2020 Presidential Election Results & Exit Polls commentary thread

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Per CNN: Trump indicates that he doesn’t have a victory speech or concession speech prepared.

He's going to tempt the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing.

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Illinois progressive tax amendment failed thankfully, and with Biden likely winning, I can’t imagine the 2022 electorate will be much more receptive to it.

Definitely shows there’s either significant mistrust of the state government or significant skepticism of big government policy among a portion of Illinois Dems. With a razor-thin margin in Champaign, it’s possible that it could lose in every county but Cook, and it got a laughable 62% in Cook, one of the most heavily Democratic counties in the country.

Yeah, and it needed 60% so it was always going to be a tough climb with all the money thrown into lobbying for/against it.

I think their best chance now is to wait until 2028 and when the every 20 year Constitutional Convention measure comes up again, but even that didn't go well in 2008.

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Illinois progressive tax amendment failed thankfully, and with Biden likely winning, I can’t imagine the 2022 electorate will be much more receptive to it.

Definitely shows there’s either significant mistrust of the state government or significant skepticism of big government policy among a portion of Illinois Dems. With a razor-thin margin in Champaign, it’s possible that it could lose in every county but Cook, and it got a laughable 62% in Cook, one of the most heavily Democratic counties in the country.

The messaging on the "No" campaign was quite good. I think voters from both parties in the state could agree that Illinois needs to manage its budget better, and I'm sure that was enough to peel off a significant chunk of Dems.

I hardly even saw a commercial for the “No” side until right before the election, but I was flooded with “Yes” commercials, and they seemed to try to put a bumper-sticker message on it (meaning way too simplistic to capture what was really being voted on), and voters clearly didn’t buy that.

I get Chicago TV, and I was seeing a lot of ads both ways. I agree the messaging on the No side was better. It's hard to get people to vote for what they think is a tax increase, even if it won't matter to their wallets.

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Also, it's ironic that the electoral college this year may end up the exact inverse of 2016 lol if Biden holds AZ and wins GA.

That would be a landslide by Trump's definition.

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MSNBC called it too, nothing on Fox yet.

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Did he just say “may God protect our church”?

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