US 2020 Presidential Election prediction thread

[Maladict]

State codes are pretty straightforward, though.

Yeah - they're more like the European car registration codes (as a kid, I used to geek out about both - and capital cities  ).

I remember seeing a CH code for the first time and spending hours figuring out what it could be 

[celedhring]

What does my head in is the damn counties and how they almost never match the city in them. So analysts prattle about Clark County, Maricopa County... and I have to go to wikipedia to know it's Las Vegas, Phoenix...

[katmai]

Learn American geography noob

[grumbler]

What does my head in is the damn counties and how they almost never match the city in them. So analysts prattle about Clark County, Maricopa County... and I have to go to wikipedia to know it's Las Vegas, Phoenix...

Can't say I blame you in the least. 

[viper37]

what's the deal with Alaska results stuck at 46% counted for 3 days?  They decided not to update 'cause they know Trump is going to win it?

[Admiral Yi]

what's the deal with Alaska results stuck at 46% counted for 3 days?  They decided not to update 'cause they know Trump is going to win it?

They have to wait a week to start counting mail ins.

[Valmy]

what's the deal with Alaska results stuck at 46% counted for 3 days?  They decided not to update 'cause they know Trump is going to win it?

They need time for the dog sleds to deliver all the ballots.

[katmai]

what's the deal with Alaska results stuck at 46% counted for 3 days?  They decided not to update 'cause they know Trump is going to win it?

if someone had only answered this before....

[viper37]

what's the deal with Alaska results stuck at 46% counted for 3 days?  They decided not to update 'cause they know Trump is going to win it?

They have to wait a week to start counting mail ins.

Thanks.
You too Valmy, thanks

[viper37]

what's the deal with Alaska results stuck at 46% counted for 3 days?  They decided not to update 'cause they know Trump is going to win it?

if someone had only answered this before....

ok, shoot me, I missed a few posts here&there in this gigantic thread

[The Minsky Moment]

What does my head in is the damn counties and how they almost never match the city in them. So analysts prattle about Clark County, Maricopa County... and I have to go to wikipedia to know it's Las Vegas, Phoenix...

Heh - one side effect of a legal career is that I've had deposition in most of the cities sometime or another so the counties with big cities in them are familiar.

[DGuller]

I already knew what Maricopa County was, because Sheriff Joe and his goon squad were notorious for their fascist tendencies for many years before Trump.

[Barrister]

What does my head in is the damn counties and how they almost never match the city in them. So analysts prattle about Clark County, Maricopa County... and I have to go to wikipedia to know it's Las Vegas, Phoenix...

Heh - one side effect of a legal career is that I've had deposition in most of the cities sometime or another so the counties with big cities in them are familiar.

The side effect of my legal career is I know the location of all kinds of towns (and First Nations reserves) in northern Alberta and Yukon...

Being able to regale people with anecdotes about High Level, Alberta or Old Crow, Yukon sadly doesn't come up very often.

[Valmy]

I always liked hearing about you having to make it to the Court House when it was -40C. That sounds exciting knowing if you get lost you might die.

[viper37]

I always liked hearing about you having to make it to the Court House when it was -40C. That sounds exciting knowing if you get lost you might die.

That's spring in Yukon.