I’ve been online off and on all day, mostly on Twitter with some time out for text banking.
Some people are graciously posting calming threads of our natural world.
The weather across the country is good.
There are few attempts at interfering with the vote. The Texas suit to remove 127,000 drive-in votes was thrown out of federal court. Several states have had phonecalls telling people it’s dangerous to go to the polls today and they should wait until tomorrow, an old trick. The Secretaries of State are on it.
Trump’s army of Second Amendment “poll protectors” haven’t shown up. Looks like tieing up traffic is the most they’re capable of. And oh yeah, only on the weekends.
I have unofficial word that Santa Fe County’s voting rate was at 77% early this afternoon, and I am seeing similar numbers for other places.
Boring is good. Open thread!
Baud
Good. Win or lose, the results should be based on the voters.
jeffreyw
I chased a link and found this gem:
cain
It rained here in Hillsboro (suburb of PDX) – bah.. I left my fire pit uncovered and the wood in it got wet :(
PsiFighter37
It does seem like fuckery is not as high as usual. Hell, even Georgia seems to be doing an okay job. I take it as a sign that resignation is setting in for the GOP.
mrmoshpotato
It’s time for a turkey sammich and some Scooby Doo.
dmsilev
“May you live in interesting times”
Yeah, I’ll take boring.
dmsilev
@mrmoshpotato: Spoiler: the ghost is old man McGilly in a mask.
cope
How’s this for a bit of synchronicity? I am currently reading David Neiwert’s book about killer whales. Finishing it is one of my planned distractions from election results for tonight.
mrmoshpotato
@dmsilev: And he would’ve got away with it too if it hadn’t been for those meddling kids!
Baquist
I keep blathering on about how i want my president to be boring. This rolling dumpster fire has been toxic to our souls.
randy khan
I did a little turn around my block earlier today and noticed that the house that’s been displaying a Gadsen flag since the new family moved in earlier this year no longer has it out. I’m pretty sure it was up on Sunday, so the disappearance is recent.
It’s too much to hope that they had a change of heart, but maybe they realized it annoyed people and decided to stop.
rk
A coworker went to Trump’s super spreader event, showed pictures of it then claimed that Biden is a pedophile and something about Hunter Biden’s laptop. How can anyone be this stupid? Just the excitement on her face when she talks of Trump makes me want to gag. Like a teenager fawning over a boy band. This woman is almost 60. She also thinks New Jersey is going to be red. Trump winning New Jersey’s electoral votes to run up the score. You have to be very special to think that’s going to happen.
orsonk
For what it’s worth, I wrote a 1-minute song on the election, including how I feel about my fellow white men who’ve been willfully ignorant for the last 4+ years. “Bad Man.”
https://youtu.be/jBfw4tCyZk4
Mary G
It does seem like their hearts aren’t really into the ratfucking this year. And every time they do try to start something, like the Biden posters in Philly, there’s a rapid response of “You lie, and here are the CVS-length receipts to prove it.”
Michigan stepping UP:
Whole thread worth reading; here’s the conclusion:
cope
@rk: Bless her little heart.
Peale
@cope: strangely, I ordered a plushy killer whale, which unfortunately won’t arrive in time to be of any use tonight.
Aleta
Mary G
This isn’t even worthy of a participation trophy:
Kelly
Oregon ballots by party affiliation as of Nov 3
Eligible Submitted
Democratic – 1,055,681 889,178
Republican – 762,772 621,802
Non-affiliated – 935,166 504,829
There are more Non-affiliated voters in Oregon than Republicans. One of these years the R’s will be out voted by the Non’s.
jl
thanks for nature pix.
But, who did the whale vote for and what state is it from? Is it D, R, or NPA? Early or day of?
HeleninEire
Copied over from the last thread.
Can all of my Balloon Juice/Facebook friends please go to my page and give a shout out to Megan. She is my best friend’s daughter. I’ve known and loved her her whole life. In September she turned 18 and she volunteered as a poll worker in Queens, NY.
She is the BEST.
Wyatt Salamanca
The last 4 years have been a fucking nightmare so yes I’ll take boring.
I’ll also take a President who is competent, not a pathological liar, and not a sadist.
karen marie
@PsiFighter37:
Georgia looks to be a mess.
debbie
@PsiFighter37:
Or that they’re all bluster, all wind and no sail, as they say.
Sab
@rk: Hard to believe, but he did get three women to marry him and then reproduce. Even after seeing the prior kids. Some women are just idiots.
Glad your coworker is just a fan.
catclub
@jl: I think that whale’s signature is a seal with its head torn off.
Suzanne
One completely stupid and yet enjoyable thing for me: Sephora’s annual sale started today, so I sent a couple of gifts this morning, as well as ordered myself some new serum and lip gloss. Because, damnit, I need a glow-up.
Sure Lurkalot
Another good soother is Mr. Levenson’s fine book, Money for Nothing. I just finished it and recommend it wholeheartedly. It’s chock full of interesting characters and is suspenseful as the narrative veers toward the big crash. It spans many disciplines-economics, finance, science and psychology and brings the subject matter current to today.
Glyph2112
@rk: they do live in a world of their own making. I can’t even debate trump supports because to me it’s so painfully obvious what a giant turd trump is and there are so many reasons to dislike him I just don’t know where to start. Plus if they were open to new ideas they probably wouldn’t support him in the first place.
Gin & Tonic
@Mary G:
I’d say he was the acting director of national stupidity.
dmsilev
@Mary G: Look, just because he was the (acting) director of national intelligence doesn’t mean that he’s smart.
Mike J
With Neiwert’s orcas up top, good thread for whale doggos.
The whale poop sniffing dog that was featured in Netflix’s Connections series is going to be in an upcoming episode of Nova (I think it was Nova. PBS somewhere).
This dog stands on the bow of the boat and points the scientists towards floating whale poop, so they can get samples. The scientists and dog work together in the San Juan islands (where the above mentioned Haro Strait is.)
Splitting Image
On election day, always remember that turnout is fair play.
craigie
Mrs Craigie is working one of the polls, and reports it to be very quiet. I think everyone in LA already voted.
karen marie
@Sure Lurkalot: Westlake’s Money For Nothing is even more soothing!
jl
@catclub: ” I think that whale’s signature is a seal with its head torn off. ”
Go validate that, you mere humans!
JPL
@karen marie: Sad that it was in a county trump won by sixty percent.
JMG
@Glyph2112: I have a weird acquaintance in my senior golf league. Guy’s 93 and still plays twice a week. VERY right wing but also freely acknowledges Trump is an idiot. I wonder how he voted.
Sab
I got an American Samoan quarter in change lately. Giant fruit bat with big eyes, holding her smaller fruitbat baby with smaller big eyes. I am so pleased. I have been waiting months for this coin.
I love bats, and very much wish I lived somewhere where they don’t get rabies. I expect most bats wish the same, except the 27% that would vote R if they could vote.
I am not Jon Snow
@PsiFighter37:
And it seems to be getting more noticeable as the day wears on. I was trying to avoid getting bogged down in analysis of voting totals and what they portend (I tried doing this the last time, to my eventual crushing disappointment), but I couldn’t help but notice the stark contrast in the demeanor of the two candidates. Biden was acting like someone who thinks he’s going to win, and Trump looked like someone who’d been told he was going to lose. I’m choosing to read that as a (somewhat) hopeful sign, but that’s about as far as I’m willing to go right now.
rk
@Glyph2112:
I never talk politics with them. She tried to talk to me about politics, but I just respond with completely banal remarks. Things this moron has said 1) Democrats collaborated with a lab in China to release the virus to bring down Trump’s economy 2) Antifa are burning down cities, 3) Biden is taking bribes from China 4) Biden is a pedophile 4) At the last minute Hillary was going to replace Biden on the democratic ticket. 5) Obama and Hillary are going to jail.
The list can go on and on. I can’t even begin to argue any of this stuff, so I end all conversations as soon as can.
Cheryl Rofer
Mary G
@HeleninEire: Done, only for you. Apparently I have several hundred notifications because I hate FB. I did say hi to a couple of people I miss and left insults on Darrell Issa’s gloating every other entry. He’ll be back in January, unfortunately.
Then I saw an acquaintance’s post approvingly quoting some pious effluvium about our sacred American Ritual by the Moustache of Understanding with eight comments agreeing what a great writer he is, and I had to go before I started using words like dreck, drivel, and idiots. They send buckets of money to all the right Democrats, which is what matters.
NotMax
(yawns, stretches) Managed to get five hours of uninterrupted unconsciousness. I’ll take it, gratefully.
What a treat it is to see so many unfamiliar nyms hereabouts this morning and in recent days. Really hope to see more of each and every one, to laugh with and learn from them.
HeleninEire
@HeleninEire: Also. Megan is an Engineer. Yeah, she builds robots. She graduated from Bronx Science!!!! And she is now a Freshman engineering student at Carnegie Mellon.
Yeah I am as proud of her as her mom is.
artem1s
things seem pretty quiet here today in CLE OH. Beautiful, sunny fall day. took a bike ride a little while ago. now I’m going to order some food and queue up some movies to watch and music to listen to until the poles close. I’ll check in on the early returns. I’m hopeful that we will keep the house but not expecting to take the Senate. Hoping to be as surprised about the Senate as I was in 2006. Definitely not as giddy as I was in 2012 when Obama trounced Mitt. But it feels like the GOP is as worn out as we are with chaos. Difference is our vote might mean change. They have nothing to look forward to except more chaos if they turn out – so I expect R turnout to be low and there to much whinging about Soros bucks paying for votes tomorrow morning.
NeenerNeener
@rk: Not only is she a tRump supporter, she’s spouting QAnon BS.
Ugh.
zzyzx
@Cheryl Rofer: I’m taking that as a good sign.
My favorite post I saw was someone claiming that PA was completely rigged and needed to be tossed out because a guy at a random precinct was electioneering a bit too close to the polling spot.
cain
@Kelly:
Nobody wants to be part of the Rs. But I also believe we have a lot of libertarians in this state. Libertarians are not onboard with the ratfucking happening.
Mike E
@Mike J: The whale poop sniffing dog was featured on The Age Of Nature on PBS (narrated by Uma Thurman)
HeleninEire
@Mary G: Thank you.
cain
@karen marie:
It is a mess on purpose. “Human error” huh? yeah…
zzyzx
@cain:
Spaulding went 2-1 Trump in 2016 so it would be a weird place to sabotage.
Cermet
In two hours, I’ll head to bed (I get up at 3:30 AM even though I don’t have to drive to work due to the virus.) I will then check to see if Biden had a land slide (i.e. AZ & NC and/or FL already) and then celibrate with chocolate cookie ice creme. If not, I’ll accept Biden will still win but will take a day or three. I’ll still celibrate his impending win – I mean, chocolate cookie (really a fudge brownie in the mix) ice creme can’t be ignored
piratedan
@zzyzx: well this is now Trump’s GOP, so this strikes me as about the right level of incompetence…..
jonas
@Mary G: As usual, he doesn’t give a shit because everyone just sees and retweets/shares the photo come across their feed, but not the correction. As they say, a lie can make its way around the world 10 times before truth is done putting its shoes on.
Miss Bianca
@rk: You’re more forbearing than I would be. My go-to conversation stopper would be, “how can you possibly be smart enough to do your job when, judging by your conversation, you are obviously too dumb to be feeding yourself with a fork?”
C Stars
A dear friend of mine was accosted by a “Trump Train” in a blue city in a very red state today. They profiled him as a Dem voter on the road (though he has no bumper stickers); two big pickup trucks with all the flags etc., tailgated him and swerved into him the whole way to work. When he parked at his workplace they parked in the lot and called him the N-word and faggot, said “We know where you live” and drove off to find someone else to harass. He’s not African American or gay but does have close-cropped dark hair. I dunno I guess he didn’t look redneck enough.
He’s complained before that a few of the people where he works are low-information Republicans, though basically well-intentioned; I wonder if they saw what happened to him. And, as always, I wonder why anyone “well-intentioned” could possibly think it’s OK to support and associate with bullies like that. Horrible.
Baud
@Cermet: My brain and my nerves are not in sync right now. I hate it.
ColoradoGuy
Quiet here in suburban Colorado (15 miles east of Boulder). Our CV19 figures are shooting through the roof, which is keeping at least some of us indoors. Beautiful day for a dog-walk, with clear weather and no wildfire smoke.
Pete Downunder
@Sab: Be careful what you wish for. Australia has huge colonies of fruit bats (flying foxes) which when they gather in huge numbers in residential areas can be quite the pest. No rabies but other diseases have attributed to them. In small numbers they are cute, but in huge flocks a real problem.
Brachiator
I’m having lunch at a coffee shop, outdoor seating. No one around me is talking about the election. A quiet, boring day.
Today is my sister’s 30th wedding anniversary. She emailed a photo of the wedding couple surrounded by me and my two brothers. I’m glad that we are all still here and doing okay, and that my mother is still with us.
Squid696
As of 3:30, more than 140,000 ballots have been cast Tuesday in Harris County, according to the Harris County Clerk’s Office. This is pushing Harris County to having 67% of registered voters having cast their votes.
JaneE
For some reason the Trump visible support has gone up the last few days. More people displaying signs, and a brand new Trump flag (more like a desecration of the American one than the usual banners). Like the guy at the bank yesterday whose parting remark was “vote Trump”. At this point it seems a little late to try to drum up more support.
Brachiator
@Pete Downunder:
Looked it up cause it’s a boring day. A group of bats is usually a cloud, a camp or a colony. Sometimes a cauldron.
A group of vampire bats should be a suckle.
Mary G
Sab
@Pete Downunder: Huge flocks of bats. Australia often boggles the mind.
My husband has a highschool classmate who emigrated there right out of college to teach. Eventually she came back. She wishes she had stayed
ETA I heard on NPR Science Friday if you raise a bunch of bats together and then release them into the wild into a much larger colony, they will still stay together within the larger colony. Friends.
Yarrow
From the El Paso Matters liveblog:
The goal is to get El Paso county to 60%. Looks like it’s within reach.
lol chikinburd
Near 70 in technically-not-Madison right now near sunset; posting this nine feet from lakeshore. Walked by my polling location, saw only a couple cars, laughed because everyone here voted first week of October. Stroll through very-well-off neighborhood en route to here showed Biden-Harris signs ubiquitous, Black Lives Matter signs well in evidence, Trump signage entirely absent.
Not a surprise and I’d never take it as representative of the state but why the hell you think I live here.
Viva BrisVegas
Here was I thinking that a monument plant was a factory that made statues.
Sab
@Brachiator: Cloud, camp colony. Does it matter what they are doing? Cloud flying, camp perching, colony parked in a cave?
PsiFighter37
Just turned on CNN, and see to have caught them saying that Biden’s camp thinks FL may be out of reach because of lighter turnout in Miami area.
Brachiator
@Splitting Image:
I like that!
Brachiator
@Sab:
Yep, I do believe so.
It should be a dangle of bats in a cave.
Baud
@PsiFighter37:
Ugh. Maybe I’ll go to be early tonight. May need to take some pills.
Kelly
@cain: The next biggest bunch is the Oregon Independent Party in 4th place. Libertarians are a distant 5th. I’ve read speculation that most of the folks registered to the Independent Party are really Non affiliated they just didn’t realize that Independent IS a party.
Oregon ballots by party affiliation as of Nov 3
Eligible Submitted
Democratic – 1,055,681 889,178
Republican – 762,772 621,802
Non-affiliated – 935,166 504,829
Independent Party – 134,746 100,192
Libertarian – 21,846 14,479
NotMax
FYI.
CaseyL
@Pete Downunder: Australians consider them pests? I adore them!
I was in Australia back in 2010, and our first stop was Cairns. On the tour bus coming into town, I saw flocks (? “clouds,” excuse me) of fruit bats flying through the city. I was gobsmacked, enchanted, delighted!
A couple days later, my aunt and I were talking to downtown. We passed a large but seedy mansion on one side of the sidewalk, and a huge overgrown tree on the other side of the sidewalk. I happened to look up as we passed under the tree, and saw entire families of fruit bats hanging upside down sleeping.
“Oh how COOL!” I said – rather loudly – and startled some of them. Who did what animals startled out of sleep will sometimes do: empty their bladders and bowels in case they have to take off in a hurry.
They didn’t get me.
They got my aunt.
Sloane Ranger
I made the mistake of watching CNN exit polls. Before I was quietly confident about a Biden win but after listening to the exit poll results I’m worried again. According to the polls, almost half your country thinks the Orange One is handling the pandemic well and a high number are saying they haven’t been financially impacted by it.
Also, they’ve just said that the Biden campaign is pessimistic about Florida.
I wanted to go to bed satisfied that your great country was on track to return to sanity. Now I want to cry!
Sab
@CaseyL: You just proved Pete’s point.
trollhattan
Considering we’ve been primarily vote-by-mail for several election cycles, this is eyepopping.
Perfect day, 78 degrees, no smoke.
Miss Bianca
@Sloane Ranger: Courage!
PsiFighter37
@Sloane Ranger: I don’t really think anyone should pay attention to exit polls this year – it is going to be skewed towards Republicans given Democrats have a massive early-vote advantage.
geg6
@Sloane Ranger:
Exit polls are notoriously bad. There’s a reason many news orgs won’t report them. They may use them internally to mobilize resources, but you shouldn’t take them too seriously.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@PsiFighter37:
I wonder if this is the exit polling system used by the AP since 2018 or the traditional exit polling? The former is supposed to be more accurate given the large amount of early voting
zzyzx
Yeah people were warning about exit polls this year being especially bad, but the whole Biden camp saying FL is probably lost is not good. If true, this is more likely to be a squeaker.
Baud
At LGM
LongHairedWeirdo
@Viva BrisVegas: I assumed gravestones, but, essentially, me too!
zzyzx
OTOH the frustration the Trump world is having with PA makes up for it. If you tell me right now that the Democrats will get PA but lose FL, I’ll take the trade.
Xantar
@Sloane Ranger:
By their nature, exit polls aren’t representative. After all, they only poll people there on election day, not the ones who voted early. And in any case, the only people who participate in them are voters who are willing to talk to some random stranger with a clipboard right after voting. There are loads of articles on 538, Vox, and elsewhere saying that we just shouldn’t pay attention to exit polls at all.
Baud
@zzyzx:
FL was always a reach state. It would have been to have to have an early night.
JPL
@zzyzx: Same.
MisterForkbeard
@Brachiator:
My god, that sounds nice. What I wouldn’t give to just not work the rest of the day and to focus on anything else. >_<
Brachiator
@Kelly:
This happens a lot in California where voters who are Independent erroneously select the right wing American Independent Party.
Emma from FL
People, Biden has at least two other paths to the EC without Florida. Can we stop freaking out for now?
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Baud:
Agreed
Anoniminous
Post removed by poster for posting before reading the posts that followed the posts remarking on the post that trigger the post that has been removed.
JPL
@Emma from FL: I’m watching PBS kids.
catclub
@C Stars: sounds like a job for camera phone
catclub
@Anoniminous: that 75/50 ratio of returned ballots, I think in PA, with the 75 being Democrats and 50 being GOP, is highly encouraging.
Emma from FL
@JPL: I found some (copyright, what copyright) videos of complete Pentatonix concerts on YouTube. I will check the news from time to time. My nerves can’t take the freakouts.
Kent
@Emma from FL: Plus there are Biden people and there are Biden people. Who the hell knows what sort of 3rd degree hand-wringing surrogate CNN managed to wrangle up for a comment. I seriously doubt any actual Biden campaign people would every be talking like this, especially before the polls close. And not even after that. You fight to the very end. Always.
So I call BS
Maybe when 80% of the vote is actually counted and trends are unavoidable. But not before then.
PsiFighter37
Reading Ralston’s analysis of Nevada on Twitter – apparently Election Day voting is quite low (which is bad for the GOP), which probably seals their fate.
Miss Bianca
@Emma from FL: Stop freaking out? UNPOSSIBLE! We’re Democrats, dammit!
Anoniminous
@catclub:
I edited the post you were responding to so your comment doesn’t make a lot of sense now.
Yes that ratio is VERY encouraging.
Kent
OK, my twitter link failed. But in PA:mrmoshpotato
@JPL: Is PBS Kids freaking out too? How’s Arthur taking it?
(Enjoying Bob’s Burgers here.)
geg6
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
There’s a link to it at LGM. Right now, they don’t have any info on who they voted for (and won’t until 8pm). But there are interesting tidbits to be gleaned there.
SiubhanDuinne
I’m as scornful of Brian Williams as anyone here, but I laughed out loud just now when he said “The President will be hosting an event for 250-400 people tonight, as one does during a pandemic.”
Redshift
Extremely light Election Day turnout at my polling place. Not surprising, since it’s heavily Democratic and we had long lines at early voting right up to the end.
Tom Levenson
@Sure Lurkalot: thank you!
geg6
@zzyzx:
The Trump camp is saying PA us probably lost because GOP turnout is not happening, so we may not even need FL.
mrmoshpotato
@SiubhanDuinne: Ugh. Murderous orange assholes.
HumboldtBlue
Gen Z is voting.
Miss Bianca
@SiubhanDuinne: Oh man, that’s pretty edgy for BriWi.
Funny, too. ; )
RSA
@Cheryl Rofer: “The homeland cannot be secure…?”
Jeez. Disinformation artists can’t even be bothered to make their posts sound American.
To my middle-aged ears. Maybe GWB changed things. The idea of an American “homeland” still seems strange to me.
Brachiator
@Xantar:
The networks base their winner projections on real time results and exit polls. And they are usually quite accurate.
It’s funny. Some think that earlier polls are more accurate even though they are based on voter intent, not actual voting.
I don’t know how the polls factor in mail in votes, but you are right that this complicates the issue. And things might get even more complicated if bike Republicans challenge mailed ballots to any significant degree.
We shall see what happens.
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
Not wearing my glasses and read that as “FL was always a roach state.”
Having lived in Tampa for six years, I never questioned it.
dmsilev
@geg6: If they’ve already conceded PA, beyond the range of “lawsuits that our biased judges won’t laugh off”, Trump is fucked.
Anoniminous
I call Bullshit on the “Biden Camp” story.
Miami-Dade and Broward counties are on their way to a record turnout according to a Miami Herald story I can’t find
Emma from FL
@Brachiator: The networks can do that in a regular election, IMO. When more than half the votes are mail in or early, exit polls can’t help but be skewed.
dmsilev
@Brachiator: AP’s VoteCast includes surveys of mail-in/early voters:
zzyzx
Well I can’t argue with that source!
JPL
@mrmoshpotato: I just switched to Rick Steves’ Europe. He’s in Santorini. I want to go.
C Stars
@catclub: Or parking lot security cameras. I’m hoping he reports it (or someone at his work does). He doesn’t think the police would help.
@JPL: PBS kids sounds wonderful right now.
Baud
@zzyzx: I choose to believe.
Anoniminous
@geg6:
Biden doesn’t need Florida to win.
Trump needs Florida to win.
We want to take Florida so we can say, “neener-neener you fascist bigots eat-shit-and-die”
Because we’re grown-ups
Calouste
@Kent: Probably, whatsimijig, Ed Rendell trying to be important.
Sab
Jackels, please. Aargh is the election thread. Booring is the respite thread. We have been able to do multiple live threads for years. No reason to change now.
C Stars
@Anoniminous: Yes, I’m reading both that turnout is incredibly light in FL and that turnout is record-breaking in FL.
Baud
@Calouste: Good call.
sdhays
@geg6: The Dump campaign was signalling that they didn’t think they stood a chance in Wisconsin or Michigan a few days ago. So if they also can’t get Pennsylvania, that’s the game.
Baud
@Sab: It says open thread, not respite thread.
C Stars
Here’s something booooring. I’ve been putting off going to the post office for months now but finally had to send a package today. My branch office is small and every time I’ve driven by in the last few months there’s a huge line out the door. Today I sailed right in and up to the help desk. So…yay for that…
JMG
FWIW, Nate Silver said on Twitter that the exit polls were so internally illogical that he thought they just haven’t accounted for the different ways of voting and he advised ignoring them altogether.
Anoniminous
@zzyzx:
While I look for it here’s some insightful(!) insights from the Woo-Woo People
Majority of Gays Are Possessed by Ghosts, So-Called Study Says
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AH! Found it.
CaseyL
@Sab: No, I just proved one should be quiet when walking under sleeping bats:)
Baud
@Anoniminous: What are a minority of gays possessed by?
NotMax
I keep mashing the fast forward button but the clocks aren’t responding.
:)
germy
This is the respite thread, so I removed my comment.
SiubhanDuinne
@Sab:
I love bats too.* I got the AmSam quarter a few years ago, and my collection of state/territorial quarters is complete except for Northern Marianas.
*Have a particular affection for the baby flying foxes wrapped in tiny colourful swaddling. Bat burritos ^^..^^
Jinchi
I’ve been offline for a while.
Has Air Force One been spotted fleeing to Moscow yet?
Cheryl Rofer
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@germy:
Since when can you “turn down” a court order
ETA: Why did you delete?
Cheryl Rofer
It’s not going to even start getting interesting for another hour.
germy
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
I’ve never tried!
Anoniminous
@Baud:
Rogers and Hammerstein, of course
jl
@Baud: I heard a news report that Trump GOTV people are telling CNN that they are extremely carnsared and mightily spooked about Trump’s election day turnout in some critical swing states: not up to expectations, gotta get a last burst out, texting out to urge them to stay in long times in some places.
OK… I guess that is a good sign. The Trump campaign GOTV in most places has banked on just this one day. And their GOTV plan was a few personal contacts early. Not sure how that matches up with such a long delay until election day.
The Biden team adapted to changing circumstances and prepared early mail, early in-person and election day drop off mail and in-person plans. Which makes sense. I haven’t seen any stories that Trump team really adapted much over time.
So, hard to believe Trump team may have been somewhat limited in their planning (euphemism alert). Let’s hope for the best.
germy
@SiubhanDuinne:
My son, when he was little, had a great book about bats. Full of photos (head shots that looked like a high school yearbook) and many of the bats resemble tiny dogs and little foxes (but with weird eyes).
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Sounds broken.
jl
@Cheryl Rofer: What can in-person exit polls possibly mean this year? Democrats banked early vote. And apparently a strong election day in-person GOTV operation as well. And from what I’ve heard, some state GOP operations adapted to multiple voting modalities as Dems did, others sat their and hoped (rather than planned) that all loyal Trumpsters would magically show up on election day and crawl over broken glass to vote.
The exit polls will be all over the map, and many of them will mean nothing.
NotMax
Jeeze, could MSNBC have any more crap cluttering up screen space?
mrmoshpotato
@Cheryl Rofer:
Or 3 Bob’s Burgers episodes in real time.
Brachiator
@Emma from FL:
There are ways to adjust for this. But this is a respite thrad.
Weird. Things are displaying funky on my phone. I will try to post and move on. Let the boring continue!
Shakti
@Suzanne: I’m so tempted. I badly want a haircut and to refresh my makeup but between my dumb eye condition and the covid, I don’t go anywhere and it’s a problem to put on makeup.
I had a job interview yesterday for a remote position, but I don’t know that they’ll hire me.
germy
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Because another commenter said this is the respite thread, and that the thread before this one should have the political stuff.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax:
Yes.
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?
@mrmoshpotato: Bob’s Burgers is hilarious.
TS (the original)
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
When you are Donald trump or a deplorable working for Donald trump. (but you know this)
USPS disregards court order to conduct sweeps in 12 postal districts after more than 300,000 ballots can’t be traced
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@mrmoshpotato: they could bring tweety and Mark Halperin back, for example
I think Peggy Noonan is still under contract….
jl
@Brachiator: But the data needed to adjust, the early in-person and mail votes, are very rough and guesstimated proxies this year, with high probability of important GOP crossover and unpredictable NPA vote.
I’m not sure adding together separate poor quality and impossible to interpret data sets gets you much. Not worth the trouble. Better to just relax and wait for a day or two to see the actual data. Nothing we can do individually to change the big national picture anyway.
mrmoshpotato
@What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?: Agreed.
“Your hot cousin?”
“I have a lot of cousins – he’s the hot one.”
debbie
I managed to get a walk in after work, despite the time change, and only a couple of yards (out of 45–50) had taken down their Biden/Harris signs. That tells me I’m not the only optimistic one in the neighborhood.
TS (the original)
@germy:
Top of the thread says elections, open thread. Where did respite come from?
O. Felix Culpa
I have poll challengers and watchers stationed throughout our county. I can confirm that it’s mostly boooring, which is great! Voter traffic is relatively light too, probably because so many people voted early or absentee mail-in. The most excitement so far was a group of six bongo drummers drumming outside one of our polling places.
Viva BrisVegas
Don’t go when the cruise ships are in.
germy
@TS (the original):
See comment #129
mrmoshpotato
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Well played.
NotMax
@TS (the original)
Ah, the Bartleby gambit.
Mallard Filmore
@Sab:
How many came here from AOL?
germy
@Viva BrisVegas:
I was surprised to see Rick Steves on a cruise ship on his last episode. He’s usually more the “backpack through a foreign country with a language book, befriend the locals, stay overnight in somebody’s house and be your own tour guide” type of traveler. I think he knows some of his audience is interested in cruises, so he wanted to demonstrate what to do and what to avoid on cruises.
dmsilev
Results starting to trickle in. This is Lexington, Kentucky.
trollhattan
@JPL:
Surprisingly good wine comes from Santorini, if one needed even another reason to go.
Steeplejack
I’m getting ready to leave for Sighthound Hall, and I don’t know how much posting I’ll be doing on my phone. I’ll be reading, though. But I’ll post this now, even though it feels like more of a Balloon Juice After Dark thing.
I’ve been very emotional all day, in a good way and for a number of reasons. Last night I was going through photographs of the housecat to pick one to send in for the calendar, and that hit me unexpectedly hard. I still miss the little furball riding shotgun at her workstation. WaterGirl helped me pick out a good one that is quintessential housecat.
Then today I was struck by the outpouring of community sentiment for Balloon Juice in the morning thread. This place means a lot to me, and it has been a big help in some tough times. It’s my first and last stop on the Interwebs every day. I feel like I know a lot of you, and I am thankful for your energy. ? Even you lurkers! I know you’re out there. I think about that sometimes when I (or someone else) drop a helpful hint or a pearl of wisdom and it sinks like a stone. We never know all the effects of our actions and words. I have gained a lot from other people’s comments that I never replied to. Nothing is lost.
And, of course, there’s the election. Sometime in the last few days my anxiety went away and was replaced by something almost like confidence. Could have just been that I realized that three or four friends had called me to talk them off the ledge. Maybe I was projecting something that I wasn’t allowing myself to see. I feel like we are at the beginning of a sea change in our society. The silver lining of the Trump disaster is that it revealed a lot of fault lines and structural rot that we can no longer ignore. Let the rebuilding begin. Today is a good start.
As I was out and about today I was listening to oldies on SiriusXM, and I found myself tearing up now and then at ridiculously maudlin songs from my youth, when I was green in judgment and pretty much everything else. My emotions are all just below the surface after months of being pressed down. I’m gonna drop one old hippie song here. Take it with a grain of salt, sure, but maybe take it to heart nonetheless. Pace Kafka, sometimes even a maudlin little song can be “the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
”A new day is coming . . .”
NotMax
@Jim, Foolish Literalist
So close. Peggy Noonan is still under the table.
jl
@NotMax: ” Jeeze, could MSNBC have any more crap cluttering up screen space? ”
I figure all that junk is the modern equivalent of a flickering fire place amped up on bad speed.
People can try this instead. But can get a 12 hour version with just the fireplace sounds.
Relaxing Guitar Music, Music for Stress Relief, Relaxing Music, Meditation Music, Soft Music,☯3481
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IQWxpueONg
Barbara
@trollhattan: Lovely white wine in a blue bottle. I buy it whenever my wine shop has it in stock. That is, I used to buy it when I could physically browse the store.
piratedan
@dmsilev: now to hope that Biden’s coattails extend to Ms. McGrath…. I will remain hopeful and observant (but not expectant)
trollhattan
@C Stars:
“Lightly breaking records since 2000.”
Previously rejected Florida slogan.
jl
@TS (the original): As general Russel L. Honoré said “Well, OK then, we’ll see who goes to jail in six months.”
Splitting Image
Early results from Kentucky. Biden and McGrath are up so far.
Biden won’t win unless it’s a blowout for the ages, but McConnell seems to be losing a few points to a libertarian while McGrath seems to be holding Biden’s voters. That seems hopeful.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Kent:
Probably Ed Rendell.
cain
@zzyzx:
When it comes to Florida it has always been a squeaker. I think most of the time blue wins but fuckery happens.
cain
@zzyzx:
I like living in a world where we never have to depend on Florida.
dmsilev
@Splitting Image: Taking out Moscow Mitch would be sweetness.
Jerzy Russian
@mrmoshpotato: Our heroes are walking in some dark corridor or cave.
Shaggy: Quiet Scooby! That noise can wake the dead!
Scooby: Don’t say that!
cain
@Kent:
Even better, Trump supporters get in line and then leave. Black folks and others have put up with all kinds of shit – but these assholes are used to being entitled so of course they don’t have the stamina .. maybe they’ll go join a Trump train and drive off a pier.
Jeffro
@Splitting Image: if McGrath wins somebody call me an ambulance, I’m going to empty the entire fridge
dmsilev
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Can’t Biden assign someone to trail Rendell and shoot him with a tranq gun whenever he gets within ten feet of a news camera?
Jeffro
@cain: start sawing…eventually it’ll break off and drift away
Suzanne
One cocktail in. I made homemade sweet and sour.
Gvg
@Sloane Ranger: Democrats voted early. If 50% of an “exit” poll today think Trump is OK, he’s lost big.
i don’t know how we can do accurate exit polls in this era.
jl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Why isn’t Baud XXXX!! on as a pundit. He’d be great. He could tell shaggy dog stories, show how to pull a bottle cap off with your teeth, yell ‘Nobody knows shit all about it!”
CarolPW
@germy:
I adore bats. Lived in Eastern Washington for a number of years before I saw my first here. I have a couple of very large patio umbrellas, and to get them raised you first pull the ropes enough to duck your head underneath to get a better grip to raise them the rest of the way. Early morning several years ago I ducked under, grabbed the ropes, looked at the fabric to check the angle and there was a bat about 6″ from my face. We looked at each other a bit, I ducked back out, and left the umbrella down all day. Opened the umbrella the next afternoon, and bat had decamped.
Had another bat encounter in an umbrella since, where I did not see the bat initially, and the poor thing riccoched around the yard until I lowered the umbrella again and it went back inside. Bought a bat house, and will install next year.
NotMax
@cain
“We’ve searched the place high and low, Señor de León, and all we found was the Fountain of Stupidity.”
//
germy
@CarolPW:
I love them. They eat pesky mosquitos. When my kids were little we’d see bats flying around at dusk. Graceful creatures
A bat house! Now that’s cool…
C Stars
@Splitting Image: Personally I wouldn’t put any eggs in the KY basket. I have a ton of family there and though they are all (at this point in the game) fervently pro-Biden, they are also highly skeptical of the idea that the state would ever go blue.
schrodingers_cat
@Steeplejack: You are one of my favorite commenters here. Thank You, you make this place great and the reason I keep coming back, is commenters like you.
TS (the original)
@germy:
I go by what the thread author says.
germy
SFBayAreaGal
@Steeplejack: Thank you for this. I forgot how good this song is.
I started crying. Crystal Blue Persuasion
raven
@schrodingers_cat: +++
HumboldtBlue
@NotMax:
With an empty high ball glass in her hand.
geg6
@sdhays:
Possibly why Mango Mussolini was so subdued today. Sad!
TS (the original)
@cain:
I’m thinking lots of them used to vote by mail – but trump told them not to do that – not such a great idea.
C Stars
@Steeplejack: Great song, great post. I feel better now.
CarolPW
@germy: They are super simple, lots of directions for building them, and all you need is a location high enough with sufficient clear air in front of it for the bat to come in and land. The utility pole in my back yard would be the perfect place, but I suspect the PUD would not appreciate it.
trollhattan
Speaking of Florida, I’d like to report the murder, victim named Mr. Rubio, prime suspect is one Ms. Tiegen.
Kay
I can’t believe I’m saying this but Florida is actually very close!
Now all the Democrats are like “OMG, what about THE PANHANDLE!”
So be assured, they’re still miserable.
WaterGirl
@Anoniminous: I edited your comment to add spaces in your long line with no spaces in it.
While it’s good for expressing feelings, it bad for people with phones, because it breaks the margins for them.
Dorothy A. Winsor
We just came inside from sharing a bottle of champagne with friends on a patio. I hope we didn’t jinx anything.
Baud
@Kay:
Don’t give me hope, Kay.
Immanentize
@germy: my friend, Rick is also old.
Kay
@Baud:
Oh, I don’t want to kid you. I said “close”. Which is better than “not close”
NotMax
@Kay
Because so many stopped off for the Early Bird special first.
“Mmmm. Nothing like a full three-course dinner at 4:30 p.m.”
:)
OGLiberal
@zzyzx: This is from pretty early in the day but found this on the Miami-Herald live updates page:
EARLY VOTER TURNOUT STRONG IN S. FLORIDA
Miami-Dade and Broward counties are both reporting higher-than-expected turnouts as of 11:15 a.m. Tuesday.
Roberto Rodriguez, spokesperson for the Miami-Dade Elections Department, said 60,000 people had already cast their in-person vote. The county is expecting a total turnout of somewhere between 200,000 to 300,000 people.
In Broward County, the turnout was even stronger, where 66,000 people had voted, even though officials had estimated a total turnout of 100,000.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@dmsilev: Heh, Ed would probably shoot them first. There’s no keeping Ed Rendell from a TV camera.
Suzanne
I literally just did the chicken dance.
Anything to distract.
Barbara
@Steeplejack: I love the Latin sounding guitar line in that song more than anything. Think I will listen to Ooh Child next.
Splitting Image
@C Stars:
I hear ya, but if McConnell is losing some protest votes to a libertarian, it’s likely that we’ll see the same in other states as well. The polls in Maine, Iowa, Georgia and South Carolina were all pretty close, and even a couple of percent going to the libertarians could cost the GOP several seats.
We’ll know more when Georgia closes. That may be the bellwether for the night.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jl: They require pants for TV.
John S.
@Kay: I’m in Broward, and turnout is VERY strong here. This county is a Democratic stronghold.
Weak turnout in Miami Dade is not necessarily bad news for Democrats. There are lots of Republican voters down there (far more than here).
Baud
@Kay:
Thanks, Kay.
debbie
@trollhattan:
Pity he didn’t look for the clip of that 100 ft. wave some guy managed to ride and survive.
Immanentize
Improved below
debbie
@Kay:
Have you heard anything about Ohio?
Emma from FL
@trollhattan: Oh dear. As a Floridian I’d like to strap him to a surfboard and toss him into that monster.
Haroldo
@C Stars:
Phrasing….
dmsilev
I know everyone will be shocked to hear this, but Trump just won Kentucky and Biden took Vermont.
Winston
Indiana called for Trump
Immanentize
@piratedan: McGrath’s coattails may extend to Biden. She is careful, but not an idiot.
WaterGirl
@Barbara: When people ask what kind of wine I like, I say “blue”.
All the wine I like comes in a blue bottle. All you wine drinkers, feel free to mock me for that.
Jinchi
Smart move on your part. What you’re describing is just another version of the Gish Gallop: constantly throwing out BS in an attempt to win an argument by overwhelming your opponent. There’s no winning a debate like that, because you aren’t really in a debate at all.
If someone clings to a lie even after it’s been debunked there’s no need to ever take them seriously again.
raven
I thought they weren’t supposed to project winners until all the polls closed?
guachi
Early Florida returns shows Biden above Clinton vote totals (in the few counties that have reported) and Trump below 2016 numbers.
Kay
@debbie:
No, except these numbers people are doing some maybe bullshit extrapolating from suburban Kentucky to suburban Cincinnati. It’s very complicated.
Baud
@dmsilev:
They called KY for Trump but not Mcconnell?
C Stars
@Splitting Image: I do so hope that’s the way things trend.
@Haroldo: I mean…yeah.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Suzanne: Video, or it didn’t happen.
PsiFighter37
Biden up by 6 from Pinellas. If he can hold the lead there, that bodes well
ETA: it’s 8 points.
dmsilev
@Baud: Yep. Trump is running four or five percentage points above Moscow Mitch at the moment.
Omnes Omnibus
I just got a test that VA was called for Warner already? Any confirmations?
C Stars
@trollhattan: Ha!
germy
@raven:
That’s what I thought.
My wife just switched channels. She had the CBS Evening News on, and the anchors were predicting which states would go to Biden, which to Trump. My wife said “People are still voting,” and now she’s watching what looks like a 1990s detective show.
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?
@PsiFighter37: Trump won Pinellas by one point in 16
Kay
@guachi:
As the Florida expert – given my 6 hours of experience- please don’t conflate the early votes with the e day votes :)
That leads nowhere good.
Jinchi
Florida is like a quarter rigged to always land on it’s edge. It’s actually astounding how often they land within a hair of 50-50.
Immanentize
Contrary C. Rolfer — not boring.
Calouste
@Baud: 1.5% third party vote in the Presidential race, but 4.5% third party vote in the Senate race. So it will take a little longer.
guachi
Four FL counties with counts – Pasco, Lee, Lake, Brevard.
Vote totals compared to 2016
Pasco: Trump -11823 Biden +11110
Lee: Trump -5685 Biden +13682
Lake: Trump -14208 Biden +7159
Brevard: Trump -27615 Biden +7433
?BillinGlendaleCA
Even though the polls are still open, I’m going to call it now, Biden wins California.
mrmoshpotato
Yeah NBC! Call Indiana with 8% returns!
Idiots!
Winston
Polk County drink
RinaX
WHY ISN’T THERE A REGULAR RESULTS THREAD WHATS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE NO I’M NOT ON EDGE
geg6
@WaterGirl:
So, German reislings or gewurztraminers?
Calouste
@Omnes Omnibus: Yep, AP called Virginia for Warner according to the Guardian.
Immanentize
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Vote Suppression! Vote Suppression!
germy
So… Trump has won Indiana.
According to the WaPo, who also says 8% of the votes have been counted.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: Not even worth the effort. That’s just sad.
debbie
@Kay:
I’ll take your word for it.
@Omnes Omnibus:
AP Politics on Twitter confirms that.
Immanentize
@RinaX: please talk to another-church-lady about your all caps voice. Xanax
dmsilev
Presented for the schadenfreude:
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
Dammit, NM.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Immanentize: Pretty much everybody has already voted here.
Immanentize
@geg6: Blue Nun. Oopsala.
SFBayAreaGal
@geg6: Gewurztraminers for me
hedgehog mobile
Avoiding TV news. Will keep checking in here. Hopeful and terrified at the same time. GBBO on TV and a Manhattan in my glass. Too keyed up to eat.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@dmsilev: Electile Disfunction.
Immanentize
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I know. But some haven’t! Spoiler!
Goku (Amerikan Baka)
@guachi:
Are those just early results for Biden from those four FL counties compared to Trump’s total from 2016?
guachi
Eight counties reporting votes in Florida. Trump below 2016 in all 8. Biden above 2016 totals in six of them. I think we can call that early good news.
Immanentize
@hedgehog mobile: I just had some excellent fried pork dumplings. Yummm
Ken
I thought this was the argument thread.
See? Though Baud’s just disagreeing.
C Stars
@dmsilev: They’re just bad at everything, aren’t they?
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Am perfectly willing to call Hawaii with 0% in.
Immanentize
@Ken: no it isn’t! fuck you. Sod off.
LeftCoastYankee
@mrmoshpotato:
I was surprised that Trump didn’t declare victory with his 11 projected electoral votes.
geg6
@Immanentize:
Oh my. I’ll just keep my mouth shut.
SiubhanDuinne
@Winston:
OMG!! Noez!! Say it ain’t so! We are doomed, DOOMED!!!
W. A. S. F.
Immanentize
@NotMax: what is the phone number to Hawaii?
PsiFighter37
Oh god…that Miami-Dade number is awful for Biden.
Immanentize
@geg6: hmmm. I was a bartender — in the late 70s!
JMG
My son just called. Took today off from his job in digital communications for the NYC subway to run IT support for the Dem. voter protection operation in Pa. Said it was very hard from when he started at five a.m. until about 11 a.m. setting up a Zoom for like 50 people, some of whom are retired judges and US attorneys about his Dad’s age encountering Zoom for the first time. But he says there have been surprisingly few problems and he hasn’t had a distress call for a couple hours.
Baud
Miami Dade underperforming for Biden.
Kay
@guachi:
Be careful. The early vote is more D than the e day vote. Not AS skewed D as predicted, but still more D.
WaterGirl
You guys, I just noticed that Anne Laurie’s respite thread didn’t post at the scheduled time. So my election thread just went up, and I set the AL post to go up about 3 minutes later, so people can choose between the respite thread and the election thread, or jump back and forth.
So it’s not big-footing. More like intentional pairing.
PsiFighter37
@Baud: By 10%. He’s doing better in the rest of the state, but that might spell doom. He is going to have to continue strong over performance amongst white people elsewhere.
AWOL
How can MSNBC have Koranacki give election results on-air for Florida if he doesn’t even know if the votes are just pre-Election Day or a combination?
Immanentize
@JMG: I thank your son ( truly) for his service.
NotMax
@Immanentize
1-800-ALOHA OE.
:)
Baud
@PsiFighter37:
Yes. Seems like a lift.
John S.
@guachi: These are all bright red counties. Not good news for Trump.
OGLiberal
@PsiFighter37: What number?
PsiFighter37
@OGLiberal: Miami-Dade’s early vote dropped – Biden was only up 9%, which is a 20% underperformance against Clinton’s total 2016 number.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@germy: Your wife is very sane.
JAFD
@?BillinGlendaleCA: As a resident of Philadelphia during Ed Rendell’s years as mayor, and Pennsylvania during his terms as governor, may I add my $0.02 here…
I’ve met Mr. Rendell, shook hands with him. Think he’s personally a good guy, did good job as Mayor and Governor.
But would note:
1 – There are, roughly, 15 Pennsylvanians for every Delawarian. Measuring ‘ambitious politicians’ of the two states, the disparity is even greater.
2 – Most of the people of Delaware get their TV from the Philadelphia stations
3 – So while Ed was working his way up the cursus honorum, DA to US House to mayor to governor, whenever he heard the ‘DA-dah-dah-dah-dah-DUM-da-DUM’ of Action News*, he’d be highly likely to be hearing about ‘The Boy Wonder Senator from Delaware’
Methinks he be jealous, he’s been ‘put out to pasture’, Joe’s the likely next President. He’s human, old and crochety (lke me ;-) ). Worse, and more influential, people to complain about, there are.
*that has been the theme music of Channel 6 for over 50 years
Baud
@WaterGirl:
Tom has your back on the bigfooting.
Aleta
@TS (the original): Funny about that. (“Attorney John Robinson, writing for the Justice Department, noted that the daily review process was already scheduled to occur from 4 to 8 p.m. on election night. “Given the time constraints set by this Court’s order, and the fact that Postal Inspectors operate on a nationwide basis, Defendants were unable to accelerate the daily review process to run from 12:30 pm to 3:00 pm without significantly disrupting preexisting activities” )
My friend in a processing plant affected by the court order [has a different story contradicting that. I just deleted it on 2nd thought].
Anyway, this overall situation of 300,000 ballots has bearing on the Collins race. Which is not boring here, or wrt the future of the US Senate.
Redshift
@Omnes Omnibus: Yep. Warner was up by something like 18 points in polling.
I’d I may put in a plug for my employer and coworkers, USA Today has very nice display of election results, based on AP data and a network of local journalists.
Kay
@PsiFighter37:
I don’t think he can make that up.
Baud
Trump takes lead in FL.
Steve in the ATL
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
I’ll take “Things No One Has Ever Said to Me” for $500, Alex!
Josie
@trollhattan:
What a great comment! I especially liked what you said about not knowing that something you wrote may have affected someone even though nobody answered. That is so true and something we all should keep in mind.
burnspbesq
@TS (the original):
Folks will be going to jail for criminal contempt of court. Hopefully including Barr and deJoy.
One fucks with a United States District Judge at one’s peril.
OGLiberal
@Baud: Yeah, think we’re writing that one off. Biden doesn’t need it but would have made it an earlier night. Huge drop-off in Miami-Dade v. Clinton 2016 and probably can’t make it up with the gains he’s making in red counties v. Clinton. One of the Nates noted that there are two Dem House seats in areas with high Cuban populations where the GOP candidates are ahead in the early vote.
Ken
Vote Republican, and global warming will take care of that.
Steve in the ATL
@JMG:
I’ve been arbitrating cases and bargaining union contracts by Zoom. It’s been…a contributing factor to my incipient alcoholism but not as bad as I expected. Bear in mind that arbitrators are old, retired lawyers–most of whom have VCR’s that are blinking “12:00”–and the union guys I deal with are…not the most tech-savvy demographic (many can barely use email).
TL; DR: I feel his pain.
John S.
@Baud: Biden just pulled ahead.
mrmoshpotato
@dmsilev: Not even 5 hours of confidence. SAD!
Steve in the ATL
@WaterGirl:
bottle or box? Asking for Omnes.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steve in the ATL: I really don’t think it matters.
Dan B
@Jeffro: If Mitch and Trump go down the bubbly will be especially delicious!
OGLiberal
Is it me or are Nate Cohn’s Florida numbers significantly different than what the AP is showing?
Dan B
@CarolPW: Most bats I ever saw was at the University of Cincinnati. Every warm evening there were hundreds. Found one struggling on the ground, put it in a box, (no contact) and took it back to the dorm. Bat got out of the box. Fall semester in the dorm a janitor told a co-worker about finding a bat in the wall heater. Crazy!
I kept quiet.
Dan B
@WaterGirl: But, but, but! The wine of the year is Mad Dog 2020.
I think there is a blue bottle version. :(>)
Geminid
@Splitting Image: there are both Libertarian and Constitution Party candidates on the North Carolina Senate ballots. That may hurt Tillis. And the SC Constitution Party senate candidate dropped out, but too late to get off the ballot, so Jaime Harrison ran ads “against” him, accusing him of being “too conservative for South Carolina.” A tactic intended to divert votes away from Graham.
cain
@Ken:
They’ll just scurry somewhere else. Meh. But yeah.. There will be a lot of pissed off people I would reckon.
Josie
@Josie:
Sorry. Meant this for Steeplejack
Miss Bianca
@hedgehog mobile: Hey, girl – at least it looks likely that we will kick Cory Gardner to the curb! Woo-hoo!