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Who does Urban think (not hope) will win the November US Presidential Election? (The Poll)

Who will win the popular vote and who will get a majority in the electoral college?


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I think the only reason that polling could be off to such a huge degree as to hand Trump a win, is if something about the vast increase in early voting due to Covid, and the effect that has on confirmed/likely/undecided voters, leads to a hiccup in the way they calculate likelihood of eventual support on polling day. I'm not saying that's what I think is happening, and it could easily have an effect in the opposite direction favouring Biden, I just wonder whether the huge changes in voting methods this year will throw things out of whack.
If Trump could generate some energy, the fact all the polls show early voters to be overwhelmingly democrat could perhaps galvanise a mass republican turnout on the day. No evidence for it, but covid early voting is of course unprecedented and so unpredictable. Some of JTG's numbers are undeniable, though - they show higher turnout than last time in certain areas, and that's bad for Trump.
 
Trump will lose Texas
There's a lot to suggest that he may. Rapidly changing and growing suburban counties that swung heavily (10-15 points) from Trump in '16 to O'Rourke in '18. Those same counties have universally exceeded 100% of their 2016 vote already.
I think we're into unknown territory here with Texas. Beto said it wasn't a Red state, it's a non voting state. Well, we may be about to find out what it is when it votes.
 
I go with all of this, except that I think Trump will lose Maine 2nd district, simply because the sheer depth of loathing for Trump in Maine has to be witnessed to be believed. Plus, I think Biden willl win NC, simply because the polls look too damn solid. But even if he doesn't, and loses Pennsylvania, I have him on 271.
Sure. I was being as generous as possible to DT while still addressing the data as it stands and Joe Biden still gets to 270 without winning any of the really vague calls and losing PA. He's winning, that's it.
 
I think we're into unknown territory here with Texas. Beto said it wasn't a Red state, it's a non voting state. Well, we may be about to find out what it is when it votes.
The grim news from El paso and elsewhere in TX could also shift the state further to Biden. COVID-19 is hitting TX hard
 
The grim news from El paso and elsewhere in TX could also shift the state further to Biden. COVID-19 is hitting TX hard
I note that Trump continued with his Covid denialism at rallies in Wisconsin this week - just as it's sweeping the upper Midwest again. Sure that'll go down well
 
I note that Trump continued with his Covid denialism at rallies in Wisconsin this week - just as it's sweeping the upper Midwest again. Sure that'll go down well
God knows why he's focussin g on Wisconsin - his numbers there are hopeless. It would make more sese to hit PA, GA and TX
 
Excellent, they guessed

Guesswork by a former Republican state representative no less. I shall file this in the appropriate receptacle
 
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Article written by a Republican member who works for a conservative think tank. Huge pinch of salt.
 
Looked up that author's organisation, the lovely Texas Public Policy Foundation. Among its many missions, it seeks to "explain the forgotten moral case for fossil fuels" :D :facepalm:

HuffPost is now a part of Verizon Media

He is a little confused in that article - first he mentions Reagan Democrats, then he expounds at length about the party affiliations in Texas.
 
There have been so many bizarre developments this year that it might be worth placing a longshot bet on a 269-269 Electoral College tie - apparently if that happens, the House in the newly elected Congress votes for a president and the Senate elects a vice president, meaning it's not impossible that the new administration could be President Joe Biden and Vice President Donald Trump.
 
Or if the Senate chooses a vice president and the House is deadlocked 25 state delegations to 25, the vice president becomes acting president until the House votes for a president - after their Supreme Court shenanigans, it's not hard to imagine Republican House lawmakers keeping the deadlock in place, leaving Trump or Pence as acting president until at least 2022.

And if the Senate is also deadlocked, Mike Pence will be the one casting the deciding vote...
 
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