Even more bad news for Virginia today.

Oh well.

Anonymous wrote:
OP here.

Thanks for all of your perspectives.

Like the poster with election night amnesia, I'd forgotten it took so long to get the official results in 2020! But Fox did announce the Arizona results for Biden that very night, and I went to bed feeling pretty good about Biden's chances.

OK, so no one is preparing anything in advance? We will all, whatever our respective preferences, be glued to our screens all night, and perhaps for the rest of that week?

Ugh. Maybe I'm going to deep clean the house the weekend before. Put myself in a serene frame of mind to face whatever comes.

We didn’t have any news outlets call a winner until Saturday after Election Day, yes. But I knew it was going to be Biden on Election Night because of the early Fox prediction of AZ which they were pressured to retract. Then we had to wait on NV and PA. NV, especially, seemed unwilling to put their necks out there and announce their vote totals for Biden because they knew that all the legal attention from both campaigns would be on them.

I do think it will take a similar amount of time this time. Especially if it comes down to NV and/or PA and either state will want to take their time a bit and prepare for legal challenges. Remember Harris wins with the Clinton ‘16 states, of which NV was one, + PA, MI, WI.

OP here.

Thanks for all of your perspectives.

Like the poster with election night amnesia, I'd forgotten it took so long to get the official results in 2020! But Fox did announce the Arizona results for Biden that very night, and I went to bed feeling pretty good about Biden's chances.

OK, so no one is preparing anything in advance? We will all, whatever our respective preferences, be glued to our screens all night, and perhaps for the rest of that week?

Ugh. Maybe I'm going to deep clean the house the weekend before. Put myself in a serene frame of mind to face whatever comes.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:VIRGINIA: Blue counties CRATER in turnout while Trump counties surge - did not expect this!

TURNOUT VERSUS WEEK 1, 2020:
Strong Trump Counties +23.5%
Weak Trump Counties +20%
Competitive Counties +3%
Weak Harris Counties -9%
Strong Harris Counties -19%

The correlation is insane and evident. If this energy is reproduced in the other battlegrounds - we'll be heading to bed early.

It ain't over, fool. Absentee ballots, mail in ballots.

Exactly. On election night of "normal" cycles, Virginia looks off until the very end of the night when Fairfax adds to the tally. They always do it late in the evening. Then all is well again.

+1...traffic here in Fairfax sucks, so lots of us are voting by mail. And our county is fully one eighth of the state's population.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:VIRGINIA: Blue counties CRATER in turnout while Trump counties surge - did not expect this!

TURNOUT VERSUS WEEK 1, 2020:
Strong Trump Counties +23.5%
Weak Trump Counties +20%
Competitive Counties +3%
Weak Harris Counties -9%
Strong Harris Counties -19%

The correlation is insane and evident. If this energy is reproduced in the other battlegrounds - we'll be heading to bed early.

It ain't over, fool. Absentee ballots, mail in ballots.

Exactly. On election night of "normal" cycles, Virginia looks off until the very end of the night when Fairfax adds to the tally. They always do it late in the evening. Then all is well again.

Yup. Harris will win Virginia by eight.

You better pull your head outta DCUM

Anonymous wrote:I am looking forward to a second Trump victory.

Then you better find a time machine to take you back to 2016!

Harris Walz win in a landslide.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:VIRGINIA: Blue counties CRATER in turnout while Trump counties surge - did not expect this!

TURNOUT VERSUS WEEK 1, 2020:
Strong Trump Counties +23.5%
Weak Trump Counties +20%
Competitive Counties +3%
Weak Harris Counties -9%
Strong Harris Counties -19%

The correlation is insane and evident. If this energy is reproduced in the other battlegrounds - we'll be heading to bed early.

It ain't over, fool. Absentee ballots, mail in ballots.

Exactly. On election night of "normal" cycles, Virginia looks off until the very end of the night when Fairfax adds to the tally. They always do it late in the evening. Then all is well again.

Anonymous wrote:VIRGINIA: Blue counties CRATER in turnout while Trump counties surge - did not expect this!

TURNOUT VERSUS WEEK 1, 2020:
Strong Trump Counties +23.5%
Weak Trump Counties +20%
Competitive Counties +3%
Weak Harris Counties -9%
Strong Harris Counties -19%

The correlation is insane and evident. If this energy is reproduced in the other battlegrounds - we'll be heading to bed early.

It ain't over, fool. Absentee ballots, mail in ballots.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A friend and I had plans to go out to lunch the day after the 2016 election. Neither one of us is a drinker, let alone a day drinker, but we ordered drinks. As I looked around the restaurant, I realized there were alcoholic beverages at every table I could see. At lunchtime on a Wednesday. Everyone was somber and speaking in hushed tones.

I’m not planning a damn thing, but if Harris wins, I will be thanking God as a sense of relief washes over me.

Good grief, the drama is so incredibly tiresome.

Fear that while this orange head felon will be out (sigh of relief), look at who is waiting for '28...his VP pick (sigh of disgust).

Anonymous wrote:A friend and I had plans to go out to lunch the day after the 2016 election. Neither one of us is a drinker, let alone a day drinker, but we ordered drinks. As I looked around the restaurant, I realized there were alcoholic beverages at every table I could see. At lunchtime on a Wednesday. Everyone was somber and speaking in hushed tones.

I’m not planning a damn thing, but if Harris wins, I will be thanking God as a sense of relief washes over me.

I’m always amazed that many people have jobs where you can go out to eat and have a drink at lunch. I picked the wrong profession. I’d get fired.

Getting the materials together to board up the homestead, to protect against rioters, in case things go south.

Anonymous wrote:We may not know the result on election night. We will probably have to wait a few days for absentee ballots to be counted.

I remember dreading watching the election returns in 2016, fearing a Clinton win, and feeling jubilation when it became clear Trump would beat her. 2020 was a downer, not getting all the results the same night, and then the bad result. Hopefully, Trump can prevail again, for the sake of our country.

Troll harder next time!

Anonymous wrote:I am looking forward to a second Trump victory.

Shut up.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The last time I dared prepare anything in advance (a low-key kid-friendly party for the day after the election), Clinton lost and DD accused me of jinxing it

So.

Do we dare buy anything in advance?

Do we prep both ways, like the campaign parties?

WWYD?

Unless certain states are won unxpectedly like florida, the results of the election likely won't be known until the following Saturday.

Harris is not winning Florida. Republicans have a million more registered voters.