GET OUT: US politics November 2020

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Wow, just saw a tweet about “Toomey to the Biden cabinet.” Move a R senator out in a D state (PA gov chooses replacement), look bipartisan while doing it. Pretty sneaky, sis.

— RJ Tolan (@procrastinet) November 6, 2020

Fuck it, “reward” Susan Collins for her bipartisanship with, what, Secretary of Commerce? That’s another D-Gov appointment to the Senate. Which = Minority Leader McConnell.

— RJ Tolan (@procrastinet) November 6, 2020

In all likelihood, this is fan fic, but I love it.

the ppl who like graphs have gone to bed caek, yr stuck with us

so many people I know going "are we gonna take PA, it's taking so long" and me going "did u notice the results haven't UPDATED in a while?"

I specifically drove to Houston to give America three hours to finish this election and nothing!

the ppl who like graphs have gone to bed caek, yr stuck with us

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, November 6, 2020 1:24 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

i don't care!

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I want the Pennsylvania secretary of state to personally fold the certified results into a paper airplane and boink them off of Trump's head

If the district that was represented by John Lewis ends up being the one that wins this election.. MY GOD.

Nikema Williams being happy about it on CNN rn

xps I like your graphs Nate

still wish I'd picked up some shares of Biden when the markets inexplicably dipped to like 35% even after it was obvious he was going to win.

lol look at the comments for entertainment value: https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/3698

surely your Y-axis label is wrong, do you mean "trailing candidate deficit"?

yes

my wife just pointed that out to me and now i'm crying, nice one

keep em coming caek

high five to Mrs. Nate

btw caek's name is Nate now, I decided

Trump lead in GA down to 1.26K

Trump lead in PA down to 18.2K

Erie turned blue

it's a bellwether, they say

caek just jokes, we would be nothing without yr graphs <3

I suddenly had the blinding flash of insight that in a two party system it’s inefficient for either party to have more support than 50%+1 overall, if one party becomes more popular than that overall some elements of its base of support will shift to the party that’s “behind” as it seeks to claw some margin back.

but you all need to know that that this many days of data-driven posts about numbers WILL kill me & when this is done i am going to need as many days of sonnets, haikus, blank verse and fuckin villanelles

bring back the Whigs!

The Whigs were losers

I just realized...

after four years of literally looking at Trump's approval rating, like clockwork, every morning, trying to read the tea leaves through its fluctuation (or actually, relative stability)...and the past 7 or 8 months of frequent poll-checking and obsessing...

I now won't have to give a shit about any of this anymore.

he's one more and then i'm done. it looks to me like PA is slowing down (which makes sense, it's the middle of the night). i don't think we're getting tonight at the present rate.

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maaan, if I stayed up this late for nothing, I'm going to take it out on my class tomorrow

Well you kind of necessarily did it for nothing inasmuch as you being awake or asleep won’t change the outcome

no, at some point I'll refresh and the bad man will lose. and it'll be me. I'm gonna be the one to do it.

its the friends you made along the way

exactly. I am causing the shift in votes and if I take even one hour off, Trump might win

i'm gonna tap out soon tho actually......:/

Cat woke me up to be let out, but maybe he was just trying to get me to refresh twitter. Anyway, looking forward to watching the election results roll in when I wake back up. Fingers crossed.

ugh if the Brits get to enjoy the announcement as it happens and I don't

<3 to caek and his graphs

i will not go to bed until joe biden is president of the united states

OI MATES, THIS JOE BIDEN BIRD IS ALL OVER THE NEWSIE-WEWSIES

america

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all time favourite Simpsons moment

I'm going out to dinner, but notifications will be turned up to 11.

are GOP pollwatchers putting up bullshit challenges to every single vote? is that the real reason why it's taking so long?

God the conspiracy theorist crowd is never going to shut up about this election being rigged huh

Mail ballots take longer to process because:

They don’t end up at the counting centers all at once
They don’t even have to have arrived yet, as of now, to be counted, in some places, so long as the postmark is on time
Signatures have to be verified against the ones on file
Human hands have to pull the ballots out of the envelopes and prepare them for scanning
Ballots with any unscannable votes have to be set aside and adjudicated for voter intent
Ballots with any other defects may be challenged, adjudicated, and cured
Individual election authorities may only release tallies once a day at prescheduled times

WA’s voter intent guide makes for fun reading!

https://www.sos.wa.gov/_assets/elections/2014_statewide%20standards%20on%20what%20is%20a%20vote.pdf

those vote counters need some kind of parade after this, like when the apollo astronauts came home

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— Caustic Cover Critic (@Unwise_Trousers) November 6, 2020

apologies for tweet posting, the image would not embed on its own. THIS is what I have been distracting myself at work doing.

Dammit, they're gonna call it while I'm at work tomorrow, aren't they?

Also, good to have you back in the thread Karl. Your presence has been missed.

One of my high school classmates is a Gold Star mother for whom every falling leaf etc is a message from her dead son killed in Helmand and she just cannot believe the American public is rejecting FREEDOM. She travels the country talking to chuds about guns and jeebus and how every military death pays for YOUR FREEDOM so her page today is maximum lurker schadenfreude. Apparently, she will shortly be leaving Minnesota to the socialists.

I think she was counting on the great exurban repudiation of BLM to deliver FREEDOM but Minnesotans in their thousands are more clever and more empathetic than her bubble of reformed high school burnouts and Sturgis bikers.

i will not go to bed until joe biden is president of the united states

Karl you're gonna be really tired by summer if Joe dies between now and the 20th of January