# 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:** 218
**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, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4350 "2020-11-07T17:19:32Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Ha! That’s our go to as well. The only one my Philly wife will drink. > > L’Chaim! Hmmm… thinking about all those shomer Shabbat Jews who don’t do electronics or media on Shabbat… They’ll be in the dark until… well… _dark_ today. 🌙 ---
**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, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4351 "2020-11-07T17:19:33Z")
It’s going to be a very lawn day. [sorry] ---
**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, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4352 "2020-11-07T17:21:48Z")
The press conference includes testimony from a republican observer who “had a feeling” there was fraud going on, and another who complained that he tried to take a photo of a ballot and was told to put his cameraphone away. Basically they’ve got nothing. ---
**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, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4353 "2020-11-07T17:21:51Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > Sure, he is dreafully uninspiring but democracy did its work as I always thought it would. The work of democracy is a tautology. The gap, small as it is, impresses me though, it would have been so easy for people to stay at home, bury their heads in the sand or somewhere else, to simply ignore the plight of those less fortunate. This election has been an actual exceptional event. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4354 "2020-11-07T17:21:56Z")
Here’s to President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris! HUZZAH! ---
**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, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4355 "2020-11-07T17:22:51Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Now the asshole was complaining that the Democrats are going to pack the court. Isn’t that what _his_ side was trying to do? I wonder if this expression is on its way out (I hope so): IOWRDI. 🙂 ---
**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, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4356 "2020-11-07T17:23:39Z")
> [@Folly](#): > > AP apparently just called Nevada. Up to 290! I love seeing all that blue on the AP live electoral results map! ---
**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 7, 2020, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4357 "2020-11-07T17:23:41Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > > [@running\_coach](#): > > > > Now the asshole was complaining that the Democrats are going to pack the court. Isn’t that what _his_ side was trying to do? > > I wonder if this expression is on its way out (I hope so): > IOWRDI. > > 🙂 - It might be. It’s still a fluid situation. ---
**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, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4358 "2020-11-07T17:24:03Z")
Nevada has been called for Biden! ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4359 "2020-11-07T17:24:05Z")
Can we now please stop saying that the Democrats selected the worst candidate ever? I personally think Biden may have been the only one who could beat Trump. In addition, if there is any President who has any chance of reaching compromises with McConnell, it’s Biden. Also don’t ignore the fact that he had long term relationships with a lot of the old guard Senators. If anybody has a chance to get Republicans to push back against McConnell it’s Biden. I was reading an article about why Obama had so much difficulty getting anything done and they pointed out that when he was able to get things done it was because Joe worked Congress for him. Also, we get Jill Biden as FLOTIS and Harris as VP. I do wonder if Jill is really going to continue to teach like she claimed? Yes, I would have liked a blue tsunami, but this will be more than enough. I have Celebration by Kool & The Gang running through my head and just for fun, I played The Battle of Yorktown from Hamilton so I could hear them scream “We won, we won, we won!” ---
**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, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4360 "2020-11-07T17:25:22Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > > > > [@running\_coach](#): > > > > > > Now the asshole was complaining that the Democrats are going to pack the court. Isn’t that what _his_ side was trying to do? > > > > I wonder if this expression is on its way out (I hope so): > > IOWRDI. > > > > 🙂 - > > It might be. It’s still a fluid situation. McConnell fudged everything up. ---
**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, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4361 "2020-11-07T17:26:45Z")
> > Other countries will like us again! ---
**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, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4362 "2020-11-07T17:26:53Z")
Probably outing myself as a nerd, but the inspiration (if not the words) is from the speech Terenas Menethil’s ghost gives to his son, the Lich King, in _World of Warcraft_. Seemed oddly appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4363 "2020-11-07T17:27:02Z")
Thank God Almighty, free at last. I hope Ruth Ginsburg knows. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4364 "2020-11-07T17:27:40Z")
And I hope Biden’s first official act is to hang Obama’s portrait. ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4365 "2020-11-07T17:28:33Z")
Assuming Georgia is called for Biden, that will make it **306 - 232**. ### _So any recounts and legal quibbles will be immaterial._   **Game over!**   😀 ---
**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, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4366 "2020-11-07T17:28:53Z")
He should do that, sure. But it’s fine with me if he signs a batch of executive orders first. ---
**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, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4367 "2020-11-07T17:29:06Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > Thank God Almighty, free at last. I hope Ruth Ginsburg knows. And John Lewis. And John McCain. It took what will ultimately be a 6-7 million vote victory because of our screwy system, but we did do it. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4368 "2020-11-07T17:29:39Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > He should do that, sure. But it’s fine with me if he signs a batch of executive orders first. Hmm… I wonder what the exact opposite of a sharpie is. ---
**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, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4369 "2020-11-07T17:30:21Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > And I hope Biden’s first official act is to hang Obama’s portrait. Absolutely. And I think he should reveal Trump’s as well. I would banish Trump from existence if I could, but it _did_ happen and we can’t hide it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=217) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=219)