# 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:** 208
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4150 "2020-11-07T13:34:20Z")
Apropos of nothing, is anyone else struck by the photo of Trump’s head that the networks keep displaying next to the vote totals? It has such an obviously fake smile. I have quite literally never seen Trump smile like that, not once. ---
**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 7, 2020, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4151 "2020-11-07T13:35:43Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > “Don’t buy any green bananas.” > > John Fetterman offers advice to the Trump legal team in Pennsylvania. John Fetterman is my election hero. “If Trump tweeted ‘1+1=3’ The country would start debating if it was true.” ---
**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 7, 2020, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4152 "2020-11-07T13:47:51Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Applying to run for President of Russia (based on Putin’s recent announcement). What announcement? Is Putin leaving? I thought they just re-wrote the constitution to let Putin stay for life. ---
**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 7, 2020, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4153 "2020-11-07T13:48:54Z")
Just in the last half hour trump has pooped out 4 tweets crying about the voting process (or 2 depending on how you count them, one is an epic 3-part rant). Twitter’s fact-checker must be sleeping in late because they haven’t been blocked yet. In the epic 3-part one, he whines that vote count transparency is being “viciously and crudely” not allowed. ---
**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 7, 2020, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4154 "2020-11-07T13:49:59Z")
> Military voting Democrat. Wow. ---
**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 7, 2020, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4155 "2020-11-07T13:53:16Z")
After news of Russian bounties not being condemned and the Captain Crozier debacle, I’m not surprised Trump lost Military support. Not to mention the treatment of Alexander Vindman. ---
**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 7, 2020, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4156 "2020-11-07T13:57:46Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > What announcement? Is Putin leaving? British tabloid The Sun made that claim – for health reasons – but Putin denies it. 'Course, Putin’s doctors and Trump’s doctors have been saying almost exactly the same thing regarding the health of their patients.` ---
**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 7, 2020, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4157 "2020-11-07T13:58:05Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > I am not kidding. I cannot imagine Trump wanting to stay in the US after he is out of office. There are a slew of legal actions waiting for him. Yep, he’s gonna do a rabbit. It will be interesting to see where he ends up. Perhaps he can finally put his time and energy into building that Trump Moscow Tower. ---
**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 7, 2020, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4158 "2020-11-07T13:58:50Z")
> [@Boycott](#): > > I can’t help but wonder if Biden said flat-out that he will not pack the Supreme Court whether the senate races would have been different. And why shouldn’t he make an effort to pack the Supreme Court? Trump did. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4159 "2020-11-07T13:59:46Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > What announcement? Is Putin leaving? I thought they just re-wrote the constitution to let Putin stay for life. Speculation is that Putin has Parkinson’s. ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4160 "2020-11-07T14:00:13Z")
> [@GreenWyvern](#): > > Interesting… Rupert Murdoch appears to be dumping Trump. It’s a bind for Murdoch. If you look at his media outlets in the UK they really like to back the winner and then he courts whoever’s in government. He’s become personal friends with almost every UK Prime Minister from both the left and the right. But Fox has become so commercially reliant on appealing to the right in the US it’s tough to break away from that. I think Murdoch is starting to play both sides of the silent debate within the right. Do they stay on the Trump train or will Republicans take another path? He will take Fox to whichever wins this battle and he’s making sure the network can go with whichever side wins out. As for this election - had these states not been swing states some of these would have been called ages ago - especially PA. But the networks don’t want to be accused of bias so they are going to wait until the bitter end in most of these races. ---
**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 7, 2020, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4161 "2020-11-07T14:00:24Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > After news of Russian bounties not being condemned and the Captain Crozier debacle, I’m not surprised Trump lost Military support. Not to mention the treatment of Alexander Vindman. - And dissing John McCain- “I like soldiers who weren’t captured” - And attacking Gold Star families - And the very believable second-hand account of calling dead soldiers “suckers and losers” - And not visiting the military cemetery in France because of a light rain ---
**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 7, 2020, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4162 "2020-11-07T14:01:22Z")
Recently seen on the interwebs: “Only way Trump gets to 270 is if he looses 80lbs.” ---
**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 7, 2020, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4163 "2020-11-07T14:07:09Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > “Only way Trump gets to 270 is if he looses 80lbs.” That appeared in my Facebook feed yesterday. I’m not generally a big fan of making fun of people for their weight, but I’ll make an exception in Trump’s case. ---
**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 7, 2020, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4164 "2020-11-07T14:07:17Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Just in the last half hour trump has pooped out 4 tweets crying about the voting process (or 2 depending on how you count them, one is an epic 3-part rant). Twitter’s fact-checker must be sleeping in late because they haven’t been blocked yet. > > In the epic 3-part one, he whines that vote count transparency is being “viciously and crudely” not allowed. Update: all 4 are blocked now. I feel bad for the poor twitter fact-checker: (waking up, yawning and stretching) let’s see what happened while I finally got a good night’s sleep…AH CRAP ---
**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 7, 2020, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4165 "2020-11-07T14:09:30Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > That appeared in my Facebook feed yesterday. I’m not generally a big fan of making fun of people for their weight, but I’ll make an exception in Trump’s case. Fuck that guy. He broke all the rules of common decency first. ---
**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 7, 2020, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4166 "2020-11-07T14:12:40Z")
Looks like Murdoch is done with Trump… [![Google Photos](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7w5OP_UPOSila5eNi5uSbJgNNsQRZrnNo6dNY7JrnvmAISF5Oe45jfD6i6EDVurWDjfuIV7jHKB6O99vSS6xIlQ8pj-1GOAFiRa0c8x2BzYuTlHK162jre8NJlWIPxQtrVtZhS5Bw=w600-h315-p-k "New item by John Thornton") ](https://photos.app.goo.gl/rq3hmeB1pdkvpaPA9) ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4167 "2020-11-07T14:13:24Z")
Sure, but it makes other fat people feel bad to read that sort of joke–to be reminded their weight it a target of mockery. There’s literally no reason I’d pull my punches for Trump’s sake. But I don’t want to hurt other people, or make their physical body a short hand way to say that Trump is worthy of scorn. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4168 "2020-11-07T14:13:28Z")
Just checked the numbers at my condo in philly. 790 registered voters 156 voted in person. From what I saw on the shuttle many people dropped mail in at city hall. Very easy, take shuttle to city hall, cross street, drop off ballot, cross street, get back on shuttle. Depending on turn out my building could have 400 - 500 ish mail in. ---
**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 7, 2020, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4169 "2020-11-07T14:16:03Z")
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