Election 2020

[pbrower2a]

(11-11-2020, 09:14 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(11-11-2020, 11:12 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(11-11-2020, 10:41 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(11-11-2020, 02:11 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: It is strange that Nassau County NY should be listed as Republican. New York is only 80% counted, and its vote is well below what the polls said it should be. Probably a lot of mail-in votes are outstanding, and they are likely strongly Democratic and from NY and it suburbs. NY is counting those votes at a glacial speed, if at all. CA is not much faster; it is up to 92% today. But it's trend has been steady at 64%+ Biden. The uncounted votes here in CA are mostly drop-offs, so they may not be as lopsidedly Democratic. Mail-in voting started a month or so before election day and have been counted all along.

Long Island, essentially Nassau and Suffolk Counties, are or have been reliably Republican for decades.  LI is where the Republicans go to pout, after working in the City in cushy jobs.  The degree of cynicism isn't even lost on them.  They know they're being feckless.

I noticed that Biden's margin in New York State was almost 10% lower (so far) than Hillary Clinton's margin of victory in New York State in 2016. Not that it makes any practical significance, slow votes coming in from absentee voters throughout New York State (I can imagine Trump doing much better in such economically-nuked places as the Trails of Tears along I-86 and I-90). Figuring that late-counted votes could make the New York state margin (and the national margin) much larger than what we have so far, maybe we will end up with a national margin closer to perhaps Obama in 2008 than Obama in 2012. Votes are still being counted, and not only in New York.

Update : I checked the numbers for incomplete voting, and the two states least close to counting their votes are Alaska (75%)  and New York State (80%). States less than 97% away from fully counting their votes are   California (92%), Colorado (95%), Illinois (92%), Maryland (93%), New Jersey (93%), Ohio (96%), Louisiana (95%), South Dakota (94%), and Utah (95%). Except for perhaps Utah the outstanding votes are likely to raise Democratic margins or cut Republican margins nationwide. (South Dakota isn't going to make a difference,  and the outstanding votes in Trump wins Louisiana and Ohio are likely to come from D-leaning voters (big cities, and Democrats have tended to vote heavily in early or absentee voting even in counties that all in all went Republican.

Biden's margin in the popular vote could easily look like a landslide number after all is said and done.

Who cares? Biden won. So, what's so great about Bumbling Biden? I didn't see anything great about Biden. So, what do you know about Biden? Was Biden ever great? Well, I have to say is he better be great because that's what the Democrats are going to keep the country and fulfill all of its obligations or find themselves being depleted and directly competing with America itself. We're going to win dude because nature always wins.

Trump keeps claiming that he won, and that the 'illusory' victory of Joe Biden is the result of fraud. No, it is the order in which the votes were counted.  

What is this "real America" stuff, anyway? As contrasted, I infer, from a not-so-real America? We have some concept of equality at law so that the poor kid from East St. Louis, Illinois has no obligation to abase himself before a rich kid from the Hamptons. Do you mean economic activity? Obviously Harris County, Texas (Greater Houston)  will get more government funds expended upon it than Loving County, Texas (population 134). More people implies a need for more complex government and more intrusive law enforcement. If your dog poops in a ditch next to a corn field, then nobody notices. If your dog poops on Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan, then you have trouble because you create trouble for others. 

I'm not going to tell you that Loving County, Texas (the second-least populous county in the US) is any less American than is Harris County, Texas. 

...About 51% of the American electorate had a choice between Donald Trump and Joe Biden and chose Joe Biden. Incumbent Presidents have usually won re-election unless the American people get tired of their agenda (Ford, the elder Bush) or something catastrophic happens (Hoover, Carter, and now Trump). Sure, Trump did better at the polls than Hoover or Carter; try explaining the whole American electorate at any one time.

If being "American" implies being white, conservative, and Christian... then you somehow miss a large part of America. You may consider me a boilerplate liberal, but there are plenty of issues on which I consider myself a conservative: educational content, law and order as an essential for human rights (non-violence is conservative, and I supported gay rights because anything less was an encouragement of pointless violence), and child welfare. If you are looking at where the economic activity is, then look no further than this image:

"Red" America clearly needs "Blue" America, at least of you are going by county.  To be sure, the top four counties in pr4oductivity in the 'red' category are reasonably-pleasant places (Kern County, California is awful), but on the whole, if you want a well-paying job you obviously have a better chance to get it in one of the counties in blue than in red. "Blue" America has the bulk of the jobs that produce one of America's strongest objects of exchange: intellectual property. "Red" America seems to produce the raw materials and foodstuffs. If you are tempted to go to one of the 'red' counties because the cost of living is much lower, then know why the cost of living is so much lower. Sure, much of Greater Los Angeles is a dump, and you might pay as much as 70% of your after-tax income as rent for some tiny apartment.  On the other hand, if you don't have some professional certification, do you really want to be a farm laborer? Or do you want to work in a fast-food place next to Exit 106 on Interstate 60? That may be your opportunity.