2020 Presidential Election Results & Exit Polls commentary thread

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Are Democrats even still on track to win the Senate?

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Is this now a doomer thread

Always has been.

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I don't mean to sound like a broken record here with Puerto Rico, but seriously, we just saw the first step toward a 51st state. It's a "piss or get off the pot" referendum, statehood or independence. Statehood is leading right now. The government can't be forced to act, but surely Democrats will want to get behind this to improve their position for the 2022 midterms and 2024. Why is no one talking about it?

Why do people keep stating that independence is an option in the referendum? It's simply "statehood yes or no".

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Why does CNN have stripes on WI on its map? Because Trump is asking for a recount?

It's like police caution tape.

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Trump won ME-2 again.

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I think we're going to end up with this.

You expect both Fox and the AP to take back calling Arizona for Biden?

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Maybe a counting bias, but I'd never thought I'd see the day where NJ was to the left of NY. Boy have times changed.

Looks like the 9/11 effect is finally over.

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Random thought: with Ohio, Florida, and probably North Carolina going for Trump, there will be hardly any active win streaks left, even if you allow for one miss. MI, WI, and PA will have win streaks going back to 2008. That's it.

New Mexico will keep its streak of matching the winner of the national popular vote. Only once since it gained statehood has that not be the case, in 1976.

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If anyone wants a good laugh, go to the Newsmax TV stream and watch Dick Morris about 25 minutes ago.

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The ratios of votes coming in are:

This is meaningless unless you state how many of the most recent votes this is based on.

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That speech was the kick-off of his 2024 campaign.

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Trump's going to cry all the way until January.  It's going to be an awful two months.

Not only will we be dealing with covid, he might even find a way to sabotage vaccine development in some way, and he'll be tweeting all caps every day undermining our election process and our country in general.

All the while, many of his supporters will eat it up and some will act on it.

As long as he doesn't start nuking stuff out of spite, I'll take it.

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Am I the only one who has more of a soft spot for Arizona going blue than Georgia?

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I actually got temp-banned from r/neoliberal for saying "Clinton was right to ship Elian Gonzalez back to Cuba."

Probably trauma, because that cost Gore the election.

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Based on the combined vote margins in the deciding states (WI+GA+AZ), this was a closer election than 2016 (PA+WI+MI)!

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This election was also closer than 4 years ago if you look at the margin the winner won the tipping point state, Wisconsin in both cases, both in relative and absolute numbers.