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Drove past a sign I had not seen before coming home. - ♤Spawn♤ Nov 3, 16:42 1
- "whuh?" -- nm - Sam Rockwell Nov 3, 16:43
Numbers from Sumter County, FL (see Wassermen tweet below) -- (pic) -- (link*) - ty97 Nov 3, 16:31 [Attachment] 7
- The Miami-Dade number is ughhh -- nm - MDH Nov 3, 16:42
- Mail-ins haven't been tallied in FL, right? -- nm - Andie Nov 3, 16:39 4
  - don't think so (from what John King just said) -- nm - mud Nov 3, 16:41
  - Yes, absentee and mail in could get counted starting October 12. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 3, 16:41 1
    - Link -- (link) - JaxSean Nov 3, 16:46
  - do bonfires behind GOP headquarters count? -- nm - Beaker Nov 3, 16:40
- FL gonna FL -- nm - Jovian Nov 3, 16:32
Those Miami-Dade numbers so far ain't great for Biden -- nm - ty97 Nov 3, 16:29 3
- Wait for it... -- nm - Flavorize 🎃 Nov 3, 16:33
- 58% of the state reported! and it's a dead heat -- nm* - mud Nov 3, 16:31
- Yeah. County by county I was going looks good, looks good. Then John pulled up Miami Dade. -- nm - Dano Nov 3, 16:31
"Look at that one!" "Right, but-" "Now look at that one!" "Remember-" "OMG WHAT ARE THOSE" -- nm - Welcome to Wolfkanda Nov 3, 16:26
At what time does John King scream I’m not your bitch, Wolf! -- nm - Dano Nov 3, 16:25 3
- "And what happens if you divide Clinton's numbers by Biden's and then multiply by Jorgensen's?" -- nm - Max Nov 3, 16:37
- He's acting like a cat owner with a laser pointer and John's jumping on every flash like a champ. -- nm - Max Nov 3, 16:28
- :-D -- nm - mud Nov 3, 16:26
Miami sucks -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 3, 16:25
Go Jax!!!! -- nm - Dano Nov 3, 16:24 1
- We can't watch. We're watching Rick and Morty season 4. What did I /we do? -- nm - JaxSean Nov 3, 16:32
not interesting: the gmail logo updated for my personal account last week, and for my enterprise account this morning. -- nm - mafic Nov 3, 16:22 3
- yeah. I don't like it. -- nm - Max Nov 3, 16:22 2
  - me neither. I was hoping it would stay away from enterprise. alas. -- nm - mafic Nov 3, 16:23
  - The notification icon looks like a speaker icon or something. -- nm - Reagen Nov 3, 16:23
Seems like the perfect distraction. CGP Grey dropped a video today on why hexagons are the best... agons. -- (link) - Mop Nov 3, 16:16 [youtube]
first Broward #s 75% biden only 10% counted -- nm - 📆⌚👻🦃🦴🍗🍷🏈📺🍹🍺 Nov 3, 16:14 3
- Biden gets 192% of the Broward Co. vote! -- nm - Mop Nov 3, 16:15 2
  - By my math he'll end up 750% ahead. -- nm - Max Nov 3, 16:16 1
    - 530-8 is back on the table! -- nm - mafic Nov 3, 16:17
KY called for Trump, VT for Biden, Warner for VA Sen -- nm - Reagen Nov 3, 16:06 2
- Warner almost lost in the ‘14 midterm red wave. Was totally safe this time. -- nm - Tim, not a doctor Nov 3, 16:13
- All foregone conclusions. -- nm - 👽Scully👽 Nov 3, 16:12
#needinput -- nm - Johnny-5 King Nov 3, 16:05 1
- [FL] is fun. I don't have a horse in this race. You want me on the Magic Wall. You *need* me on that wall. -- nm - John King Nov 3, 16:10
"When you are doing a little election CSI" - John King -- nm - ty97 Nov 3, 16:05
early FL #s are F U G L Y -- nm - mud Nov 3, 16:05 25
- With only partial results in, statewide results are pretty meaningless. Need to compare counties in 2020 to counties in 2016 as counties get - ty97 Nov 3, 16:16
- Y'all have been doing this all week, posting comments without context. Now is not the time to be nebulous. Say what you mean. -- nm - Mop Nov 3, 16:13 3
  - because you're never obtuse, mop! -- nm - mud Nov 3, 16:18
  - This. If I have a heart attack because of a post like the original, it's on the poster. (NM) - Marlowe Nov 3, 16:18 1
    - I said "early" geeez -- nm - mud Nov 3, 16:19
- Literally the complete opposite. -- nm - MDH Nov 3, 16:10 5
  - what I see on CNN screen: FLORIDA 20% of vote Trump 50.9 Biden 48.2 ..it's getting better! -- nm - mud Nov 3, 16:13 4
    - You need to pay attention when John King bounces between 2016 and 2020 for counties. -- nm - Dano Nov 3, 16:15 2
      - I'm old and cant keep up. -- nm - mud Nov 3, 16:17 1
        
        John King's the hacker in the movies who has a dozen windows open on screen that are cascading code as he taps furiously on his GUI -- nm - Max Nov 3, 16:20
    - and Biden now in lead with 22% in -- nm - mud Nov 3, 16:14
- They look good to me. Trump is consistently underperforming several percent vs 2016 county by county. -- nm - Dano Nov 3, 16:10
- if those numbers hold in those few counties (and they may well not!) Trump is down a few points in those counties -- nm - ty97 Nov 3, 16:06 9
  - Biden already above Clinton's 2016 vote total in Pinellas County (Tampa) -- nm - Reagen Nov 3, 16:09 7
    - in partial results. If it holds, it's a definite bellwether, though doesn't making anything certain -- nm - ty97 Nov 3, 16:11
    - youse guys is wonks -- nm - mud Nov 3, 16:10 5
      - If John King has a stroke live on air I can have a suit on in 10 minutes. -- nm - Reagen Nov 3, 16:11 4
        
        I figured you were wearing the suit just in case you got the call -- nm - ty97 Nov 3, 16:12 2
        
        "My wordcount is slightly ahead of John King's but again the night's still young he could pull ahead but as of right now I've got this in the bag..." -- nm - Streaming Into the Void Newsroom Nov 3, 16:14 1
        
        heh -- nm - mud Nov 3, 16:16
        
        lol. CNN understudies -- nm - Max Nov 3, 16:11
  - .. oh -- nm - mud Nov 3, 16:07
- need detail -- nm - 👽Scully👽 Nov 3, 16:06 2
  - A few 2016 Trump counties have reported 70-80% of their vote quickly. Trump (in the partial results) is running 2-3-maybe-4 points behind his 2016. - ty97 Nov 3, 16:07 1
    - huh. -- nm - 👽Scully👽 Nov 3, 16:12
For all of our ST friends not from the States. I am so sorry that we are the spectacle of the world. Trump voters genuinely have no concept - 👽Scully👽 Nov 3, 16:04 3
- Boris just copies Trump's playbook and we've got 4 more years of the Tories, plus Brexit so who knows what state we'll be in. -- nm - LMS Nov 3, 16:42
- *shrug* plenty of places have terrible leaders. Australia's is marginally better than 2 years ago, but still broadly awful. -- nm - mafic Nov 3, 16:07
- too many dumb fucking racists ..all over the world! -- nm - mud Nov 3, 16:07
Guam goes for Biden. - mafic Nov 3, 16:01 3
- Go Guammi Bears! -- nm - Reagen Nov 3, 16:02
- I think they have 0 electoral votes -- nm - 👽Scully👽 Nov 3, 16:02 1
  - yeah, it's a straw poll. -- nm - mafic Nov 3, 16:05
7:00PM -- nm - ty97 Nov 3, 16:00
Guys I've been awake for so long. -- nm - amanda jeans Nov 3, 15:58 5
- did the doors just close? -- nm - 👽Scully👽 Nov 3, 16:05 1
  - 41 more minutes. Est 75 minute cleanup. Help me. -- nm - amanda jeans Nov 3, 16:19
- I took a *nap. I'm pretty smug about it. -- nm* - colin Nov 3, 16:02 2
  - where did you take the map from? -- nm - tRuMaN 🍽️🥧 Nov 3, 16:05 1
    - Gas station terlit -- nm - colin Nov 3, 16:06
Broward Co. FL has some good numbers for Dem turnout. -- (link) - 🦃 TWuG 🚀 Nov 3, 15:58
Muppet Break -- (link) - budice Nov 3, 15:57
One more prediction map before the results come in -- (pic) - ty97 Nov 3, 15:53 [Attachment]
WaPo calls Indiana for Trump. -- nm - Reagen Nov 3, 15:50 5
- noooo -- nm - 👽Scully👽 Nov 3, 16:00
- dammit spawn. -- nm - tRuMaN 🍽️🥧 Nov 3, 15:56
- Alas my dream of 538-0 Biden is ruined -- nm - ty97 Nov 3, 15:51 1
  - Dixville Notch has misled us all. -- nm - mafic Nov 3, 15:53
- STUNNER -- nm - ty97 Nov 3, 15:51
Wasserman won't be tweeting tonight, he's working on the NBC News Decision Desk, but something to watch in Florida from Wasserman -- (link) - ty97 Nov 3, 15:36
I'd love to get a word count on John King on election night. -- nm - Reagen Nov 3, 15:28 2
- ~ Boston, Charleston, Dayton, Louisiana, Washington, Houston, Kingston, Texarkana, Monterey, Faraday, Santa Fe, Tallapoosa, Glen Rock, Black Rock ~ -- nm - John King Nov 3, 15:32 1
  - he talks too fastandIdontunderstandhim some tim e s -- nm - mud Nov 3, 15:37
a few more hours and no more political ads -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 3, 15:24 1
- I wouldn't mind them so much if they were all like the crazy Biden is a zombie ad. - the wrong element, bad guy Nov 3, 15:27
The first county they showed results for on CNN is where I graduated HS. - the wrong element, bad guy Nov 3, 15:23 5
- I don't know what that is but I like how it sounds -- nm - amanda jeans Nov 3, 15:55 4
  - sundown town = "black people don't get caught here after sundown" -- nm - Reagen Nov 3, 15:57 3
    - *makes note on amanda's permanent record* -- nm - Roger More Nov 3, 16:07
    - yup -- nm - 👽Scully👽 Nov 3, 16:02
    - Ahhhhh. -- nm - amanda jeans Nov 3, 16:01
This is a spectacular set of images. -- (link) - Reagen Nov 3, 15:22 10
- And somehow the election is coming down to the wire. -- nm - Mop Nov 3, 15:50
- These are real?! - ty97 Nov 3, 15:49
- That's hilarious -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Nov 3, 15:38
- ha ha -- nm - nelson Nov 3, 15:38
- No wonder Trump has been bad mouthing Fox. -- nm - ♤Spawn♤ Nov 3, 15:31
- Sure, but are they real? -- nm - mara Nov 3, 15:30 2
  - Absolutely what they broadcast. Can't speak to how the polls were conducted, but (Anderson Cooper?) last night praised Fox's data people. -- nm - Max Nov 3, 15:40 1
    - Fox Polls (whoever they use to run their polls) are a good pollster, one of the really good ones actually -- nm - ty97 Nov 3, 15:50
- That is pretty amazing. -- nm - pmb Nov 3, 15:29
- That's what I was referring to. The hosts must not have seen them because they were just mocking the press and Biden. -- nm - Max Nov 3, 15:23
two men found fatally shot on a trail/view point in Mt Rainier Nat Park (believed to be self inflicted) -- (link) - 📆⌚👻🦃🦴🍗🍷🏈📺🍹🍺 Nov 3, 15:19
I just threw out my pumpkins. -- nm - Reagen Nov 3, 15:18 1
- You monster. -- nm - ♤Spawn♤ Nov 3, 15:19
Wolf: "We're getting the first results soon, and here they are!" King: "One county. Nobody should be getting worried or excited." -- nm - Max Nov 3, 15:18 1
- Go back! Now go to Indiana! Now hop on one leg! Pat your head! Go to Kentucky! -- nm - Wolf Nov 3, 15:30
Dano? Best part of election is it is Tuesday, so tacos. -- nm - ♤Spawn♤ Nov 3, 15:15
apparently there are more lawyers in PA than voters. also thousands are bringing in their mail-in ballot to 'spoil' and vote in person -- nm - 📆⌚👻🦃🦴🍗🍷🏈📺🍹🍺 Nov 3, 15:13
First call? Kentucky for Trump? -- nm - Dano Nov 3, 15:13 8
- McGrath running about a point ahead of Biden in the senate race. -- nm - Reagen Nov 3, 15:50
- Vermont. -- nm - Reagen Nov 3, 15:27
- Md or Dc for Biden. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 3, 15:21 1
  - Polls close earlier in IN and I think KY. - the wrong element, bad guy Nov 3, 15:25
- the thing that would make the happiest is if McConnell loses his seat -- nm - 📆⌚👻🦃🦴🍗🍷🏈📺🍹🍺 Nov 3, 15:14 3
  - Really not in the realm of possibility though -- nm - ty97 Nov 3, 15:17 1
    - huh? 10,000 spam emails told me they were dead heat, no wait, we have 1% edge, they just need ONE MORE DOLLAR -- nm - 📆⌚👻🦃🦴🍗🍷🏈📺🍹🍺 Nov 3, 15:21
  - yeah, or Graham. (don't hold your breath) -- nm - mud Nov 3, 15:16
Holy shit. TSN just had 3 of their basketball announcers discussing the election "this isn't about conservative vs liberal, it is about good vs evil" - Beaker Nov 3, 15:08 2
- Yeah, I’ve also heard “democracy vs fascism.” -- nm - mara Nov 3, 15:10 1
  - A house near me has a "Make Orwell fiction again" sign. -- nm - the wrong element, bad guy Nov 3, 15:14
Eww. -- (link) - Beryllium Nov 3, 15:08 3
- well it was a really really long wait in line -- nm - 📆⌚👻🦃🦴🍗🍷🏈📺🍹🍺 Nov 3, 15:15
- Mail-in does nothing to stop someone from 'licking' the envelope that way. -- nm - Max Nov 3, 15:14
- He'd been advised against using fingers on the touch screen? -- nm - Megberry Sauce 🦃🥧🏈 Nov 3, 15:11
CNN just had an exit poll white vote is lower than 4 years ago - eag Nov 3, 15:06 4
- White people mail it in. -- nm - ♤Spawn♤ Nov 3, 15:11
- exit polls are not very trustworthy, and even less so this year -- nm - ty97 Nov 3, 15:09
- mos def -- nm - mud Nov 3, 15:09
- Maybe. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 3, 15:08
More contest stats - Reagen Nov 3, 15:06 1
- Iowa & Ohio ! fascinating ..Texas & Florida ! the big prizes, what will happen ..?! - mud Nov 3, 15:12
SQL? -- nm - mud Nov 3, 15:01 7
- it's a stats analysis platform, pronounced Sequel -- nm* - 👽Scully👽 Nov 3, 16:01
- select handsomenesindex from user where nickname = 'mud' -- nm - Karl_S Nov 3, 15:09 1
  - still handsome after all these years and less teeth -- nm - mud Nov 3, 15:13
- Structured Query Language, a way of extracting and manipulating data from databases. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 3, 15:04 1
  - [shrug] -- nm - mud Nov 3, 15:14
- you don't speak structured query? - mafic Nov 3, 15:04 1
  - nyet -- nm - mud Nov 3, 15:04
The number of people aged 40 and over who need to have ballot completion explained to them is astounding. -- nm - amanda jeans Nov 3, 15:01 2
- "I'm a visiting Canadian. Can I vote?" -- nm - Max Nov 3, 15:06
- I'm curious how many have never voted before. -- nm - mafic Nov 3, 15:01

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