2020 Presidential Election Results & Exit Polls commentary thread

[hyouzel the predictor]

https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1324722150503305218?s=19

I get that they need to project confidence, but at what point are they going to accept the loss?

[Alben Barkley]

After a week of legal fighting, a young man in a red hat stands on a parapet

We lower our pens as he frantically waves a white handkerchief

And just like that, it's over, we turn to our absentee votes, we count our ballots

Black and white voters wonder alike if this really means freedom

Not yet

We negotiate the terms of surrender

I see Joe Biden smile

We escort their men out of the Supreme Court

They stagger home single file

Tens of thousands of people flood the streets

There are screams and church bells ringing

And as our fallen foes retreat

I hear the drinking song they're singing:

“The world turned upside down.”

[Crumpets]

We need an organization focused on moving Dems out of California and other Safe D states into swing states. Keep the Blue Wall blue, demographic-shift Georgia, North Carolina, Texas to the left. With the right strategy, I think we can keep the R EC advantage down. Maybe try to overwhelm Wyoming with sheer numbers, Vermont-in-the-80s style?

I was really hoping Bezos would put HQ2 in Cheyenne.

[Holmes]

We did it, MillenialModerate!

[ProudModerate2]

[GeorgiaModerate]

I'm expecting a headline from the NY Daily News tomorrow like this:

America to Trump: YOU'RE FIRED!

[Thank you for being a friend...]

I'm expecting a headline from the NY Daily News tomorrow like this:

America to Trump: YOU'RE FIRED!

YES YES YES!!!

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Anyway, given Republican strength downballot and the fact that this election wasn't really the clear-cut repudiation of Trumpism that the "negative polarization" thesis implied it would be, it may be time for the more ideological among us (and I count myself in this) to consider the radical possibility that your average medium-to-low-information American voter looks at Joe Biden and sees someone they more or less like and trust. Whoda thunk it.

[Calthrina950]

I'm glad that the election has been finally projected after nearly four days, but it was still far too close to comfort, and much closer then I had anticipated it being. And I am not looking forward to the next four years, from the vantage point of what we'll see with partisan gridlock. Moreover, I fear that the Democratic Party may come to regret winning this election down the road. Yes, it was important to get Trump out, but there will be consequences that will extend into the decade.

How so?

I've explained many times elsewhere that Democrats could lose their House majority and suffer additional losses at the state level during the 2022 midterms; that Biden's agenda will be blocked by McConnell, assuming Republicans retain the Senate; and that the 2024 election will not be easy for Democrats.

[forsythvoter]

Just reflecting on GA, what Stacey Abrams has done for the Dem party here is pretty incredible. She's really helped the state Dem party get its act together and helped field a slate of downballot candidates that I seriously considered voting for (and some of whom I in fact ended up voting for this year). She'd make a great DNC chair.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1324722150503305218?s=19

I get that they need to project confidence, but at what point are they going to accept the loss?

It is unlikely they ever will accept defeat. Trump will leave the White House, but the election will always be stolen in his eyes.

[ProudModerate2]

I'm expecting a headline from the NY Daily News tomorrow like this:

America to Trump: YOU'RE FIRED!

I want NYT to print that in HUGE letters across the top of their front page.
Taking the entire space from left to right edge of their paper.

[BlueSwan]

I get that they need to project confidence, but at what point are they going to accept the loss?

Never.

[AndyHogan14]

We need an organization focused on moving Dems out of California and other Safe D states into swing states. Keep the Blue Wall blue, demographic-shift Georgia, North Carolina, Texas to the left. With the right strategy, I think we can keep the R EC advantage down. Maybe try to overwhelm Wyoming with sheer numbers, Vermont-in-the-80s style?

Coming Soon: the Californian Empire

Rule! California! California Rule the Waves! Californians never shall be slaves!

[Hope For A New Era]

I get that they need to project confidence, but at what point are they going to accept the loss?

They'll do a (and I feel bad for criticizing her now) Stacey Abrams-style "well yes, but actually no" concession.

[Cashew]

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1324158992877154310?s=20

Followed by a Republican president leaving it again in the next 4-8 years. What a hollow victory.

[Sir Mohamed]

Mr. Trump, YOU'RE FIRED! You've done a lousy job. And we don't like lousy jobs. A very lousy job. Such a lousy job, losing by the biggest popular vote totals in history. A very sad thing to watch. Because, if you want to know the truth, I don't like losers. We don't need losers running our country. We need killers. We need total killers. We don't need someone losing by millions of legal votes. So sad.

[MillennialModerate]

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1324158992877154310?s=20

Followed by a Republican president leaving it again in the next 4-8 years. What a hollow victory.

I get not having the senate presents slot of legislation but ending the trump
Era and shutting the Trumpers up is anything but hollow. It’s sweet sweet joy

[Hope For A New Era]

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1324158992877154310?s=20

Followed by a Republican president leaving it again in the next 4-8 years. What a hollow victory.

sssshhhhh

Climate is quietly becoming a nonpartisan issue, especially among younger Republicans. Personally, I'm not worried about that.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1324158992877154310?s=20

Followed by a Republican president leaving it again in the next 4-8 years. What a hollow victory.

Yeah this is going to be the Mexico City Policy of environmental policy. Sad.

[rhg2052]

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1324158992877154310?s=20

Followed by a Republican president leaving it again in the next 4-8 years. What a hollow victory.

Yeah, why celebrate any progress when that progress can maybe, potentially be undone at some vague, indeterminate point in the future.

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1324721889965735937

[ηєω ƒяσηтιєя]

So when will PA be called?

[randomusername]

Who is this crazy on Fox? Rachel Duffy never heard of her before.

[GeorgiaModerate]

So when will PA be called?

Probably when Biden's lead exceeds the recount threshold (0.5%).