# 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:** 230
**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, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4590 "2020-11-07T22:40:24Z")
> [@Skypist](#): > > Maybe the portrait could be the “dejected trump” version instead of the “smug smile” version. The White House has a lot of shitters. Gotta hang something in there. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4591 "2020-11-07T22:40:29Z")
> [@Win\_Place\_Show](#): > > Or do they scrap everything, pull all the ballots back out, start both guys at 0 and begin counting from there? Pretty sure they do it all from scratch. But don’t stress too much - recounts rarely yeild more than a difference of 200-300 votes. If Biden comes out with a, 7,000 vote lead, it’s unlikely that a recount will change that. ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4592 "2020-11-07T22:41:53Z")
> [@Win\_Place\_Show](#): > > does Biden start out with any kind of “advantage” if he ends this step with a 7,000 vote lead? His advantage is that the likely outcome of a recount in that scenario is a Biden lead of somewhere between 6500 and 7500. ---
**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, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4593 "2020-11-07T22:41:59Z")
> [@Win\_Place\_Show](#): > > Or do they scrap everything, pull all the ballots back out, start both guys at 0 and begin counting from there? That’s how recounts work, yeah. A recount will not change a 7000 vote margin unless there was some huge error. Wisconsin recounted in 2016, as they had to by law, and the change was about 100 votes. ---
**Author:** ![Win\_Place\_Show](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/win_place_show/32/13469_2.png) [@Win\_Place\_Show](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Win_Place_Show)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4594 "2020-11-07T22:42:25Z")
Thanks y’all for explaining the recount thing. And I’m with Lance (I _really_ want to see Biden get to 306). ---
**Author:** ![Dogginit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogginit/32/16920_2.png) [@Dogginit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogginit)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4595 "2020-11-07T22:43:12Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#): > > After January 20th, he’ll be #46th on that list and will always (I hope) be the absolute lowest, representing the worst, most miserable four year term ever. Sorry, Trump already took the Oscar for that. ---
**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, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4596 "2020-11-07T22:44:55Z")
One more submission for 45’s WH portrait ?? [![](https://ei.marketwatch.com/Multimedia/2020/06/21/Photos/ZG/MW-II979_20trum_20200621165233_ZG.jpg?uuid=2137d8c8-b401-11ea-9c35-9c8e992d421e) ](https://ei.marketwatch.com/Multimedia/2020/06/21/Photos/ZG/MW-II979_20trum_20200621165233_ZG.jpg?uuid=2137d8c8-b401-11ea-9c35-9c8e992d421e) ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4597 "2020-11-07T22:48:59Z")
Nah, we got to use the one after the 60 minutes experience. I’m surprised he didn’t trip over his bottom lip, the way it was hanging. ---
**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, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4598 "2020-11-07T22:51:52Z")
Hands down, gotta be this one: > **[Donald Trump Is Proving Too Stupid to Be President](https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/06/16/donald-trump-is-proving-too-stupid-to-be-president/)** > > “You know, I’m, like, a smart person.” Uh huh. [![](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/gettyimages-488226322.jpg?resize=800,385&quality=90) ](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/gettyimages-488226322.jpg?resize=800,385&quality=90) ---
**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, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4599 "2020-11-07T22:52:03Z")
I favor the photo with Melania and Barron where all three look uncomfortable, emotionally disconnected, and weird. [![](https://media.snopes.com/2016/08/trump-family-portrait.jpg) ](https://media.snopes.com/2016/08/trump-family-portrait.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4600 "2020-11-07T22:54:10Z")
That is _weird._ ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4601 "2020-11-07T22:54:54Z")
> [@Win\_Place\_Show](#): > > Thanks y’all for explaining the recount thing. And I’m with Lance (I _really_ want to see Biden get to 306). Yep. And be sure to refer to it as a landslide, several times, to his face. My giddy, giggly reaction to the victory is subsiding a bit as I return to Facebook and see people lamenting the loss. I was really hoping for a slam dunk victory—and I mean the kind where the backboard shatters—to show that after four years, people finally understood who he is and what he stands for. Plenty of otherwise intelligent, compassionate people still don’t get it. Ugh. > **[World Leaders Congratulate Biden on Election Despite Trump Refusal to Concede](https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/11/07/world-leaders-congratulate-biden-election-trump-refuse-concede/)** > > European allies who regularly clashed with Trump were among the first to applaud the U.S. president-elect on his victory. Now even the president's closest friends… ---
**Author:** ![Dogginit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogginit/32/16920_2.png) [@Dogginit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogginit)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4602 "2020-11-07T22:55:43Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > I have more than “a little” fear of them. Dumber than dogshit, angry as hell, and likely as not armed and dangerous. I’m a conservative, but voted for Biden, can’t stand Trump…had to confront two stopped vehicles in front of my house Tuesday night. Don’t think they’ll stop here again. ---
**Author:** ![Skypist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skypist/32/169_2.png) [@Skypist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skypist)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4603 "2020-11-07T22:57:30Z")
This is what I was thinking. It’s perfect. It’s actually the first time I ever saw him actually look sad or disappointed about something. His usual public facial expressions are “trying to look tough like when holding a Bible in front of a church” and “smug smile like when dry humping the flag.” ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4604 "2020-11-07T22:57:38Z")
So? Didnt it also pass Congress? Wasnt a large portion of the tribe in favor, and even got large sums of cash? It wasnt the peaceful removal of the tribes that cause the tears- it was the corruption and malfeasance of the Van Buren administration that caused all the suffering and deaths. Other tribes were moved without a tenth the suffering that Van Buren allowed. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4605 "2020-11-07T22:58:09Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > 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. The “smile” (using the word loosely) that we usually see on Trump’s ugly mug of most often that uber-smug con man smirk that only succeeds in making sane humans all stabby. Every once in a while, Trump is shown with a smile that looks more nearly like a normal happy-face smile. Rarely. Seems to me I remember seeing pictures of this most often when he is shown eating something, like that pic a while back of him digging into a huge taco bowl while proclaiming his love for Hispanics, or that pic of him chowing down Kentucky Fried Chicken on Air Force one, for example. Eating seems to be one of the the few pleasures he shares in common with more normally mentally adjusted humankind. ---
**Author:** ![Dogginit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogginit/32/16920_2.png) [@Dogginit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogginit)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4606 "2020-11-07T22:58:44Z")
And the jeers make them better than the other side how? What happened to taking the high road? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4607 "2020-11-07T22:58:48Z")
Putin is gonna call trump and demand his loan $, and so is China. donnie is in big trouble, cause he aint got it. ---
**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, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4608 "2020-11-07T22:59:51Z")
Now THAT picture doesn’t look ANYTHING like Melania. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4609 "2020-11-07T23:00:50Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > > [@CastletonSnob1](#): > > > > Can Trump still win if he takes it to court and wins there? > > “Takes it to court” on what grounds? Even if some states do recounts, most of them are out of the range a recount would make a difference. He has stated his grounds: post-in votes might be fraudulent, and there’s no way to check them accurately, also some arrived after the election, so they shouldn’t be included, therefore all post-in votes should be discounted. IF he wins the case, and the votes are discounted, it certainly would change the results into a Trump win. I do not think he will win the case. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=229) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=231)