All purpose news and politics thread part VI: This Is Not The Time For Posing

[kidfresh512]

So, looks like Biden has Arizona.

If he takes that, alongside Michigan and Wisconsin (as expected) he's at 270. He can lose everything else.

Also, looking at Georgia, that might be the *real* surprise of the election. The NYT has Biden favored to win there at the moment given the outstanding ballots.

Either way, we are going to be looking at an *extremely* protracted process over the next weeks and months as Trump will try to undermine any results that don't favor him through his stacked courts.

Im still nervous about the Senate. EVen if Biden wins. If Mitch keeps the Senate its game over he will sit on his hands and keep appointing judges

[Username taken]

So, looks like Biden has Arizona.

If he takes that, alongside Michigan and Wisconsin (as expected) he's at 270. He can lose everything else.

Also, looking at Georgia, that might be the *real* surprise of the election. The NYT has Biden favored to win there at the moment given the outstanding ballots.

Either way, we are going to be looking at an *extremely* protracted process over the next weeks and months as Trump will try to undermine any results that don't favor him through his stacked courts.

Does Michigan and Wisconsin have large number of early votes? That could be very key.

Because right now, a lot of people are still very bullish that Pennsylvania is going to go for Biden. Than because of the huge numbers of huge numbers of uncounted early votes that massively favor Biden.

[BeastieRunner]

Here's a scenario map floating around:

[worstblogever]

So, looks like Biden has Arizona.

If he takes that, alongside Michigan and Wisconsin (as expected) he's at 270. He can lose everything else.

Also, looking at Georgia, that might be the *real* surprise of the election. The NYT has Biden favored to win there at the moment given the outstanding ballots.

Either way, we are going to be looking at an *extremely* protracted process over the next weeks and months as Trump will try to undermine any results that don't favor him through his stacked courts.

Biden's got PA, man. It's a question of when, not if.

[worstblogever]

By the way, about 10 minutes ago, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey impotently got on Twitter to claim that "it's too early to call Arizona", when the trend should be not only does Biden have an early lead in the state, he's gonna expand on it. Same for McSally.

Down ballot, the state legislature looks like it's gonna flip. Both the AZ House and AZ Senate.

But I think Trump must've angrily called Ducey and yelled, "DO SOMETHING!" like President Skroob in Spaceballs, to get him to post that.

[worstblogever]

Speaking of impotent ravings on Twitter...

Trump briefly had up an almost immediately deleted post where he claimed he was "UP BIG", and that it's "unfair" to count ballots "after Poles have closed".



So... we don't START counting until after polls close.

F***er is incredibly stupid, and likely sees this slipping away right now. We'll see if some corrected version of this Twitter post goes up.

[BeastieRunner]

Speaking of impotent ravings on Twitter...

Trump briefly had up an almost immediately deleted post where he claimed he was "UP BIG", and that it's "unfair" to count ballots "after Poles have closed".



So... we don't START counting until after polls close.

F***er is incredibly stupid, and likely sees this slipping away right now. We'll see if some corrected version of this Twitter post goes up.

PBS just posted that.

[worstblogever]

Said Twitter post has re-emerged with the "Poles" corrected.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...64823680126977

Also, Twitter flagged it as "misleading", which I'm sure is further gonna send Trump through the roof as his loss gets cemented.

[C_Miller]

Here's a scenario map floating around:

That certainly as a scenario. I'm actually a little more concerned about Wisconsin than Michigan. And it's too early to worry about Nevada yet.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

Google is showing the poll results....guys...its not good. PA , Wisconsin and Michigan all seem to be in HUGE leads for Donald Trump. I hate this but....its nearing the end.

[C_Miller]

Google is showing the poll results....guys...its not good. PA , Wisconsin and Michigan all seem to be in HUGE leads for Donald Trump. I hate this but....its nearing the end.

Google is not giving the whole picture. Most of the votes are day of, in person votes. They are working on mail-in ballots which they could not count until today. On top of that, urban settings are showing extremely low returns as of now. Not saying it's a sure thing. But there is plenty of room for Biden to make up.

[numberthirty]

Google is showing the poll results....guys...its not good. PA , Wisconsin and Michigan all seem to be in HUGE leads for Donald Trump. I hate this but....its nearing the end.

Unless he somehow has put together a lead larger than all outstanding votes?

I tend to doubt that the end is a close as that.

[worstblogever]

Google is showing the poll results....guys...its not good. PA , Wisconsin and Michigan all seem to be in HUGE leads for Donald Trump. I hate this but....its nearing the end.

Calm down.

Look here.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/elections-2020/results

They break down which way the states not called yet will be breaking.

[Amadeus Arkham]

Google is showing the poll results....guys...its not good. PA , Wisconsin and Michigan all seem to be in HUGE leads for Donald Trump. I hate this but....its nearing the end.

It isn’t over yet. Biden still has a very good shot at getting elected.

[Gray Lensman]

The bad news from my PoV is that this isn't a landslide win - meaning we still don't have a chance for a conservative political party. Trumpism has accelerated (ok, finished) the transformation of the Republican party into a reactionary/authoritarian one.

I want to return to a time when election results merely left me disappointed rather than frightened.