I feel like Bobby Newton as Long John Silver - “Them that die will be the lucky ones!”
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I am a little bothered my son’s ballot isn’t marked online as received and counted. His and my late husband’s ballots were mailed October 6 from British Columbia. My husband was registered in a smaller county whose elections dept. doesn’t allow voters to track their ballots online.
My kid used the Seattle address so i doubt his vote would matter much anyway.
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I’m nervous enough already. I don’t need a helicopter shaking the neighborhood and making me seasick.
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Apparently news channels, even the BBC, are still doing the red/blue electoral maps. I thought everyone agreed that we wouldn’t know the totals for days.
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Dirty little secrets, dirty little lies
We got our dirty little fingers in everybody’s pie
Love to cut you down to size, we love dirty laundry
We can do the innuendo, we can dance and sing
When it’s said and done, we haven’t told you a thing
We all know that crap is king, give us dirty laundry
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Election night responses to the forecasts really show who played TTRPGs and who didn’t.
“He was only given a ten percent chance. Those guys don’t know anything!”
Meanwhile TTRPGers look at that and say “Do you have any idea how many crits I can roll in one night with only 5% odds?”
It’s not a fucking prediction any more than the rulebook having rules for crits (hits or fails) is a prediction what your dice will do.
Shit like this is why we need D&D in schools. The skills learned around the table are valuable life skills.
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They have also been forecasting a blue shift after election night when the early, absentee, and mail-in votes get counted. 
I still think the tradition of releasing counts throughout the day/night, sometimes even before the voting locations close, while such news could still influence voters, is obviously stupid. They shouldn’t be allowed to release or report results until the final count is done. But people love a spectacle. If election night gives one result and the final count gives another, they might get more spectacle than they bargained for.
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and that’s if we’re “lucky”.
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The remaining states come down to absentee ballots, and Dejoy’s ratfuckery may be decisive in Georgia and Wisconsin, if not everywhere.
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So far, about 133 million votes have been reported, out of an estimated 158 million total.
Biden is ahead by 2.2 million in the popular vote. If the remaining votes are mostly absentee ballots, that could widen a lot. It could turn out to be a popular vote landslide after all.
Biden is also ahead in Wisconsin. But it’s going to be a nailbiter in the electoral college and the senate.
Really sick of this unequal system.
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Well I suppose we survived the last four years.
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On the bright side, Kanye conceded his run for President.
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Truman made it through four years of his elected presidency having to deal with Robert Taft. So it can be done.
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Wisconsin has flipped to Democrat? Sure didn’t see that coming. It’s all those Commies in Milwaukee and Madison!!!1!!!
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For as much as I, a Minnesotan, rag on the toothless drunks over there, they aren’t that bad on average
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I’m always suspicious of Wisconsin, having spent the first 12 years of my life there. Whereabouts in the Minnesota are you?
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Apparently Michigan has flipped. Congratulations.
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I’m from St. Paul, but I live in Louisiana now. I plan to retire to the mountains in northern MN and maybe keep a vacation home in Ames, IA in about 40 years.
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getting quite hopeful here in Nevada, and looking forward to being the state that puts Biden to 270… unless Arizona does it.
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