# 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:** 219
**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, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4370 "2020-11-07T17:30:38Z")
> [@Folly](#): > > > [@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. …trump! Thanks, i’ll be here all week. Try the veal. ---
**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, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4371 "2020-11-07T17:30:55Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > Can we now please stop saying that the Democrats selected the worst candidate ever? I agree. I get very upset when people downplay Joe’s capabilities and especially his experience. Yeah, he’s not Mr. Flash – and that’s an asset. I’ve said all along, only a white man could beat DJT. Not a woman, not a brown/black-skinned person of any gender, not a first-or-second-generation American, and not anyone too young (under 55). It had to be an Old White Guy. It had to be someone with long-time relationships in the House and the Senate. Someone who knows backstairs D.C. Someone with a cool head and the maturity not to fly off the handle at the slightest thing. Someone who has been tested by Life and its tragedies. It could ONLY have been Joe. ---
**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, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4372 "2020-11-07T17:31:36Z")
Yeah, there won’t be 20+ faithless electors. I feel like I’ve been waiting 4 years to take a deep breath. (Unfortunately, I still can’t- we still have Covid out there and closing in on 10 million US cases). ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4373 "2020-11-07T17:32:35Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > Can we now please stop saying that the Democrats selected the worst candidate ever? To paraphrase the second episode of Better Call Saul: “Worst candidate ever? I just pleaded America down from a death sentence to three months probation. I’m the best candidate ever!” ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4374 "2020-11-07T17:34:33Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Oh no, we have now seen that in America we have no less than 70 Millions racists or idiots. Or Fascists. Or all of the above. ---
**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, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4375 "2020-11-07T17:34:38Z")
I cried when Obama was elected, but I’m crying more this morning. What a relief, and what a frightening 4 years it’s been. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4376 "2020-11-07T17:35:21Z")
Yahoo! Finally, it’s over. A bit late, but I want to join the celebration. ---
**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, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4377 "2020-11-07T17:35:29Z")
People are crying all over my tv. ---
**Author:** ![Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluffy_PickleSniffer)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4378 "2020-11-07T17:35:52Z")
YES! I am so happy right now I had to get up and do a happy dance in the living room. I tried to get one of my cats to join me in the dance but he gave me a catly look of disdain so I had to solo dance. Vox has a nice article on Biden: [Election results: How Joe Biden won and Donald Trump lost - Vox](https://www.vox.com/21545969/joe-biden-2020-election-winner-trump-vote) ---
**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, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4379 "2020-11-07T17:35:58Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > 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. Agreed on Trump’s portrait. It’s important not to whitewash history, and I’m sure there’s space for it by the kitchen dumpsters. ---
**Author:** ![Jungian\_Camisole1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jungian_camisole1/32/3646_2.png) [@Jungian\_Camisole1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jungian_Camisole1)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4380 "2020-11-07T17:36:55Z")
If you need a good laugh to release even more tension, give this a watch. It got a good giggle out of me this morning: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/b8HeTZ7DDIA/maxresdefault.jpg "Hitler learns he can't stop vote counting") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8HeTZ7DDIA) ---
**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, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4381 "2020-11-07T17:37:21Z")
> [@Folly](#): > > Hmm… I wonder what the exact opposite of a sharpie is. High quality fountain pen? But just any pen will do for him to start undoing Trump’s EOs. ---
**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, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4382 "2020-11-07T17:37:39Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > And I hope Biden’s first official act is to hang Obama’s portrait. > [@Mahaloth](#): > > Absolutely. And I think he should reveal Trump’s as well. On black velvet. ---
**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 7, 2020, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4383 "2020-11-07T17:37:43Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I agree. I get very upset when people downplay Joe’s capabilities and especially his experience. Yeah, he’s not Mr. Flash – and that’s an asset. I’ve said all along, only a white man could beat DJT. I’m another who long ago made this point and supported Biden from the very beginning. I am so sick of all the Biden bashing. He’s a very capable, experienced man who is, as you well said, not Mr. Flash – but Dems would do so much better if they figured out how to value experience, judgment and a deliberative temperament over sizzle. We might have had President Gore and President Kerry instead of Bush and Trump if they had. There’s plenty of room for a progressive wing in the party and I support it to the max. But we have got to work together and keep this movement together to ever have any hope of succeeding over the horrible fear-and-cheat campaigns mounted regularly by Republicans. Biden will make us proud. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@Mona\_Lott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lott)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4384 "2020-11-07T17:38:11Z")
Trump’s portrait should be used as the White House welcome mat, ---
**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, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4385 "2020-11-07T17:38:19Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Absolutely. And I think he should reveal Trump’s as well. And it should be a version of this. [![](https://radicusrants.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/55482.jpg?w=349&h=215) ](https://radicusrants.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/55482.jpg?w=349&h=215) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4386 "2020-11-07T17:38:41Z")
> [@Folly](#): > > > [@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. Whatever it is, you know they’ll all have been stolen when Biden moves into the Oval Office. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4387 "2020-11-07T17:39:19Z")
Can we now tear down that stupid wall. Perhaps we can actually get Mexico to pay for it, just give them permission to remove any section that they don’t like, perhaps it blocks their view could be a reason. ---
**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, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4388 "2020-11-07T17:39:19Z")
The cats will only dance when Kamala is president. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4389 "2020-11-07T17:39:33Z")
My parents went out and danced in the streets when Nixon resigned. My four-year-old grandson and I went out in front of our house and waved our Biden Harris sign around while he yelled Biden Harris Biden Harris over and over and over again. It’s the same thing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=218) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=220)