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James Woodcock
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| Posted: 03 November 2020 at 1:38am | IP Logged | 1
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This is the strangest thing.
Both sides are talking about the unfairness of why they might lose,
rather than talking about winning.
Biden’ s side rightly point to your really weird electoral college system,
while Trump’s side is obviously obsessed with imaginary voter fraud &
trying to get legitimate votes thrown out.
I still think that any group/person that tries to disrupt voting in any way,
be that turning up @ polling stations to intimidate voters or disrupt
campaigning should be arrested on terrorist charges.
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Leigh DJ Hunt
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| Posted: 03 November 2020 at 4:46am | IP Logged | 2
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Over here, campaigning stops the nigh before and television is not even allowed to mention the election on the day itself presumably in case of perceived bias. It's weird that until 10 pm on election day you might not even realise it's the day. I see Trump is due on Fox and Friends this morning so I'm guessing the same guideline don't apply.....
What a nervous day(s) this is going to be. Are people going to follow all the latest news to look for clues or switching off from everything until it's all over?
Edited by Leigh DJ Hunt on 03 November 2020 at 4:46am
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Carlos Velasco
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| Posted: 03 November 2020 at 7:12am | IP Logged | 3
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I just learned about the "we're getting your husbands back to work" comment from Trump a week ago.
It looks like today will be a good day for you, Americans. Good luck getting rid of this bastard!
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James Johnson
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| Posted: 03 November 2020 at 3:27pm | IP Logged | 4
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It never occurred to me that since 1988, the GOP candidate has only won the popular vote once.
2004.
To me, this is a sign that the country is moving, albeit slowly, in a progressive direction.
If 45 somehow happens to win again, will it be due to the EC or will he have the votes
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Jason Czeskleba
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| Posted: 03 November 2020 at 4:50pm | IP Logged | 5
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James Johnson wrote:
| If 45 somehow happens to win again, will it be due to the EC or will he have the votes |
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The final nationwide polling average was 51% Biden to 43% Trump. By contrast, the final polling average in 2016 was 45% Clinton 41% Trump. Historically, polls tend to be off by 3-4 points at most.... eg Clinton won the popular vote by 2% whereas the polling average predicted she'd win by 4%.
Which is to say that since Biden has an eight-point lead in the polling average, there's no conceivable way he's going to lose the popular vote, assuming all votes are counted. Even if Trump gets a significant amount of votes suppressed, it's still unlikely he could suppress enough to engineer an nine-point reversal of the polls.
This is why right-thinking people despise the Electoral College system so much. The election would be all but over if we had a popular vote.
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Mike Devlin
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| Posted: 04 November 2020 at 3:25am | IP Logged | 6
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Watching anxiously from Australia.
Wow. It`s a close election. Cripes. Not what I expected. I assumed, to Democrat voters, Trump was the most loathed President since Nixon. And also assumed, even before Covid-19, they would be on a mission to get a ballot and would vote him out, in an historic landslide. Nope. Doh.
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Charles Valderrama
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| Posted: 04 November 2020 at 7:49am | IP Logged | 7
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Apparently bigotry, science denial, authoritarian tendencies, and narcissism are NOT deal-breakers for half of American society.
This is gonna be a LONG week.
-C!
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James Johnson
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| Posted: 04 November 2020 at 8:27am | IP Logged | 8
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No Charles,
This is going to be another long 4 years no matter who wins.
If Biden pulls off a "2 Minute Drive" to win, Trumpy will play the game he is famous for: Litigation
If Trump wins, it will be due to the EC. Again, there will be cries to abolish it.
This country is soooooooo far apart that we may never come together again.
Racism and Science deniers - Dumbasses
This all has me wondering who will be the next Trump in 2024 to further this stupidity?
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Rodrigo castellanos
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| Posted: 04 November 2020 at 8:56am | IP Logged | 9
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How about those polls, huh?
Whatever happens, when the pollsters come back in 4 years time with a "new method" and having "learned from their mistakes" please try to remember this moment.
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Peter Martin
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| Posted: 04 November 2020 at 9:07am | IP Logged | 10
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Yeah, they fooled me twice. Shame on me...
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Peter Martin
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| Posted: 04 November 2020 at 9:08am | IP Logged | 11
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Still, when they talk about percentages, we have to accept a low percentage does not mean 'no chance'.
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Brian Floyd
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| Posted: 04 November 2020 at 9:37am | IP Logged | 12
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This all has me wondering who will be the next Trump in 2024 to further this stupidity?
++++++++++++++++++++ McConnell? Or......Trump, if he wins re-election?
Trump trying to run again would be an interesting situation. It would take a vote by the states, not Congress of SCOTUS, to overturn term limits. Specifically it would take 35 states agreeing.
So imagine (God forbid!) Trump trying to run for a third term, without a term limit override vote being done first. He gets the 270 delegates, but doesn't win at least 35 states.
What happens?
Edited by Brian Floyd on 04 November 2020 at 9:38am
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