# 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:** 33
**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 4, 2020, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/641 "2020-11-04T03:25:34Z")
> [@Lamoral](#): > > I don’t understand how anyone could be surprised that Biden would suck ass as a candidate in this election… Who is this Biden character? The ballots have two choices, Trump and Not Trump. ---
**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 4, 2020, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/642 "2020-11-04T03:25:58Z")
Very little of Pennsy has reached a significant count. Nate Cohn is full of shit whoever he is. ---
**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 4, 2020, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/643 "2020-11-04T03:26:22Z")
Now, now. He’s good at folk tunes but not as good with plagal cadences as the evangelicals would like. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/644 "2020-11-04T03:27:11Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > From Nate Cohn: “An ominous sign for Biden in Pennsylvania: Trump running ahead of his 2016 performance in Trumbull County (Warren, near Youngstown and on the west PA border) with nearly all of the vote counted Trumbull County is in Ohio. I know that because that’s where I lived for my first 18 years. Doesn’t surprise me that people there would vote for Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/645 "2020-11-04T03:27:17Z")
CNN is basically talking like this thing is already over. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/646 "2020-11-04T03:27:50Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Well, gosh, it might matter a lot. Pennsylvania is important. Nothing else yet is actually shocking; it’s not like Trump won New York. The prediction that PA was the likeliest decider remains highly likely Sure. You can hope for that. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/647 "2020-11-04T03:27:58Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > CNN is basically talking like this thing is already over. I don’t think you and I are watching the same CNN. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/648 "2020-11-04T03:27:59Z")
I’m not surprised Biden is awful. He’s been likened to a cashew (seriously funny video [Vote! (For Joe Biden (Who Sucks!)) - SOME MORE NEWS - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAyljtELZ8k)). But compared to Trump. Like the choice is a cashew or poison. And people are like… cashews are a boring nut, and at least I know the poison will kill me. Or this CollegeHumor video of a choice between a surgeon and a clown… to do surgery. [What Undecided Voters Look Like To Everyone Else - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHjbDSOmeiM) Anyway, the videos are funny. Although perhaps a bit sad if in fact Trump wins. So ummm laugh while you can? ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/649 "2020-11-04T03:28:15Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Very little of Pennsy has reached a significant count. Nate Cohn is full of shit whoever he is. He’s looking at a county that has counted almost all its votes. (And he’s the elections guru at the NYT.) ---
**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 4, 2020, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/650 "2020-11-04T03:28:26Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > CNN is basically talking like this thing is already over. They just got done saying how it wasn’t over. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/651 "2020-11-04T03:29:09Z")
CNN gives NM to Biden. ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/652 "2020-11-04T03:29:10Z")
“Yeah he may be boring and uninspiring and weak and lame and totally unappealing, but he’s not Trump.” 2016 called, they want their hell back. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/653 "2020-11-04T03:29:32Z")
Understood, but apparently nobody else better. I think Dems have an identity crisis, stuck between white suburban centrism and urban multiethnic progressivism. We need another Obama. ---
**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 4, 2020, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/654 "2020-11-04T03:29:33Z")
But it is one county in a state that is under 40% counted. Too soon to panic. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/655 "2020-11-04T03:29:44Z")
CNN says Biden. wins NM. It’s 94-72, Biden. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/656 "2020-11-04T03:29:49Z")
Well, at least if this is a simulation, we’re probably in the worst possible configuration…stupid random seed. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/657 "2020-11-04T03:30:59Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Well, gosh, it might matter a lot. Pennsylvania is important. Nothing else yet is actually shocking; it’s not like Trump won New York. The prediction that PA was the likeliest decider remains highly likely. > [@Slash1972](#): > > Sure. You can hope for that. So you don’t think that PA will be the likeliest decider? ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/658 "2020-11-04T03:31:15Z")
Just heard from some guy on MSNBC who I have never heard of, but he says the key county for Biden in Wisconsin will not report until 5 am ---
**Author:** ![Dadtheinhaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dadtheinhaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dadtheinhaler)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/659 "2020-11-04T03:32:14Z")
Well whatever happens, AOC will still be around driving Republicans nuts. > **[AOC wins re-election in NY-14](https://www.axios.com/2020/11/04/aoc-ocasio-cortez-ny-14-wins-house-democrats)** > > Her competitor failed to gain traction in the heavily blue district. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/660 "2020-11-04T03:32:32Z")
> [@Lamoral](#): > > I don’t understand how anyone could be surprised that Biden would suck ass as a candidate in this election, given that he has run for President twice already and lost both times Biden ran in 2008, and along with a bunch of other guys, quit after Iowa. This is pretty normal, and in fact, it got him the Veep job, so he came out much better than expected. So far, it looks like Biden is holding his own. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=32) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=34)