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Honestly, I'd worry about faithless electors in that scenario. 😱
It's even more complicated than that. I'm not saying any doomsday scenarios will happen, but would it surprise anyone if Trump kept escalating? Sorry, a paywalled article:


Faithless electors will only come into play if the total margin is razor thin. But what if a state's raw margin is thin, as it is in WI (and perhaps a few other states)? The Constitution is somewhat vague on this, with language suggesting the state's legislature can decide on its electors. Only about a dozen states have it in law that the electors must follow the will of the electorate!

So yes, it's somewhat important to our "democracy" that Biden not only gets to 270, but picks off PA and maybe even GA. Any buffer takes away some of the juice from Trump's bullhorn that the election was rigged.
 
By the way, this election isn't over quite yet.

Drinking will continue until morale improves.



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I'm certainly disgusted with the results, but it doesn't shock me that Trump got all these votes. The Qanon and disinformation campaign out there is so strong. I know many people on public assistance and such that believe that crap and think Trump is their true savior. They all think they're smarter than everyone else with their Youtube education.

If we get another 4 years of Trump, I almost wish the republicans would eliminate all public assistance/entitlement programs and such for real. Get rid of min. wage and all that. They can come do some home improvements for me at 1.50 per hour. F it!!!
 
don't worry. he'll beg for money from his Deplorables over GoFundMe, and they will happily oblige.

Actually, didn't he extend the draw time on his campaign donations to the end of the year, so that his campaign is already default drawing from people that made weekly pledges, well after the election? ...I think he's already taking their money to pay for wasted recounts (and they don't know it yet--but I doubt they care). 😀
Weren't you guys boasting about how much more money you raised and suckled out of the middle class to never be returned?

Good ol' monetary corruption isn't a republican thing hate to break it to you 😉
 
Trump is asking the federal Supreme Court to step in and decide PA.

And, this is exactly why he wanted to stack the Supreme Court in his favor. If this goes to the Supreme Court you can count this election over IMO.

 
This, the gap has shrunk from 700,000 with 84% counted this AM to 340,000 with 86% counted just now.

So a 360,000 jump in just 2% of the votes!!!

GO PA!!!
This was curious to me since last night. The % of total counted is just a projection, right? And we know in many states, turnout set records. I imagine the models for how many total votes would be cast in each state were somewhat conservative, even taking to account expected higher volume due to mail-in voting.
 
Trump is asking the federal Supreme Court to step in and decide PA.

And, this is exactly why he wanted to stack the Supreme Court in his favor. If this goes to the Supreme Court you can count this election over IMO.


That is not what the article says.
 
Still dont understand the Latino vote after what Trump did with kids in cages. Beyond that, I dont even see how any minority person could support him.
OTOH, I worked with a fellow from Vietnam who came over as a boat person, and he was one of the most hard ass people on immigration that I ever knew. I havent seen him for many years now, but I bet he is a staunch Trump supporter.

Vietnamese have pretty much always been and remain the most staunchly conservative demographic within the US Asian diaspora (including all of Asia, meaning subcontinent and such).

Neat article from last week about how politically heterogenous "Asian Americans" are

 
Biden's Michigan lead widens to more than 60K votes.


Has it not now reached the point where even if all the remaining Michigan votes go Trump, Biden still wins?
I can't work it out (because I dont' know if the % they list are % of the vote-so-far-counted or % of the total electorate)
 
Has it not now reached the point where even if all the remaining Michigan votes go Trump, Biden still wins?
I can't work it out (because I dont' know if the % they list are % of the vote-so-far-counted or % of the total electorate)

All renaming votes are also absentees where Biden is doing well. Per twitter this margin is expected to further improve as most of what's left is reportedly from Wayne Co.
 
Trump is asking the federal Supreme Court to step in and decide PA.

And, this is exactly why he wanted to stack the Supreme Court in his favor. If this goes to the Supreme Court you can count this election over IMO.


That's not what's happening, but even if it were there is no way in hell SCOTUS would do such a thing.
 
Honestly, I'd worry about faithless electors in that scenario. 😱

I think Legal Eagle had a video that talked about them last week, and the worst part being is that there's usually little repercussion (or if there is, it isn't enforced) for an elector not casting their vote for the required candidate.
 
My impression is there's the Cuban exile vote and the non-Cuba exile vote. Yes, very different. I'm keep me the fuck out of Florida. I was there for less than 2 days. Enough for me.
From my understanding the exile vote is still hoping to make Cuba collapse and be given all their land/businesses back. Fuck the Cuban people in the process.
 
Fucking stupid assholes. I'd zip-tie every goddamn one of them and let them think about their feelings in the drunk tank overnight.
In the 1st 10 seconds someone says "there's a woman on the ground here sir", hey, guess what asshole, SHE DIDN'T NEED TO BE HERE in the 1st place, designated poll watchers from both sides are already inside, all these idiots wanted was a chance to further instigate those counting. Some Trump-tards had already been tossed out for causing disturbances, they didn't want any more trouble.
 
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