US election 2020 thread

[JTG]

Florida:

 

[8115]

The guardian says he is winning though

That's the early counts, it doesn't mean anything. You can't tell from the first results.

 

[belboid]

How the fuck do they know?

Because it’s Vermont. It will always be democrat

 

[strung out]

Biden takes Guam

Congrats to Biden who takes... <checks notes> zero electoral college votes from Guam.

 

[frogwoman]

belboid doesn't Vermont have a lot of rural areas though which are more conservative? Seems a bit weird to say he has won without counting any votes? What are they basing it on?

 

[prunus]

How the fuck do they know?

They don’t know, it’s not ‘official’ as it were, it’s just that they are certain it will be, so might as well call it and start totting up the numbers.

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

Have an anxious night you lot, I'm gonna sleep it off.
May the least bad win.

 

[JTG]

belboid doesn't Vermont have a lot of rural areas though which are more conservative? Seems a bit weird to say he has won without counting any votes? What are they basing it on?

They've been electing Bernie Sanders for decades, I think it's a safe assumption tbh

 

[Sue]

belboid doesn't Vermont have a lot of rural areas though which are more conservative? Seems a bit weird to say he has won without counting any votes? What are they basing it on?

It's Bernie Sanders country.

 

[Lord Camomile]

One of the lower level oddities of US elections is the polls closing so early. 7pm?? Bloody part-timers

 

[Sue]

Georgia's looking interesting. BBC are reporting pretty much all Trump-supporting demographics are down.

 

[frogwoman]

Seems that in some parts of Florida Biden and Trump weren't on the ballot? Who are these candidates JTG ?

 

[JTG]

One of the lower level oddities of US elections is the polls closing so early. 7pm?? Bloody part-timers

You can early vote for about a month beforehand in some of them mind

 

[prunus]

Tantalising numbers coming in from Florida - Biden might just take it tonight and boom it’s all over.

 

[Ted Striker]

Seems that in some parts of Florida Biden and Trump weren't on the ballot? Who are these candidates

 

[Lord Camomile]

You can early vote for about a month beforehand in some of them mind

Fair point, but don't try and take my British snootiness away from me

 

[Sue]

One of the lower level oddities of US elections is the polls closing so early. 7pm?? Bloody part-timers

In 2000, I had a colleague from rural Louisiana. She reckoned it was all part of the 'discouraging certain demographics to vote' thing. So if you have to drive a couple of hours to get to a polling station (apparently reasonably common where she was from), you need a car. And you need the time off work if the polling stations close early. And if you're in a low-paid job, you're less likely to be able to get the time off work so you're less likely to vote. (Apparently unions used to negotiate time off to go and vote for exactly those reasons but with the waning power of unions, that went by the wayside in many industries.)

 

[frogwoman]

I've never heard of Roque de la Fuente etc

 

[not-bono-ever]

Georgia interesting

 

[Lord Camomile]

In 2000, I had a colleague from rural Louisiana. She reckoned it was all part of the 'discouraging certain demographics to vote' thing. So if you have to drive a couple of hours to get to a polling station (apparently reasonably common where she was from), you need a car. And you need the time off work if the polling stations close early. And if you're in a low-paid job, you're less likely to be able to get the time off work so you're less likely to vote. (Apparently unions used to negotiate time off to go and vote for exactly those reasons but with the waning power of unions, that went by the wayside in many industries.)

From what I've come to learn about US elections, would not surprise me in the slightest. It's so brazen and calculated, it's disgusting.

 

[two sheds]

God I hate this Well it's Biden 50.3% Trump 49.7% with 1% of the vote counted.

 

[prunus]

Tantalising numbers coming in from Florida - Biden might just take it tonight and boom it’s all over.

Oh jeez and now some massive numbers for Trump in Miami-dade. Fuck knows then. I’m off to sleep, will be what it is, fingers crossed.

 

[Ted Striker]

Tantalising numbers coming in from Florida - Biden might just take it tonight and boom it’s all over.

That's what I was reading, but then saw this

 

[Sue]

From what I've come to learn about US elections, would not surprise me in the slightest. It's so brazen and calculated, it's disgusting.

Yeah, we were all pretty astonished when she was explaining this to us (and obviously we were interested anyway but being 2000, it was all even more interesting than usual) and she was -- it's shit but that's how it is.

ETA She was also very surprised that our polling stations were open for such long hours (at that point it was 6am to 10pm here).

 

[frogwoman]

Oh no

 

[JTG]

That's what I was reading, but then saw this

Little Havana, Cuban-Americans going more Trumpy. It's a bugger but localised and won't be repeated elsewhere fwiw

 

[Ted Striker]

From what I've come to learn about US elections, would not surprise me in the slightest. It's so brazen and calculated, it's disgusting.

I think that's the democrats most impactful angle if they ever take all 3 branches - make voting piss easy. Shitloads of location, and make it a national holiday. It reads well with the man-on-the-street.

 

[frogwoman]

Why have some parts of Florida seemed to go for Roque de la Fuente etc or is it just that the minor candidates votes get counted first?

 

[Raheem]

Why have some parts of Florida seemed to go for Roque de la Fuente etc or is it just that the minor candidates votes get counted first?

Maybe it's Spanish for Joe Biden?

 

[belboid]

I’ve just been comparing this thread with 2016’s. I think we’re on about page 279