# 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:** 238
**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 8, 2020, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4750 "2020-11-08T02:11:18Z")
Blue sky at night, America’s delight. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4751 "2020-11-08T02:11:34Z")
Right, yeah. AFTER he mingled with everyone else on stage. Cool, huh? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4752 "2020-11-08T02:11:59Z")
It was a perfectly normal, straightforward acceptance speech, but I cried. ---
**Author:** ![Boycott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boycott/32/6741_2.png) [@Boycott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boycott)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4753 "2020-11-08T02:12:05Z")
I think I just saw Hunter Biden ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4754 "2020-11-08T02:12:40Z")
I think most of those people were his family, whom he probably sees (and hugs) at home most days. But I agree he should have kept it on. ---
**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 8, 2020, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4755 "2020-11-08T02:13:18Z")
I can’t imagine that he and everyone up there hasn’t had near-constant COVID tests. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4756 "2020-11-08T02:13:21Z")
Easy, Casanova, she’s married ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4757 "2020-11-08T02:15:37Z")
> [@susan](#): > > I can’t imagine that he and everyone up there hasn’t had near-constant COVID tests. See, that’s the way Trump approaches this, and it ain’t right. Jesus. Are we now entering It’s OK If A Democrat Does It terrirory? ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4758 "2020-11-08T02:16:21Z")
> [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](#): > > [I know most of you don’t care but Pima County just announced more numbers in Arizona. It skewed 61% to Trump giving him a gain of 1,860 votes. Biden’s lead is now 18,713. Biden will probably still hang on but a recount is quite likely. How many votes was that gain based on? I’ve been worried all day that the analysts have been ignoring Pinal County, which had 25k uncounted ballots and is quite red. About 7k of those votes posted recently 67% for Trump. Hoping Pima has enough left to counter the remaining Maricopa and Pinal votes. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4759 "2020-11-08T02:19:04Z")
I’ll admit I chuckled once when Biden mentioned Eagle’ Wings hymn. As a former Cath-school kid, I thought of the silly hand gestures. Glad he didn’t use those 😁 ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4760 "2020-11-08T02:19:20Z")
He should have kept the mask on, just for the example it sets. Hopefully his staff will tell this to him, and he’ll do better not to get caught up in the exuberance of moments like this in the future. Great speeches from both the VP Elect and the President Elect. ---
**Author:** ![Boycott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boycott/32/6741_2.png) [@Boycott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boycott)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4761 "2020-11-08T02:20:37Z")
So what title is Kamala’s husband Doug going to have? Second gentleman despite technically being the _first_ gentleman ? ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4762 "2020-11-08T02:20:57Z")
Second gentleman. (He’s the first second gentleman.) ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4763 "2020-11-08T02:21:54Z")
When was this no mask thing that y’all are talking about? After his speech? I think a photo after this speech of D, K, J and J holding up hands with masks on will be most historic. ---
**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 8, 2020, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4764 "2020-11-08T02:22:29Z")
> [@susan](#): > > More presidential in an hour than 45 and Pence in 4 years. Absolutely. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4765 "2020-11-08T02:23:10Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > When was this no mask thing that y’all are talking about? After his speech? Yeah. After he was done with his speech friends and family moved on to the stage to congratulate him and celebrate and Biden, who gave his speech with no mask on, didn’t bother to put one on. ---
**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 8, 2020, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4766 "2020-11-08T02:24:14Z")
> [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](#): > > How many votes was that gain based on? I’ve been worried all day that the analysts have been ignoring Pinal County, which had 25k uncounted ballots and is quite red. About 7k of those votes posted recently 67% for Trump. Hoping Pima has enough left to counter the remaining Maricopa and Pinal votes. This last set was 7,119 votes. Latest estimate is 123k left to count. My apologies, in my message I said this was from Pima but I meant to write Pinal County which skews Trump. Although it was above the percentage that Trump needs to take AZ you feel he needs to massively over perform in places like Pinal - this result was only slightly higher than the average he needs across the entire state. ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4767 "2020-11-08T02:24:38Z")
> [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](#): > > How many votes was that gain based on? I’ve been worried all day that the analysts have been ignoring Pinal County, which had 25k uncounted ballots and is quite red. About 7k of those votes posted recently 67% for Trump. Hoping Pima has enough left to counter the remaining Maricopa and Pinal votes. There may be some confusion here. The votes that @Fiendish_Astronaut is talking about were from Pinal, I assume (since it says the margin is 18,713, which is the current margin). Either way, it was 7,119 votes that reduced the lead by 2,475 to the current 18,713. And as I’m typing it is now a lead of 18,610 based on another 2,279 votes (somebody can do that math on that one). I think it may get closer than Fox thought when they initially called it, but I don’t really see enough votes outstanding to overturn that deficit, although I’ll admit I don’t have a good read on how many are really left. ---
**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 8, 2020, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4768 "2020-11-08T02:24:48Z")
Ok, I’ll just admire her from afar. 🙂 I think I’m going to sleep well tonight. What a relief to know we made this happen. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4769 "2020-11-08T02:24:58Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > I know this is a little silly but I am honestly happy to see dogs returning to the White House (two of them!). > > [https://images.foxtv.com/static.fox29.com/www.fox29.com/content/uploads/2020/11/932/524/jillbidenphoto.jpg?ve=1&tl=1](https://images.foxtv.com/static.fox29.com/www.fox29.com/content/uploads/2020/11/932/524/jillbidenphoto.jpg?ve=1&tl=1) Not silly at all. It says a lot about character, as has so often been said about Biden. The Orange Peril has already opined about being one of the few dog-less presidents, saying it would make him look “ridiculous” (and not saying, but clearly thinking, that there was no way that dogs could help him enrich himself, so they were useless). Anyway, these were great speeches, and they’ve already been well commented on, so I have nothing to add. A real president again, indeed. What I can add by way of casual observation is that this event was really well organized. The speeches, the music, the fireworks, made my eyes moist. And the extended family all on stage, with nary a Jared, Melania, or junior Trumps anywhere in sight. My enduring memory of this night was president-elect Joe Biden gazing at the fireworks. In those eyes was a look of combined wonder, happiness, optimism, and above all, honesty and goodwill. This has been a great, great day. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=237) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=239)