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1
jaunte  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:20:00pm
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JC1  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:20:19pm

I think that Biden still wins this, but the fact that it’s this close is really depressing.

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makeitstop  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:20:33pm
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TarHellion  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:20:50pm

The thought that high voter turnout benefits the Democrats is completely out the window. Turnout was fantastic in NC. It DID NOT MATTER!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:20:54pm

On this idea that TV and other media are making calls too early:

Some states are pretty far along in counting the mail-in and early votes. Some states are not.

Typically here in California it takes a couple of weeks to count all the mail-in and provisional ballots.

Your state may vary.

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Tahitinho  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:21:01pm

re: #2 JC1

This.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:21:12pm
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Varek Raith  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:21:57pm

re: #2 JC1

I think that Biden still wins this, but the fact that it’s this close is really depressing.

I hate to say this, but many dems just have to come to terms with this fact. Like I said earlier, God and Satan could be running and it would be stupidly close.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:22:13pm

re: #3 makeitstop

Owing to the COVID pandemic, we’ve had pretty much unprecedented postal voting this election cycle and some states are ill-equipped to deal with that surge.

Deep breaths.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:22:17pm

Utah called for Trump.

Not a surprise.

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danarchy  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:22:46pm

Fox just called Arizona for Biden

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Charles Johnson  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:23:33pm
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TarHellion  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:23:36pm

So when do we start goose stepping and pledging loyalty to “our” fuhrer?

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teleskiguy  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:23:38pm
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Charles Johnson  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:24:01pm

Winning Arizona is a real sea change.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:24:09pm

NYT calls Biden 209, Trump 112, 217 remain. Out west:

Biden is leading in Montana and Arizona (it appears FOX called it for him). The polls are still open in Nevada, Alaska, and Hawai’i.

Texas and Florida have not yet been called.

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TarHellion  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:24:14pm

THERE’S STILL HOPE!!!

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teleskiguy  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:24:36pm

Ohio goes to Trump.

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🌹UOJB!  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:25:09pm

According to the AP Joe has 209

ADD Hawaii 4
ADD Nevada 6
ADD Arizona 11
ADD Iowa 6
ADD Minnesota 10
Add Maine 4

Total 250

ADD PA 20 would give Joe 270.

OR ADD Michigan16 and Wisconsin 10 gives Joe 276

Add all 3 is 296.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:25:33pm

I’m going to head off to bed. I’m tired and stuff.

Hopefully tomorrow I’ll wake up and this dystopia is over.

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retired cynic  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:25:56pm

NATE SILVER
NOV. 3, 11:19 PM
Biden leads by 9 points in Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District and, more unexpectedly, by 11 points in Nebraska’s 1st Congressional District. However, early votes were expected to be counted first in Nebraska, which means the results will likely become redder later on.

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teleskiguy  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:26:16pm
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plansbandc  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:26:18pm

re: #15 Charles Johnson

It’s fabulous. Legal weed and turning blue. I may actually go see the Grand Canyon again. If the hell plague gets dealt with, that is.

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TarHellion  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:26:49pm

re: #20 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It won’t be. But we’ll still love you.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:26:56pm

re: #22 teleskiguy

Why the fuck does it take two months to have a runoff?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:27:44pm

Damn, Doug Jones lost his Senate seat in Alabama?

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:27:44pm

re: #2 JC1

I think that Biden still wins this, but the fact that it’s this close is really depressing.

No blue tsunami. Sigh.

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TarHellion  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:28:09pm

Dear God, it’s going to be 269 to 269, isn’t it? Because 2020. Fuck.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:28:22pm

re: #21 retired cynic

NATE SILVER
NOV. 3, 11:19 PM
Biden leads by 9 points in Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District and, more unexpectedly, by 11 points in Nebraska’s 1st Congressional District. However, early votes were expected to be counted first in Nebraska, which means the results will likely become redder later on.

There was a massive youth drive to get voters registered and to the polls in NE-1 which was reported in the state’s newspapers but not much else.

What’s driving the voter turnout in NE-1 is the result of that drive. The pollsters nor national media picked up on it (though I mentioned it here a couple days ago).

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Dread Pirate Ron  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:28:27pm

re: #22 teleskiguy

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They’ll be down a Republican Senator for a few days when the new session starts? Bummer.

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jaunte  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:29:05pm

The jabbering auctioneer is out. Now get rid of the insider-trading criminal.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:29:36pm

re: #15 Charles Johnson

Winning Arizona is a real sea change.

First 2016 state lost by Trump

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NetworkKed  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:30:07pm

270towin.com

At this point I can’t see the votes to bring NC back.
OH is still possible, but not easy.
WI looks good to me, if it takes all night.
MI/PA/GA there’s just not enough data.

Huh, how do you get an imbed from 270towin?

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Jay C  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:30:18pm

re: #30 Dread Pirate Ron

They’ll be down a Republican Senator for a few days when the new session starts? Bummer.

Maybe two: the runoff rule would apply to the Purdue-Ossoff race as well, if no one gets 50%+1

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:30:33pm

re: #27 Patricia Kayden

No blue tsunami. Sigh.

It was never a real thing.

Enthusiasm is not the same thing as votes.

Many older white folk, scared of a dark-skinned, socialist woman would turn all those purdy white parts of the nation over to dark-skinned atheist muslim thugs, are doing their best to vote to preserve their way of life.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:30:48pm

re: #25 Eclectic Cyborg

Why the fuck does it take two months to have a runoff?

New ballots have to be printed and distributed, voting machines need to be tested and redeployed to precincts, &c.

Ranked choice voting would eliminate that.

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bratwurst  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:30:53pm

I will be honest: as someone who has been spending time in Maricopa County regularly over the past decade, I wasn’t 100% comfortable with the idea that the future of civilization might be resting upon its shoulders.

Glad to say I was (probably) wrong to worry…although NBC still not calling the state.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:31:05pm

Cindy Hyde-Smith giving a victory speech before her race is even called. 🙄

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:32:12pm

re: #32 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

First 2016 state lost by Trump

The reports of Biden’s death were greatly exaggerated.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:32:33pm
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makeitstop  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:32:35pm

Looks like McSally is gone.

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DodgerFan1988  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:32:37pm
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teleskiguy  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:32:39pm

re: #38 Eclectic Cyborg

Cindy Hyde-Smith giving a victory speech before her race is even called. 🙄

The AP called the race.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:32:56pm

Arizona not called by all outlets.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:33:53pm

re: #38 Eclectic Cyborg

Cindy Hyde-Smith giving a victory speech before her race is even called. 🙄

She’s leading by 17.5 % and it’s Mississippi. You really think it will close that much?

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teleskiguy  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:34:06pm

re: #42 DodgerFan1988

It’s an admirable step forward, though the ‘In God We Trust’ thing chaps my ass a bit.

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makeitstop  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:34:17pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:34:49pm

Trump now leads in Iowa.

Was it too much to expect that the state that repeatedly returned to King to the House would be a win for Biden?

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Jay C  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:35:27pm

Does that 209 figure for Joe include AZ?
Cause HI, CA, OR and WA combined have 78 EVs, and are considered locks for the (D) ticket, and so should JUST put him over the top.
But this is depressingly close.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:35:43pm

re: #41 makeitstop

Looks like McSally is gone.

Well, it would have been wrong to end her streak of losing Senate races

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:36:36pm

re: #39 NO SMOCKING GUN!

The reports of Biden’s death were greatly exaggerated.

As I’ve said. We need to look at where these votes are coming from and what kind of votes.

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makeitstop  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:36:44pm

re: #49 Jay C

Does that 209 figure for Joe include AZ?
Cause HI, CA, OR and WA combined have 78 EVs, and are considered locks for the (D) ticket, and so should JUST put him over the top.
But this is depressingly close.

According to NYT, no. They haven’t called AZ yet.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:37:21pm

There’s only a couple of counties in Iowa, with any notable size of population, left to report in.

Biden, if he is going to win, better get a large turnout in Story (home of Iowa State) and down in the Ft. Madison area on the Mississippi.

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makeitstop  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:37:56pm

re: #52 makeitstop

According to NYT, no. They haven’t called AZ yet.

Having said that, NYT has already counted CA. And OR and WA.

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teleskiguy  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:39:16pm

Biden leads Fuckface by 15 points in Colorado with 80% reporting. I’ve seen the state go from very safe Republican to very safe Democrat in a decade and a half’s time.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:39:28pm

Fox is the only source calling Arizona for Biden so far, but he has a very comfortable lead over Trump and I think it’s probably going to pan out.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:39:37pm

Well, time to start the campaign to hold that seat in 2022

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jaunte  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:40:01pm

re: #46 teleskiguy

It’s an admirable step forward, though the ‘In God We Trust’ thing chaps my ass a bit.

God probably calls it “protesting too much.”

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:40:35pm

So this is going to drag on for days, if not weeks?

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:40:36pm

re: #49 Jay C

Does that 209 figure for Joe include AZ?
Cause HI, CA, OR and WA combined have 78 EVs, and are considered locks for the (D) ticket, and so should JUST put him over the top.
But this is depressingly close.

I can’t imagine Trump getting a single electoral college victory in any of those states. If Biden is currently at 209, those 78 EVs put him over the top.

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Varek Raith  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:41:07pm

The same day and mail-in and early votes are just screwing up any analytics Kornacki is doing.

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plansbandc  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:41:39pm

Oregon legalized magic mushrooms. How cool is that?

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Dread Pirate Ron  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:41:49pm

re: #61 Varek Raith

The same day and mail-in and early votes are just screwing up any analytics Kornacki is doing.

I went to CNN to avoid his BS.

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NetworkKed  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:41:56pm

re: #60 Dr Lizardo

I can’t imagine Trump getting a single electoral college victory in any of those states. If Biden is currently at 209, those 78 EVs put him over the top.

The 209 number includes the west coast.

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jaunte  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:42:03pm
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Teddy's Person ✌  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:42:10pm

re: #62 plansbandc

Oregon legalized magic mushrooms. How cool is that?

DC did too.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:42:14pm

re: #56 Charles Johnson

Fox is the only source calling Arizona for Biden so far, but he has a very comfortable lead over Trump and I think it’s probably going to pan out.

Solid Maricopa lead is the story.

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makeitstop  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:42:18pm

Somebody’s mad.

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Egregious Philbin  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:42:24pm

re: #12 Charles Johnson

My state. Been here all my life (not counting the millions of places I’ve been to all around the globe). It is amazing that in my lifetime we have gone from hillbillies and cowboys and goobers to a state (mostly Maricopa, Pinal and Pima counties) that is actually blue. I’ve looked at state house and senate returns, and we may flip them. Of course, we still have Doug Douchebag.

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KGxvi  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:42:39pm

re: #36 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

New ballots have to be printed and distributed, voting machines need to be tested and redeployed to precincts, &c.

Ranked choice voting would eliminate that.

Or just saying the person with the most votes wins. Run offs and ranked choice are dumb

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Varek Raith  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:42:41pm

re: #68 makeitstop

HAHAHAHA, tears are yummy.

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Ace Rothstein  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:42:46pm

re: #41 makeitstop

Looks like McSally is gone.

Good.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:42:48pm

re: #66 Teddy’s Person ✌

DC did too.

Decriminalized but yes.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:42:48pm

re: #64 NetworkKed

The 209 number includes the west coast.

Ah, OK. Didn’t see that.

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retired cynic  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:43:10pm

Nate Cohn
@Nate_Cohn
Alright, we’ve made some corrections to account for the reporting errors in North Carolina. No huge changes, but it’s enough to make Biden’s chance with late mail a lot more plausible. GA also still competitive… may be a bit overlooked

(inc. chart)

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Egregious Philbin  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:43:14pm

re: #56 Charles Johnson

There are still a lot of votes in Maricopa county. And in AZ, it is ALL about Maricopa County.

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Varek Raith  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:43:16pm

We’re all gonna need some legalized shrooms when this is done.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:43:23pm

NBC giving Corey Lewandowski airtime for some stupid fucking reason.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:43:30pm

Personally I don’t see why TX is not called for Trump. Looking at the county map, the strong Democratic areas are mostly reported, but a lot of rural counties are not.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:43:40pm

re: #68 makeitstop

Somebody’s mad.

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Who would have thought that belittling her husband, a loved favorite son wasn’t the way to win their state.

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Varek Raith  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:44:43pm

re: #80 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Who would have thought that belittling her husband, a loved favorite son wasn’t the way to win their state.

Right?!
That’s like dissing Santa and wondering why you lost the North Pole.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:44:55pm
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NetworkKed  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:45:25pm

re: #79 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Personally I don’t see why TX is not called for Trump. Looking at the county map, the strong Democratic areas are mostly reported, but a lot of rural counties are not.

I was just looking at that and thinking the opposite.

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Egregious Philbin  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:45:30pm

re: #72 Ace Rothstein

She is one of the nastiest people around. 2 years ago, I got a mailer from her folks that was one of those tilt and see something else….If Sinema get elected….and it depicted Phoenix before, and after an atom bomb.

This level of idiocy used to work in AZ

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:45:35pm

I’m fully expecting Trumpworld fuckery with the PA results.

I hope I’m wrong.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:45:39pm

re: #81 Varek Raith

Right?!
That’s like dissing Santa and wondering why you lost the North Pole.

Seriously what a bunch of dumbasses

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The Ghost of a Flea  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:45:48pm

re: #68 makeitstop

Somebody’s mad.

Cindy McCain was not prompted or pushed in any way by the Republican Party of Donald Trump; they’re just suddenly being victimized by this woman.

This happened, completely out of nowhere.

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sagehen  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:46:07pm

re: #42 DodgerFan1988

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is that a magnolia?

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:46:23pm

re: #85 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m fully expecting Trumpworld fuckery with the PA results.

I hope I’m wrong.

Dude look at where they’re coming in from and what kind of votes.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:47:01pm

re: #88 sagehen

is that a magnolia?

Yeah it’s their state flower.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:47:13pm

re: #88 sagehen

is that a magnolia?

Yes. It’s our state flower. In fact MS is sometimes referred to as the Magnolia State.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:47:25pm

re: #82 Charles Johnson

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Definitely need to get to 50 senators as well.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:47:43pm
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Egregious Philbin  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:47:45pm

Don’t worry about PA. The big counties are barely in, the goober counties are mostly in.

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jaunte  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:48:16pm
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Ace-o-aces  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:48:32pm
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Varek Raith  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:48:34pm

Verizon. Now is not the time for your shit to act up.

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Teddy's Person ✌  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:48:42pm

re: #84 Egregious Philbin

She is one of the nastiest people around. 2 years ago, I got a mailer from her folks that was one of those tilt and see something else….If Sinema get elected….and it depicted Phoenix before, and after an atom bomb.

This level of idiocy used to work in AZ

At a campaign event, she told people to skip a meal so they could donate.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:48:51pm

re: #28 TarHellion

Dear God, it’s going to be 269 to 269, isn’t it? Because 2020. Fuck.

Come ON Debbie

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NetworkKed  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:49:07pm

VA vote dump. A grand tradition unlike any other, and suddenly it’s Biden +7

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:49:36pm

re: #91 Eclectic Cyborg

Yes. It’s our state flower. In fact MS is sometimes referred to as the Magnolia State.

It’s a beautiful flag. Ours is boring imo.

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retired cynic  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:49:41pm

NATE SILVER
NOV. 3, 11:48 PM
Steve Bullock outperforming Biden by about 6 points in Montana, although Biden is actually leading there right now (which probably won’t hold).

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makeitstop  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:49:53pm

re: #99 HRH Stanley Sea

Come ON Debbie

:)

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Varek Raith  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:50:06pm

McSally is the type of asshole that other assholes say, “Look, now THERE’S an asshole.”

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Varek Raith  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:50:18pm

re: #100 NetworkKed

VA vote dump. A grand tradition unlike any other, and suddenly it’s Biden +7

It’s what we do.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:50:33pm

re: #100 NetworkKed

VA vote dump. A grand tradition unlike any other, and suddenly it’s Biden +7

It was always gonna be an up and down night.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:50:36pm

I was looking forward to a Canadian TV series to give me an out on election coverage. Trickster isn’t on tonight, it’s tomorrow, fuck.

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Jay C  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:50:37pm

re: #82 Charles Johnson

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Yes, a win is a win - however narrow - but remember: our national media is still basically wired for Republican rule as the norm: if it’s a (D) that wins a close one, there’s rarely going to be the leeway given that an (R) (like Trump, with his thin-margin victory in 2016) will get.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:50:39pm

It really is a party of weak men desperate to be seen as strong.

The kind of guys that hit their wives and think they’re doing self defense because being judged or pitied is the same as being attack.

It’s why they can’t just own guns like normal people, and treat those guns as tools and respect their function: they have to broadcast violent intent because they’ve no other qualities that could command respect or attention.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:50:42pm

Joni Ernst still hanging the fuck on.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:50:46pm

Looks like Joni Ernst is going to be re-elected.

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jaunte  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:50:47pm

groan

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:51:34pm

re: #107 Dread Pirate Ron

I was looking forward to a Canadian TV series to give me an out on election coverage. Trickster isn’t on tonight, it’s tomorrow, fuck.

Canadian networks run US election coverage too. What happens to us had a big impact on them.

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Varek Raith  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:51:53pm

re: #105 Varek Raith

It’s what we do.

It’s what happens when ‘Not Real Virginia’ numbers come in. :D

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retired cynic  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:52:08pm

re: #110 Eclectic Cyborg

no!

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:52:16pm

CNN calls Virginia for Joe.

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Belafon  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:52:21pm

re: #95 jaunte

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I am a bit worried about who’s counting votes.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:52:37pm

re: #114 Varek Raith

It’s what happens when ‘Not Real Virginia’ numbers come in. :D

Much to George Allen’s everlasting rage.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:53:00pm

re: #116 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

The NYT did that hours ago.

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Varek Raith  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:53:02pm

re: #118 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Much to George Allen’s everlasting rage.

Hehehe, I love pointing that out to anyone.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:53:17pm
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Tahitinho  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:54:13pm

Well… need to sleep so I can work tomorrow. Wanted to sleep at peace, knowing the country was on a better track. Wanted Obama stepping in to hit a 3 from the corner to the end of the game…

Not gonna happen. My country is full of misguided people. And the Universe rolls on.

Hope lives. We shall see…

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Jay C  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:54:17pm

re: #101 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

It’s a beautiful flag. Ours is boring imo.

Well, it’s an improvement on the old Confederate rag, so yeah..

Was this flag chosen by a multiple-choice ballot, or a yes-or-no? I had thought MS had decided on another (though similar) design.

ADD A quick wiki search reveals that the “Magnolia Flag” had been chosen by a state commission back in September and that the measure on today’s ballot was for approval. And looking at some of the ugly rags in the competition, they made a good choice.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:54:17pm

re: #101 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

It’s a beautiful flag. Ours is boring imo.

None can beat the California flag.

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Varek Raith  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:54:19pm

To make cup o noodles or not….

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NetworkKed  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:54:21pm

Also, please note it’s before midnight, and Biden leads the popular vote by 1.5M. Those national polls may end up being pretty on-the-ball as the mail votes get counted and the inevitable CA tide rolls in.

…CNN seems to have forgotten RI. Go figure.

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Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:54:22pm

With Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Pennsylvania absentee/mail votes being counted after the in-person votes, and the high-population areas getting the bulk of those now (along with Virginia finally being called for Biden), I’m starting to breathe a little bit.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:54:26pm

re: #119 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The NYT did that hours ago.

I didn’t know that.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:54:50pm

re: #120 Varek Raith

Hehehe, I love pointing that out to anyone.

Our experiences have made us more patient than most.

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Varek Raith  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:55:03pm

re: #124 Dread Pirate Ron

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:55:11pm

re: #124 Dread Pirate Ron

None can beat the California flag.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:55:49pm

re: #127 Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!

With Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Pennsylvania absentee/mail votes being counted after the in-person votes, and the high-population areas getting the bulk of those now (along with Virginia finally being called for Biden), I’m starting to breathe a little bit.

The blue wave didn’t look as big until later. Relax everyone

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plansbandc  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:56:13pm

re: #124 Dread Pirate Ron

I think New Mexico’s flag is beautiful.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:56:43pm

re: #126 NetworkKed

…CNN seems to have forgotten RI. Go figure.

Everyone forgets RI.

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NetworkKed  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:56:46pm

re: #133 plansbandc

I think New Mexico’s flag is beautiful.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:57:26pm

re: #84 Egregious Philbin

She is one of the nastiest people around. 2 years ago, I got a mailer from her folks that was one of those tilt and see something else….If Sinema get elected….and it depicted Phoenix before, and after an atom bomb.

This level of idiocy used to work in AZ

re: #104 Varek Raith

McSally is the type of asshole that other assholes say, “Look, now THERE’S an asshole.”

As I tweeted not long ago

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TarHellion  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:57:34pm

Just bewildered how Hispanics have broken more toward FFVCS from four years ago. Is it religion? The idea that I’ve got mine? The drumbeat of “socialism?” Clearly the Dems dropped the ball within this group.

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makeitstop  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:57:51pm

re: #126 NetworkKed

Also, please note it’s before midnight, and Biden leads the popular vote by 1.5M. Those national polls may end up being pretty on-the-ball as the mail votes get counted and the inevitable CA tide rolls in.

…CNN seems to have forgotten RI. Go figure.

And Trump is way behind in EVs, too. That’ll stop him from coming out and demanding the counting be stopped. So there’s that.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:58:20pm

re: #134 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Everyone forgets RI.

Only of the original colonies never to have a presidential or vp nominee I believe. Can’t think of them ever having nationally well known politicians come to think.

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teleskiguy  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:58:22pm

Uh…

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bratwurst  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:58:28pm

NBC calls Ohio for Trump. Fuck.

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Egregious Philbin  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:58:44pm

re: #98 Teddy’s Person ✌

Oh yeah. There is another politician like Martha in AZ. Wendy Rogers. Twice she ran for congress, only to be beaten by Kristen Sinema (Wendy even skipped a debate), she ran again in another district. Now she actually beat a crazy creationist (6000 years) in the primary for a AZ Senate seat, but she is losing, in a very redneck district.

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makeitstop  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:58:47pm

re: #137 TarHellion

Just bewildered how Hispanics have broken more toward FFVCS from four years ago. Is it religion? The idea that I’ve got mine? The drumbeat of “socialism?” Clearly the Dems dropped the ball within this group.

Machismo. And they hate ‘Socialists.’

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Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:59:02pm

re: #132 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

The blue wave didn’t look as big until later. Relax everyone

We still don’t know if the vote-by-mail dumps are going to be enough to put Biden over the top, but at least I have some hope as opposed to an hour ago when it looked inevitable that we were getting four more years of Twitler.

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plansbandc  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:59:32pm

re: #137 TarHellion

According to what I’ve been reading, they see themselves as white and so they vote as though they are white.

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🌹UOJB!  Nov 3, 2020 • 8:59:33pm

I had my heart set on Ohio and it still went for God’s Anointed King…

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Egregious Philbin  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:00:15pm

re: #134 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

But, Jerry Seinfeld dated Miss Rhode Island.

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bratwurst  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:00:36pm
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retired cynic  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:00:45pm

The confusion might be that people are looking only at the PA Dept of State’s results page.

That page right now says for Philly:
74,132 Biden
32,414 Trump

The city’s own page:
248,931 Biden
78,136 Trump

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🌹UOJB!  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:01:03pm

re: #137 TarHellion

Just bewildered how Hispanics have broken more toward FFVCS from four years ago. Is it religion? The idea that I’ve got mine? The drumbeat of “socialism?” Clearly the Dems dropped the ball within this group.

1) The Marxist crap still works
2) Trump gained with younger males.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:01:53pm

re: #134 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Everyone forgets RI.

Except H.P. Lovecraft fans.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:02:11pm

re: #137 TarHellion

Just bewildered how Hispanics have broken more toward FFVCS from four years ago. Is it religion? The idea that I’ve got mine? The drumbeat of “socialism?” Clearly the Dems dropped the ball within this group.

Most of the increase in support is in Florida, where Trump successfully pandered to anti-Castro Cuban immigrants who didn’t like Biden’s promises to re-open relations with Cuba.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:02:29pm

re: #138 makeitstop

And Trump is way behind in EVs, too. That’ll stop him from coming out and demanding the counting be stopped. So there’s that.

No it won’t. lol

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makeitstop  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:02:41pm

Somebody’s mad, part 2…

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HRH Stanley Sea  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:02:42pm

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:03:02pm
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Belafon  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:03:07pm

re: #145 plansbandc

According to what I’ve been reading, they see themselves as white and so they vote as though they are white.

Which is interesting, because about ten years ago there was a story out about how Latinos were resisting being assimilated by whites.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:03:18pm

re: #156 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:03:59pm

re: #152 Charles Johnson

Most of the increase in support is in Florida, where Trump successfully pandered to anti-Castro Cuban immigrants who didn’t like Biden’s promises to re-open relations with Cuba.

The Hispanic vote is incredibly diverse. In fact, Biden likely winning Arizona gives me confidence for non Cuban Hispanics.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:04:24pm

re: #158 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

If they don’t change reality quickly does Trump send them to the cornfield?
///

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:04:24pm

re: #154 makeitstop

Somebody’s mad, part 2…

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That’s not a campaign winning.

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b_sharp  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:04:46pm

The rest of the world is considering who will fund the wall that has to be built around the US.

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makeitstop  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:05:00pm

re: #155 HRH Stanley Sea

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Varek Raith  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:05:21pm

Lol. NBC remembers the Va exists.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:05:24pm

re: #149 retired cynic

The confusion might be that people are looking only at the PA Dept of State’s results page.

That page right now says for Philly:
74,132 Biden
32,414 Trump

The city’s own page:
248,931 Biden
78,136 Trump

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Yeah, that whole thread from Lai was pretty informative

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:05:58pm

re: #130 Varek Raith

Upding for Fallout reference,

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Varek Raith  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:06:34pm

re: #166 Eclectic Cyborg

Upding for Fallout reference,

I’ve been replaying all of it. From 1 to tactics to freaking 76.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:07:03pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:08:04pm

Oh wow
I did not think that was going to pass.

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Egregious Philbin  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:08:16pm

re: #168 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Duchbag….don’t listen to him

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plansbandc  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:08:34pm

OK, time for bed. Hang in there folks. We’ll know more tomorrow.

Big love to all of you.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:09:51pm

re: #141 bratwurst

NBC calls Ohio for Trump. Fuck.

It’s OK. Not a tipping point state.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:09:52pm

Damn it

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TarHellion  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:10:35pm

re: #166 Eclectic Cyborg

Dear God I put in so many hours into Fallout New Vegas and Fallout 4. Nothing like throwing a nuke bomb onto a group of Raiders.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:11:00pm

re: #173 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Damn it

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Damn that’s one I thought would go.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:11:51pm

re: #159 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

The Hispanic vote is incredibly diverse. In fact, Biden likely winning Arizona gives me confidence for non Cuban Hispanics.

So many people forget this.

The reality is that the majority of countries in the Western Hemisphere speak Spanish, even if the most populous country speaks English (poorly more often than not.)

It is too often then that English speaking Americans lump all Spanish-speakers together.

But in reality, ex-Cubans have little in common with the Mexican workers and their descendants here in California and NV and AZ.

Refugees from central America are not all alike, also.

Some are so ardent anti-communist that they would be glad to have a right wing Trump as dictator. But others are going to be horrified by that.

And not all immigrants from south of the border are going to be religious Catholics. Even if they think they are Catholic, they are not necessarily going to be what, say, Polish Catholics may be in politics.

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makeitstop  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:11:57pm
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Jay C  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:12:17pm

re: #152 Charles Johnson

Most of the increase in support is in Florida, where Trump successfully pandered to anti-Castro Cuban immigrants who didn’t like Biden’s promises to re-open relations with Cuba.

SRSLY? There’s still a bloc of Cubans/Cuban-Americans who want to maintain the decades-long “isolation” policy which has done precisely squat in sixty years to effect the Communist government’s hold on Cuba in the slightest? And this bloc still seems to be the linchpin of Florida’s voting patterns?

Fuckin Florida, man….

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:12:30pm

re: #173 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

It really could be a 50-50 Senate.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:12:44pm

re: #163 makeitstop

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(((Archangel1)))  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:12:57pm
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makeitstop  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:13:06pm

re: #179 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

It really could be a 50-50 Senate.

I’ll take it, as long as VP Kamala is the tie-breaker.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:14:03pm

re: #176 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

So many people forget this.

The reality is that the majority of countries in the Western Hemisphere speak Spanish, even if the most populous country speaks English (poorly more often than not.)

It is too often then that English speaking Americans lump all Spanish-speakers together.

But in reality, ex-Cubans have little in common with the Mexican workers and their descendants here in California and NV and AZ.

Refugees from central America are not all alike, also.

Some are so ardent anti-communist that they would be glad to have a right wing Trump as dictator. But others are going to be horrified by that.

And not all immigrants from south of the border are going to be religious Catholics. Even if they think they are Catholic, they are not necessarily going to be what, say, Polish Catholics may be in politics.

There’s a lot of colorism within those communities too. They are I feel overall a Democratic demographic but they are far from a monolithic.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:14:16pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:14:40pm

re: #182 makeitstop

I’ll take it, as long as VP Kamala is the tie-breaker.

Yeah, but with a split Bernie is going to demand to be catered to all day long.

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Ace-o-aces  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:14:44pm
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:14:51pm

re: #178 Jay C

SRSLY? There’s still a bloc of Cubans/Cuban-Americans who want to maintain the decades-long “isolation” policy which has done precisely squat in sixty years to effect the Communist government’s hold on Cuba in the slightest? And this bloc still seems to be the linchpin of Florida’s voting patterns?

Fuckin Florida, man….

It’s why people need to realize there’s a difference between social democracy and socialism. That shit turns a lot of people off.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:14:52pm

ABC talking head thinks Biden has lost FL.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:15:28pm

A buncha tards in DC.

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Belafon  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:15:33pm

re: #185 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Yeah, but with a split Bernie is going to demand to be catered to all day long.

He’ll have to reconcile with Manchin.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:16:14pm

re: #185 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Yeah, but with a split Bernie is going to demand to be catered to all day long.

Freetoken, please eat some dark chocolate & stop debbying. TYVM

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makeitstop  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:16:19pm

re: #185 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Yeah, but with a split Bernie is going to demand to be catered to all day long.

We’ll burn that bridge when we get to it.

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sagehen  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:16:33pm

re: #143 makeitstop

Machismo. And they hate ‘Socialists.’

Cubans and Venezuelans have an experience of socialism that’s… very very different from anything American Democrats (even Bernie and AOC) have ever proposed. But campaign ads don’t do honesty, and US media doesn’t do nuance.

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JC1  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:16:39pm

NYT Georgia needle now favoring Biden.
Biden will also win Nebraska’s 2nd, so no 269:269 tie

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DodgerFan1988  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:16:41pm
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i(m)p(each)sos  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:17:02pm

re: #186 Ace-o-aces

Same, but with Georgia blue. And don’t forget Montana. It has flip potential.

I say Biden with 306.

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TarHellion  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:17:23pm

re: #169 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

But you didn’t vote for a fucking Democrat???

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:17:32pm

Trump leads Biden in TX by 600k votes. I don’t know why it is not called for Trump.

There just isn’t going to be that many late mail-in ballots to make up the difference.

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🌹UOJB!  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:17:54pm

re: #162 b_sharp

The rest of the world is considering who will fund the wall that has to be built around the US.

Friends from France, German, Italy and in shock. They’re telling me European leaders are ready to give up and cut the US off.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:18:21pm

re: #195 DodgerFan1988

All the klan states go red.

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b.d. (We Won!)  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:19:09pm

If Biden wins GA then it is a whole new ballgame.

NYT has the win probability needle at 68% for Biden.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:19:09pm

re: #200 Dread Pirate Ron

All the klan states go red.

Except GA and VA.

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Belafon  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:20:04pm

re: #197 TarHellion

But you didn’t vote for a fucking Democrat???

I can’t wait for Florida Republicans to change it so that it only applies to those already making over $15/hr.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:20:35pm

re: #201 b.d.

If Biden wins GA then it is a whole new ballgame.

NYT has the win probability needle at 68% for Biden.

LOL Gingrich is gonna have a stroke if Biden wins GA.

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Ace-o-aces  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:20:40pm
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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:20:41pm

I’m going to bed. I think Biden will win. Let’s hope that the Trump cult of personality is unique to him and isn’t transferable to a more capable fascist.

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EPR-radar  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:20:48pm

re: #199 🌹UOJB!

Friends from France, German, Italy and in shock. They’re telling me European leaders are ready to give up and cut the US off.

In both 2016 and in 2020 the US presidential election of a malignant and utterly corrupt narcissist was close.

That’s a damning indictment of the US electorate, especially in 2020 where we had 4 long years of Trump’s track record of failure, incompetence, corruption and bigotry as evidence against this shitbird.

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TarHellion  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:20:51pm

re: #178 Jay C

Yeah, I mean we trade with Vietnam now. But these elderly Cuban holdovers will not let go. These were the same folks - and their children - who HATED Clinton for opening up relations.

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b.d. (We Won!)  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:21:21pm

re: #204 Dr Lizardo

LOL Gingrich is gonna have a stroke if Biden wins GA.

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Ace-o-aces  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:21:39pm
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Ace Rothstein  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:21:48pm

re: #204 Dr Lizardo

LOL Gingrich is gonna have a stroke if Biden wins GA.

I survived mine. If Grinch doesn’t, well….

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:21:50pm

re: #205 Ace-o-aces

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Yeah Bernie was going to help us in Florida where we lost votes because of being linked with socialism. I wish she would go the fuck away as would all Bernie’s assholes who love doing the same old shit. The odds still favor Biden here and Bernie would have lost already by now.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:22:16pm

Yuma county going for Biden is a bit of a surprise on first blush… but thinking about it, a lot of people have retired to AZ from high price states (especially CA), and having driven through Yuma many times I’ve gotten the feeling that there are people retired there who have been priced out of Maricopa county.

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Egregious Philbin  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:22:31pm

re: #210 Ace-o-aces

Lots of votes in Atlanta not counted…lots.

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Citizen K  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:22:43pm

At some point, Florida just seems like it’s genuine lost cause on the national level, and that’s a depressing thing to think about.

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Jay C  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:23:11pm

re: #187 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

It’s why people need to realize there’s a difference between social democracy and socialism. That shit turns a lot of people off.

Except that by any objective measure of political philosophy, mainstream Democratic politics (such as Joe Biden embodies) don’t fall in the least under any definition of “ socialism”, and - with the exception of a few fringe figures - and only remotely into the realm of “social democracy”. I think the Florida/Cuban thing is rooted more in specific ethno/national resentments.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:23:36pm

re: #212 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Yeah Bernie was going to help us in Florida where we lost votes because of being linked with socialism. I wish she would go the fuck away as would all Bernie’s assholes who love doing the same old shit. The odds still favor Biden here and Bernie would have lost already by now.

The GOP would’ve found no difficulty whatsoever in portraying Bernie as the second coming of Lenin. Hell, if Bernie had been the nominee, Trump would be walking away with this.

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TarHellion  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:23:53pm

re: #204 Dr Lizardo

He’ll dump his wife and go for Number 4.

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Belafon  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:24:14pm

re: #215 Citizen K

At some point, Florida just seems like it’s genuine lost cause on the national level, and that’s a depressing thing to think about.

And then it will sink into the ocean.

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ericblair  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:24:26pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:24:41pm

No Tweets from the orange shitweasel in 6 hours.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:25:03pm

The story from VA and GA and AZ is one story: rapidly growing metropolitan areas swing states away from the right wing ideologues.

American politics has been often, but now even more strongly, about urban areas vs rural areas.

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Varek Raith  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:25:11pm

re: #221 Eclectic Cyborg

No Tweets from the orange shitweasel in 6 hours.

Someone took his phone. :D

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:25:13pm

OK, off to work here in Europe. Keep the faith, Lizards…..and get some sleep.

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bratwurst  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:25:19pm

Le sigh…

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Ace Rothstein  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:25:48pm

re: #221 Eclectic Cyborg

No Tweets from the orange shitweasel in 6 hours.

Good.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:25:50pm

re: #220 ericblair

To no one’s surprise.

I’m convinced that news outlets intentionally draw out these calls just to keep eyes-on-product.

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EPR-radar  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:25:52pm

re: #221 Eclectic Cyborg

No Tweets from the orange shitweasel in 6 hours.

It’s probably because Trump is going after the nuclear launch codes instead.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:25:56pm

re: #219 Belafon

And then it will sink into the ocean.

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Ace Rothstein  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:27:04pm

re: #229 Eclectic Cyborg

That GIF will never ever get old.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:28:00pm

re: #222 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The story from VA and GA and AZ is one story: rapidly growing metropolitan areas swing states away from the right wing ideologues.

American politics has been often, but now even more strongly, about urban areas vs rural areas.

The story of so many elections.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:28:01pm

I see that the NYT finally called IA for Trump.

Je$u$ loves IA, maybe not as much as NC, but enough. And Iowa loves Je$u$, maybe not as much as NC loves Je$u$, but enough.

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Jay C  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:28:15pm

re: #208 TarHellion

Yeah, I mean we trade with Vietnam now. But these elderly Cuban holdovers will not let go. These were the same folks - and their children - who HATED Clinton for opening up relations.

Wasn’t it only til Obama’s Admin (and after Fidel croaked) that we actually “opened relations” - which Trump dialed back? Or am I misremembering?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:29:12pm

re: #233 Jay C

Wasn’t it only til Obama’s Admin (and after Fidel croaked) that we actually “opened relations” - which Trump dialed back? Or am I misremembering?

No that sounds right to me.

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jaunte  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:29:31pm

Minnesota for Biden.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:29:48pm

re: #233 Jay C

Wasn’t it only til Obama’s Admin (and after Fidel croaked) that we actually “opened relations” - which Trump dialed back? Or am I misremembering?

Yes and Obama took a lot of flack for that. Right thing to do IMO. I sympathize with the Cuban exiles about that regime but they’re not the only people who have fled a terrible dictatorship in this country either.

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Belafon  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:30:27pm

re: #222 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The story from VA and GA and AZ is one story: rapidly growing metropolitan areas swing states away from the right wing ideologues.

American politics has been often, but now even more strongly, about urban areas vs rural areas.

Which i would love to change. Providing resources to keep family farms alive and small towns viable, in part by making it easy for people to work for larger countries from those places. But it really does seem that they’d rather lose the farm than have to move out of the 19th century.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:30:31pm

A comet strike in the Bahama’s would quickly solve the Florida problem.

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Ace Rothstein  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:30:53pm

re: #236 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Yes and Obama took a lot of flack for that. Right thing to do IMO. I sympathize with the Cuban exiles about that regime but they’re not the only people who have fled a terrible dictatorship in this country either.

It’s been 60 fucking years.

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makeitstop  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:31:16pm

Politics Polls just tweeted that Fox pulled back their AZ call, then deleted it.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:32:12pm

re: #240 makeitstop

Politics Polls just tweeted that Fox pulled back their AZ call, then deleted it.

ABC talking about Arizona now as if Biden has a good shot.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:32:20pm

re: #239 Ace Rothstein

It’s been 60 fucking years.

I get that. And it’s always bugged me that people like Rubio and Cruz oppose immigration pathways while ignoring the privilege that Cuban-Americans had with the wetfoot policy.

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makeitstop  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:32:32pm

Hey, Lefty - Feinberg agrees with you.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:33:56pm

re: #243 makeitstop

Hey, Lefty - Feinberg agrees with you.

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I mean I’m a little disappointed that this isn’t gonna be as big as I thought it would for Biden. However, I think in the end, we’ll end up on top. It just sucks though because we’re seeing Trump’s legacy loud and clear and I worry going forward about that.

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(((Archangel1)))  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:34:00pm
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Citizen K  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:34:05pm

re: #242 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I get that. And it’s always bugged me that people like Rubio and Cruz oppose immigration pathways while ignoring the privilege that Cuban-Americans had with the wetfoot policy.

It is, as so much else involving Republican attacks on Dems, all about projection. They accuse Dems of wanting immigrants solely because they’re supposedly a monolithic Dem voting block, when that’s exactly what Cuban Americans tend to be for them. Except they get to cast them as the ‘exception to the rule’.

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jaunte  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:34:27pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:34:30pm

re: #237 Belafon

The long story of the USA will be, I fear, when written centuries from now, is that the people’s resistance to change caused one tragedy after another, until all the great wealth was squandered on meaningless activities and all the opportunities for advancing human causes passed us by.

I am under no delusion: the world will continue tribal warfare until there are no more humans. Whether that be in a hundred years or a hundred thousand I do not know.

But I know that we really have squandered a great many opportunities.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:35:34pm

re: #246 Citizen K

It is, as so much else involving Republican attacks on Dems, all about projection. They accuse Dems of wanting immigrants solely because they’re supposedly a monolithic Dem voting block, when that’s exactly what Cuban Americans tend to be for them. Except they get to cast them as the ‘exception to the rule’.

I mean shit it was nonsense. I’m pro liberal immigration policies as much as the next person but I didn’t think it was a bad thing that Obama got rid of wetfoot. And you’re right. It’s more Republican projection.

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jaunte  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:36:42pm
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NetworkKed  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:37:16pm

The thing I don’t like about AZ is I’m not hearing anything about WHAT the last 24% vote is. Is it election day or early? A good chunk is Phoenix, but what parts of it? Just on the surface my bet is that it’s probably early votes and not… able to make margins that Trump would need to catch up, but I can’t prove it.

But the funny thing is, I trust the Fox desk.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:37:17pm
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piratedan  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:37:21pm

az has 64% reporting and Biden is up by 180k, Kelly up by 217k

az cd-6 has Tiperneni up over schweikert by about 13k

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Dread Pirate Ron  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:37:45pm

Judging by the picture it must have something to do with a search for drugs.

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jaunte  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:38:05pm

CNN just called Minnesota for Joe Biden.

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TarHellion  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:38:44pm

Cal Cunningham has to be the dumbest motherfucker of this 2020 cycle. A competent potato could have beaten Tillis. As long as that potato kept its dick in their pants.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:39:08pm
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piratedan  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:39:19pm

re: #254 Dread Pirate Ron

it has to do with roughly 300k worth of mail in ballots that have not been accounted for (mostly Miami-Dade county) , at least that’s what I understand the reason to be… could be tied to the usps shananigans that have been part and parcel of the current chain of events…

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The Ghost of a Flea  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:39:43pm

Hey let’s be mad at the smallest political bloc with the least influence rather than the giant fascist cultural institution that’s dedicated itself to claiming we’re all Marxist cannibal perverts that deserve to be summarily shot.

I mean, that strategy of calling them decent people and trying to work with them for (checks notes) 3/4 of my lifetime while they constantly escalate is clearly the smarter position. I’m sure the people who (checks notes) simultaneously believe in the Bible but won’t read the Bible and seem to manage to always be wrist deep in the doing or covering up weird coercive sex stuff are totes going to find their way back to the reasonable center. Because it is completely impossible that they are exactly the unreasonable caste-obsessed creeps they appear to be.

After all, there are no centrist grifters except (checks notes) all the centrist grifters that normalize bad Republican behavior, refuse to call out their bizarre power/sex preoccupations as less policy and more fetishitic authoritarian hangups, and put their thumb on the scale to find a both-sides reading of everything. And those people haven’t been doing this my entire lifetime which may in some inexplicable spooky way made it possible for Republicans to engage in a slow coup.

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Egregious Philbin  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:39:48pm

re: #253 piratedan

Most of the votes in the red counties have been counted. Still lots of blue votes in Maricopa and Pinal, the two very large counties. I’m calling AZ for Biden, and Kelly, and in the Maricopa county Sheriff race, former Arpaio lackey is getting crushed in his run for Sheriff

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:40:32pm

NYT calls FL for Trump.

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piratedan  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:40:40pm

re: #260 Egregious Philbin

u mean Pima, not Pinal, right?

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Dread Pirate Ron  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:42:28pm

This fucking horserace shit from CNN with them changing everything to red as they prognosticate is stupid. they just say shit to keep talking changing everything they just said 2 minutes ago.

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Jay C  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:43:27pm

re: #236 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Yes and Obama took a lot of flack for that. Right thing to do IMO. I sympathize with the Cuban exiles about that regime but they’re not the only people who have fled a terrible dictatorship in this country either.

But they seem to be the only ones who have forged a linchpin political bloc in an electorally important state over their “exile”. And used that political leverage to keep the US maintaining what might be an emotionally satisfying, but otherwise utterly unproductive policy of antagonism and quasi-isolation of Cuba in place for 60 years.

It’s not an easy situation to deal with- yes, the dispossessed Cuban owner class were (along with many thousands of the less-affluent) unquestionably the victims of a vile and cruel dictatorship - which is still in power. But what to do about US-Cuban relations in 2020 shouldn’t have to hinge entirely on the revanchist resentments of a bloc of emigres. Which unfortunately, it does. Still.

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KGxvi  Nov 3, 2020 • 9:55:00pm

re: #264 Jay C

Most of the first wave of refugees that lost everything are dead. That would be people like my grandparents. My mom is fully Trumpy, my aunt (who I learned this morning was phone banking for Biden in Nevada - much to my mom’s dismay) and my uncle are most definitely not. They were kids when they came over and Cuba policy doesn’t really matter to them (of course we are all on the west coast so that might have something to do with it).

I am very interested in Florida exit polls, specifically with respect to Cubans

But the more realistic point might be that Florida is just a likely red state regardless, it’s trending red while Texas and Arizona trend blue.


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