# 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:** 216
**Author:** ![squidfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@squidfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squidfood)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4310 "2020-11-07T17:02:45Z")
Philly and Pittsburgh dropped a set of votes that put Biden outside of the 0.5% recount margin, 2 minutes before the calls were made. Additionally, some of these were provisionals, that broke for a similar percentage as non-provisionals, showing that there wasn’t expected to be a Trump lean in the remaining provisionals. ---
**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, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4311 "2020-11-07T17:03:05Z")
Joe. Joe will keep us together. Think of me, Joe, whenever Some orange tub of shit comes around Bringing me down Have the Secret Service Drag his ASS out of town … [apologies to Captain & Tennille] ---
**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, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4312 "2020-11-07T17:03:11Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > Oh lord, this is marvelous. It’s going to be a fun weekend. > > I wish I could hug everybody! How about a few emoji high fives? 🖐🖐🖐 ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4313 "2020-11-07T17:04:35Z")
People all around us in my neighborhood are setting off fireworks. (Just hearing the pops – not bottle rockets or anything, but it’s cool to know lots of other people around me are happy and relieved, too. ETA: A couple of big booms just went off that are upsetting my dog. ☹ ---
**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, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4314 "2020-11-07T17:05:12Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > Fox news still not calling it. 😃 Yep, they called it. I love seeing Fox News’s website while they project it. Seething, I’m sure. ---
**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, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4315 "2020-11-07T17:05:21Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > I feel like I just lost 10 pounds. Hell, I just lost 300 lbs! 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4316 "2020-11-07T17:05:22Z")
5 years ago I could never imagine thinking “Thank God Joe Biden has been elected president!”, or to have imagined the surreal circumstances that have brought me to this point now. I am at the moment adrift, the world has just changed, the future has just changed, I have to find a new course in a world that has just edged slightly back from the precipice. We all need to find a new course that will take us far away from that cliff and hopefully never allow us to return. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4317 "2020-11-07T17:05:25Z")
> [@solost](#): > > How about a few emoji high fives? > > 🖐🖐🖐 How about socially distanced 🤛🏻🤛🏻🤛🏻🤛🏻🤛🏻 ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4318 "2020-11-07T17:05:25Z")
Now Dems need to secure those 2 Senate seats. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4319 "2020-11-07T17:05:37Z")
Congratulations to Not Trump and Not Pence! ---
**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 7, 2020, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4320 "2020-11-07T17:05:56Z")
[Also from 538](https://fivethirtyeight.com/), scroll down: > Allegheny and Armstrong counties in Pennsylvania also updated their numbers, and that _has_ put Biden above the 0.5-point mandatory recount margin statewide, 49.61 percent to 49.10 percent. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4321 "2020-11-07T17:06:13Z")
This is going to be a really enjoyable couple of months. I despise the man and there is something rather wonderful in him having to endure the interregnum knowing he lost. He can’t dodge it and I suspect that he’ll find his enablers far less willing to help him out. He’s going to have to look into the cameras and either embarrass himself further (which he will hate) or admit defeat gracefully (which he doesn’t have in him) or deal with his irrelevancy (which will be the greatest wound of all) I suspect he can’t stand this and it will be intolerable for him. Good. I was going to say he’ll stop being presidential in this period and revert to type but…who the fuck am I kidding? he never changed a jot. Roll on the lawsuits (against Trump I mean) ---
**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 7, 2020, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4322 "2020-11-07T17:06:24Z")
Popped the cork and drinking Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin that was being saved for a special occasion. Proud Pennsylvanians here. ---
**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, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4323 "2020-11-07T17:07:16Z")
SNL tonight should be fantastic! ---
**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, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4324 "2020-11-07T17:07:29Z")
Was driving, did I miss anything? 😛 [https://photos.app.goo.gl/5kzkhtvBfTrnR7dB9](https://photos.app.goo.gl/5kzkhtvBfTrnR7dB9) ---
**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, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4325 "2020-11-07T17:07:31Z")
Rudi Giuliani and the Trump legal team held a press conference at a Philadelphia landscaping company (!) just now - none of the major networks (including Fox) have covered it but the Trump team has put out a press release basically doubling down. ---
**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, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4326 "2020-11-07T17:08:15Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Hell, I just lost 300 lbs! 🤣 ISWYDT. ---
**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, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4327 "2020-11-07T17:08:33Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > I despise the man and there is something rather wonderful in him having to endure the interregnum knowing he lost. He can’t dodge it and I suspect that he’ll find his enablers far less willing to help him out. He’s going to have to look into the cameras and either embarrass himself further (which he will hate) or admit defeat gracefully (which he doesn’t have in him) or deal with his irrelevancy (which will be the greatest wound of all) > I suspect he can’t stand this and it will be intolerable for him. Good. I was going to say he’ll stop being presidential in this period and revert to type but…who the fuck am I kidding? he never changed a jot. I still expect him to sneak out of town sometime before January. Under cover of darkness. Just slink away into the fog-shrouded night. That’s what he DOES-- he walks away. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4328 "2020-11-07T17:08:35Z")
I think they do better as the resistance than loyally supporting someone like Trump. They might secretly prefer this. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4329 "2020-11-07T17:09:20Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > 5 years ago I could never imagine thinking “Thank God Joe Biden has been elected president!”, or to have imagined the surreal circumstances that have brought me to this point now. I am at the moment adrift, the world has just changed, the future has just changed, I have to find a new course in a world that has just edged slightly back from the precipice. We all need to find a new course that will take us far away from that cliff and hopefully never allow us to return. Sure, he is dreafully uninspiring but democracy did its work as I always thought it would. The gap wasn’t as big as I hoped but I still think that is a combination of a relatively poor dem candidate and ongoing denigration of floating Trump voters who didn’t feel the dems were a welcoming place for them. No reason why that can’t be solved in time though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=215) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=217)