# 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:** 432
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2021, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8639 "2021-01-14T22:19:31Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > I’ll have a champagne toast for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris when the oath is taken. ( **And respected**.) You are going to be champagne-less for a looooong time. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2021, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8640 "2021-01-14T22:22:16Z")
You don’t think they’ll respect 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:** [January 14, 2021, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8641 "2021-01-14T22:30:35Z")
> [@squidfood](#): > > When everyone said in 2016 that this would “stress test our democracy”, I didn’t realize it would include stress-testing my own heart quite so much. No kidding. I’ve taking more xanax in the last four years than in my prior life (except for that one rocky relationship in the early 80s). ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2021, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8642 "2021-01-14T22:31:19Z")
Just the opposite, I think he means, if you have to take a swig of your champers every day they respect their oaths. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2021, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8643 "2021-01-14T22:36:47Z")
Oh. I just meant that this time around the oath would be respected. I have a dog, and she doesn’t drink, but that’s the extent of life in my house, so once I have the polite toast, it’s me that gets the rest of the bottle. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2021, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8644 "2021-01-14T22:43:38Z")
We are obviously referring to different people. I was going after “Republicans will never respect Biden/Harris,” while you were going after “At least B/H will abide by their oaths.” I think. Anyway, L’Chaim! ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2021, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8645 "2021-01-14T23:28:43Z")
Duhhhhhh… thanks I also hope it goes against the prime tenant of the new Donald J Trump Maximum Security Federal Correctional Institute, though. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2021, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8646 "2021-01-14T23:45:52Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > I also hope it goes against the prime tenant of the new Donald J Trump Maximum Security Federal Correctional Institute, though Me too. He has always wanted federal buildings named after him so let’s oblige. The DJTrump Club Fed Very Unpleasant Triple-Bunked Maximum Security Dude Reform Ranch in the Most Forsaken Frozen Wilds of Wyoming or Idaho. Summers in the DJTrump Border Patrol Tent City in Nogales, Texas. Bunking with Teddie Cruz. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2021, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8647 "2021-01-15T00:23:09Z")
So what escalator are they going to go up? Same one? Whichever one, I’m sure it will be the best, the fastest, (or maybe the slowest - however he wants it), the baddest, horniest escalator ever. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8648 "2021-01-15T00:26:48Z")
Can we just go with “The Eighth Circle of Hell”? 👹 ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8649 "2021-01-15T03:02:11Z")
I was just listening to _Crime of the Century_ (how apropos), and I thought that the Lyrics to _Rudy_ were pretty spot-on: > Rudy’s on a train to nowhere, halfway down the line > He don’t want to get there, but he needs time > He ain’t sophisticated, nor well-educated > After all the hours he wasted, still he needs time ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8650 "2021-01-15T05:23:48Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > …I also hope it goes against the prime tenant of the new Donald J Trump Maximum Security Federal Correctional Institute, though. ISWYDT. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8651 "2021-01-15T19:07:09Z")
[New Pew Poll has him all the way down to 29% approval.](https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/01/15/biden-begins-presidency-with-positive-ratings-trump-departs-with-lowest-ever-job-mark/) Usual caveats about margins of error & possible outliers and such, but, yeah. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8652 "2021-01-15T19:39:35Z")
The best thing about that is if it continues to plummet (as I think it will, especially once he leaves Washington) it will make it easier for Republicans to ban him from future office. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8653 "2021-01-15T19:41:36Z")
I’d prefer to have Trump eligible to hold office – forcing a split in the GOP that will last for another 4 years. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2021, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8654 "2021-01-15T19:43:48Z")
Didn’t you learn your lesson from 2016? No more rooting for Trump! ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8655 "2021-01-15T19:53:17Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > So what escalator are they going to go up? I would love to see that escalator scene in reverse, with him and Melania going backward, up the escalator, to put a final period on his disastrous reign. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8656 "2021-01-15T19:59:30Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > [New Pew Poll has him all the way down to 29% approval.](https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/01/15/biden-begins-presidency-with-positive-ratings-trump-departs-with-lowest-ever-job-mark/) > > Usual caveats about margins of error & possible outliers and such, but, yeah. FiveThirtyEight’s tracking of his approval rating has dropped substantially over the past week. Pew’s 29% is the outlier right now, but the weighted average has declined to 38.1%, which is the lowest it’s been since late 2017. And, his disapproval rating is now at 58.0% (the highest it’s ever been). > **[ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and Videos](https://abcnews.go.com/politics)** > > ABC News is your trusted source on political news stories and videos. Get the latest coverage and analysis on everything from the Trump presidency, Senate, House and Supreme Court. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8657 "2021-01-15T20:17:27Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > I’d prefer to have Trump eligible to hold office – forcing a split in the GOP that will last for another 4 years. He’ll continue to split the GOP by running proxies or condemning or endorsing different candidates even if he’s ineligible. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2021, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8658 "2021-01-15T20:36:08Z")
That’s assuming he stays relevant and influential. Which I doubt he will. All his massive free publicity has come from his schtick of being outrageous, and I think especially after Jan 6 that’s wearing rather thin. People have had just about enough. He certainly has a dedicated gang of cultists – certainly large enough to start riots – but not nearly large enough to constitute a real political movement as he becomes increasingly shunned by mainstream powers. At least I hope that’s true, and that I’m not once again underestimating the stupidity of the American voter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=431) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=433)