Ding Dong.....the US Politics Thread (Part 1)

McCain’s 2 most memorable moments of the campaign - the moment in that speech when he quieted the boos, and him somewhat clumsily but with good grace telling that old lady at the town hall that Obama was a fine man and not any of the things she was saying about him.

I think the take home is this version of America existed then as well, we just had slightly different in charge then.

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They just changed the numbers to 11k in Nevada

Oh my…

Edit… This is such an embarrassing behavior for a president.

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As long as he does not call out the militias and his cult to march in the street, I am fine with him disgracing himself in this utterly pathetic manner.
I fear he will say something worse soon though.

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STOP THE COUNT!!

STOP THE FRAUD!!

This shit is old hat for us Aussies…

Tony Abbott literally governed on three word slogans, Stop the boats being the most resonant.

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Isn’t that the idea behind voting him out? :rofl: :wink:

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This is a bit funny to me really. I can imagine which Muslim countries many of them originated from or feel cultural closeness to:

Up to 11.7k, they are adding rural counties that are breaking 2-1 for Trump but Clark County is breaking 2-1 for Biden, Clark County apparently makes up 3/4 of the state. Seems like they are putting data down quite steadly, Nate Silver is suggesting it would feasible to call now but that makes it problematic for Fox who called Arizona.

I assume the reason Trump did that in Las Vegas at that point was they knew this was about to come.

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Biden only needs 60-61% of the remaining vote in PA now by my reckoning (using NYT figures).

It’s been a long day so I could be miles off.

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Bit of an explanation on Arziona.

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“forgotten to push the upload button”. How is that technically possible that more than one county forgets that. I don’t understand how several such human errors can occur. One is fine, 2 maybe. Several ? Not possible to be that amateurish. Or let me re-phrase myself, it should not be possible.

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Rudy should be in jail, or at the least vilified and disappearing from public life, for his recent appearance in the Borat film, where he lays back on the bed and sticks his hand down his trousers at the prospect of being with (what he believed to be) a 15 year old girl.

In normal times that would be a huge story with significant repercussions.

Unfortunately we aren’t living in normal times.

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It really, really, really won’t though, as explained by so many political scientists the last two days, the Biden win is much too narrow for the GOP to change strategy and as we have seen the Republican base is uncompromisingly stable. I really don’t think Democrats should be making such feel good propaganda now, this should rather be a time for reflection on where the US is. Victory euphoria, they can’t afford that and the sentence is not true.

Maybe they are just tired?

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I think Biden’s words so far have been spot on.

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