Election Part 2 (Trump thread #108)

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Yeah that's what I'm hoping @Cam77 that the post Florida tantrum was his swansong. Fires crossed!

Fires crossed - those too 🤣

Just catching back up, what's the latest now?

Wisconsin looking promising but likely to be a recount as it's so close.

Anyone know what's happening in Michigan?

Has Trump actually done anything for the rust belt states he promised the world too four year ago?

You might like to have a play with this: observablehq.com/@observablehq/electoral-college-decision-tree

Believe me, the US already have several fingers in the pie of the UK healthcare market...(I am not just talking about private healthcare but the NHS too).

@DressingGownofDoom - ooh, thank you! I’m sure there would still be plenty of scope for CF threads (with diagrams), such as “AIBU - Pete from seat 37 has, yet again, had more than his share of space food sachets” etc etc.

Anyway, sorry to go off topic, think it’s my coping mechanism for the shit-show that is 2020!

@ChickOnAStick

Anyone know what's happening in Michigan?

Front page of CNN is useful edition.cnn.com/

It has "percentage votes counted, percentage for Trump and for Biden so far".

Michigan (at time of typing) has 86% of votes counted - so 14% to go, with a margin of 0.5%. So it genuinely could still go either way.

Wisconsin, Biden is only leading by 0.6% of the votes cast, but 97% of them have been cast.

Nate Cohn tweeted this regarding Michigan

Meanwhile, Trump's lead is down to 1.2 points in Michigan with a lot of vote left. May not be particularly close.

Just wanted to pop in and say thanks to everyone here for the excellent running commentary. This thread has been far more informative and acessible than most news sources and I'm loving it!

Sorry missed out the link to that tweet
twitter.com/nate_cohn/status/1323959890637918208?s=21

#as far as Raab and Johnson, yes they are quite right to not get involved at this stage. can't stand either of them but I'll give them that.

In other news... what a relief ... Kanye has conceded

news.sky.com/story/kanye-west-concedes-us-election-defeat-but-says-hell-run-for-president-again-in-2024-12123436

I can’t believe how this has flipped again. Biden was way ahead in the polls. Then Trump won the on-the-day vote in the swing states bigly, as he might say, and now Biden appears to be clawing his way back in the mid-west as the postal votes are counted.

When I went to bed at 4am, I thought it was over and we were in for four more years of the orange cretin, and now Biden appears marginally ahead. I wouldn’t bet against it flipping again.

moral of the story - it's too close!

Biden odds currently 2/7, Trump 3/1.

Surely there is no way Trump can win from this now!?

Biden must have it now, trumps only chance is in court. If he concedes today he is finished, deautsche bank will dump him and it’s over. He can’t afford to concede he has to fight this in court.

@gchali

Surely there is no way Trump can win from this now!?

🤞 And his funny little old man dances will amuse us for decades to come 🤭

@CaraDuneRedux

The fact that Trump is behaving this way like a toddler having a melt down in soft-play is not an invitation for everyone else to get in the ball pit with him and start pissing all over the balls.

This is superb

@gchali

Surely there is no way Trump can win from this now!?

As far as I can see, it's more or less depending on Michigan?

@ChickOnAStick It looks like Michigan is very close!

looks like Trump's going to have a bigly pigeon chess strop if he doesn't get the result he wants.

a vote count isn't 'fraud', its democracy.

Ladies, long time lurker thanking you all for your links, laughs and info. I am now avidly this blog fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/2020-election-results-coverage/ which you may or may not have found already.