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Official Election Month Thread: COUP falls short, nothing to see here

I think Biden wins Wisc and Michigan (safe bet) and PA. Not sure about GA. But he’s going to win.
 
BillBrasky said:
I think Trump will win PA, but Biden will take GA. Still nearly half a million votes unaccounted for in the Atlanta metro area.
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I tried to dissect all the votes supposedly out in WI and got depressed when it appeared there couldn't be enough left to turn it around. Turns out the interactive maps were off. WI didn't account for sizable votes still out in some suburban counties and in the city of Green Bay in addition to those that were obviously missing in Milwaukee. Point being do we really know what is out in PA?
 
Deacon923 said:
Here in Guilford county, we just managed to pull the Oh-So-American maneuver of simultaneously approving a $300,000,000 school bond and rejecting a small sales tax increase meant to help pay for that bond, both by very large margins. 'Murica: we want all the things, but don't tax us to pay for any of it!
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Unbelievable...but believable at the same time.
 
Official Election Day Thread

Well goddamn. I’ll eat crow - people like Trump a lot more than I thought. I was really certain he had lost a lot of support, which apparently he did not lose. Maybe Hillary wasn’t as *particularly* unpopular as I believed - voters just reject the Democratic Party outright. Fuck.
 
You are all more optimistic than me. PA seems like a tall task. Not sure what to make of MI yet but looks like 440,000 outstanding votes with Biden down 25,000. Seems like he’s in good shape there at least.
 
myDeaconmyhand said:
Well goddamn. I’ll eat crow - people like Trump a lot more than I thought. I was really certain he had lost a lot of support, which apparently he did not lose. Maybe Hillary wasn’t as *particularly* unpopular as I believed - voters just reject the Democratic Party outright. Fuck.
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I think it's more that rural folks and rednecks really love Trump. He's get those folks out to vote more than the establish Pubs do
 
Deacon923 said:
Here in Guilford county, we just managed to pull the Oh-So-American maneuver of simultaneously approving a $300,000,000 school bond and rejecting a small sales tax increase meant to help pay for that bond, both by very large margins. 'Murica: we want all the things, but don't tax us to pay for any of it!
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Meh. The pledge to use the sales tax increase to pay for the school bond was non-binding anyway. The problem is that voters are too stupid to realize that approving a bond means a tax increase one way or the other.
 
DeacMan said:
I tried to dissect all the votes supposedly out in WI and got depressed when it appeared there couldn't be enough left to turn it around. Turns out the interactive maps were off. WI didn't account for sizable votes still out in some suburban counties and in the city of Green Bay in addition to those that were obviously missing in Milwaukee. Point being do we really know what is out in PA?
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Ya. I did this early in the night with OH only to see Biden get routed in the remaining vote. The maps seem to be BS.
 
IckerDeac said:
Ya. I did this early in the night with OH only to see Biden get routed in the remaining vote. The maps seem to be BS.
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it seemed the problem was two variables: early / same day proportion (and there was no consistency as to which was counted first) coupled with where votes remained. kinda crazy that Joe had early leads / looked good in TX, NC, FL, OH and they all slowly went trump while VA, MI, WI and PA are all doing the opposite
 
Hard to feel good about this result whether Biden ends up pulling it out or not. This country is beyond broken.
 
Re PA: trump is ahead by 675,000 votes. There are 1,400,000 mail in votes to be counted, including most of the ballots from deep blue counties. Biden will win them by a wide margin. The state will be close.
 
In a better country, the fact that increased participation did not lead to a Dem blowout could get both parties on board with expanding voting rights. What will probably happen instead is that Dems will abandon it in favor of trying to micromanage the campaign by doubling down on correcting the polls.
 
Henry Chinaski said:
is NC still really in play? how many votes are outstanding?
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The Guardian (UK news site) said this morning that there are still about 350,000 ballots left to count in NC, with Trump leading by about 76,000 votes (Tillis leads Cunningham by about 100,000.) No idea of what type of ballots they are or where they are from. I don't see where any network has called either the presidential or senate race in NC, so something must still be out for them not to make a call.
 
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