U.S. Presidential Election 2020

I’ve voted.

Beer time?

Surely you ant crack a beer until florida exit poll,

Please let it end tonight. Please please make him leave quietly.

Not a praying man but I’ll join you in that.

Whose coverage is everybody watching?

CNN probably (faster info I suspect),but they can get on your nerves a bit, when that happens, back to ITV, then repeat as necessary.lol A bit of Beeb for its deadpan reporting.

Ballots close in Florida at 1am. BST I believe, so well know that result fairly soon after apparently. If Trump loses that, I’ll probably head off to bed and hope I don’t wake up to a repeat of Referendum/ Trump 2016.

Watching fear the walking dead

I’ll see what it looks like tomorrow

Don’t have much faith in 2020

kimbers
Full Member
Watching fear the walking dead

Ah yeah, I’ve got one episode of that to watch, I’ll watch that a bit later tonight.👍

Watching fear the walking dead

Apparently that was directed by a time traveller from the future. It’s a “based on true events” story after Trump’s third term.

🤣🤣

CNN building up to this one 😀

Poor old Beebs coverage looks decidedly low budget. 😟

Because it is!

the way 2020 has gone i’m expecting the worst but then we still have December to get through which will be something like a meteorite so our suffering will be fairly short lived.

https://ig.ft.com/us-election-2020/

One thing that does seem clear in the Election Day numbers is that the GOP vote came out early but the vote is becoming less Republican (and more indie) over the course of the day.

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 3, 2020

mrchrispy
Full Member
the way 2020 has gone i’m expecting the worst but then we still have December to get through which will be something like a meteorite so our suffering will be fairly short lived.

Hate to say this but I see 2021 as being far, far worse than this year. Not in the Covid sense (I really hope) but economically. I see the next few months as a surreal time before the massive, monumental pain hits.

eddiebaby
Full Member

Indeed. But add in the fact that if Joe wins our post Brexit US trade deal gets a lot harder to sort and it gets even more scary.

Mmm. Sort of. Yes, negotiations will be harder, but that’s because they could be fruitful and mutually beneficial and that takes more effort. A trump trade deal will be easy, inasmuch as we’ll just have to accept whatever he demands, even though it’ll be way worse for us and probably worse for the USA too.

Something that’s always been a bit overlooked that- good, lasting, wide ranging mutually beneficial, fair trade deals are bloody hard, even with the best of intentions. Only limited, onesided, or generally shitty trade deals are ever easy.

Biden…. Please

🙏

Not in the Covid sense (I really hope) but economically.

In both senses. Covid isn’t going anywhere, and as you say the economic pain is only really getting started. 2020 is a shitshow, but it’s only the start. The recovery from what has started this year (and the previous four) is going to take decades.

trump isn’t the most dangerous person in the US; that’s McConnell.
I hope – against hope – he’s turfed out in Kentucky but it’s massively unlikely.
Assuming he wins and Biden is pres elect, mcconnell has 8 weeks to force through legislation – see coney barrett’s hearings.

How has Kentucky announced the result so quickly?

trump isn’t the most dangerous person in the US; that’s McConnell.

There’s a good chance the dems will take both houses regardless of the presidential outcome

CNN showing county by county as they come in, in Florida.👍

Biden doing “ok” so far.

Early numbers, but he’s leading Florida and Georgia

Florida took a month? In 2012

He’s not leading by enough at the moment in e.g. Miami Dade. He needs to make up his numbers by running up big percentages areas he wins. It’s early but those numbers are a positive for Trump.

Got to say, CNN is the one to watch if you want to see how Florida is going.

Sad to say this but my heart rate is up watching this.lol

Same here
Squeaky bum time

Do something good Florida. Come on.

CNN is the one to watch if you want to see how Florida is going

New York Times is good. May need a sub for it though.

I’ve been watching Sky here – is it me or are influential Republicans now in a mad dash to distance themselves from Trump?

Trump is going to take Florida isn’t he?

How has Kentucky announced the result so quickly?

They haven’t. The official results from all the states won’t be known for days or weeks. What you will get today are projections based on interim vote counts. If one candidate has a huge lead, it won’t be possible for the other candidate to catch them with mailed in ballots, so most of the states will be known fairly quickly, but that’s not an official result, just a projection.

For example:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2020/11/03/trump-biden-election-live-updates/#link-XVXW62SS45HPVPFMGZ5DZTF4KE

Trump is projected to win Indiana and its 11 electoral votes
By Amanda Erickson
As the first round of polls closed, Indiana became the first state called in the 2020 presidential race, according to Edison Research. With 8 percent of the votes counted, Trump had won about 65 percent of the votes. Trump had been expected to win the state.

is it me or are influential Republicans now in a mad dash to distance themselves from Trump

They’ll be covering their arses like good little scumbags.

This is bloody horrible! I’m watching the Guardian feed.

I’m with you Poop. It’s gripping stuff!

According to the Guradian, after 64% of the votes have been counted, Biden is up by 2%. Please, please, PLEASE, let it stay this way!

John King is a flipping demon with the touchscreen on CNN. 😂

Trump is going to take Florida isn’t he?

Biden is currently fractionally ahead in the vote count (66% counted). Mail in ballots are expected to favour Biden, so my money is on Biden. Gonna be close though.

Bloody hell, that CNN Florida thing is gripping TV. I’ve sworn copiously and then cheered happily three or four times already. However if 65% is in and Biden is favoured with the postals then I may just allow my heart rate to slow a tad..

Mr ex-president trump, the library door key is on the inside.
There is a revolver, bottle of whisky (coke) and glass on the desk.
Please do the right thing.
Goodbye.