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You are here: Home / Past Elections / 2020 Elections / Another Election-Watching Thread : Yup, It’s A Marathon

Another Election-Watching Thread : Yup, It’s A Marathon

by Anne Laurie|  November 4, 20201:20 am| 109 Comments

This post is in: 2020 Elections, Biden-Harris 2020

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?BREAKING: U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan has ordered USPS to "be prepared to discuss the apparent lack of compliance with the court's order" at a noon hearing tomorrow.

Meanwhile, USPS trying to deliver lingering ballots as expeditiously as possible pic.twitter.com/Q884zhCzID

— John Kruzel (@johnkruzel) November 3, 2020


(Louis DeJoy may not be going to jail, unfortunately, but he *is* going to be made very, very miserable for the next few years.)

Biden says “We believe we’re on track to win this election," which matches my expectations based on the results so far, with the very important caveat that we need more from PA first

— G. Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris) November 4, 2020

Electing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will

a) Not solve all of America's problems, or even most of them

and

b) Will solve the particular problems created by Donald Trump being President of the United States, and those problems are life-and-death stakes for many, many people

— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) November 3, 2020

You gotta learn to act like middle aged white guys (i.e. Republicans), people. You act like you're decisively winning until it starts to look completely ridiculous and then you start suing people for ripping you off. THAT'S WHAT WINNERS DO!

— Will Wilkinson ? (@willwilkinson) November 4, 2020

It is 7:54. everyone knew there would be a red mirage on election night. most polls are still open, as are many paths with and without florida. everybody take a big deep breath, drink some water, and order a black balaclava

— antifa but spooky (@MenshevikM) November 4, 2020

Nothing I've seen or heard about the exit polls give me confidence that they've figured out how to balance the different types of votes that are coming in. Lots of weird, somewhat incongruous results based on what's been reported. I would ignore.

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 3, 2020

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  1. 1.

    Winston

    November 4, 2020 at 1:22 am

    Well I guess 400 EV is off the table. I can’t tell you how bad I feel right now.

  2. 2.

    mvr

    November 4, 2020 at 1:23 am

    Biden got Omaha.

  3. 3.

    piratedan

    November 4, 2020 at 1:23 am

    AZ reporting with 79% in…

    Biden by 160k
    Kelly at 200k
    Tiperneni in AZ CD6 still in the lead

  4. 4.

    Kent

    November 4, 2020 at 1:26 am

    @Winston:Well I guess 400 EV is off the table. I can’t tell you how bad I feel right now.

    Honestly who gives a fuck.  Bush and Trump both proved that you can marshal every damn bit of presidential power even with a popular vote loss.  Biden has just as much power with a 1 vote EV victory as a 200 vote EV victory.

    Winning is all that counts.

  5. 5.

    Burnspbesq

    November 4, 2020 at 1:27 am

    Milwaukee, Detroit, Philly, and Atlanta have large numbers of votes left to count. Chill.

  6. 6.

    mvr

    November 4, 2020 at 1:27 am

    @mvr: By which I mean he got the electoral vote in Nebraska’s 2nd district.

    https://twitter.com/janekleeb/status/1323873610835107840

  7. 7.

    Winston

    November 4, 2020 at 1:28 am

    Starting to feel like deja vu.

  8. 8.

    SectionH

    November 4, 2020 at 1:29 am

    @piratedan: YES, I can’t say how happy for and proud of I am for you guys.

  9. 9.

    rikyrah

    November 4, 2020 at 1:29 am

    If I wake up to Biden winning Georgia????

  10. 10.

    James E Powell

    November 4, 2020 at 1:30 am

    @Burnspbesq:

    What is the best source for information on outstanding votes, etc?

    Right now, the NYT map is showing Trump leading in WI, MI, & PA by huge numbers. Are there enough outstanding to overcome those?

    A lot of people say yes, but I don’t know where they are getting their numbers.

  11. 11.

    rikyrah

    November 4, 2020 at 1:30 am

    @Kent:

    I know that’s right??

  12. 12.

    cain

    November 4, 2020 at 1:30 am

    @Kent:

    This. Trump won by a squeaker. We will do the same. I sitll want that goddam senate flip.

  13. 13.

    Burnspbesq

    November 4, 2020 at 1:31 am

    @rikyrah:

    That would probably mean you slept most of the day.

  14. 14.

    guachi

    November 4, 2020 at 1:32 am

    @Burnspbesq: Yup. The vote trickling in from WI, MI, and PA are from Trump leaning areas.

    In GA the little we see is ever so slightly above what Biden needs to make up the deficit, which is why the NYT has Biden ahead in GA by a very small  amount.

  15. 15.

    sdhays

    November 4, 2020 at 1:34 am

    @James E Powell: The AP has Trump only up by 4 in Wisconsin. 9 in Michigan. The people who study this shit seem to think that what’s not counted is going to be plenty to win those. Apparently there’s just too much still out in Pennsylvania to know.

    His lead is starting to shrink in Georgia. I guess Atlanta is starting to report.

  16. 16.

    Burnspbesq

    November 4, 2020 at 1:34 am

    @James E Powell:

    If you don’t like NYT, I would try the local papers in those areas.

  17. 17.

    Winston

    November 4, 2020 at 1:35 am

    @Kent: I really should not give a fuck. I may have one or two more presidential elections in my life. If I can’t make a difference now, it’s not up to me with my single vote. It’s up to the young, the POC, the latinos. I won’t be around to help. The old won’t be a factor. What really pisses me off is what I have to look forward to, sitting alone in my trailer for the next ten or twelve years trying not to get sick.

  18. 18.

    PsiFighter37

    November 4, 2020 at 1:36 am

    @rikyrah: Unlikely…these models can’t predict behavioral voting, so who knows how it turns. I am not counting on Georgia, but I do think it is going to be much closer than expected.

    That said, I would rather be in our shoes than theirs. I do not think, especially with AZ and NE-02 in our pockets, that SCOTUS is going to try and tilt things at this point.

  19. 19.

    James E Powell

    November 4, 2020 at 1:37 am

    @sdhays:

    The people who study this shit seem to think that what’s not counted is going to be plenty to win those.

    People have been saying that all over the internet all night. I just wondered if those numbers were available for viewing by us ordinary people.

  20. 20.

    Viva BrisVegas

    November 4, 2020 at 1:37 am

    @Kent: Winning is all that counts.

    Elsewhere in the world of democracies 50% + 1 is a win. If you win, you rule.

    I don’t understand this Democratic obsession with legitimacy coming from landslides. Republicans don’t even need majorities for their legitimacy.

    Now, can someone give me some good news about the Senate?

  21. 21.

    mrmoshpotato

    November 4, 2020 at 1:38 am

    @rikyrah:

    If I wake up to Biden winning Georgia???? 

    ???

  22. 22.

    eric

    November 4, 2020 at 1:39 am

    @PsiFighter37: i saw Maine-2 was Biden, but nothing recently….

  23. 23.

    Cacti

    November 4, 2020 at 1:39 am

    Biden holding a fairly steady 5 point lead in NV with about 65% reporting now.

  24. 24.

    Kent

    November 4, 2020 at 1:39 am

    @Winston:@Kent: I really should not give a fuck. I may have one or two more presidential elections in my life. If I can’t make a difference now, it’s not up to me with my single vote. It’s up to the young, the POC, the latinos. I won’t be around to help. The old won’t be a factor. What really pisses me off is what I have to look forward to, sitting alone in my trailer for the next ten or twelve years trying not to get sick.

    I’m just saying that moral victories mean nothing.  All that matters is actual victory.   I’ll take any path to victory that presents and celebrate unreservedly.

  25. 25.

    NotMax

    November 4, 2020 at 1:39 am

    @James E Powell

    Gobs (forgive the technical term) of mail-in/absentee votes in PA aren’t to begin to be counted until early Wednesday (by law). And military ballots are still allowed to trickle in until sometime later in the month.

  26. 26.

    Eolirin

    November 4, 2020 at 1:39 am

    @Viva BrisVegas: No. :(

  27. 27.

    James E Powell

    November 4, 2020 at 1:40 am

    @Burnspbesq:

    Both the NYT and Arizona Republic have been stuck at 79% of the votes counted for over an hour. I was wondering how FOX got their information to call it for Biden.

  28. 28.

    Cacti

    November 4, 2020 at 1:41 am

    Omaha World-Herald calls Nebraska Second district for Biden.

  29. 29.

    hueyplong

    November 4, 2020 at 1:41 am

    @Kent: When I fall asleep you have my comment proxy.

  30. 30.

    eric

    November 4, 2020 at 1:41 am

    @NotMax: the delta is 1,000,000 between registered  D and registered R mail in ballots (assigning more NPAs to the Rs)….that is what the litigation will be over…

  31. 31.

    PsiFighter37

    November 4, 2020 at 1:41 am

    Colin Peterson lost at long last – the last of the ultra-conservative Democrats in the House,. He served well, and honestly, I would not mind putting him as Secretary of Agriculture if Biden wins…that seat was in our hands far longer than we deserved.

  32. 32.

    eric

    November 4, 2020 at 1:42 am

    @James E Powell: mishkin (the fox guru) explained it on air.  likely on you tube … i posted the link in the prior thread.

  33. 33.

    Hellbastard

    November 4, 2020 at 1:42 am

    CNN reporter just said there are at least roughly one million mail in votes in Penn. that need to be counted from blue areas. And it doesn’t include Philly. And Biden is up in Nevada. Georgia tightening.

  34. 34.

    Kent

    November 4, 2020 at 1:43 am

    @PsiFighter37:Colin Peterson lost at long last – the last of the ultra-conservative Democrats in the House,. He served well, and honestly, I would not mind putting him as Secretary of Agriculture if Biden wins…that seat was in our hands far longer than we deserved.

    He’s 76.  Good guy I’m sure.  But we need to cultivate a new bench for the next round.

  35. 35.

    sanjeevs

    November 4, 2020 at 1:44 am

    Georgia just reported a lot of votes, pushing David Perdue down to 51.0%, and pushing Trump’s lead over Biden down from 8% to 2.5%.

    https://twitter.com/Taniel/status/1323878530959187968

  36. 36.

    frosty

    November 4, 2020 at 1:44 am

    I’m TRYING to read the posts and the comment, but by the time I get to my pithy, excellent, awesome comment, I’m two posts behind.

    So I’m trying to jump ahead, For semi-intelligent comments, scroll back aways!

  37. 37.

    eric

    November 4, 2020 at 1:44 am

    McBath won in Georgia

  38. 38.

    Cacti

    November 4, 2020 at 1:44 am

    Biden has closed the gap in Georgia to less than 120k votes, with 91% reporting.

  39. 39.

    Viva BrisVegas

    November 4, 2020 at 1:45 am

    @Eolirin: OK. Is there a Republican senator from a blue state that Biden could invite into his cabinet?

    Also, leave Warren where she is.

  40. 40.

    janesays

    November 4, 2020 at 1:45 am

    @Winston: Given the results we’ve seen thus far, it was clearly never really on the table.

    But victory is definitely on the horizon. Won’t be the blowout any of us were hoping for, but a win is a win is a win, and if Biden wins by an EV margin of 270-268, that’s still ten bajillion times better than any outcome where this stupid orange fucknugget gets another four years to taint the White House.

  41. 41.

    Mart

    November 4, 2020 at 1:45 am

    I think slamming ACB into SCOTUS was the October surprise never talked about. Have evangelical aquaintices who changed their mind. Miami Dade support collapsed, Catholic much? Expect to see Facebook selling microdata to Cambridge Analytica2RU to Mercersly troll targets. They are really good at the skunk works. Had a friend from Haiti…

  42. 42.

    Kent

    November 4, 2020 at 1:46 am

    I’m kind of surprised that Biden’s lead is LARGER in AZ than NV right now with about the same percent counted.

  43. 43.

    James E Powell

    November 4, 2020 at 1:47 am

    @NotMax:

    As I type this, Biden is down 700K in PA, 300K in MI, and 107K in WI.

    Are there that many Democratic votes outstanding?

  44. 44.

    hueyplong

    November 4, 2020 at 1:47 am

    @Kent: I think rural NV counties reported first.

    I was a NV resident for the 1980 disaster and the state’s irritating love of Laxalt.

  45. 45.

    PsiFighter37

    November 4, 2020 at 1:48 am

    @sanjeevs: It’s a Cabinet position…not the place where you groom young talent.

  46. 46.

    eric

    November 4, 2020 at 1:49 am

    @James E Powell: yes.  the metro areas are left

  47. 47.

    Cacti

    November 4, 2020 at 1:49 am

    Trump’s plan to steal the election is going to be made decidedly more difficult by the fact that by the time most people went to bed, he was losing both the popular vote AND the electoral college.

  48. 48.

    hueyplong

    November 4, 2020 at 1:49 am

    @James E Powell: What’s outstanding are early votes and, better still, early votes in Detroit, Milwaukee and Philly.

    Only need 2 of the 3 if NV and AZ stay good.

  49. 49.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 4, 2020 at 1:50 am

    @James E Powell: From the MIlwaukee County website, it looks like there are over 180k untallied absentee ballots in the city of Milwaukee alone.

  50. 50.

    PsiFighter37

    November 4, 2020 at 1:50 am

    @Mart: We had no control over how long RBG would hang on, and turning Barrett’s hearing into a spectacle would have backfired even more…just see what is happening.

    The Democratic Party needs to understand how the Latino vote is evolving, because I do not think what we (or the party) understands to be Latino priorities are the same priorities now.

  51. 51.

    Kent

    November 4, 2020 at 1:50 am

    After the latest vote dump in GA the NYT needle ticked back up from 59% Biden to 64% Biden.

    Yes…I’m grasping at straws.  But Trump’s lead in GA is smaller than in MI, PA, and WI right now.

  52. 52.

    PsiFighter37

    November 4, 2020 at 1:51 am

    Kara Eastman lost, again, in NE-02. I hope the Bernie Bros can explain how one of their own blew a very winnable race, 2 cycles in a row.

  53. 53.

    PJ

    November 4, 2020 at 1:51 am

    @James E Powell: There are over a million votes outstanding in PA, and that’s just mail in.  Chill out.  Biden will win PA.

  54. 54.

    Winston

    November 4, 2020 at 1:51 am

    @janesays: I will be glad to take any win. I will be ecstatic. Sorry if I bummed anyone out. I will be okay whatever happens.

  55. 55.

    hueyplong

    November 4, 2020 at 1:52 am

    GA is still possible.  Outstanding votes are almost all from Atlanta/Macon.

    So Biden wins if he takes 2 of 4 of these:

    WI, MI, PA, GA

  56. 56.

    Cacti

    November 4, 2020 at 1:52 am

    So, what’s the story with North Carolina, who’s been stuck at 95% reporting for the last 2 hours?

  57. 57.

    NotMax

    November 4, 2020 at 1:53 am

    @James E Powell

    You betcha there are.

  58. 58.

    Eolirin

    November 4, 2020 at 1:54 am

    The senate situation is extremely terrifying to me. We really needed to get to at least 50. The path there is getting increasingly improbable.

  59. 59.

    SectionH

    November 4, 2020 at 1:54 am

    @Viva BrisVegas:  Do y’all elect your PMs by popular vote across Australia? Maybe you should re-word your question.

  60. 60.

    Kent

    November 4, 2020 at 1:55 am

    @PsiFighter37:

    @Mart: We had no control over how long RBG would hang on, and turning Barrett’s hearing into a spectacle would have backfired even more…just see what is happening.

    The Democratic Party needs to understand how the Latino vote is evolving, because I do not think what we (or the party) understands to be Latino priorities are the same priorities now.

    I recently moved back to WA after 13 years in TX in a fairly Hispanic area.   At least in TX much of the Hispanic vote is suburban families working in the construction trades or owning small business, driving big American pickups, and often attending evangelical churches.  Basically your white working class but not quite so white.  And a whole bunch of people who pay their taxes by the quarter, which focuses your attention a whole lot more than getting it pulled out of every paycheck like most of us.

    Much of the Hispanic population in TX is also from northern MX which is the conservative redneck part of Mexico that gave the Vincente Fox.

    I know nothing about CA and FL, but it doesn’t surprise me in the least that Hispanics in TX will tilt GOP, especially for any candidate not as racist as Trump.

    To turn TX blue will require the white suburban vote around the big cities to turn blue I think.  Like in other states.

  61. 61.

    PJ

    November 4, 2020 at 1:55 am

    @Mart:

     

    @PsiFighter37: Miami-Dade is all about the Cubans and the Venezuelans.  Catholicism has nothing to do with it (Biden’s a Catholic, for Christ’s sake.)  The “Socialist” brush the Repubs were tarring Biden with actually worked (just think of where we’d be nationwide if someone who actually referred to himself as a “Socialist” were our candidate.)  It doesn’t help, either, when we have prominent Democrats like Sanders and AOC praising Castro and Maduro.

  62. 62.

    Quinerly

    November 4, 2020 at 1:56 am

    @Cacti: I am trying to be hopeful re NC. It’s already been called as a re election for Dem Gov Cooper. His opponent was a big Trumper (and the Lt Gov) who wanted everything opened up and let Covid run wild.

  63. 63.

    mrmoshpotato

    November 4, 2020 at 1:56 am

    @PsiFighter37: I hope the Bernie Bros can explain how one of their own blew a very winnable race, 2 cycles in a row.

    Hillary’s fault, naturally.

  64. 64.

    NotMax

    November 4, 2020 at 1:57 am

    For those wondering why Hawaii has not been called,

    Hundreds of Oahu voters are still in line to cast a ballot in person, and it could take hours more for voting to officially end ― and the first results to be released.

    Polls were set to close at 7 p.m. and anyone still in line was allowed to cast a ballot.

    But getting through the lines at Honolulu Hale and Kapolei Hale was taking hours.

    At 8:15 p.m. [45 minutes ago], elections officials said polls in Maui County, on Kauai, and in Kona had closed and those in Hilo were about to close. But the Voter Service Centers on Oahu were still open, and lines were long.

    Voters said it was taking 90 minutes or more to cast a ballot at Oahu’s Voter Service Centers, located at Honolulu Hale and Kapolei Hale. Some reported waiting upwards of two hours.

    There were also delays on the Neighbor Islands, though far less severe.

    Election Day in Hawaii started with a record number of ballots already cast ― chiefly by mail ― and long lines forming at Voter Service Centers for those looking to vote in person. And those lines continued through the day and into the evening, with thousands coming out to vote. Source

  65. 65.

    PsiFighter37

    November 4, 2020 at 1:58 am

    @PJ: It’s a bigger issue than that. We need to understand what we are doing wrong in Texas and Florida vs. Nevada (where we may still underperform). Even in AZ, I bet final exit polling shows we picked up nervous suburbanites and not Hispanic voters. I honestly don’t think that passing the DREAM Act is going to move the needle. There is something bigger we need to identify.

  66. 66.

    Quinerly

    November 4, 2020 at 1:58 am

    @PJ: thank you for saying this.

    The “Biden is a Socialist” has become a big thing in certain circles. Especially in the South.

  67. 67.

    ballerat

    November 4, 2020 at 2:00 am

    @Kent: This.

    I too wanted an undeniable repudiation. But when it comes down to it, a win is a win.

    That’s the mindset we need. Win by 1 and we have a mandate. Do it.

  68. 68.

    Ksmiami

    November 4, 2020 at 2:00 am

    @PsiFighter37: I hate to be mean but aside from Florida (Cubans) education has a lot to do with why Dems haven’t made as many Latino inroads. Additionally, it’s a very religious group

  69. 69.

    PsiFighter37

    November 4, 2020 at 2:01 am

    The bigger failure of this race is downballot. This was our chance to control redistributing where we have not had a say in generations, and we failed. We are going to lose(!!!) seats in the NC House at the end of the day, and so many of the judicial and other downballot statewide races are 51-49 nail biters (not in our favor).

    It seems like we may have to wait until the next election – or next decade – for things to turn. That said, I have no hope for Florida. Having traveled there more frequently over the past few years for work…people there simply sunburn their brains out.

  70. 70.

    Kent

    November 4, 2020 at 2:01 am

    @PsiFighter37:@PJ: It’s a bigger issue than that. We need to understand what we are doing wrong in Texas and Florida vs. Nevada (where we may still underperform). Even in AZ, I bet final exit polling shows we picked up nervous suburbanites and not Hispanic voters. I honestly don’t think that passing the DREAM Act is going to move the needle. There is something bigger we need to identify.

    A lot of Hispanics are essentially white working class wannabes.   Same basic culture. Big trucks, nondescript suburban and rural areas, evangelical churches, big families, etc.   At least that’s how it is in TX.  There’s also anti-Black racism to some extent.

    That’s how to think about it.

  71. 71.

    PsiFighter37

    November 4, 2020 at 2:02 am

    @Ksmiami: Cool. We need to figure out how to reach and speak to them, then, because whatever the fuck we are doing now has failed miserably.

  72. 72.

    Felanius Kootea

    November 4, 2020 at 2:02 am

    @eric: I was so happy to see this.  She beat Karen Handel by over 5 points this time (last time the margins were razor thin).   Incumbency does have its advantages.

  73. 73.

    James E Powell

    November 4, 2020 at 2:03 am

    I’m taking everybody’s word for it and I hope when I ask about stuff I don’t sound like I’m panicking, I’m really just curious. I’m going to eat a big bowl of outmeal, drink some Irish whiskey, go to bed in a bit.

    Two things, though, that are really striking to me. First, polling is fucked up & bullshit. I do not know what they need to do, but they were not at all helpful guides. Some of that is the result of COVID, some of it is just the changes in whether or how people respond. This is the third election in a row that they’ve been really wrong about Florida.

    The second thing is, did anyone expect Joe Biden to do worse than Hillary Clinton in places like Florida or Ohio?  The NYT reported Biden lost the union vote in Ohio 56-42. I don’t know if that was union member or union household, but damn, that’s just awful. Anyway, my point is, I think we underestimated what Hillary Clinton was up against in 2016. We tended to attribute her narrow loss to various factors and maybe overlooked that this country is full of motherfuckers who really love Trump. They don’t give two shits that 230K people are dead for no good reason, or care about anything else. They love him and they hate the rest of us. This is not economic anxiety or anything other than deeply rooted tribal hatred.

    I have no idea what we can do about those people.

  74. 74.

    The Moar You Know

    November 4, 2020 at 2:03 am

    The Democratic Party needs to understand how the Latino vote is evolving, because I do not think what we (or the party) understands to be Latino priorities are the same priorities now.


    @PsiFighter37
    :  To explain the why of what I’m asserting would take far too long tonight as I’m tired and don’t really want to duke out the ugly details with a bunch of folks who won’t want to hear what I’ve got to say, but I’ll say this; they’re going GOP in a big way.  Which was inevitable if you understand Latino culture, which most white Americans don’t.

  75. 75.

    Kristine

    November 4, 2020 at 2:04 am

    @PsiFighter37: One point gleaned from recent reading–nothing to cite, just online comments from knowledgable folks–was that socially conservative/patriarchal Hispanics and other POC are moving toward the GOP. How do Dems meet that need–that’s not where we’re headed as a party?

  76. 76.

    PsiFighter37

    November 4, 2020 at 2:04 am

    Also, what the fuck has happened to white working-class people in this country. To vote broadly for a con man like Trump twice…and this time, after his negligence has killed hundreds of thousands of people? Jesus. Maybe it is time to cast the white man back into the ocean from whence they came. And especially after people in Ohio voted for Obama twice. What went wrong??? Maybe the message is we need to get a cool black dude back in charge again, because that is what white men are really jonesing for.

  77. 77.

    Viva BrisVegas

    November 4, 2020 at 2:04 am

    @SectionH: A PM is not a President. Isn’t even a Head of State.

    I was saying that a narrow win is a win. Treat it as a win.

  78. 78.

    Ksmiami

    November 4, 2020 at 2:05 am

    @PsiFighter37: send their kids to college/help address this and we will go pretty far. Plus emphasis on Republicans taking advantage of them… in essence figh goddamit

  79. 79.

    Ksmiami

    November 4, 2020 at 2:06 am

    @James E Powell: um let them die from Covid is my answer…

  80. 80.

    The Moar You Know

    November 4, 2020 at 2:08 am

    There’s also anti-Black racism to some extent.

    @Kent:  Understatement of the decade.

  81. 81.

    Kent

    November 4, 2020 at 2:09 am

    @The Moar You Know:@PsiFighter37:  To explain the why of what I’m asserting would take far too long tonight as I’m tired and don’t really want to duke out the ugly details with a bunch of folks who won’t want to hear what I’ve got to say, but I’ll say this; they’re going GOP in a big way.  Which was inevitable if you understand Latino culture, which most white Americans don’t.

    Exactly.  And there is no one Latino culture anymore than there is one white culture in this country.

    A lot of Hispanics are essentially white working class wannabes.  And a lot are far more rural than say the Black or Asian population.  Living in small towns all across the country side by side with conservative whites.

  82. 82.

    Kent

    November 4, 2020 at 2:11 am

    Nate Cohen still has the needle in GA slightly favoring Biden by 63%.

  83. 83.

    Kattails

    November 4, 2020 at 2:11 am

    @The Moar You Know: well I sure don’t, I have zero contact with it. Maybe sometime when things calm down you could go into this in more detail, I would be happy to listen.

  84. 84.

    Cacti

    November 4, 2020 at 2:13 am

    @The Moar You Know:  To explain the why of what I’m asserting would take far too long tonight as I’m tired and don’t really want to duke out the ugly details with a bunch of folks who won’t want to hear what I’ve got to say, but I’ll say this; they’re going GOP in a big way.  Which was inevitable if you understand Latino culture, which most white Americans don’t.

    I’d say unforced errors by the GOP actually put that off by a decade or so. In 2004, Bush’s people spent a lot of time on Hispanic outreach, and carried 44% of their votes nationally.

    Then the nativists rebelled and took over the asylum.

  85. 85.

    Rina99

    November 4, 2020 at 2:14 am

    The depths of misinformation is, if anything, understated and getting through to some minority voters. My 15 year old nephew and 21 year old cousin, both Black, came to me spouting QAnon crap they heard in gamer spaces. The sheer volume of it goes beyond Facebook and Twitter.

  86. 86.

    PJ

    November 4, 2020 at 2:17 am

    @The Moar You Know: Latino culture is not a monolith.  I know it’s a cliche, but Cubans in Florida are different from Mexicans in Texas or Arizona are different from Dominicans in New York are different from Puerto Ricans in New York.  They have different interests and histories and will not necessarily vote the same.

     

    @PsiFighter37: I agree that reaching the different Latino votes in different areas of the country is an issue but it’s an opportunity as well.  I don’t live in AZ, NV, TX, or FL (and my guess is there are a lot of votes to be had in other Southern states as well), but we need to persuade them that the Democratic Party is looking out for them, while the Republicans don’t even think they should have any rights.

  87. 87.

    sanjeevs

    November 4, 2020 at 2:18 am

    @Rina99: I agree. I think the frame of Hispanic voters, white union voters or whatever is an old fashioned frame for the broadcast media age.

    We’re in the social media age and its terrifying. In the UK people voted on 3 occasions for Brexit or Brexit supporting parties even though its going to be a clear disaster.

    Duterte has I think a 90% approval in the Philippines.

    Propaganda works better than at any time in history

  88. 88.

    James E Powell

    November 4, 2020 at 2:19 am

    @The Moar You Know:

    I will skip details and say that you are exactly right and they already would have moved significantly into the GOP camp if every Republican was like George W Bush.

  89. 89.

    Cacti

    November 4, 2020 at 2:19 am

    Maine first district called for Biden.

  90. 90.

    ballerat

    November 4, 2020 at 2:29 am

    @Viva BrisVegas: Exactly. We win we rule. Doesn’t matter by how much. Republican rules have been the accepted coin of the realm for a generation now.

  91. 91.

    James E Powell

    November 4, 2020 at 2:31 am

    @Cacti:

    Isn’t Biden going to win the whole thing in Maine?

    What in the wide world of sports happened with Gideon?

  92. 92.

    Sab

    November 4, 2020 at 2:32 am

    @James E Powell: People who haven’t had Covid really don’t believe it’s a big deal. Everyone black I know has lost close family members. Hardly anyone white I know even knows anyone who has had it.

    That will probably change this winter, but that is where we are now.

  93. 93.

    Subsole

    November 4, 2020 at 2:32 am

    @PsiFighter37: I lived in the RGV for a little over a decade, Waco for about 15, and Odessa for another 10.

    I keep saying it: there are a lot (NOT, I repeat NOT all) of Latinos who fucking HATE blacks, gays, immigrants  uppity women, and anyone who don’t go to the right church. They know he hates them, but he also hates who they hate.

    Also, that branch of the culture has a kind of Mexican-redneck pain-fetish. They think they can endure anything, and y’know? They may be right. Just wish they weren’t so effing callous about folks who can’t.

    I remember a good friend who voted for this trashfire in 16. I joked he was gonna end up in a camp because anglos are kinda stupid and can’t tell an immigrant from a Tejano (and because I was worried about that shit actually happening to my friend, and that’s how you express that shit where I lived).

    His response?

    “What are you white folks gonna do to us that you haven’t already tried?”

    I don’t know how you crack that.

    I do know I am fed up with respecting people who have no respect (or maybe too much respect) for themselves.

    Sorry for the rant, but if we are gonna fix this we better take a hard look at it.

    Also, whatever solution we offer is gonna have to come from that community, not anglos.

  94. 94.

    James E Powell

    November 4, 2020 at 2:34 am

    @sanjeevs:

    We’re in the social media age and its terrifying. In the UK people voted on 3 occasions for Brexit or Brexit supporting parties even though its going to be a clear disaster.

    Do the voters there not see that it will be a disaster? Or are they, like some Americans, eager to produce chaos?

  95. 95.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    November 4, 2020 at 2:37 am

    @The Moar You Know: The Bush folk saw Latinos as a natural Republican constituency and did quite well with them.  The rest of the party hasn’t recognized it.

  96. 96.

    Subsole

    November 4, 2020 at 2:39 am

     

     

    @Kent: Very good point. Chicanos are not Tejanos are not Cubanos are not Puerto Ricans.

  97. 97.

    James E Powell

    November 4, 2020 at 2:40 am

    @Sab:

    I did get the impression – totally anecdotal – that the COVID thing was not moving voters away from who they liked pre-COVID. There was a lot of talk about how seniors and women were going to vote Biden on this issue, but it sure doesn’t look like that happened in big numbers.

  98. 98.

    Ogliberal

    November 4, 2020 at 2:42 am

    @Cacti: And the nativists are better today how?  And Trump is more acceptable than a McCain or Romney.  I get there is a conservative streak among many Hispanics in this country and they are not monolithic.  But I do not see the appeal with this buffon.  I mean, I don’t see how he can appeal to anybody but there’s plenty of things he said that I would think would turn-off many Hispanic voters.

  99. 99.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    November 4, 2020 at 2:43 am

    @James E Powell:

    What in the wide world of sports happened with Gideon?

    I’m guessing a lot of ticket splitting based on the tote bagger idea that a Republican Senate would “keep an eye on Biden”

  100. 100.

    Subsole

    November 4, 2020 at 2:44 am

    @Ogliberal: Well, if it’s just a bunch of anglos sitting around discussing this, we ain’t getting anywhere.

    Any Latinos here wanna weigh in? ‘Cause this whiteboy don’t know. That’s for damn sure.

  101. 101.

    Ogliberal

    November 4, 2020 at 2:46 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Plus, she’s been there forever, they know here, and they may fall for her furrowed brow schtick

  102. 102.

    Subsole

    November 4, 2020 at 2:47 am

    @James E Powell: I wanna zero in on that union vote, too. I believe it was union households, btw.

    What happened there? Wasn’t Joe’s whole selling point that he’d pull those households back?

  103. 103.

    ballerat

    November 4, 2020 at 2:51 am

    @Kent: All I want to say is this, as someone who contracted in the trades and had to do my own taxes, this is legit:

    a whole bunch of people who pay their taxes by the quarter, which focuses your attention a whole lot more than getting it pulled out of every paycheck like most of us.

    Having to pay taxes by the quarter does focus the attention. I’d done white collar “knowlege worker” salary work before and after doing independent contracting work in construction, and never was I so aware of my tax burden than paying my own taxes by the quarter.

  104. 104.

    Ogliberal

    November 4, 2020 at 2:54 am

    I’m fron NJ but I don’t have a great feel for South Jersey.  Anybody think that Kennedy can/will beat Van Drew.  He’s currently ahead by about 3.5 with 74% reporting.

    Of course, my Congressman, Chris Smith, won but that was never in doubt.  Just hoping he goes back to being the only GOP rep in Congress from NJ.

  105. 105.

    Subsole

    November 4, 2020 at 3:00 am

    @Ogliberal:  I am anglo. I make chalk look tan. I have never in my life held a job that required a tie in the workplace. I have worked places where bowing-up on the wrong person could get you clocked with a pipe wrench. So take what I say as what it is – secondhand words and outside observation of a particular socioeconomic section of a particular culture.

    The nativists are just a fact of life, like famine or hurricane. You keep your head down, store up your fat, and live as you can. Whites gonna white. If they (or anyone, really) go after you, you battle them like a proud guerrero and live or die as a man.

    Romney? Romney was Mormon. That is…not actually Christian, to a lot of these folks. He was also a suit, and a stiff, pompous, well-off one at that. So there was an element of softness to him. And there is no sin that culture punishes worse than softness.

    The hilarious thing is Rubio or Cruz probably would have lost these folks in droves. Especially after Trump punked them.

  106. 106.

    Rina99

    November 4, 2020 at 3:09 am

    @Subsole: We may need to start by retiring the idea of appealing to “Latinos” and start thinking in a much more granular manner. Beyond even Mexican, Puerto Rican, Guatemalan, etc, but Mexicans in Texas vs Mexicans in California,  or Puerto Ricans in New York vs Florida. There is no one solution, there are likely hundreds of solutions to figure out.

  107. 107.

    James E Powell

    November 4, 2020 at 3:09 am

    @Ogliberal:

    But I do not see the appeal with this buffon.  I mean, I don’t see how he can appeal to anybody but there’s plenty of things he said that I would think would turn-off many Hispanic voters.

    I am a high school teacher in Los Angeles. My students are more than 80% Hispanic/Latino and 90% of their families are from Mexico. From my interactions with my students over the last fifteen years, I can tell you that there are quite a few who admire Trump’s swaggering asshole act. He does whatever he wants and says “fuck you” to anybody who doesn’t like it and he gets away with it. These are guys who are probably never going to vote for a female candidate for anything.

  108. 108.

    Subsole

    November 4, 2020 at 3:34 am

    @Rina99: This.

    Also, very curious to see the gender breakdown on those numbers.

  109. 109.

    janesays

    November 4, 2020 at 3:46 am

    @Kent: That’s a little better than “slightly” favoring Biden… it’s nearly 2:1 odds for him.

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