# 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:** 47
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/921 "2020-11-04T05:33:02Z")
I keep wondering if there’s been any voting machine hacking, given that this was a confirmed issue in several states the last time around. Don’t suppose we’ll ever know. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/922 "2020-11-04T05:33:06Z")
That’s absolutely ridiculous. Talk like that is why, in part, folks are voting for Trump. ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/923 "2020-11-04T05:33:12Z")
I think Biden is doing better than it seems on the surface, because the big urban counties that tend to go for Biden are slower to report results than the less populated counties that tend to go for Trump. e.g In Texas: The big population centers, Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, and El Paso are all going strongly for Biden, but have yet to report. My quick calculation is that, on current trends, Biden is still in with a chance in Texas, or it will be close. ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/924 "2020-11-04T05:33:39Z")
The Fox map (the one with the most called states) would give Trump 290 (plus Alaska’s 3 = 293, but no color yet) if all the pinks are red (and they’ve called AZ and VA to Biden) ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/925 "2020-11-04T05:33:51Z")
> [@FlikTheBlue](#): > > All they care about is “triggering the libs.” As long as that remains the case, Democrats are not going to win an election. No, I have no idea how to get conservatives to abandon that mindset. The right-wing propaganda machine needs to be dismantled. Too few people/corporations control too much of the message. As long as someone can tune into Hannity and Limbaugh, etc all day at work, then switch on Fox at night ad be told the same lies over and over, they will make decisions based on these lies. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/926 "2020-11-04T05:34:27Z")
I’m watching PBS ---
**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, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/927 "2020-11-04T05:34:54Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > That’s absolutely ridiculous. Talk like that is why, in part, folks are voting for Trump. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - the Republican party is the greatest existential threat to western democracy that has ever existed, and is indeed an existential threat to all life on Earth. ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/928 "2020-11-04T05:34:56Z")
Biden would need a 3-to-1 or more margin for the remaining votes to flip TX ---
**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, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/929 "2020-11-04T05:34:56Z")
Biden ahead, yes- but not the pundits saying Biden won it. GA is now in play, even. ---
**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, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/930 "2020-11-04T05:35:39Z")
> [@Lantern2](#): > > It looks like the race will go down to Arizona and Georgia. I agree that PA is looking very dicey. Biden is running a fair way behind Hillary in the Philly area It’s hard to know if that’s true, if even those counties are disproportionately due to report mail ins, they might blurp back up to 2016 levels. He’s not “a fair way behind” either, and he’s WAY ahead of Clinton’s pace in Allegheny, where he’s miles ahead with only 16% reporting; he could make up a quarter of a million votes just there. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/931 "2020-11-04T05:35:59Z")
Starting in with the “Liberals _made_ me vote for Trump!” comments early, I see. People vote for Trump because they want to vote for Trump, and they should own that. ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/932 "2020-11-04T05:36:03Z")
That sound like “let’s be totalitarian to fight the fascists”. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/933 "2020-11-04T05:36:05Z")
AP calls FL for Trump. ---
**Author:** ![sweepkick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@sweepkick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweepkick)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/934 "2020-11-04T05:36:50Z")
Oh? That’s what Trump [quote=“octopus, post:922, topic:924618, full:true”] That’s absolutely ridiculous. Talk like that is why, in part, folks are voting for Trump. [/quote] Kindly fuck off with your holier-than-thou bullshit. Trump was talking about imprisoning his political rivals since day-one. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/935 "2020-11-04T05:37:04Z")
Just now from Nate Silver: " A lot of states have been called on some networks and not on others. If you plug in all the states where _any_ network has called the state for Biden or Trump, it shows Biden at 88 percent to win the Electoral College, Trump at 6 percent, and a 6 percent chance of a tie. But that depends on Biden winning Arizona and Minnesota, which ABC News hasn’t projected yet." ---
**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, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/936 "2020-11-04T05:37:06Z")
> [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](#): > > That sound like “let’s be totalitarian to fight the fascists”. As a liberal authoritarian, I don’t see the problem. ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/937 "2020-11-04T05:37:23Z")
> [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](#): > > Biden would need a 3-to-1 or more margin for the remaining votes to flip TX Not quite as much as that, and he may get what he needs. Look at the current trends in the big urban counties. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/938 "2020-11-04T05:37:52Z")
Am I misunderstanding, or is Trump actually saying that he should automatically get any states he had in 2016? ---
**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, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/939 "2020-11-04T05:38:08Z")
I just saw that. Well 88-90% was the prediction yesterday ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/940 "2020-11-04T05:38:16Z")
That’s fair. I disagree, but, ok. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=46) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=48)