Election Day [Week][Month[s]] [Year] 2020 follow-along thread

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).

From CNN:

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.

Thank you. :kissing_heart: I know… but:

I don’t know if NBC News has officially called it yet, but they just put up a graphic that said “Biden Wins” and showing him at 273 right now.

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.

Thats because of the Law of Large Numbers. 1% or 0.01% is bad odds, but over enough time, it’s a lot of dead people.

We only have one election, not 330 million.

Probability vs. consequence.

Plane crashes are pretty damned unlikely, but we take them very seriously and take nearly every possible precaution :wink:

They’d be the Steve Bartman of politics.

What’s the word on Nevada? 9am update their time (Noon for us Easterners)

Unfortunately the next few days of aftermath may get a bit scary, though I’m guessing it will be mostly all bark…

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.

Just saw this on my Facebook feed:

The All Lives Matter crew is extremely upset to learn that All Votes Matter

:slight_smile:

You win the thread so far.

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.

“If we were gonna rig this election, you can bet your dumb ass we would not have left Mitch goddamn McConnel in office.”

Good for Twiiter. That kind of talk is just nuts. I hope trump’s twitter account is next.

He’ll just sock up!

To borrow from our reasonable fellow citizens - MTCA! :smiley:

(Make Trump Cry Again!)