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I don't expect it will be that many, but in PA votes have until tomorrow to arrive if they were postmarked* by Election Day. - Dano Nov 5, 06:25 4
- Why would you get an early ballot and then wait until election day to fucking send it? Just go to the polls at that point. nm -- nm - Johnny Lawrence Nov 5, 06:29 1
  - You've met people before, right? -- nm - spamlet Nov 5, 06:36
- someone will win in a landslide next time on a platform of smacking the fuck out of the people that do this. -- nm - Reagen Nov 5, 06:27
- From my understanding ballots without postmarks will also be counted, but on the other hand SCOTUS could still decide to hear a challenge -- (edited) - znufrii Nov 5, 06:27
you guys are doctors: should I go get tested for coronavirus today or wait until tomorrow? note that I feel totally fine and was aggressively - amanda jeans Nov 5, 06:21 1
- tomorrow -- nm - decline Nov 5, 06:22
STOP THE COUNT! -- nm - 45 Nov 5, 06:19 3
- BUT KEEP COUNTING IN ARIZONA ONLY! -- nm - 45 Nov 5, 06:20 2
  - I WOULD WIN CONCLUSIVELY IF YOU DIDN'T INSIST ON COUNTING MY OPPONENT'S VOTES -- nm - 45 Nov 5, 06:22 1
    - WHAT'S WITH THE SHARPIES?? -- nm - 45 Nov 5, 06:25
Man banned from Yellowstone for trying to fry chickens in hot spring -- (link) - budice Nov 5, 06:16 1
- This is what happens when you give government too much control -- nm - decline Nov 5, 06:17
Numbers: 751K first-time unemployment filings. 21.5M total people on some type of unemployment aid. 102,831 new Covid cases yesterday. 1616 deaths -- nm - decline Nov 5, 06:15
I was listening to Katie Couric's Turnout podcast's latest episode on the way in to work (yes, I listened to Hams already) and they were talking about - oblique Nov 5, 06:06 1
- The Democrats have a lost a generation of rural voters by deciding rural areas aren’t worth running in. - spamlet Nov 5, 06:21
VF: Andra Day as Billie Holiday -- (link) - mud Nov 5, 06:05
See!!! -- (pic) - Deep State Nov 5, 05:50 [Attachment] 1
- more -- (link) - mud Nov 5, 06:00
cupcakes and snowflakes and wusses , oh my -- (link) - mud Nov 5, 05:48
I'm old enough to remember when Newt was considered the intellectual nucleus of the GOP. -- (link) - mud Nov 5, 05:36 2
- Rudy Rudy Rudy -- (link) - mud Nov 5, 05:42
- Reported it. He's ginning up the mob. -- nm - loosilu Nov 5, 05:39
Biden won overnight counts in PA by 72-28, GA by 78-22. -- nm - Reagen Nov 5, 05:07 21
- I'll take whatever takes him over the edge right now. (NM) - Marlowe Nov 5, 05:41
- Perdue about 1800 votes above the runoff threshold. -- nm* - Reagen Nov 5, 05:15 2
  - 50-50 senate possible? -- nm - mud Nov 5, 05:19 1
    - longshot but yes. -- nm - Reagen Nov 5, 05:21
- 306! 306! 306! -- nm - mud Nov 5, 05:10 16
  - If there are ~65000+ ballots left in GA, and he continues to take them at this rate, he can win it. -- nm* - Reagen Nov 5, 05:12 15
    - My guy as of 10 minutes ago in GA is saying the margin is 18500 with more than 50K still uncounted - Strongbad Nov 5, 06:23 2
      - razor thin. -- nm - Reagen Nov 5, 06:25 1
        
        Sounds close enough that a recount is going to be requested either way -- nm - Strongbad Nov 5, 06:27
    - 16 EV + 20 (PA) + 270 (which we all believe he has) = 306! (and 45*'s head pops) -- nm - mud Nov 5, 05:18
    - Last night at around 9pm, a CNN reporter said they still had 120k ballots left to count. -- nm - Inigo Nov 5, 05:15 10
      - I've heard that number too but I'm unclear as to how often and when it was last updated for counted ballots. -- (edited) - Reagen Nov 5, 05:16 9
        
        Keep counting and we will make more. -- nm - Deep State Nov 5, 05:44
        
        Yeah, the same. When he was reporting, he seems convinced it was from then on. - Inigo Nov 5, 05:27 7
        
        Going to bed last night I back of the enveloped that it was going to end up within 10k on either side. -- nm - Reagen Nov 5, 06:06 5
        
        Counts starting to roll in again in PA and GA -- nm - Reagen Nov 5, 06:09 4
        
        What site are you using to check? -- nm - Inigo Nov 5, 06:14 1
        
        ny times -- nm - Reagen Nov 5, 06:15
        
        Let's Roll -- nm - budice Nov 5, 06:10 1
        
        "Let It Roll" -- (link) - mud Nov 5, 06:14 [youtube]
        
        Seems like 50-70k left per an estimate by the AJC. -- nm - Reagen Nov 5, 06:00
Wlir- Aldi will spot you a quarter if you need one for a cart. -- nm - .👀 Nov 5, 04:56 1
- They might want a vig -- nm - Pippy Nov 5, 05:32
Looks like they're filming Blue Bloods outside my apartment today. I thought the show took place on Staten Island which looks very different - Krusty Nov 5, 04:45 8
- go outside and hold up a big sign that says 'This is Brooklyn Dammit!' -- nm - decline Nov 5, 05:54
- They live in SI and work in Manhattan. -- nm - loosilu Nov 5, 05:35
- Eh, no one outside New York will know. -- nm - .👀 Nov 5, 04:55 5
  - :-) They film here a lot but I've never seen the show so I have no idea how they use my neighborhood -- nm - Krusty Nov 5, 05:06 4
    - The crimes are all over NYC last time I saw the show. At least one works Manhattan -- nm - spamlet Nov 5, 05:21 3
      - Crime is EVERYWHERE in NYC!! -- nm - decline Nov 5, 05:54
      - Ahh. For some reason I thought it mostly took place on S.I. Thanks! -- nm - Krusty Nov 5, 05:40 1
        
        I think the house stuff is on SI but not the rest of it. - spamlet Nov 5, 06:10
This election is The Notebook. There's a White House. Mail is missing. There's fighting. It isn't over. It still isn't over. - Volnelk Nov 5, 04:44
Yup -- (link) - Reagen Nov 5, 04:34 1
- [nods] -- nm - mud Nov 5, 04:51
TV PSA: NFL, Jersey Shore, Supernatural, Superstore, Bachelorette, Young Sheldon, B Positive, Connecting, Flip or Flop, First 48, Outpost, Match Game, -- nm - Beaker Nov 5, 04:23 2
- Mom, The This Old House Hour, Star Trek: Discovery (CBS All Access), Paranormal (Netflix), Two Weeks To Live (HBO Max), other stuff -- nm - Beaker Nov 5, 04:25 1
  - 1) Young Sheldon -- nm - Krusty Nov 5, 05:09
Bees update - the bee removal guys came back today and removed the queen so, after more than 500 days, I'll have no more bees. Anyone for honeycomb? -- (pic) -- (link*) - LMS Nov 5, 04:17 [Attachment] 5
- hrrmmm, ..honeycomb -- nm - homer Nov 5, 04:53 1
  - forbidden cereal -- nm - Reagen Nov 5, 05:13
- Nice! I thought this got done last week but apparently it isn't a one day process. I'm glad your home is bee free now. -- nm* - Krusty Nov 5, 04:19 2
  - There's still a few hanging around wondering where their home has gone and it might take them a few days to go. But their access holes are now being - LMS Nov 5, 04:54 1
    - this process is interesting. -- nm - Epiphany Nov 5, 05:37
Second most 2020 thing ever: Biden coming tantalizingly close and losing anyway. The most 2020 thing would be him winning and a meteor - Marlowe Nov 5, 03:56
Special guest on our all staff zoom call today is RUTHW -- (edited) - LMS Nov 5, 03:47 2
- I love her. (She’s my favorite Jane Eyre.) -- nm - kelly Nov 5, 06:11
- ♥ ♡ -- nm - mud Nov 5, 04:56
The seed of donny's fantasy of ballots being tossed in rivers etc, probably comes from a thing that happened in San Fran decades ago.... - 📆⌚👻🦃🦴🍗🍷🏈📺🍹🍺 Nov 5, 01:09 1
- Did your body get taken over by a teenage girl recently? Are you living through Freaky Friday but for real? -- nm - Krusty Nov 5, 04:14
And with this classical art reference, I'm off to bed. -- (link) - Beryllium Nov 5, 00:16
Latest Arizona batch in Maricopa again good for Trump, tightens it more, still a lot left to count there. Unclear what final will look like. - ty97 Nov 4, 23:48
GA: 13000 absentee left to count in Fulton (live per CNN update). That's just Fulton, not sure what's out in other counties. Biden will need more - ty97 Nov 4, 23:29 1
- I thought I heard it was around 250,000 total -- nm - eag Nov 4, 23:30
So the Kanye factor amounted to about 60000 votes in 12 states -- (link) - eag Nov 4, 23:27 1
- 10k in Wisconsin which is pretty much the margin Joe has, so we need to convince donny those kanye votes would have been for him -- nm - 📆⌚👻🦃🦴🍗🍷🏈📺🍹🍺 Nov 5, 00:40
A few more batches arrived from GA, now 0.5 or 0.4 difference depending on your source, still more to count (unclear how much more) -- nm - ty97 Nov 4, 22:34 5
- More results from AZ at 11pm, they say -- nm - Beryllium Nov 4, 22:34 4
  - They were supposed to update at 1230am my time, then 1am, now 2am. Come on AZ! -- nm - ty97 Nov 4, 22:43 3
    - Fox has just been replaying their Tucker/Hannity/Ingram primetime block but their clock has the current time. Can't tell if CNN is live or replay. -- nm - Max Nov 4, 23:07 2
      - CNN is live. Chris Cuomo playing the Wolf role, Don Lemon on the desk, the John King stand-in on the wall. - ty97 Nov 4, 23:19 1
        
        This same team did the graveyard shift early Wednesday morning as well IIRC. -- nm* - ty97 Nov 4, 23:20
We are hereby warned: United States Risks Sanctions From Zimbabwe If Elections Are Not Free And Fair -- (link) - 📆⌚👻🦃🦴🍗🍷🏈📺🍹🍺 Nov 4, 22:33
haha -- (link) - ty97 Nov 4, 22:15 1
- Oh my god. So good. -- (link) - Beryllium Nov 4, 22:44
Ralphs has a 5-day coupon for frozen turkey breasts - but none in stock :( If they don't have any by this weekend I shall protest. -- nm - Megberry Sauce 🦃🥧🏈 Nov 4, 21:41 4
- should have asked for a rain check, i believe in CA they are required to do so. -- nm - 📆⌚👻🦃🦴🍗🍷🏈📺🍹🍺 Nov 4, 22:12
- They're really popular this year with people planning to have a smaller Thanksgiving but I don't think people are buying their turkey this early. - Krusty Nov 4, 21:44 1
  - Coupons are generally restricted to "stock on hand." My Ralphs is an old smaller store and they don't always get the complete stock. - Megberry Sauce 🦃🥧🏈 Nov 4, 22:12
- now that is a protest I can firmly get behind! -- nm - crash davis Nov 4, 21:41
Do you know what Joe Biden and I share in common? We don't know any Kylie Minogue songs. - crash davis Nov 4, 21:27 14
- I was sure you were going to say you loved driving your 1963 split window Corvette. -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 4, 22:05 3
  - We were shopping for a late 60s Corvette when I was pregnant but decided the fastback probably wouldn't work for a baby carrier :/ - Megberry Sauce 🦃🥧🏈 Nov 4, 22:19
  - If I had one, I bet I would love driving it. -- nm - crash davis Nov 4, 22:08 1
    - Joe was on Jay Leno's Garage 3 years ago and told Jay he loved driving it but the Secret Service forbid when he was in office. -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 4, 22:23
- "Can't get you out of my head". Go. Listen. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 4, 21:51 4
  - Okay, I don't know any GOOD songs by Kylie Minogue -- nm - crash davis Nov 4, 21:54 3
    - Nobody does. -- nm - David Nov 4, 21:55 2
      - I guess I can't disagree. My musical taste is sus at the best of times. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 4, 22:31 1
        
        ALL of you are in time out. -- nm - ty97 Nov 4, 22:32
- na na na? -- nm - mafic Nov 4, 21:42 1
  - nana na na, nana na na, hey, hey, goodbye -- nm* - crash davis Nov 4, 21:43
- Joe Biden knows the Locomotion, crash. -- nm - Mop Nov 4, 21:32 2
  - Joe Biden knows Grand Funk Railroad, Mop -- nm - crash davis Nov 4, 21:33 1
    - On second thought, Joe probably knows Little Eva -- nm - crash davis Nov 4, 21:39
At the hospital they took me straight back to her room. No waiting room, so I have no Fox News update -- nm - crash davis Nov 4, 21:21
Almost 1000 people kettled on the highway in Minneapolis, no dispersal orders given (per law). 600 - 700 arrested so far. -- (edited) - colin Nov 4, 21:21 5
- Cops being vindictive in response to mass actions that challenge their authority to maintain order? You don't say... -- nm* - znufrii Nov 4, 21:23 1
  - Right? I thought they'd be reasonable after the unified front the nation showed at the polls. -- nm - colin Nov 4, 21:33
- What is kettled? Is that where you turn into popcorn? Or is it potato chips? -- nm - crash davis Nov 4, 21:22 2
  - Definitely puts on the pressure. - colin Nov 4, 21:32 1
    - gracias -- nm - crash davis Nov 4, 21:35
"He makes the Mercedes of porta potties. And I should know, I've peed in both." -- nm - Beryllium Nov 4, 21:07
PIPPY. here is your rant for this board. what is wrong with your daughters? Many of us long for you to sign posts something like Grammy Pips - Peglegpete Nov 4, 20:53 4
- I can’t even bring up the subject with the oldest. I’m “ pressuring her” *eye roll* the youngest is happily in a relationship with another woman. So m -- nm - Pippy Nov 4, 21:43 3
  - Marriage? Then grand kids there? I’m hopeful. - Pippy Nov 4, 21:44 2
    - My cousin's wife had a baby with sperm donated by my cousin's brother. -- nm - Meg Nov 4, 22:44 1
      - That is also an option. She is very close to her girlfriend’s family. I’ve met them. Very nice people. - Pippy Nov 5, 04:18
I stand corrected on NYC. This latest march is an anarchist march. -- nm - colin Nov 4, 20:53 7
- Wait 5 minutes. Another protest will come marching by. -- nm - Mop Nov 4, 20:56
- Flyer -- (link) - colin Nov 4, 20:55 5
  - There were a few separate protest marches tonight and from what I've seen the violence from the cops was against a group marching - Krusty Nov 4, 21:19 3
    - It looks like things are getting pretty nasty. Saw assume if the footage. -- nm - colin Nov 4, 21:22 2
      - Our cops have been out of control and the mayor is turning a blind eye to it all. -- (edited) - Krusty Nov 4, 21:26 1
        
        Not as bad here, but similar .. Police seem to do whatever they want, no direction by city. Noting like what happens in NYC thought, that's scary. -- nm - colin Nov 4, 21:35
  - Seems reasonable. -- nm - znufrii Nov 4, 21:08
How it started. How it's going. -- (link) - ty97 Nov 4, 20:33 1
- When Biden gives his first SOTU speech, the GOP can have her present the rebuttal -- nm - 📆⌚👻🦃🦴🍗🍷🏈📺🍹🍺 Nov 4, 20:40
Danes discover a C19 *mutation* on a mink farm and will destroy their entire mink industry to prevent it spreading...1% of their GDP -- (link*) - 📆⌚👻🦃🦴🍗🍷🏈📺🍹🍺 Nov 4, 20:31
there hasn't been a proper explanation for the Nevada hold-up, has there? No further results for the last 12 (?) hours -- nm - mud Nov 4, 20:11 16
- Because we don't feel like it. What are you going to do? - Nevada Nov 4, 21:15
- From the Twitter site -- (link) - Flavorize 🎃 Nov 4, 20:58 1
  - thx -- nm - mud Nov 4, 20:59
- we want to be the state that gives Biden the 270. once he hits 264 you'll see Gov Sisolak or someone else in authority giving numbers -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 4, 20:51 1
  - most credible answer yet. -- nm - mud Nov 4, 20:54
- They announced yesterday that they wouldn't be providing any additional results of their counting until tomorrow morning. - znufrii Nov 4, 20:12 10
  - They're a bunch of clockteases -- nm - Beryllium Nov 4, 20:29 1
    - Nice. -- nm - znufrii Nov 4, 20:43
  - I know! There hasn't been a good reason given, and no one has pondered (on CNn anyway) about it. -- nm - mud Nov 4, 20:14 7
    - I just assumed that was how long they felt they needed to have a substantive update instead of stringing the media along. -- nm - znufrii Nov 4, 20:18 5
      - just to be different than the other 49 states, because [no reason] -- nm - mud Nov 4, 20:21 4
        
        They can't count at night, it's too dark. -- nm - Max Nov 4, 22:13
        
        *shrug* -- nm - znufrii Nov 4, 20:23 2
        
        ? ? ? -- (link) - mud Nov 4, 20:25 1
        
        oh, come on! ^^^^ this was funny! -- nm - mud Nov 5, 05:01
    - FOIA the reason why! -- nm - colin Nov 4, 20:16
WASSERMAN -- (link) - ty97 Nov 4, 20:07 2
- Why you block spamlet? -- nm - crash davis Nov 4, 21:19
- BRAVERMAN! -- nm - Green Bean Cuzzinrole Nov 4, 20:09

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