Whoa!! And NYT is still reporting ~24,000 uncounted in Philly alone! Then there’s the delayed Pittsburgh votes out there. Looking like good chance of avoiding the <0.5 recount zone.
Over/under on when they call it or where it settles out? I’ll say call imminent, ending margin 45K (heh).
The remaining pool of Philadelphia votes to be counted is about 25,000, according to a city official and an official familiar with the counting.
These will take longer to count because they are provisional ballots, as well as ones that require review because of such issues as dates and signatures.
The sources said city election officials are starting this batch from scratch.
“It’s going to be a while,” one of the sources said.
Chuck Todd on NBC was doing the math on his big screen and showed that the ONLY path left for Trump is to get Pennsylvania. He cannot win without it at this point. It does not matter if he gets all the remaining undecided states.
(He needs more than PA to win but PA is a must win for Trump.)
If covid has taught me anything, it’s that being worried about a catastrophic outcome that’s only 1% or even 0.1% likely can be reasonable and rational from a risk assessment point of view.
If I were the faithless elector that turned an entire election I would demand enough money to set myself up for life in some distant country. No way would I remain in the US. Indeed, I’d cast my backstab vote and run for a plane on the spot.
Sure, but in this case we are just talking about what feelings we have over the next day or so over an event we can’t actually control.
Feelings are feelings and none are wrong, but it’s just superstitious to be like “I won’t relax until I know, just to be safe”. It’s more reasonable to say “I won’t relax because I couldn’t take the disappointment”, but I honestly think it’s safe to let that go at this point.