General Politics Thread

[the-pi-guy]

In a little over 24 hours or so, I'll be casting my vote. And less than 24 hours after that, we should get a good idea of how the election went.

[the-pi-guy]

Wow -- a "Fire Fauci!" chant at the Trump rally

"Let me wait until a little after the election," Trump replies pic.twitter.com/bRHLqzzcRF

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 2, 2020

We have to vote out this POS.  

[Legend]

Voted last night.

[kitler53]

i voted saturday.   i'm both hopeful and worried about the results of this election.   i fully believe american democracy dies if trump wins or steals the election.   republican's deserved to be walloped and kick-start a introspective period about how they are operating.    ...but there are enough crazies that they'll probably will just decide to kidnap and assassinate democrats like they tried in michigan.

[Legend]

i voted saturday.   i'm both hopeful and worried about the results of this election.   i fully believe american democracy dies if trump wins or steals the election.   republican's deserved to be walloped and kick-start a introspective period about how they are operating.    ...but there are enough crazies that they'll probably will just decide to kidnap and assassinate democrats like they tried in michigan.

I'm hopeful and worried too.

[Xevross]

i voted saturday.   i'm both hopeful and worried about the results of this election.   i fully believe american democracy dies if trump wins or steals the election.   republican's deserved to be walloped and kick-start a introspective period about how they are operating.    ...but there are enough crazies that they'll probably will just decide to kidnap and assassinate democrats like they tried in michigan.

Agree with all this, and what it might mean for the state and direction of the world if Trump wins. There's a lot riding on tomorrow, I'm rooting for all of you in America.

[the-pi-guy]

Voting was odd.

Very much taking Covid seriously.

[kitler53]

I'm hopeful and worried too.

i see you updated the background to an american flag.  do you have an american flag on fire background ready in case things go bad today?

[Legend]

i see you updated the background to an american flag.  do you have an american flag on fire background ready in case things go bad today?

I am taking this one step at a time but at the very least, national election=flag.

[kitler53]

i require you to take a stance.  you're either with us or against us:

Biden wins = fireworks
Trump wins = dumpster fire

[Xevross]

Republicans out-voted Dems by 220k in 5 and a half hours in Florida, they hold a voted registration lead of 106k now. This is missing a few counties for election day numbers, Miami Dade included.

According to polling averages, any GOP+3 environment or bluer favours a Biden win in Florida.

If the current pace continues we're looking at total votes of:

GOP 4.41M (40.0%)
Dem 4.05M (36.6%)
NPA 2.60M (23.5%)

However the GOP hourly advantage is trending downards and this is missing some Dem favouring counties.So this will slightly overestimate the GOP lead. So yeah, good old Florida.

[Xevross]

Republicans out-voted Dems by 220k in 5 and a half hours in Florida, they hold a voted registration lead of 106k now. This is missing a few counties for election day numbers, Miami Dade included.

According to polling averages, any GOP+3 environment or bluer favours a Biden win in Florida.

If the current pace continues we're looking at total votes of:

GOP 4.41M (40.0%)
Dem 4.05M (36.6%)
NPA 2.60M (23.5%)

However the GOP hourly advantage is trending downards and this is missing some Dem favouring counties.So this will slightly overestimate the GOP lead. So yeah, good old Florida.

With each hour the end of day estimate gets better for Dems as while GOP still outvotes them, the ratio is getting better.

[kitler53]

With each hour the end of day estimate gets better for Dems as while GOP still outvotes them, the ratio is getting better.

what is your source?  I'm not seeing live results on the web.

[Xevross]

what is your source?  I'm not seeing live results on the web.

Counties release the data, this guy on twitter is collating it and giving updates: https://twitter.com/umichvoter99

[Legend]

i require you to take a stance.  you're either with us or against us:

Biden wins = fireworks
Trump wins = dumpster fire

My stance is that I'm against that lol.

We're all well aware of the importance of this vote and how shameful a second term is.