US election 2020 thread

[maomao]

When is any action likely to happen? I'm up at half five tomorrow anyway. Is it worth crawling out of bed slightly earlier or will that still be late evening in the US and not worth it?

 

[Buddy Bradley]

When is any action likely to happen? I'm up at half five tomorrow anyway. Is it worth crawling out of bed slightly earlier or will that still be late evening in the US and not worth it?

I've heard that things might start happening around 3-ish.

 

[killer b]

Its very likely there will be a consensus on who's won by then - worth an early alarm

 

[Flavour]

don't they continue voting until midnight? or do we start getting exit polls

 

[killer b]

don't they continue voting until midnight? or do we start getting exit polls

yeah, exit polls are released as each state's polls close

 

[petee]

polls are open until 9 pm here in nyc, 2 am limey-time.
add two or three hours for the west coast.

 

[killer b]

The last polls close at 4am UK time, and unless multiple swing states are too close to call then it'll be obvious by then who's won.

 

[belboid]

if its all on Penn & Michigan it'll be days.

Thankfully, Texas or Florida will already have gone. If Biden gets either Carolina we can have a really early night.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

polls are open until 9 pm here in nyc, 2 am limey-time.

That's quite handy as it's near enough the time I get up each day.

 

[bimble]

Trying to think of strategy (set alarm for 3am, don’t drink, do drink, try to not look at all etc) in order to try to avoid repeating the same emotional reaction as I had that morning 4 years ago but there isn’t really any point cos whatever the outcome it won’t be a repeat, it’s a different situation.

 

[skyscraper101]

I get up at 5am usually, so I'll probably turn on the telly at 3am, and doze to it for a couple of hours to see how it's all progressing.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Also, I love the Harris County twitter

They've closed nine of the ten drive-through voting locations, after a petition to the Texas Supreme Court by Republicans

Thankfully, the court rejected the appeal to throw out the "nearly 127,000 drive-thru votes that had already been cast".

 

[JimW]

Election is at a very reasonable time for us here but was planning to get up stupidly early to catch the second half of an evening kick-off back home. Doh.

 

[skyscraper101]

For anyone who doesn't regularly have access to CNN, then their live stream is already airing via their apps until 4pm ET tomorrow.

 

[teqniq]

 

[kebabking]

I'll just get up at 6am like normal - the results of the voting are, to me, less interesting than the reactions to, and consequences of, that vote. I think Trump and his team will put of conceding for as long as possible, and I'm banking on the republicans pulling the rug out from under him, but only once it's become crystal clear that he's lost.

If I didn't have work to do and kids to manage I might stay up.

 

[Yossarian]

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"Trump son predicts Russia, Iran, Venezuela will support Republicans."

 

[teqniq]

Antarctica too.

 

[two sheds]

I thought I saw major results coming in 12.30ish our time. I'll certainly stay up til then - CNN sounds favourite if I can get a feed

 

[Sprocket.]

I’ll be up on the hour every hour as usual so will catch up between naps.

 

[belboid]

"Trump son predicts Russia, Iran, Venezuela will support Republicans."

New Zealand too. Thes rest make sense. Apart from India. And some others.

 

[Sprocket.]

Didn’t Stalin envision a world map similar to that?

 

[gentlegreen]

I realised the other day I had no idea of the geography in 1984 ...

 

[JTG]

Most polls in Florida close midnight our time but some 1am. Once they do, the first dumps of early voting data in Sumter County (loads of seniors, vast majority have voted early) should give an idea of swing. If Trump gets less than mid 60s there then he could be in for a rough night

 

[JTG]

Most polls in Florida close midnight our time but some 1am. Once they do, the first dumps of early voting data in Sumter County (loads of seniors, vast majority have voted early) should give an idea of swing. If Trump gets less than mid 60s there then he could be in for a rough night

 

[Idris2002]

 

[Idris2002]

 

[2hats]

I hope the Biden campaign is demanding that they stop counting votes now and declared victory.

 

[JTG]

More FL bellwether stuff:

 

[bimble]

I'll just get up at 6am like normal - the results of the voting are, to me, less interesting than the reactions to, and consequences of, that vote. I think Trump and his team will put of conceding for as long as possible, and I'm banking on the republicans pulling the rug out from under him, but only once it's become crystal clear that he's lost.

If I didn't have work to do and kids to manage I might stay up.

I think this is right, the results (unless v unlikely scenario of trump actually winning the election) are not the main story this time, it will be what happens next.