US Election Week 2020

[DGuller]

The way Arizona is going, it definitely shouldn't have been called.  I sure as hell hope it's going to go Biden eventually, but if the state you called trades at 79 cents, you probably fucked up big time.

It looks pretty good - most of the the counties where Trump is leading are 90-98% in except for Cochise and Greenlee which are teensy tiny - Trump could win every vote out there and still not make a dent.

The biggest block of votes left to be counted are 260K early votes in Maricopa, probably not going to give Trump a ton of help.  That is more than half of the total 450K outstanding state wide.

Unless I'm missing something I'd buy at 79

That's what I saw a well on NYT pages, and likewise I thought that Trump votes aren't there, unless for some unusual reason it's the red votes that would be counted last.  However, if the rumors of a Maricopa recount really are true, and that Sharpie thing was indeed material, then it may not be the uncounted votes that are the issue, but actually the counted votes.  It also bothers me that no one seems to report percentage of spoiled ballots, since it could be a rather critical number.

[Caliga]

They have a buffet

Good luck with your COVID dude

[Sheilbh]

Also the USPS case seems more striking/serious than sharpiegate.

[Solmyr]

Biden just passed 70 million in popular vote, which is apparently biggest ever? Trump must be fuming at this.

[Liep]

Biden just passed 70 million in popular vote, which is apparently biggest ever? Trump must be fuming at this.

Trump's count is 2nd biggest ever and wasn't achieved by illegals voting. Easy.

[Razgovory]

Man, I don't have it together at the best of times.  This is more than I can stand.  I'm going to eat cheap Chinese food.

Panda Express? 

Nah, local joint.  They have a buffet and I just fill up a box and pay by the pound.

How does that work in the age of corona?

I go right after it opens, at 10:30 in the morning.

[Caliga]

Biden just passed 70 million in popular vote, which is apparently biggest ever? Trump must be fuming at this.

FAKE NEWS.

[crazy canuck]

@BB & all

That's what CC is saying.

Yeah, but BB is never really going to understand, he views the world through Alberta Conservative glasses.

@ FunkMunk, I think Sheilbh makes a good point, but doesn't really address my point.

Liberal Democracy is at risk everywhere, just more so in the US, and that is now going to spread faster to the rest of us now.  And I don't see that changing largely because of the way election spending rules work in the US.  It is almost impossible for a strong liberal democracy to flourish under those conditions.

tldr - Liberal Democracy is fucked.  Now  what?

I was despondent about the future of Liberal Democracy before but now I think historians may well mark this election as the clear mark of its downward slide.

[DGuller]

And AZ is down to 68 cents.  Ugh.

[crazy canuck]

Since everybody was predicting this for months, a close election with long legal challenges, is it too much to hope that Joe Biden and company are prepared for it? 

Lots of lawyers are going to be making big billable hours off this thing.

Most of the time when you see a lawyer on a high profile case without an underlying commercial dispute - it is pro bono work.

It is what a lot of us do - JR included. 

[Sheilbh]

To be honest I hadn't really followed your conversation so hadn't properly read your point - I just, as I often do, just went in with a two footed challenge and hoped for the best

I will think about your point - I'm not sure I agree.

[crazy canuck]

To be honest I hadn't really followed your conversation so hadn't properly read your point - I just, as I often do, just went in with a two footed challenge and hoped for the best

I will think about your point - I'm not sure I agree.

Happy to hear your view 

[Valmy]

Since everybody was predicting this for months, a close election with long legal challenges, is it too much to hope that Joe Biden and company are prepared for it? 

Lots of lawyers are going to be making big billable hours off this thing.

Most of the time when you see a lawyer on a high profile case without an underlying commercial dispute - it is pro bono work.

It is what a lot of us do - JR included. 

Well damn. Not even the lawyers are winning.

[Josephus]

Biden just passed 70 million in popular vote, which is apparently biggest ever? Trump must be fuming at this.

Trump's latest tweet:

They are finding Biden votes all over the place — in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. So bad for our Country!

[Eddie Teach]

And AZ is down to 68 cents.  Ugh.

What was it on Monday?