US election 2020 thread

[8ball]

Markets are tightening:
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Earlier Fox were saying “the markets have voted for Trump”...

 

[Lord Camomile]

Everyone going to bed, but I just put some spring rolls in the oven

 

[Raheem]

Everyone going to bed, but I just put some spring rolls in the oven

I'm still up. Pm them to me.

 

[8ball]

One for me too.

 

[bimble]

Oh shit.

 

[JTG]

Exits looking disproportionate to actual results fwiw

 

[Calamity1971]

Everyone going to bed, but I just put some spring rolls in the oven

If they're veggie with beansprouts I'll stay up with ya.

 

[Lord Camomile]

I'm still up. Pm them to me.

One for me too.

Um, I just meant that I couldn't go to bed because I'm gonna eat these spring rolls.

I'm not... they're my spring rolls. I'm gonna eat 'em.

 

[campanula]

bedtime for me - busy day tomorrow (plus I have eaten all the sweets and smoked all the spliff)

 

[Ted Striker]

I'm on the "US Politics is a relatively abstract concept. You can't control it so don't let it control you. US Politics is a relatively abstract concept. You .... " chanting phase.

 

[Calamity1971]

Oh shit.

Do you think Lord Camomile should have put something else in the oven

 

[Raheem]

Um, I just meant that I couldn't go to bed because I'm gonna eat this spring rolls.

I'm not... they're my spring rolls. I'm gonna eat 'em.

This is exactly the mentality that's gonna see Trump re-elected.

 

[JTG]

Pollsters such as Nate Silver coming across as dumbfounded atm

 

[Lord Camomile]

Pollsters such as Nate Silver coming across as dumbfounded atm

Tick one more off your "it's just like 2016" bingo sheet.

 

[JimW]

Useless Democrat cunts. I should have been whistling my way into lunchtime by now.

 

[JTG]

Tick one more off your "it's just like 2016" bingo sheet.

This feels bigger? The miss last time was relatively narrow in a couple of key states

 

[Nine Bob Note]

I'm on the "US Politics is a relatively abstract concept. You can't control it so don't let it control you. US Politics is a relatively abstract concept. You .... " chanting phase.

I'm sure Bozo, Govey-Govey-Gove and Scummings agree with you

 

[bimble]

Exits looking disproportionate to actual results fwiw

Meaning people lied to pollsters ?

 

[JTG]

Meaning people lied to pollsters ?

Not necessarily. Very hard to exit poll accurately given wildly different voting method this time and much higher turnout. Need to poll on day, absentee and early in-person votes to give a final figure

 

[frogwoman]

aren't there still a bunch of early votes yet to come in JTG ?

 

[JTG]

aren't there still a bunch of early votes yet to come in JTG ?

Quite a few, yes, especially in the rustbelt

 

[belboid]

Not necessarily. Very hard to exit poll accurately given wildly different voting method this time and much higher turnout. Need to poll on day, absentee and early in-person votes to give a final figure

The higher turnout was supposed to be good for Biden, that doesn’t look like being right at the moment

 

[Yossarian]

Pollsters such as Nate Silver

Nate Silver in 2024:

 

[Ted Striker]

What the fuck is it with Ohio?

WTF is it with America? How is this even close? What would the guy need to do to lose? It's fucking mind blowing.

 

[Lord Camomile]

I wasn't his biggest fan already, but if Biden does go onto win he's lost even further ground with me for putting us all through this

 

[Lord Camomile]

WTF is it with America? How is this even close? What would the guy need to do to lose? It's fucking mind blowing.

It does paint a very worrying picture culturally, and with an eye on other populist, far-right governments in other countries.

 

[JTG]

The higher turnout was supposed to be good for Biden, that doesn’t look like being right at the moment

Nope. Atm assuming that pollsters have managed to miss a lot of part-time GOP voters who are harder to get at for whatever reason (poorer, rural, less online, harder to call etc)

 

[8ball]

Thought from looking at the Beeb that Trump was in big trouble. What channels are people watching here?

 

[JTG]

Nope. Atm assuming that pollsters have managed to miss a lot of part-time GOP voters who are harder to get at for whatever reason (poorer, rural, less online, harder to call etc)

And also misjudged the rate at which those voters were likely to turn out

 

[Ted Striker]

Why is Evil so effective?