Of course I agree and would far rather have won the Senate, but that was always an uphill battle. It could still happen with GA, but it’s a long shot.
That said, this result was the goal from the beginning, and (assuming the projections are right) it is very much not nothing. It is something to be celebrated.
Enidigm
3053
I just have a bad feeling about this… sigh.
Either way, this isn’t a functioning system.
About 15K left in Fulton.
Enidigm
3056
Sorry. I just hoped to wake up to better news.
I mean, if you want to be negative just look at the transition from Roman Republic to Roman Empire.
Sure and I don’t want to seem too dismissive of it, but those are still very short term things that will be reversed the next time the GOP is in office. It’s hard to view how the next GOP President isn’t being given a license to be just as bad, except the next one probably won’t be an idiot like Trump is and will be able to get away with much more just because he’ll know how to actually play politics and be hidden about it more.
Eh, do what you gotta do.
But I’m looking at Georgia and Pennsylvania…and it doesn’t look bad at all.
PA stopped reporting ballots about midnight last night.
Georgia reported more, and there’s 18,000 votes that separate the candidates, with 50,000 to count.
All to win.
Enidigm
3061
I hope so! But we’re thinking we’ve won Penn, while actually trailing behind in Penn, and Georgia is almost certainly going to recount, in a state where the head of elections made himself governor. There will 100% be a lawsuit in Penn, and there’s a reasonable chance the SC will toss out hundreds of thousands of ballots - we have no idea, or i guess, i have no idea, how many of these “after 8pm” ballots are being counted in the pile that’s pushing things toward Biden.
Timex
3062
Well, it’s feasible that with a Democratic President in power, the Democrats could get the GOP Senate to agree to imposing some more concrete guardrails on the Presidency, reclaim some of their power as Congress, and thereby limit future presidents.
I worry about the ~35k left that aren’t coming from Atlanta. I don’t assume (but who knows) that the current ratio will hold there… I couldn’t get a sense of what part of the state they’re in (or how many are military).
Remember: Georgia doesn’t have an automatic recount law.
And we don’t know how many ballots the eventual margin will be.
Sure.
But Atlanta is no longer just Fulton County. It’s also Cobb, Gwinnett, and DeKalb.
Isn’t the story that there are almost no ‘late-arriving’ ballots being counted in PA? The SC isn’t going to toss out any ballots that arrived in compliance with state law. The PA suit isn’t even asking them to do that.
There is IMO no chance that this happens in any sustainable way. The Republicans in the Senate will of course be happy to constrain the power of a Dem President, but will do nothing that has the effect of later constraining the power of a GOP President.
Grifman
3069
I am getting nervous again. Biden lead in AZ is half of what it was and the big question, unknown at this moment is how Trumpy will the remaining ballots be. The first batch was pretty Trumpy, and if the others match that, he could win AZ.
GA has 50k ballots left, Biden down 15k. If Biden tales 70% he wins, going to be close.
PA has me concerned. Trump is up 180k. There seems to be a question as to whether there are 763k or 488k left to count. If it is the former, Biden should win. If the latter, he could lose. I hope this gets cleared up soon.
If Biden loses AZ, then he needs PA. Not sure what to think now but I was confident last night, now, not so much.
Grifman
3070
From what I have read, they are all from Democratic areas, or so we are told.
Margin in PA down to 143,000
2.3%
