OH NO NOT KENTUCKY NOOOOOO
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Oliphantom Menacereplied to Oliphantom Menace last edited by
The Republicans being so fucking pissed at the idea their wives might vote for Harris really reveals the patriarchal focus.
Like not one even them would even remotely consider the possibility that they betrayed their wives with their votes. No, it's the other way around.
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No real surprises yet, states falling into place like dominoes, everyone just waiting for the real questions:
The so-called "swing states."
(For everyone outside the country, we just call them that because we can't use poll math and past elections to accurately predict the outcomes of those states until the election.)
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I'm on drink number three. No, I've not paced myself every well.
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For historical record purposes, this is what the 270 to win site had for the electoral map. Before anyone started voting. So far, no surprises.
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This is why I say the really interesting analysis will start coming later in the night.
Maybe a couple hours from now.
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This is my night to doomscroll and I'll doomscroll if I wanna.
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It's like, on Oct 31, you eat candy and watch spooky movies. On the first Tuesday in November of an election year in the USA, you get absolutely kershnackered and watch the decline of the empire.
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"Oh, right, I forgot how absolutely ridiculous this system is."
Me, every four years, experiencing selective amnesia
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Too early to say by so many factors, we need data, goddammit. Not enough data yet.
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Oliphantom Menacereplied to Oliphantom Menace last edited by
yawn Trump is likely to get 230 electoral votes no matter what happens, based on electoral math.
No upsets yet, still no surprises. Louisiana is not a surprise.
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Drink number four is a beer, for those keeping score. At least, I'm pretty sure this is drink four. I'm resolving to pace myself a bit more from here, or else I'll be talking about Miyazaki films or why you shouldn't overuse adverbs when writing.
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With these early calls, I feel kind of like an enemy commander watching a charging enemy, like in LOTR or something, and I'm just crying out, "Steady!...." and the charging horde gets closer, and more red states fall to Trump the Despoiler and the electoral votes rise ever higher. "....HOOOOOLD!" I cry, and then there goes Texas with it's 40 electoral votes! Oh snap! It's getting closer.... "....HOLD!" I cry again, as 4 electoral votes from Nevada tick into the Trump column.
This is all as expected. Now is not the time to panic, now is not the time to react. Stare at them with all your fury, knowing the moment approaches, the deciding battle, contact has not yet been made, true blood has not yet been spilt.
But I'd rather be us than them tonight.
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Okay, that was probably cringe, but it's not like I'm saving bytes tonight.
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Oliphantom Menacereplied to Oliphantom Menace last edited by
pokes the data C'mon.
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This is the part of the evening where some of you might be saying to yourselves, "I realize Mississippi is a horrible place that no one should live, but did they pay zero attention to all the overt Nazi shit?" and my painful realization after many years of denial is in fact, Yes, they did see all the Nazi shit. And the nicest thing I can say about that is that for some reason the Nazi shit wasn't a dealbreaker.
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It was probably Harris' laugh that did it.
I mean one guy wears an adult diaper, but have you heard her laugh?
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12 a.m. ET is when the fun of election night really begins. Lots of Trump voters going to sleep, thinking things are great, waking up in the morning like "WHAT THE FUCK"
.... or else that's when we're gonna know if we're in real fuckin' trouble.
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"How the electoral college works"
It mostly doesn't, but that's for another day.
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From CNN:
Magic Wall analysis: Georgia in 2020 and now
From CNN's Jack ForrestWith former President Donald Trump currently leading in Georgia as of 10 p.m. ET with 51.8% of the vote to Vice President Kamala Harris’ 47.2%, with 81% of votes counted, there could be a slow shift blue over the course of the night and morning if 2020 serves as any indication, according to an on-air analysis from CNN’s John King.
In 2020, at 9 p.m. ET on election night in Georgia, Trump led by just over 240,000 votes and more than 15 points. By 12:00 a.m. Wednesday, Trump was still up by nearly 10 points. But 12 hours later, at noon that same day, Biden began chipping away at Trump’s lead as the state counted mail-in ballots, with the Republican nominee leading by just over 2 points.
By Friday, Biden had taken a razor-thin lead of only a couple thousand votes, which grew slightly to .1 point when the race was called for Biden on Saturday. After a final count, Biden had won the state by 11,779 votes and .3 points.
That does not mean Harris will take Georgia, King said, but “it just means that she can. It means that there’s still math out there to do it.”
King also pointed out that votes will be counted quicker this year than four years ago.
