# 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:** 211
**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, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4210 "2020-11-07T15:59:50Z")
OK, apparently this is based on a Trump Tweet that reads as follows: > [@](#): > > Big press conference today in Philadelphia at Four Seasons Total Landscaping — 11:30am! Er, Four Seasons Total Landscaping? Sorry, no clue what that’s about. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4211 "2020-11-07T16:02:15Z")
He must be reverting to his previous executive experience of selecting the carpet colors. He’ll announce the start of a new enterprise: Trump Design! When you have too much money and no taste, I’ll design the perfect home and garden for you! ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4212 "2020-11-07T16:04:18Z")
This is gonna be some desperate stuff right here. ---
**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 7, 2020, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4213 "2020-11-07T16:04:18Z")
Should be getting a “significant” tranche of votes reported from Maricopa County any minute now. ---
**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, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4214 "2020-11-07T16:05:13Z")
Latest batch of votes from Maricopa County broke slightly less than 60% for Trump. He needs over, possibly way over, 60% from the state’s remaining votes to overtake Biden. ---
**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, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4215 "2020-11-07T16:05:34Z")
I am enjoying Trump’s death by a thousand roll calls. And I think if you’re the President-elect, coming after a (small d) democratic disaster like this administration, waiting until ALL votes are counted in the contested states before you declare yourself victor is a shrewd, democracy-bolstering move which we (a) need, and (b) will appreciate more in time. TV networks don’t call elections. The voters do. ---
**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 7, 2020, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4216 "2020-11-07T16:07:02Z")
Rudy Giuliani just announced that the Secretaries of State in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada have all centralized the IT component of tabulating their states’ ballots … on … a laptop once owned by Hunter Biden. /s Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4217 "2020-11-07T16:07:26Z")
There is going to be a warehouse filled with fake ballots or something. There is some prop of questionable authenticity that will be revealed. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4218 "2020-11-07T16:08:14Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Latest batch of votes from Maricopa County broke slightly less than 60% for Trump. He needs over, possibly way over, 60% from the state’s remaining votes to overtake Biden. The lead is now down to 20,573. It’s going to be excruciatingly close before it’s over. Thank the stars Arizona isn’t a must-have for Biden. ---
**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 7, 2020, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4219 "2020-11-07T16:08:33Z")
There’s the QAnon hummer full of fake ballots. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4220 "2020-11-07T16:08:52Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Meanwhile, in the House: I’ve heard lots of analysis this week on how the Dems managed to lose seats, and heard the same reason repeatedly: the “socialist!” charge really stuck. If that’s true, don’t expect to see much of AOC & the Squad for the next few years; that’s not the face of the party anybody wants to see. They got re-elected though. This is ALWAYS the mantra; every time the Dems lose seats it’s “they’re too leftist!” But I’ve never seen evidence that it’s the leftist candidates who lost, no matter how you measure that. Something like 75% of Americans want universal health insurance. There is a huge constituency that wants this kind of stuff. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4221 "2020-11-07T16:11:17Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Latest batch of votes from Maricopa County broke slightly less than 60% for Trump. He needs over, possibly way over, 60% from the state’s remaining votes to overtake Biden. The number all along has been about 59%. There are about 150,000 left; if he gets 59%, that’s more than the current gap. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4222 "2020-11-07T16:12:40Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > “They know he’s lost, but no one seems willing to tell King Lear or Mad King George that they’ve lost." _[Scene: The White House. 2 a.m. President Trump sits at his desk, beads of sweat glistening on his forehead as he furiously Tweets about how the election is being stolen. A shadowy figure looms over his shoulder and whispers in his ear:]_ "Can you hear them, my son? The doors being closed one by one? The sycophants and hangers on softly slipping away? Your enemies preparing your gallows and your “allies” unsheathing their knives to carve up for themselves the corpse of your political movement? Can you hear them? And why? Because you weren’t strong enough to stop them. Because you were weak." ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4223 "2020-11-07T16:13:56Z")
He has one smile. It’s like he’s learned “this is what smiling should look like” and does it exactly the same every time. Watch him put on the smile sometime, it doesn’t come naturally at all. Very sociopathic. ---
**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, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4224 "2020-11-07T16:17:22Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > There are about 150,000 left; if he gets 59%, that’s more than the current gap. I’m just relaying what MSNBC is saying. ---
**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 7, 2020, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4225 "2020-11-07T16:17:40Z")
He also has smile #2, the scary exaggerated clown smirk. ---
**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, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4226 "2020-11-07T16:18:07Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > He must be reverting to his previous executive experience of selecting the carpet colors. He’ll announce the start of a new enterprise: Trump Design! When you have too much money and no taste, I’ll design the perfect home and garden for you! I imagine a lot of fake gold plating and gold paint would be involved. ---
**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, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4227 "2020-11-07T16:18:28Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > There is going to be a warehouse filled with fake ballots or something. There is some prop of questionable authenticity that will be revealed. Maybe there will be a bombshell reveal that Joe Biden accepted some arborvitae in return for a political favor, or something. ---
**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 7, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4228 "2020-11-07T16:18:44Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > I wish I was the fly on Pence’s head. Just got here, and trying to catch up, but THIS is priceless! Well played, @Ann_Hedonia! 😆 👍🏽 ---
**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, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4229 "2020-11-07T16:20:14Z")
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