# 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:** 36
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/701 "2020-11-04T03:45:57Z")
Remember that Virginia is another state that does not count all the mail-in votes until late. They will take ballots that arrive by 11/6. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/702 "2020-11-04T03:46:33Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > He’s got MN already. Got a link? I don’t see anyone calling MN yet. ---
**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, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/703 "2020-11-04T03:46:35Z")
Luxembourg and Singapore likely can do so. 😝 It aint federal, it goes by county. some counties are cheap, some are hamstrung by GOP voter suppression. ---
**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, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/704 "2020-11-04T03:46:42Z")
Any updates seen on the 131 - 108 count? ---
**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, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/705 "2020-11-04T03:47:26Z")
Every station has different numbers up from what I can see. ---
**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, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/706 "2020-11-04T03:47:42Z")
Tuberville beat Doug Jones in AL, which isn’t surprising. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/707 "2020-11-04T03:47:55Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > I’m confused, PBS has Virginia Blue already. What are you seeing? What station? I’m looking at county level results. Remember that many states are called even before many votes are in just based on the assumption that they were already in the bag. No one actually waited to count votes in New York; the instant the polls closed, they called it for Biden. VA was given the same treatment but I’m wondering. ---
**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 4, 2020, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/708 "2020-11-04T03:48:32Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > In the most jumpy panicky way possible, leaping to conclusions, doomsaying themselves into misery. I don’t know what I was expecting, but something better than that. Not sure what would be better than people reacting as they feel. As for being informed, you might want to ask what you’re hoping to find. ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/709 "2020-11-04T03:48:57Z")
And costing Dems votes in the Pres election. ---
**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, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/710 "2020-11-04T03:48:58Z")
Biden wins IL; Donald wins MO. ---
**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, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/711 "2020-11-04T03:48:58Z")
OK, scary thought. Virginia is pretty important as it was a very likely biden state. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/712 "2020-11-04T03:49:20Z")
If Trump can win PA and/or MI and win the Presidency, it is already pretty much certain he will lose the popular vote, and probably by more than he did in 2016. ---
**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, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/713 "2020-11-04T03:49:27Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Stop being a baby I take this back. It was uncalled for. I’ll accept the warning for a personal insult if the mods deem it warnable. Sorry MaxTheVool ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/714 "2020-11-04T03:50:15Z")
It looks like Florida came about 200,000 votes short of becoming an open top-two primary state, despite literally every group opposing that measure. I think John Morgan’s minimum wage amendment will actually pass, which sets the minimum wage at $10 in 2021 and increases it by $1 every year until 2026, after which it is adjusted for inflation. It looks like all of my local picks won, but at the county and state level, all of my candidates are losers. There’s still hope for the Presidential race, even in Florida, based on the possibility that talking heads underestimated voter turnout. ~Max ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/715 "2020-11-04T03:50:30Z")
I went to that page, and it shows Trump leading, but a 95% confidence level for Biden winning the state. I think. But I didn’t see a “call”. I might just not know how to read their per-state pages. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/716 "2020-11-04T03:51:23Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > We’ve known for weeks that Donald would be leading the election night vote in those states. None of this is surprising or concerning. @smapti you are doing important work being the voice of reason. I appreciate it. > [@GuanoLad](#): > > In the most jumpy panicky way possible, leaping to conclusions, doomsaying themselves into misery. I don’t know what I was expecting, but something better than that. This is what PTSD looks like. We didn’t think we would lose last time, but we did. We then lived through 4 years with Trump. We have 250k dead, and more to come. We are stressed and tired and afraid. > [@Gyrate](#): > > Russia Word. ---
**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, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/717 "2020-11-04T03:51:36Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > I went to that page, and it shows Trump leading, but a 95% confidence level for Biden winning the state. I think. But I didn’t see a “call”. I might just not know how to read their per-state pages I just meant the probability meter. ---
**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, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/718 "2020-11-04T03:51:45Z")
CBC, which is what I’m watching, has Trump having won or leading in 278 electoral votes to Biden’s 165. > **[U.S. election results 2020](https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/us/2020/results/)** > > Get live results from the presidential, House and Senate races along with the latest news on election night. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/719 "2020-11-04T03:52:14Z")
> **Patricia Cohen, in New York 1m ago** > > Biden made a big bid to reclaim union voters. But in Ohio, union voters went for Trump over Biden by 56 percent to 42 percent, according to exit polls I don’t particularly like the sound of that. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/720 "2020-11-04T03:53:39Z")
A big big question I don’t think anyone has specifically addressed… are there any states that are close to completely counted where Trump did better than 4 years ago? Or as well? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=35) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=37)