2020 General Presidential Election Thread

[Northwestcoug]

is there a video? for clack's personal collection?

DM me.

[Pelado]

Shortly after a break-up you didn't want or ask for, you will be amazed by how much better off you are and wonder how you could have ever put up with her for as long as you did. (Resident experts here can confirm.)

Trump can spend the rest of his life squandering his partial billions in wanton luxury, complaining of fraud to the dwindling few that will still listen.

fify - though not sure that the strikethrough of that "s" is particularly visible.

[falafel]

So now what? I have to go back to working?

[wapiti]

So now what? I have to go back to working?

The Senate is still interesting. It's looking like it will end up 51-48 with the Georgia run-off pending. The margins of power in this election are super thin. We could have the EC margin is 270-268, the Senate 51-49, and the House something like 220-213.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Twitter is a lot more fun this morning.

[UVACoug]

Don't forget Omaha's one electoral vote! They might very well provide the margin for a Biden 270-268 victory.

Maine's congressional district will likely go blue too, so the Omaha vote may not be necessary. I now think that PA and GA will also end up going to Biden, so it will probably end up 307-231 (almost the same as Trump's margin in 2016). Biden could pull it out in NC too, but that seems less likely.

[All-American]

This isn’t a victory for anyone except crazy right wing conservatives.

Biden would be very surprised to find out he is a crazy right-wing conservative.

[All-American]

This is game set match. It's all over, and it's been over since the mail-in ballots came in to Milwaukee County at 4:41 PST this morning. AZ mormons stepped up-- weren't manipulated by the GOP Pro-Life guilt machine, didn't throw away their votes by casting a worthless third-party ballot to make a useless statement to nobody. What they did was defeat Trump and send that orange shit bag packing back to cheesy reality tv-ville where he belongs.

And Biden broke Obama's 2008 record for receiving more votes than any U.S. presidential candidate in history. John McCain is smiling on Arizona and the U.S. this morning.

How long before we can do his temple work? I think he might be receptive if we got it done now.

[BlueK]

point noted, but I do agree with Fusnik that it's unlikely Mitch McConnell will ever allow a vote on any future Biden nominees to the SC.

[smokymountainrain]

i thought biden had arizona in the bag, but sounding like the fat lady may not be singing just yet. ugh

[falafel]

point noted, but I do agree with Fusnik that it's unlikely Mitch McConnell will ever allow a vote on any future Biden nominees to the SC.

I disagree. Unless he can manufacture some controversy like court-packing, I don't see how he could stop it.

[swampfrog]

The state leaders continuing to reassure the open and methodical counting of ballots according to established law is being followed and can be verified might be my favorite part of the coverage.

[Northwestcoug]

i thought biden had arizona in the bag, but sounding like the fat lady may not be singing just yet. ugh

Oh great. You telling me I need to take back my pissing on my aunt pissing on McCain's grave?

[UVACoug]

Hear hear.

I’m also surprised with the house. The narrative going into Tuesday was that it was safe for Ds and the question was how much could they build on their majority. If all rep races ended where they are now, Democrats would keep the majority by a single vote.

Really, the only thing that could have been better in the realm of reality was a presidential election so decisive that no one, not even trump, could cry foul. Oh well.

Maybe Pelosi would be forced out of the Speakership. Probably not, but it's fun to hope.

[All-American]

point noted, but I do agree with Fusnik that it's unlikely Mitch McConnell will ever allow a vote on any future Biden nominees to the SC.

I hope it doesn't come to that-- if for no other reason than that the next vacancy is likely to be Justice Thomas's seat, which I hope he fills for many years hence. But I also don't like the idea of confirming a SC justice only when the same party holds the Presidency and Senate becoming a norm.

I don't see a vacancy coming up in the first two years, which is when it would be hardest to justify not confirming. After that, who knows. We'll see.