2020 Presidential Election Results & Exit Polls commentary thread

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

People need to calm down. If the Trump campaign did get an injunction to stop counting votes, the court would not hold that and let the campaign announce it in dramatic fashion. We would already know.

[GeneralMacArthur]

With Nevada dumps about to come, I think one thing is very clear:  The Fox/AP Arizona call has been handled very poorly.

If Nevada drops and the state is called for Biden, then Fox News would have Biden at 270 votes and should call the race for Biden.  So they're going to be sitting there talking about the next president, Joe Biden, winner of the election.  And nobody's going to believe them.  It'll be comical.

If they truly believe that Arizona is a done deal for Biden, they need to thoroughly explain it and sell it to their viewers.  If we don't believe the call, we're not going to believe any of the subsequent coverage based on the call.

[It’s so Joever]

Looking at the exit polls (yes, i know they tend to be flawed but whatever), 48% of voters said that the fight against COVID is going well, while a similar percentage said the economy was good or excellent.


Shows what a sick society we have and the tight grip the conservative propaganda machine has on people.

No, this shows how terrible the MSM and the people who live in their bubble are.  If it's not salacious innuendo, panic porn or fake scandal they don't care about/report it; it's no surprise many Americans don't listen.  "Real life" wins out over hyper-produced news flashes and concern pundits at the end of the day.   

No it actually shows exactly what he said.  We are in a national pandemic.  Your candidate is traveling around the country spreading the virus with reckless disregard for the most fragile among us.  It's not a fake scandal.  Shame on you.

Trump's COVID response definitely hurt him in this election (Trump is 42-57 on COVID).  Despite this, most Americans (outside of ridiculously locked-down places like NYC) have gone back to work/school, attended church/wedding/funerals and gotten way more back to "normal" than reporting by CNN or NYT would suggest.  People aren't doing these things because they live in "rabbit hole conspiracy world," but because normalcy is a choice each individual is actually empowered to make for themselves (and many are preferring to choose it.) 

The fact that Trump overperformed so much relative to expectations is proof that national sentiment is way higher than what the "doomers" in the MSM suggestively hope for (and there's even objective metrics that back up this idea, too.)  However, if you spent 24-hours a day watching CNN/reading election Twitter (like many on Atlas do) you'd think we were living during the fall of Rome, or something lol 

Pffft, no it’s because Trump is a damn effective mobilizer and got a bunch of low propensity voters out to vote who otherwise wouldn’t have. 2016 and 2020 should prove this.
Whether it’s just Trump or any brash populist is still too hard to tell.

[SN2903]

Genuinely concerned this election could be stolen.

Any rational personal would feel the same

Nope.  The rational people think we’re overreacting.

Dems are actively trying to steal it from Trump right now in Detroit and Philadelphia. This is 1960 all over again except Trump will fight.

I just reported that post for spreading false and misleading information.

Calling AZ with a million votes left but not calling PA, GA or NC is not spreading misinformation?

[MillennialModerate]

How are we feeling about PA, GA, NV, and AZ?

PA: Awful now despite decent numbers cause well you know
GA: LOL... come on
NV: Shaky but not totally doom
AZ: Has always felt like it was slipping away

[DaleCooper]

Can the discussion about stealing the election go to the relevant thread? I was hoping to use this thread to keep track of and discuss vote counts and that's impossible now.

[Astatine]

Genuinely concerned this election could be stolen.

Any rational personal would feel the same

My man, you run off of anxiety. Give your brain and body a break.

I love my country and in the prime of my life I’m seeing it come apart

Oh please, its prime was back in the 70s.

Reagan ruined everything.

It fell apart after Nixon. He was the most competentrrupt President we have ever had besides Trump.

Fixed.

[NYSforKennedy2024]

Trump got beat by a guy with a middle-class blue-collar background, a son with addiction problems, a son who died of cancer, and a former wife and daughter who died in a car accident. Trump lost to someone with a far more American life story than his own, and refusing to accept the truth of the results is the ultimate projection of his own personal insecurity.  

[BlueSwan]

https://twitter.com/RichardEngel/status/1324370961295200257?s=19

The Trump regime literally trying to stage violent unrest. Impeach him!

[Sir Mohamed]

Any word from NC? Still not updated for 24 hours? Why does that take so long? I still have a small hope for Cunningham. Very likely not happening, but I don't want to give up completely. Too bad these Cooper voters didn't go all for Biden and Cal.

[It’s so Joever]

Genuinely concerned this election could be stolen.

Any rational personal would feel the same

Blame FOX and AP for being too trigger happy. Not Atlas posters.

Nope.  The rational people think we’re overreacting.

Dems are actively trying to steal it from Trump right now in Detroit and Philadelphia. This is 1960 all over again except Trump will fight.

I just reported that post for spreading false and misleading information.

Calling AZ with a million votes left but not calling PA, GA or NC is not spreading misinformation?

[redjohn]

We really need PA to report the remaining mail-ins for the good of our democracy. The wait, with a sore loser in power, is unsettling.

[Astatine]

Any word from NC? Still not updated for 24 hours? Why does that take so long? I still have a small hope for Cunningham. Very likely not happening, but I don't want to give up completely. Too bad these Cooper voters didn't go all for Biden and Cal.

Historically unsexy voting behavior.

[MillennialModerate]

Any word from NC? Still not updated for 24 hours? Why does that take so long? I still have a small hope for Cunningham. Very likely not happening, but I don't want to give up completely. Too bad these Cooper voters didn't go all for Biden and Cal.

They aren’t announcing till next week cause of unknown mail in ballots that can be counted into Friday.

Bidens chances are slim there and Cal has literally no shot

[MaxQue]

Any word from NC? Still not updated for 24 hours? Why does that take so long? I still have a small hope for Cunningham. Very likely not happening, but I don't want to give up completely. Too bad these Cooper voters didn't go all for Biden and Cal.

It seems they won't count anything until the deadline for military ballots happens next week,

[Non Swing Voter]

https://twitter.com/RichardEngel/status/1324370961295200257?s=19

The Trump regime literally trying to stage violent unrest. Impeach him!

Put the entire Trump campaign apparatus on a terrorist watchlist already.

[BigSerg]

https://twitter.com/DoinaChiacu/status/1324372744478380032?s=19

[pppolitics]

Even if Trump actually did get an injunction to stop votes coming in after Election Day, it doesn't change the writing on the wall in PA. It probably means he keeps NC and maybe GA, though.

GA doesn't accept ballots that arrive after election day anyway.

[MR DARK BRANDON]

We really need PA to report the remaining mail-ins for the good of our democracy. The wait, with a sore loser in power, is unsettling.

Just an hour and a half. Hang in there

[redjohn]

https://twitter.com/DoinaChiacu/status/1324372744478380032?s=19

LMAO, they said yesterday they were calling it for themselves.

[MillennialModerate]

I was resisting the urge to join in the chorus but at this point: This is pathetic. All these votes should be counted by now with the few late mail ins. Get your sh**t together

[forsythvoter]

Quoting this so we can hold folks accountable with actual data. We'll know the final result in GA pretty soon.

How are we feeling about PA, GA, NV, and AZ?

PA: Awful now despite decent numbers cause well you know
GA: LOL... come on
NV: Shaky but not totally doom
AZ: Has always felt like it was slipping away

[cg41386]

NC won’t be counting/updating anything for a while.

[NYSforKennedy2024]

Atlas Timeline or 2020? - Josh Shapiro Saves Democracy

[pppolitics]

I was resisting the urge to join in the chorus but at this point: This is pathetic. All these votes should be counted by now with the few late mail ins. Get your sh**t together

Blame the Republican state legislatures who wouldn't allow absentee ballots to be counted before election day.