biden-arrest/6112424002/)** > > About a dozen men held signs with slogans such as "Biden Lies Matter," "Equal Justice Is Coming" and "They that forsake the law praise the wicked." According to some reports, there was even a horse! As for Pence, I guess his dreams of God having a bigger plan for him may not be all he has hoped. Like others within Trump’s sphere, he is likely going to need a pardon himself for his lies about Mike Flynn’s treachery. I don’t think his political career will amount to much going forward. His only path to the presidency was through Trump. ---
**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 6, 2020, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3590 "2020-11-06T17:25:20Z")
> [@Jas09](#): > > It’s not like network calls actually matter. The vote will come out, and the results will be what they are. Network calls do matter to the extent that it would be a step toward putting a stop to things like the “stop the count” protests. If every media outlet is stating clearly that Biden has one, it isolates the fringe. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3591 "2020-11-06T17:26:31Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > As for Pence, I guess his dreams of God having a bigger plan for him may not be all he has hoped. Pence is weeping quietly into Mother’s (fully clothed) lap, whispering plaintively, “_You_ still love me, don’t you?” ---
**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, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3592 "2020-11-06T17:27:01Z")
I think the Republicans don’t have a great plan right now because they actually didn’t think they were going to lose. I’ve been concerned the past few months that the GOP was not acting like they thought there was any chance in hell that Trump might lose. I think they believed that slowing down the mail in votes and the Hunter Biden laptop would be sufficient to get Trump the victory. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3593 "2020-11-06T17:27:08Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > > [@Jas09](#): > > > > It’s not like network calls actually matter. The vote will come out, and the results will be what they are. > > Network calls do matter to the extent that it would be a step toward putting a stop to things like the “stop the count” protests. If every media outlet is stating clearly that Biden has one, it isolates the fringe. They are still going to protest. They’ll say it was stolen, etc. Or will say, as in Arizona, they need to continue the count because Trump votes could be there and the media was too quick. I’m fine with the media waiting until when they are comfortable with declaring it. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3594 "2020-11-06T17:27:41Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > I have to say that this has been the most gut-wrenching last couple of days, but it has also been pretty dang amazing. I know it’s probably the hormones talking, but my eyes have been wet all morning over Georgia. For real, I love my peeps down there. > [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > The 2016 feeling of confidence started turning into the 4-year dread when we saw Florida turn red. I had high hopes for Florida. Combined with the early Trump leads in the Rust Belt it a was gut-wrenching first evening. Biden turning it around in MI, WI and now PA has been sweet. But I never, ever really thought Georgia was in play. Not even 1%. Oh, nice to challenge and get the RP to waste some dollars, but not a real chance of a win. Even if by some quirk of fate Georgia shifts back on military ballots or some such, the state is proven me wrong and I’m mighty pleased about that 🙂. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3595 "2020-11-06T17:29:06Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Pence is weeping quietly into Mother’s (fully clothed) lap, whispering plaintively, “ _You_ still love me, don’t you?” - “Stop that, you’re getting me wet.” ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3596 "2020-11-06T17:29:44Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > I think the Republicans don’t have a great plan right now because they actually didn’t think they were going to lose. I’ve been concerned the past few months that the GOP was not acting like they thought there was any chance in hell that Trump might lose. I think they believed that slowing down the mail in votes and the Hunter Biden laptop would be sufficient to get Trump the victory. Agree. They had no response plan other than to send a few loyalists out to the street corner to complain, and no central command for the various legal actions they are taking - it is all haphazard. Also, no unified messaging - the pundits don’t know what to say - there are no talking points coming from the top. ---
**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 6, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3597 "2020-11-06T17:30:14Z")
LOL, and Mother is probably thinking to herself, “After the last excruciating 4 years of watching your slavering devotion to that corrupt, misguided, _GODLESS_ cretin, I wouldn’t be so sure!” Good thing for Pence that in his world, marriage is for life. Bad thing for Pence, a loveless angry marriage for life can be its own torture. (snigger) ---
**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 6, 2020, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3598 "2020-11-06T17:31:00Z")
Requesting information for the Chronically Ignorant (Population = Me) – can non-residents of Georgia contribute to the campaigns of the Senate run-offs soon to be conducted? ‘Cause I got two dollars in my pocket that’s not doin’ nothin’. (Radar O’Reilly paraphrase) ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3599 "2020-11-06T17:31:03Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > But I never, ever really thought Georgia was in play. Not even 1%. The Biden/Harris campaign seemed to sense something was happening. Biden and Harris visited Georgia 2 times each in the last week. And Obama showed up as well. A lot of this is all the voter registration work that has been done (thanks Stacey Abrams) ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3600 "2020-11-06T17:31:49Z")
I just realized that SNL could be really fun this week. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3601 "2020-11-06T17:31:59Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Are you in a t-minus-48-hours time warp or something? > > No snark intended — genuinely curious! In 2004 I was positive Bush would lose. He didn’t. Everything I heard yesterday, and everything I’ve heard this morning, points to a Biden victory. But I’m not going to feel comfortable until it’s official. ---
**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 6, 2020, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3602 "2020-11-06T17:32:52Z")
> [@tripthicket](#): > > can non-residents of Georgia contribute to the campaigns of the Senate run-offs soon to be conducted? Yes, they can!!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3603 "2020-11-06T17:33:47Z")
> [@tripthicket](#): > > Requesting information for the Chronically Ignorant (Population = Me) – can non-residents of Georgia contribute to the campaigns of the Senate run-offs soon to be conducted? ‘Cause I got two dollars in my pocket that’s not doin’ nothin’. (Radar O’Reilly paraphrase) Absolutely! > **[Support Democrat Jon Ossoff for U.S. Senate!](https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_hp_ossoff?refcode=ms_hp_fr_2019.09.10_x_homepage_x __x__ x)** > > Donate any amount right now to help Jon win this race and flip the Senate! ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3604 "2020-11-06T17:34:12Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Both John James, who ran against Gary Peters for Senate in my state, and Eric Esshaki, who ran against Haley Stevens for Rep in my district, lost but are also refusing to concede. What trumping crybabies. I’m also in Michigan and I guess I had no idea what a big baby John James is. I’m glad he lost, but it makes him look absolutely pathetic to not concede. Dude totally lost. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3605 "2020-11-06T17:34:25Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > I just realized that SNL could be really fun this week. With Dave Chapelle as host too. ---
**Author:** ![tingbudong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tingbudong/32/520_2.png) [@tingbudong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tingbudong)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3606 "2020-11-06T17:34:36Z")
_Mother, that sailor suit doesn’t fit anymore!”_ ``` - Mike Pence, November 2020 ``` ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/3607 "2020-11-06T17:35:08Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > I just realized that SNL could be really fun this week. I’m wondering if they’ll sing _Hallelujah_ again, only different. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=179) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=181)