US election 2020 thread

[two sheds]

Guardian has biden 85 / 55 up in seats, not sure where they're getting the figures from though

 

[JTG]

More to the point, it's looking like Biden will take PA and GA. If he does, then I think something very weird would have to happen for Trump to then win overall. So Florida may just be a sideshow.

He literally needs to win one good sized state over and above MI & WI and he's won pretty much. Florida is not the whole game

 

[Kaka Tim]

ohio look like its bidens - or am I reading that wrong? important bellweather that very much helped trump to victory last time

 

[JTG]

And stop reading the Guardian

 

[JTG]

ohio look like its bidens - or am I reading that wrong? important bellweather that very much helped trump to victory last time

If he gets that then he gets PA for sure

 

[frogwoman]

It says that Trump has 10.8 million votes and Biden has 10.5 million . Sue

 

[Ted Striker]

The state of Horatio Caine and the sunglasses of justice. For shame.

 

[Kaka Tim]

texas might be trumps as well

oh - the gaurdians online map thingy has mover it back to blue

 

[Lord Camomile]

I'm really trying not to get sucked into the sports-style coverage of CNN; it's not sport, the votes have been cast and things can't be changed now, the only thing that matters is the final tallies.

Buuuuuuuuut... it's hard

 

[frogwoman]

Fuck I'm going to bed

 

[Sue]

It says that Trump has 10.8 million votes and Biden has 10.5 million . Sue

Hilary Clinton won the popular vote last time but lost the electoral colleges. Biden will win the popular vote but could still lose the electoral colleges. Depends on the distribution of votes. (And it's still too early to know how all this will look.)

 

[Smokeandsteam]

 

[JTG]

texas might be trumps as well

oh - the gaurdians online map thingy has mover it back to blue

FUCK THE GUARDIAN

 

[frogwoman]

Don't they say that the votes might not all be in until the end of the week?

 

[JTG]

Biden seems to be up on Hillary in the urban counties of NC

 

[Wilf]

More to the point, it's looking like Biden will take PA and GA. If he does, then I think something very weird would have to happen for Trump to then win overall. So Florida may just be a sideshow.

Georgia looks to be going for trump.

 

[Sue]

They've three weeks to sort their shit out (as my American colleague put it earlier...) In 2000, it seemed to go on forever (sure it didn't, it just felt like it).

ETA That was at frogwoman.

 

[Wilf]

trump has Ohio at the moment doesn't he? That looks to be going Biden.

 

[Ted Striker]

Fuck I'm going to bed

You're no patriot!

 

[Nine Bob Note]

Bookies still going for Biden (but I remember when they were calling for Corbin, too)

 

[Sue]

BBC projecting N Carolina narrowly for Biden.

 

[Calamity1971]

North Carolina looking good for Biden?

 

[frogwoman]

It's all too much, this seems way closer than 2016 though where it was off to a bad start from the beginning. Oh no he just got Arkansas. Isn't that Bill Clinton's old state?

 

[JTG]

North Carolina

 

[belboid]

BBC projecting N Carolina narrowly for Biden.

Ooh that’s quite a biggie. Not in terms of votes, but if they can win that then it’s enough to win Pennsylvania n Michigan

 

[two sheds]

cnn saying biden ahead in texas 52/47

 

[Sue]

It's all too much, this seems way closer than 2016 though where it was off to a bad start from the beginning. Oh no he just got Arkansas. Isn't that Bill Clinton's old state?

Yes.

It's all still too early to tell though.

 

[JTG]

Ooh that’s quite a biggie. Not in terms of votes, but if they can win that then it’s enough to win Pennsylvania n Michigan

I wouldn't correlate them, very different demographics

But it's 15 EC votes so significant

 

[Nine Bob Note]

Bookies just cut the odds on a Biden victory.

 

[JTG]

More North Carolina