Biden in the lead now in Georgia by just north of 1,000 votes, maybe 10k left to count.
Trump still leads in PA by 18k, but still a ton of votes to count there in heavily Democratic areas. Just a matter of time now, and Biden still on track to win by 80 to 100k.
Longest. Week. Ever. And that’s in the decade known as the year of 2020 where we are already in the middle of our 27th month of March.
is this satire, poe’s law, ayy-yi-yi!
from the year that gave us six months of april a new production: the eternal tuesday!
You assholes can’t even declare a thumb war.
There’s lots of attention on PA right now, but even if Joe were to lose PA and each candidate maintains a lead in the states that they’re currently ahead in, Joe wins with 286 electoral votes.
I know every election proves us all fucking right, but I do think it’s reasonable to say “work on making sure nonvoters are registered and get to the polls” is edging out “appeal to Republican voters” as a cunning plan.
Not that it is necessarily precisely a choice between these two paths.
If they come to that realisation, it may actually prompt the DNC to think “hey, maybe we should give people someone to vote for rather than rely on the GOP to give them someone to vote against.”
Somebody is gonna take Gorka, Bannon and Junior at their words and start a war. The next several weeks will be tense.
The next several years. If Biden wins, I’m expecting a serious uptick in far-right violence intended to provoke a Syrian-style civil war.
this morning i’ve been wincing over numerous steaming-hot-bullshit-takes by a variety of “centrist” pundits and “moderate” democrats going on and on and on and on about how the big lesson of the election is to stfu about socialism and blm and get back to working-class pocketbook issues.
so far it’s been running about 7 pieces along those lines to 1 piece complaining about how too many candidates tried yet again to run as “republican-lite” and, once again, lost to the republican. seriously i’ve read about 20 different blog posts, opinion pieces, and twitter threads and only three gave any kind of progressive lessons learned from the election. four of the writers chided pelosi for not working hard enough to “rein in the extremists” in the party who “lost” the legislative seats.
i’ve made appropriate comments in platforms that allowed for it. it all irritates me so much but i do it because right now is when the narrative and the functional paradigm are being constructed and as small as my voice is, i use everything within my capability to try to nudge things to a better direction. some of the punditocracy are completely hopeless. thomas “the moustache of stupidity” friedman wrote in the nyt that the ideal result of the election would be a biden presidency with a republican senate forcing the two parties to have to “work together.” it’s so painful.
Right? I mean what the f?
Eh - if Democrats wanted demagogues they would have voted for Trump. And they wouldn’t have voted for Biden - who favored these positions that they’re saying are losing - except they’re going to win.
Sure - folks are sick of an asshole in office - and want someone who can be an adult. But they still want the progressive policies- overwhelmingly.
And if you have a large majority of people supporting your policies that aren’t voting - why leave that on the table solely in favor of turning opponents?
That’s just stupid. And Stacy Abrams demonstrated this convincingly. Claire McCaskill did not change the election in her state at all - Trump won by 15%.
Nice job Claire!!!
New Philly numbers in -
Biden’s in the lead!!!
WhooHoo!!!
That is great!! This is an interesting factoid about the PA vote (from 538 blog)
" What’s more, while Philadelphia is the largest source of net Democratic votes in Pennsylvania, Biden’s improvement in the state relative to 2016 is actually driven by other jurisdictions. In 2016, Clinton won about 584,000 votes in the city to Trump’s nearly 109,000, a pro-Democratic vote margin of about 475,000. With nearly 122,000 votes as of 7 a.m. Friday morning, Trump has already won more votes in Philadelphia than he had in 2016. While Biden could wind up besting Clinton’s vote total in the city once the counting is done, he hasn’t yet, and there’s no guarantee he will. What that means is that Biden’s strengthening position in Pennsylvania isn’t powered by Philadelphia; while the timing of vote counting — dictated by the state’s Republican legislators — has put Philadelphia in the position to potentially put Biden ahead of Trump, Biden’s strong performance relative to Clinton is actually driven by other parts of the state."
Yep. It’s all mail in votes left - which are running 80% Biden.
Trump’s toast. I’m calling it.
Vox has gone further and called the race for Biden. agrees with you! (see above)
Our long national nightmare is over. Again.
Hopefully it means they can push give the disenfranchised territories a chance at statehood or autonomy, and DC a shot at statehood.
