They have people working in Maine, so they can predict it because of timezones— they’re actually 90 minutes further in the future from you.
I’m letting my wife control the TV tonight, and my iPad has the NBCNews YouTube channel on. It’s a live map with no commentary, no sound. And no “toss-up/leaning” info. Just results as they call them. It seems like it’s not as willing to call states as quickly.
Look who’s living up to their name tonight. Although I can’t blame that line of thinking:? With the on-fire COVID hotzone that Florida has been and still is, I don’t understand how so many can still vote GOP there. People are dying every day, we’re on fire, everything is fine. How soon I forget Florida is Florida. You can’t predict it, it’s the Gary Busey of states.
Does anyone think we'll actually have a defined winner tonight? I just don't see it happening and from the results I'm seeing it's not a landslide either way, it's tight. Honestly, more than rooting for one candidate over the other, I'm rooting that our country doesn't get torn apart. The hyperbole on both sides has been off the hook as far as why to hate anyone thinking different then you. We need to stop that shit. This country used to pull together during difficult times, now we get a constant stream of "It's the other side's fault" and hate each other. A house divided against itself...
The trick is gonna be to get the winners to not float and the losers to not incite violence, large scale or some line weirdo. This is a lot tighter than I thought it was gonna be.
Given that one side LITERALLY wants to create a full on dictatorship, bungled a pandemic leading to a 230k death toll, openly breaks laws, dehumanizes people simply because they CAN, it really IS just one sides fault that things in this country are fucked and the other side has every justifiable reason to despise them.
I see nothing wrong here, with the exception that these problems are largely that "side's" politicians doing it. If the politicians didn't lead, the supporters wouldn't follow. When you're looking at a cult, you don't necessarily blame people for being in it because it's seductive and there's all kind of psychological tricks at play -- you do, however, blame the leaders. There is a lot of blame on people who elected those leaders, who allowed them to rise to power and keep it, but the majority of the blame goes on the actors themselves, not the followers. I know a lot of people who's only source of news is fox. They don't realize the issue in that (or if your only news source is CNN). If you're born blind you cannot be blamed for not being able to identify color.
No. Philadelphia announced they're halting counting for the night and they still have 350K votes uncounted. We won't know Pennsylvania until tomorrow at the earliest.
Pray that Biden wins Nebraska-2 or Maine-2, because if he doesn't this map becomes disturbingly plausible. And it will guarantee violence. Spoiler
The House decides via this weird process where there are 50 votes, each vote controlled by the congressional delegation from a single state. So all of California's congressmen would vote on how California is going to vote. It's dumb as shit. There's no way the half of America that loses via that stupid process would accept it.
So, it's 2020, of course we're headed for a 269-269 tie. State delegates vote, need 26 to break tie, right?
What is weirder is that the house would elect the president, the senate the VP. So you could have a Democrat and a Republican running the country at the same time, hating each other.
In that case the President would just tell the VP to go home and say "If we need you... well I won't call you, but somebody will."
what's insane about all of this is that it's looking like it's gonna come down to the voting difference in one state. Either AZ or PA.