“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
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Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
The only thing that has changed is that states are generally better at actually counting them. In the past, less then 10% voted, and less than 30% of those were actually counted (Because overseas mail typically sucks). I am assuming 100% of them are counted, which is wildly implausible, but just to establish an upper limit.
People seriously overestimate how many American's are actually on active duty. It just isn't a lot of people. And they don't vote in large numbers anyway. Veterans do, but not active personnel.
This is true of civilians as well. According to FVAP.gov, there are 2.9 million Americans working overseas that are eligible to vote. In 2018, only 135k of them actually did vote. That is a turnout of less than 4%, and that is probably about what the military realistically does as well. Only there are a lot less then 2.9 million deployed military, there are in fact only about 165,000 Active Duty members deployed overseas. Even if they were voting at 10x the rates of civilians (They aren't) that isn't going to be relevant when spread across 50 states and a lot of territories. (This also assuming they are all eligible to vote, and about 25% of them aren't)
If Biden wins, every conservative in this country is going to have to roll new forum accounts on every discussion forum that keeps a post history. Otherwise there's no way they'll be able to try to cry about anything Biden does, because we will always have some post of theirs from the Trump era that will contradict their current stance.
Trump just tweeted: "ANY VOTE THAT CAME IN AFTER ELECTION DAY WILL NOT BE COUNTED!", he truly is a special case isn't he.
Edit: Already flagged 3 minutes after the fact. Twitter's on the ball.
Last edited by thilicen; 2020-11-05 at 03:19 PM.
Trump has 4 ways to win at this point:
- Win in PA, NC, AZ (note that this is already called for Biden by some outlets), NV
- Win in PA, GA, AZ, NV
- Win in PA, GA, NC, AZ
- Win in PA, GA, NC, NV
If the calls from media outlets for AZ are correct, Trump has precisely one remaining route to victory. Lose any of PA, GA, NC or NV and he's done.
Biden only needs to win PA and it's all over. If he loses that, he can win through taking GA and NC (NC seems a long shot), GA and AZ (looks very possible), GA and NV (also very possible), NC and AZ, or AZ and NV. The fact he can win with just PA, or win with AZ and NV and win puts him very much in pole position here.
I'll add on to this by saying that for those going through basic training it can be rather hard to get an absentee ballot. I was in boot camp at the Navy RTC during an election year. Stayed there a bit longer than expected so trying to request a ballot, have it arrive on time and then get it back in time was not fun.
Just out of humor/curiosity...I'm sure it likely wasn't enough to make a dent in anything, but does anyone know how many votes Kanye West ended up getting? I live in Georgia, and I didn't even even see him on the ballot (just Trump, Biden, and Jorgensen).