U.S. Presidential Election

[Crazyfool01]

Meanwhile Glastocam has gone down and they are painting a picture of Biden on the grass in the pyramid field  

[Matt42]

Business insider project that Biden will be the winner

[Ozanne]

Lets wait for the others to confirm, but this is great news.

[Radiochicken]

Please please please have Fox as the first TV network to call it, come on you know you want to!

[Fuzzy Afro]

3 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

Biden could end up with over 300 electoral college votes, which would be a pretty good margin in the end.

Looks like it will end up being 306-232, ironically the exact same margin Trump won by in 2016 (well he won 304-227, because there were 7 faithless electors who didn’t vote for the same candidate they were supposed to) 

[Crazyfool01]

A lesson for us ... or Labour ...? Do we make voting easier ? 

[sirjonnyp]

This is the beginning. Going to take a while to cross the Is and dot the Ts, but gosh darn we have finally got the start of the end game. 

[balthazarstarbuck]

Just now, crazyfool1 said:

A lesson for us ... or Labour ...? Do we make voting easier ? 

Well we don’t make it harder that’s for sure. The Torys do make noises about having voter ID etc from time to time, disadvantaging people without passports and driving licenses (more than you’d think, and they tend to be poorer).

Id want votes at the weekend. That would push turnout up rather than having it on Thursday.

[phimill]

2 minutes ago, Fuzzy Afro said:

Looks like it will end up being 306-232, ironically the exact same margin Trump won by in 2016 (well he won 304-227, because there were 7 faithless electors who didn’t vote for the same candidate they were supposed to) 

Is this a real thing - the actual electors can just go against the whole state's decision?? If his is close - could someone do that to change the result?

[steviewevie]

23 minutes ago, Matt42 said:

Biden has more of a military history in his family than Trump does

yeah, but you've got to be a nasty nuthead to be in the US military.

[Ozanne]

If anyones still interested this is vote pattern over the last few hours.

[ace56blaa]

Pennsyvania has gone blue. Biden takes the lead!

[Gingerfish79]

Its great news, but I don't think it will be called anytime soon. Maybe not until next week. Pennsylvania likely to go to the supreme court, Georgia is so close I cant believe there wont be a recount and Nevada and Arizona have clearly run out of AAAs in the casio's.

[steviewevie]

democrats really need to win senate for Biden to be able to do anything.

[stuartbert two hats]

 

 

[FloorFiller]

Like sweet nectar:

 

Really hope it’s Hannity or Carlson who has to officially call it

Edited November 6, 2020 by FloorFiller

[squirrelarmy]

1 minute ago, Gingerfish79 said:

Its great news, but I don't think it will be called anytime soon. Maybe not until next week. Pennsylvania likely to go to the supreme court, Georgia is so close I cant believe there wont be a recount and Nevada and Arizona have clearly run out of AAAs in the casio's.

If PA gets to at least 80k there won’t be a recount there which means there’s no point recounting GA. 

[jparx]

Na na naaa naaa. Na na naaa naaa. Hey hey hey. Goodbye!

[Ozanne]

2 minutes ago, squirrelarmy said:

If PA gets to at least 80k there won’t be a recount there which means there’s no point recounting GA. 

They'll just want to be super careful so not to make any mistakes.

[Copperface]

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1524310897763428&id=14096281709

[Fuzzy Afro]

4 minutes ago, phimill said:

Is this a real thing - the actual electors can just go against the whole state's decision?? If his is close - could someone do that to change the result?

Technically yes, but highly unlikely because:

 

1) Most states will fine electors if they do this

2) The winning party gets to nominate the electors, e.g. since Biden won California, the Democrats will choose 55 senior party officials to act as the electors, so its unlikely they would break rank

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector

 

In 2016 there were 7 faithless electors. Five electors who were supposed to vote for Clinton did not do so (one voted for Bernie Sanders, one for Faith Spotted Eagle and three for Colin Powell). Two electors who were supposed to vote for Trump actually voted for John Kasich and Rand Paul respectively. 

[Fuzzy Afro]

Fox News sources say Trump is going to concede. NBC News calling Biden the president elect 

[jparx]

I'm surprised PA has called though, in all seriousness. Still a lot to come in. He's obviously won, but I'm not sure it should be called yet.

[FloorFiller]

CNN calling out Fox News there!

Also absolutely ridiculous that the space around Joe Bidens home has to be listed as restricted air space. What a fucked up country America is now. 

[Ozanne]

Just now, jparx said:

I'm surprised PA has called though, in all seriousness. Still a lot to come in. He's obviously won, but I'm not sure it should be called yet.

They haven't called yet, not according to some news sources.