US Election Week Results 2020

[AGinAg (37)]

No. NE-2 is a Dem gain.

Isn't that 1 electoral vote?

Fuck me, this is slow.

Mind you I DO remember 2000. That was months.

 

[VoR]

I love that the chief electoral supervisor in Wisconsin looks about TWENTY THREE

 

[AGinAg (37)]

The Needle is still optimistic.

I think these are absentee ballots from the Atlanta and so could be very good.

56/57% good? It seems rather high.

Obvs hope so.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Should probably get used to Sarah McBride, I imagine she'll be a popular talking head.

We've not a trans MP in Westminster yet have we?

 

[cwej]

I swear we (Democrats) make up the majority here. It really feels like they are trying to stop us from voting. In 2016, my sister’s ballot was never accepted, and she is a fairly privileged white woman! I can’t imagine how it feels for people of color here. The fact that it might be happening again is so infuriating.

Oh you're Georgia? I am such a Stacey Abrams fan. I really hope you pull through blue...!

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Oh you're Georgia? I am such a Stacey Abrams fan. I really hope you pull through blue...!

I was really hoping Biden would choose her as VP.

 

[dmlaw]

56/57% good? It seems rather high.

Obvs hope so.

Fulton County, which includes Atlanta, voted 69% for Clinton in 2016 so 57% for Biden is more than plausible.

 

[ButterTart]

I saw that. I've noticed ALL the CNN reporters are tripping over their words.

The poor buggers must have been awake for 48 hours by now, I'm surprised they're still capable of speech at all.

 

[RJN]

Oh you're Georgia? I am such a Stacey Abrams fan. I really hope you pull through blue...!

Yeah, Atlanta
I love her! I got to meet her a few years ago and was so impressed by her


@Ag I agree; she would have been great.

 

[Logic?]

Tightening even further in Georgia for Biden

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Georgia would be SUCH A MOMENT.

I just CAN'T!

 

[Eddie]

A Georgia win would be immense.

 

[RJN]

I bought a bottle of champagne, just in case!

 

[ButterTart]

Georgia would be SUCH A MOMENT.

I just CAN'T!

I've decided everywhere bar North Carolina is going to Biden. I'm never usually wrong about anything and I can't see how this would be any different.

 

[Eddie]

I've decided everywhere bar North Carolina is going to Biden. I'm never usually wrong about anything and I can't see how this would be any different.

Biden will win EVERY STATE bar Florida.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Any predictions for New England?

 

[AGinAg (37)]

I bought a bottle of champagne, just in case!

Hope it was cheap, I feel like there's still a slim path to disappointment!

 

[Ellie]

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Kathy Burke really is such a Twitter Queen.

 

[octophone]

Tightening even further in Georgia for Biden

Imagine being one of the "Other" voters. It's like strolling into Ladbrokes and dropping £100 on a random umpire winning Wimbledon.

 

[ButterTart]

Any predictions for New England?

That Jo Jorgensen is looking a bit tasty.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

I really hope TONIGHT isn't the night we get a result. I need my sleep!

That said a wake-up notification with good news would be gladly received.

 

[Tisch]

The Republicans are saying we should STOP COUNTING NOW to ensure all of their votes are counted.

Eh?

 

[Madison]

I went back and read what 538 said in its final prediction write-up:

But with a 3-point error in Trump’s direction — more or less what happened in 2016 — the race would become competitive. Biden would probably hold on, but he’d only be the outright favorite in states (and congressional districts) containing 279 electoral votes. In Pennsylvania, the tipping-point state, he’d be projected to win by 1.7 percentage points — not within the recount margin, but a close race.

Such a scenario would not be the end of the world for Biden. The extra cushion that he has relative to Clinton helps a lot; it means that with a 2016-style polling error, he’d narrowly win some states that she narrowly lost. Biden has polled well recently in Michigan and Wisconsin in particular and has big leads there. Still, this would not be the sort of outcome that Democrats were hoping for. For one thing, because Biden would probably be reliant on Pennsylvania in this scenario — a state that is expected to take some time to count its vote — the election might take longer to call. For another, it could yield a fairly bad map as far as Democrats’ Senate hopes go, as Biden would be a narrow underdog in several states with key Senate races, including Arizona, North Carolina, Georgia and Iowa. So while Biden isn’t a normal-sized polling error away from losing, he is a normal-sized polling error away from having a messy win that might not come with control of Congress.

 

[RJN]

Hope it was cheap, I feel like there's still a slim path to disappointment!

In that case, I’ll drink away my sorrows. Win/win!

 

[AGinAg (37)]

This topic has just beaten the Brexit Night results as the 4th biggest news event in this forum.

 

[win_the_game]

Trump's campaign team are claiming they've won Pennsylvania.

Minutes after launching a lawsuit to halt vote counting in the state.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Trump's campaign team are claiming they've won Pennsylvania.

Minutes after launching a lawsuit to halt vote counting in the state.

While the vote gets closer and closer.

 

[Jark]

They can say what they want. The way the gap is narrowing without the % counted inching up much suggests that Biden has a real chance there. It's gonna be close.

 

[Kate]

OH NO RICK SANTORUM

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Votes flooding in for Biden in PA and the lead is narrowing fast.

 

[Kate]

muted

 

[octophone]

OH NO RICK SANTORUM

That really should be his full name.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

The attempt to stop voting is SO ODD!

 

[VoR]

CNN also just aired footage of hundreds of Trump goons being physically restrained from barging into a counting centre in Detroit.

Feels like the Trump team is escalating things...

 

[jivafox]

Can’t count in chaos!

 

[cwej]

The poor buggers must have been awake for 48 hours by now, I'm surprised they're still capable of speech at all.

It's like this show:




They should bring that back for this election for sure.

 

[Suomi]

It's like this show:




They should bring that back for this election for sure.

loved this!

applied to be on it but I slept in on the day of auditions

 

[cwej]

I went back and read what 538 said in its final prediction write-up:

I mean... that's basically BANG ON so far right?

 

[cwej]

loved this!

applied to be on it but I slept in on the day of auditions

I actually think I'd be great. I don't really know anyone else that can stay up as much as me (sans narcotics).