US election 2020 thread

[Plumdaff]

I just read that in Georgia there are still 8000 votes outstanding from military personal. Apparently in the post but won't be counted unless they turn up today. I know rules are rules but that actually is a scandal. How can they not get their shit together enough to ensure those votes arrived? Its not like the election came as a surprise or the US army doesn't have any logistics capabilities.

While that is a genuine scandal, I can't help but slightly smile at the idea that Trump's fucking over the postal service may have lead to military votes that could have helped him win Georgia (probably not enough, but you know) not being counted.

 

[JTG]

While that is a genuine scandal, I can't help but slightly smile at the idea that Trump's fucking over the postal service may have lead to military votes that could have helped him win Georgia (probably not enough, but you know) not being counted.

Not all those 8,000 are military anyway. It's the overseas vote so some military but a significant chunk is just general expat Georgians who would tend to skew Democratic anyway

 

[eoin_k]

Is it not more a total of 8 k overseas ballots have been sent out. Some of these are being processed already, some might come back towards the end and skew things in Trump’s favour and some will never be processed.

 

[JTG]

Is it not more a total of 8 k overseas ballots have been sent out. Some of these are being processed already, some might come back towards the end and skew things in Trump’s favour and some will never be processed.

Yeah it's the remaining portion of what was sent out so it's 'up to' 8k

Edit: ie loads of overseas have come back already presumably, these are just the ones that were still MIA yesterday

 

[elbows]

I'd want more than that. He has to leave anyway. Dunno what, but I'd want something.

Exile, where he will talk so much shit that they are eventually forced to take him out via an exploding golf ball.

 

[eoin_k]

It would still be nice to have a bit more of a margin against a late swing towards Trump.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Someone on CNN described Eric Trump’s twitter feed as like someone ranting in crayon, whilst on a LSD trip.

 

[Pickman's model]

Exile, where he will talk so much shit that they are eventually forced to take him out via an exploding golf ball.

The Bulgarians have offered one of their famous umbrellas

 

[Raheem]

Exile, where he will talk so much shit that they are eventually forced to take him out via an exploding golf ball.

God, that's something he'll do isn't. All sorts of bullshit, intimating that he's seen the files...

 

[prunus]

Yeah it's the remaining portion of what was sent out so it's 'up to' 8k

Edit: ie loads of overseas have come back already presumably, these are just the ones that were still MIA yesterday

The GA SoS* put it nicely when asked earlier how many there were in a press conference how many were out there “more than zero but less than 8,900”.

* I assume, some official anyway

 

[Pickman's model]

God, that's something he'll do isn't. All sorts of bullshit, intimating that he's seen the files...

Yeh he'll have seen the files

But he won't have read them

 

[existentialist]

I'd love to see how this gets reported in the news

 

[elbows]

Yeh he'll have seen the files

But he won't have read them

Or the bit he did read was obscured by burger grease, leading to an unfortunate comprehension error and otherwise avoidable civil war.

 

[teqniq]

 

[Calamity1971]

Mayor of Philadelphia..
'Donald Trump needs to put his big boy pants on and admit defeat'.
Sky journalist said ' it's not funny really is it'.
Yes, yes it is

 

[quiet guy]

Yeh he'll have seen the files

But he won't have read them

No pictures and too many bigly words

 

[prunus]

Next Nevada (Clark County - Vegas basically) report at around midnight London time, for those who still have the stamina.

 

[steveo87]

If there's one good thing (you know other than my son being born, and buying the house off our landlord) to come out of 2020, its the use of 'big boy pants' during the Presidential Election.

 

[teqniq]

Hats off to this lady:

 

[Pickman's model]

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If there's one good thing (you know other than my son being born, and buying the house off our landlord) to come out of 2020, its the use of 'big boy pants' during the Presidential Election.

Trump has no big boy pants

But Americans should be glad their president wears a nappy so they don't have to see his brown-tinged trousers

 

[moochedit]

 

[strung out]

Anyone heard from Streathamite? He was all over this in the lead up to the election, but haven't heard from him all week. Hope he's ok.

 

[Pickman's model]

Anyone heard from Streathamite? He was all over this in the lead up to the election, but haven't heard from him all week. Hope he's ok.

Too much caffeine I expect

 

[xenon]

On that, could he resign and get Pence to pardon him? Is that a thing?

just catching up and I came to ask this exact question. Good work by the way.

 

[Yata]

looking forward to all the loons walking back the past 4-5 years once all the allegations start coming back up

 

[LDC]

If I was Secret Service watching Biden I'd be fucking alert as fuck for loose cannon lunatics trying something now.

 

[teqniq]

Rats, ship, sinking:


much good it may do them btw (see comments below)

 

[Raheem]

Rats, ship, sinking:


much good it may do them btw (see comments below)

Appears to be not true. There are links in the thread to their deleted tweets.

 

[magneze]

Rats, ship, sinking:


much good it may do them btw (see comments below)

"Vice President? Me? No you have me mixed up with someone else."

 

[littlebabyjesus]

A word on the polls, as averaged finally a couple of days ago here. They're off almost exactly like last time - ie not nearly as far off as some (Trump!) are suggesting.

They appear to have got Biden's overall share of the vote not too far off at 52%, which it probably will be close to when the counting is finally done (currently 50.5%). As last time, the thing they got more wrong was Trump's vote, which will be around 47% rather than 44% as predicted in the average.

Regarding individual states, the only ones called wrongly (on average across polls), if the numbers remain the same, are Georgia and Florida - one each for each side. But they were right that Georgia, Arizona and North Carolina would be really close. They will probably be about spot on for PA and NV. Florida is basically the only state they really misjudged.

One thought occurs to me about why this error has repeated itself. It looks like the polls have again overestimated the 'Other' share of the vote, as in 2016, and like 2016, most 'don't knows/haven't decideds' have voted Trump. But that's easily explained if so-called 'shy' Trump voters don't lie by saying they're going Democrat, but rather they lie by saying 'not decided' when they really have or by saying 'libertarian' or whatever. It would make more sense to me that they'd lie that way rather than lying about being Democrats - it's a softer lie.