The Election Day Thread

[lizkat]

Nevada, Nevada w/ its little haul of 6 electoral votes. Who knew... and Clark County is heavily Democratic. So Nevada inches towards a big footnote in the history books tonight?

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1324459947493519361/

 

[Eric]

Can't tell you how refreshing it is to see Biden come out asking for calm, all without saying a word about Trump. He's staying above all of that and showing himself to be exactly what we should be expecting from a president.

 

[Zoidberg]

Not surprising, when you have camo-clad nutjobs playing Call of Duty and intimidating voters.

It sounds like the Biden voters in the red counties overwhelmingly voted by mail, according to this from 538....

NATE SILVER
NOV. 5, 1:21 PM
This sort of data is a big problem for Trump in Georgia. Even in a place like Bryan County, where Trump won by 43 points in 2016, Biden is actually winning by 15 in mail votes that were processed today. Those mail votes are just coming in very blue, sometimes even in red counties.

He was referring to this tweet:

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1324413829351170048/

I note specifically a county like Putnam - heavily red, but its mail-in votes went only 51% to Trump.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Please can some billionaire buy Facebook and just unplug it permanently? These stories spread to millions on Facebook, and end up not standing up to even the slightest scrutiny.

Apparently - I suspect, sniffing (probably accurately) the direction of a future regulatory wind - FB have flagged some of Mr Trump's more intemperate tweets today.

However, I agree with you. Completely.

Someone needs to put manners on FB, and, if they fail to do it themselves, they may end up having it done to them by regulatory fiat, initially, in the EU, and then, further afield.

 

[iMi]

DailyKos headline:
Whatever happens next, Americans are pretty sure they want to be stoned when it does

(several cannabis legalization measures passed)

Oregon decriminalized all drugs. This is big. Especially that drug related incarcerations disproportionately impact black people. In Oregon, you’ll go to treatment, not prison. Big deal.

 

[lizkat]

Apparently - I suspect, sniffing (probably accurately) the direction of a future regulatory wind - FB have flagged some of Mr Trump's more intemperate tweets today.

However, I agree with you. Completely.

Someone needs to put manners on FB, and, if they fail to do it themselves, they may end up having it done to them by regulatory fiat, initially, in the EU, and then, further afield.

Facebook finally took down a pro-Trump group that was organizing in-person protests and at least one car caravan against vote counting operations in a number of states. Apparently the social media site dropped the ban hammer on the "STOP THE STEAL" group only after some of its members went off on a more dangerous tangent and began suggesting that armed conflict was an option.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/05/facebook-trump-protests/

A.J. Bauer, a visiting assistant professor in New York University’s department of media, culture and communication, said some of the protest activity on Facebook does not reflect an organic groundswell of support but the work of a “tightly networked set of Trump-orbit” influencers, including on the photo-sharing app Instagram, which Facebook also owns.

“They need something to queue up their relevance in the event Trump loses,” Bauer said, “and they’re leaning into grievances about the election being stolen.”

 

[User.45]

I love this photo. All Lives Matter: Gun Owners. I doubt they aware of the paradox here.

 

[User.45]

Oregon decriminalized all drugs. This is big. Especially that drug related incarcerations disproportionately impact black people. In Oregon, you’ll go to treatment, not prison. Big dealI call .

I'd call this The War on War on Drugs.

 

[User.45]

As GA and PA getting close to the end of the count, I no longer can use the county-wise data as all counties stop at >98%. There are counties so big that even 1% of their votes are in the 5K range. If these add up these can now disproportionately affect my estimates. I suspect they aren't entirely sure how many absentee ballots are and they just add whatever is left. So I'll say I expect a double Biden advantage here:
1. Higher vote proportion
2. Extra votes that we didn't anticipate in the anticipated total of votes. (Trumpsters will lose their shit on this...but again this is by design. They fucked with USPS for a reason).

 

[User.45]

Also, if I want to be facetious, I'd say that at this point AZ and NV are trying to wait out each other's report on updated counts so they won't be the ones receiving the first trumpist shitstorm.

Thank goodness, for their maturity.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

I love this photo. All Lives Matter: Gun Owners. I doubt they aware of the paradox here.

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I think the best counter protest to these clowns would just be to drive by and drop off boxes of diapers out the window.

 

[Yoused]

Here is a sobering thought:
In 15 states, 16.3M voters chose Individual-ONE when it was pretty well established, by history and by polls, that their vote would be effective worthless.
In 19 states, 15.7M votes chose Joe where they could be confident that their state's voters were going the other way.

That is 32 Million voters who were just casually registering their opinion, knowing that they would not prevail. More than 20% of Americans, on "both sides", live somewhere where their neighbors are significantly different from them. If you look at it on a county level, every county in the country has other types in it. Sometimes a lot of them.


Meanwhile, Jim Wright posted this tweet image:

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

Also, if I want to be facetious, I'd say that at this point AZ and NV are trying to wait out each other's report on updated counts so they won't be the ones receiving the first trumpist shitstorm.

Thank goodness, for their maturity.

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That image made me envision Family Guy’s Peter in a wheelchair going “And you can’t say anything because I’m in a wheelchair. Heh heh. This is great!”

 

[lizkat]

I'm reduced to prowling through old playlists for wisdom.

This one's for you, Donny Boy. Wolf Parade's Shine A Light.

lyrics:

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[Eric]

That presser by Trump was just sad. I know he's going to spout all of his conspiracies but he looks defeated. Look for him to completely scorch the earth on his way out.

 

[SuperMatt]

Less than 4,000 votes difference in Georgia now!

 

[lizkat]

That presser by Trump was just sad. I know he's going to spout all of his conspiracies but he looks defeated. Look for him to completely scorch the earth on his way out.

I'm wondering how they're going to keep a lid on this guy during the transition.

 

[DT]

That presser by Trump was just sad. I know he's going to spout all of his conspiracies but he looks defeated. Look for him to completely scorch the earth on his way out.

CBS cut him off, and I’ll repost what I posted on the other place:

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This orange mother****er is on the TV saying he won with “legal votes”, and that uncounted, votes by citizens of my United States are “illegal”.

Traitor. Liar. He should be in prison for the statements he’s currently making.

People that voted for trump should be embarrassed.

 

[SuperMatt]

Arizona is really taking their time counting. Bankers hours?

 

[Thomas Veil]

I really can't tell from OAN's election map who's winning.