GET OUT: US politics November 2020

I swear to god waiting for PA to come through is giving me Rick Wilson OPPO DUMP PTSD here.

Andrew Yang peeing his pants on CNN right now.

Biden so fast, bout to piss on myself

Koogs: you can have faithless electors, who don't vote the way they're pledged to when the college convenes. In 2016, the final tally was a few off due to this (some votes for Colin Powell, Bernie Sanders, Faith Spotted Eagle...). Wasn't close enough to matter then, but if this ends up 270-268 (hope not)...

If it’s Georgia that does this, we really all need to chip in and buy Stacey Abrams a big ice cream sundae. Her voter turnout efforts are nothing short of inspiring.

Koogs – the US also came very close to reforming the winner-takes-all system in 1970 but it was blocked by segregationist senators. There was a good Daily podcast about it recently:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/podcasts/the-daily/electoral-college-trump-clinton-gore-bush.html

Even Maine and Nebraska don't award their electoral votes fully proportionally according to the popular vote. It seems to me that if you did within the current college system, you'd probably just end up even more mired in lawsuits and demands for recounts because of there being more points in the vote tally that would tip over into meaning an extra EC vote.

ie just abolish the electoral college already

Stacey Brams appreciation day imo

Abrams even

Oh, I think I've misrepresented the 1970 plan, which was indeed to abolish the EC and replace with a popular vote system, not just get rid of the winner-takes-all part

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Today’s the day. I’ve had a bottle of bubbly sitting patiently in the fridge since Tuesday night, it’s getting popped whenever the call comes.

It’s probably not getting announced today either, right?

PA seemed to manage to churn through 250k ballots yesterday and there's supposedly fewer than that remaining (in fact, the figure just dropped by 70k on that alex.github.io site without a change in race, which is slightly jarring). So... maybe?

It will be announced today. Philly votes will put Biden over in PA, at least, and probably by a wide margin eventually, thus unable to really be litigated as in Georgia.

Nevada expecting to release more vote counts by noon EST.

Good morning.

to be clear for non-Americans itt, by "announced" we mean consensus call by reporting outlets

the closest thing we have in this system to an announcement comes in the form of a concession speech, which...uh....

(just reminding that we are not voting for candidates here but for electors, so technically this goes on for a long time + secretaries of state ratifying results etc.)

ratifying=certifying

I didn't know Alaska was still up in the air? at least it is on the CNN map

About 15 minutes until 20K PA votes reported

AK not really up in the air, just counting votes slowly

they haven’t started counting mail-ins at all

Good morning!

I didn't know Alaska was still up in the air?

It just looks that way where it's placed on the map. We call that "north."

lol, stop

It’s probably not getting announced today either, right?
― Position Position, Friday, November 6, 2020 1:02 PM (thirty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

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U.S. Politics March 2021: PA results dropping any day now!

Today’s the day. I’ve had a bottle of bubbly sitting patiently in the fridge since Tuesday night, it’s getting popped whenever the call comes.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra)

lol we have one too just sitting there waiting

Biden takes PA

jol out

Finally. Almost 6K lead in PA

oh shit we gonna be drinking this morning

5K lead, thanks to Philadelphia. Still waiting for more numbers.

Where are we seeing this?

Your long national, etc.

fuck yes!!!

Something something lead in his Penn-cil.

Joy!

Decision Desk HQ projects that @JoeBiden has won Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral college votes for a total of 273.

Joe Biden has been elected the 46th President of the United States of America.

Race called at 11-06 08:50 AM EST

All Results: https://t.co/BgcQsEyt3j

— Decision Desk HQ (@DecisionDeskHQ) November 6, 2020

I am gonna get day drunk.

Mr. Alex Github doesn't have PA flipped yet though...?

damn if he gets GA, PA, AZ, and NV people are going to have to change the narrative about Biden

oh! nevermind

just refreshed it

Biden with record number of vote total too.

(Popular vote)

yay, we finally stole it!

Neanderthal would have only had to stay up another 7 hours to see it.

No news outlet's called the election yet though