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Biden just hit the lead in Georgia... 900 votes up. Pennsylvania next!

Hilarious!!!! It was Trump who was demanding that they stop counting! Trump did not want them to count legitimate votes that were not cast on the actual day of the election. You don't get it, do you? There are two possibilities... first, Biden has polled so well because people DO NOT want another 4 years of Trump and would vote for Blind Freddy and his dog if it would see him ousted, or second, Trump, who has increased his vote to a record high as well, by your standard (you can't have it both ways), would indicate that he too is engaging in electoral fraud. So far, all of his appeals to the courts, but one, have been rejected... probably due to the fact that he has not a skerrick of evidence that there has been any fraud at all. Perhaps you can direct us to a legitimate site that details the fraud that is going on - even Trump himself doesn't seem to have been able to articulate it. I fear you are being driven by your hip pocket and the fact that you stand to lose badly financially... but you know what they say... a fool and his money...

Sure, they were wrong to attempt to charge for the membership if you had already made it clear to them that you didn't want the debit to proceed. However, on the call back, it seems that they kept their part of the bargain and did call you back; it was just unfortunate that you weren't able to take the call. I had a similar issue where they were meant to call me back with further info regarding the GF guarantee being included with the membership charge, despite being informed in June that this year's GF guarantee payment would be credited to next year. After waiting a few days, and as it was getting close to the day that the direct debit would occur, I swallowed my pride, called them back and got everything sorted to my satisfaction. You need to understand that they are probably understaffed and having to deal with many many such queries as ours... in which case, things such as call backs do slip between the cracks; they are human after all.

The first victim of the kool-aid is logic.

I’m pretty confident Biden will win Pennsylvania. He has brought the margin down from over 12% to 2.6% in the space of a day, and the postal votes remaining are expected to heavily favour him, being mostly from urban areas. He is unlikely to give up both of Arizona and Nevada and he’s still a good chance to take out Georgia where most remaining votes are from urban areas... even if you take away the 50 votes that may have been mishandled by a postal worker.

Trump up by 0.5% in Georgia, 1.4% in North Carolina and 2.6% in Pennsylvania (down from 12% early today)... it wouldn't matter if Arizona AND Nevada went his way, he's still a dead man walking, I would think.

And the other 150,000 deaths?

I wonder if it's too late for a certain poster to change horses?

Biden has now overtaken Trump in Michigan and has closed in to within a couple of percent in both Georgia and North Carolina. If things stay as they are now, he wins the election because he’s reached the 270 votes required. But then the litigation begins.

Maine is one of two states that have a strange system where there are more than one allocation of electoral college votes... there was still one vote available there, and it was looking like it will end up with the Dems. Hopefully that won’t be of any significance as Biden is finishing with a rush to take the lead in Wisconsin by almost one percentage point, is just 0.2% behind in Michigan and is steadily closing the gap in Georgia.

The Dems should get that 1 seat/vote in Maine.

Fraud??? They are doing things the way they have always been done and within the law. Trump may well win, but there is still a slight chance that he won’t. What does it matter if counting stops during the night? No laws have been broken. Edit: It was Trump who said “We want all voting to stop. We don’t want them adding new votes to the list at four in the morning.”.

Almost 2pm and it’s 212 Biden to 103 Trump. Texas looks to be going towards Trump and Florida is virtually Trump’s although still being considered to early to call.

At 12pm, it’s Biden 203, Trump 88 But Florida is looking more and more like being won by Trump, although with almost 75% of the vote counted there, Biden is still slightly ahead.

I’ll be watching on the TV, so I’ll try to remember to post a progressive count maybe every hour or two. It really is the proverbial train wreck when it comes to watchability.

I’m working on the theory that a very large number of people will have since jumped off that bandwagon. I guess we’ll all know one way or another, by the end of the week.

It's probably a matter of whether voters want the current train wreck to continue or whether they want someone who is actually a politician and who might actually put the peoples' welfare ahead of his own. And if he is elected, I would be very surprised if Biden remained President for a full term; that may well be the reason that Harris was chosen as VP. What concerns me about Trump is that he has openly been encouraging harassment of Democrat voters and has been convincing his kool-aid drinking followers that the election will have been rigged if he loses. I honestly think that regardless of the outcome, there will be blood on the streets, purely because of this narrative. Apart from all of that, I believe that the fact that 90 million people have turned out to cast early votes, is probably indicative of a big swing against Trump. Already 75% of the entire voting numbers of 2016 has turned out to vote before election day... and have queued up for very lengthy periods of time in less than perfect conditions. One problem I can see Trump having is that like the Democrat voters in 2016, those Trump supporters may fall into the trap of being too comfortable that their guy is going to walk it in, and not turn out in large enough numbers. The other issue is that a lot of those swinging voters who voted for Trump to send a message to the Democrats, might decide that after seeing what has unfolded in the 4 years of Trump's presidency, they do not want 4 more years. However it ends up, tomorrow is going to be an interesting day!

To quote your hero... Fake news!

Ok, I hadn’t realised that was the case, so thanks for the information. However, as this was regarding my original statement being a rewriting of history, I still disagree as McConnell had denied Obama’s nominee, stating that it should wait until after a new president was installed, before it was to be filled, 9 months out from the election.

I disagree. The fact was that it was stated that the installing of a new judge should NOT be done in an election year... that it should be done by the next elected president. McConnell explicitly stated in 2016 that "...the next Supreme Court justice should be chosen by the next president—to be elected later that year.". He also "...argued that not since 1888 had the Senate confirmed a Supreme Court nominee by an opposing party’s President to fill a vacancy that arose in an election year.". As is quite apparent from those comments, it was nothing was nothing to do with Obama not having the "procedural capacity", but all to do with filling a vacancy on the Supreme Court in an election year. As I said, not a rewriting of history, but placing focus on the hypocrisy involved; particularly as it was the same individual, McConnell, involved in both instances.

After you stated this, I posted two sources supporting my comments re McConnell’s refusal to allow a nomination in an election year (2016) and his u-turn in 2020. You claimed I was “rewriting history”, I showed that I was not. It would seem that you are.

Fair point. My thinking was that this might give us some more leverage when it comes to further trades this year (I assume we're still looking at a winger and possibly a small forward).

Next year's second round pick... that would (or should) be in the 30's.

The Clock!

Your modesty is admirable good sir! However, in all honesty, the Smith to Dees move was also pretty much common knowledge and expected by all and sundry, until he did an 11th hour u-turn.