Include me on that list, too. I was never worried.
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Upon review, @LikeClockwork was definitely in the top 3-5% in calmness. Also one of the better quips of the night, when asked what we expect of Iowa:
Some confidence and good betting advice. Next election I’ll have some money on Bovada in advance, so I can wait a month to get paid.
I went with a “Chill, we got this,” vibe but you were going more with the antagonistic swagger. That works, too.
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Maybe start another thread for the self-congratulatory stuff? I know some people like clip-shows, so it will be good to keep it all in one place.
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He didn’t want to win in 2016, no way he wants to win in 2024. If he runs it will be for the attention/grift.
He’s Donald Trump. Greatest man in history. Why waste your time against a bunch of losers who aren’t president when you can go directly against the president himself and also hurt the party that refused to start a civil war on behalf of your ego?
I’m mostly kidding but if I could put money down somewhere at long odds that Trump runs as a Dem in 2024 I absolutely would put money down on it.
I think he loves the power/attention/being above the law
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And then the public pressure made them backtrack within hours. It’s not like I said he had popular vote equity in Michigan. He had coup equity.
It’s all in good fun, everybody relax.
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Cuse was about to light himself on fire a few hours ago though.
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I liked the contrast between full on panic Cuse in the week leading up to the election, worrying about exotic scenarios like state legislatures outright stealing the election, and the serene “we’ve got this” Cuse on election night when the entire forum was freaking out.
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If they didn’t back down it could have been an issue that got tied up in the courts and gave the legislature some undue leverage.
Besides, lighting my hair on fire over extremely dangerous but unlikely events is what I do.
That was my favorite part too. How did ~everyone see ME being calm and confident and then freak out? I was cracking up at that.
But I’m the type to worry a lot over a 1/100 or 1/1000 shot that’s catastrophic when we’ve got days/weeks to discuss it.
When I’ve got live data and the bullets are flying, I’m locked in and calm.
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Perhaps you’re not the bellwether you imagine you are. I second a containment thread for… whatever this is.
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Man when you think a circle jerk is ironic and realize it might not be it’s a very strange feeling.
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Eh, I can only speak for myself but Cuse and Jman and ChrisV et al remaining calm and confident is meritorious if for no other reason than it saved me from chainsmoking another pack and a half of cigarettes.
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I was sober and confident all election night.
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this map was based on a false sense of security in regards to AZ based on Fox. It was def within ‘worst case scenario’ to lose AZ.
This is part of the reason I don’t get whatever it is that was going on here earlier, but I might be misinterpreting the tone so I’ll stand down and standby.
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I mean Trump won a few key states by razor thin margins in 2016
and then Biden won a few key states by even less than those margin in 2020. But sure we had it the whole time!
Anyway, consider me one of the shook ones. I stayed off my phone until about 9:30pm on election night and took a peek, then shut it down immediately, and then covered myself in blankets and laid in bed for the next few hours awaiting the next 2016. It was kinda ok/fun when I woke up to watch at 3 am though and they called Wisconsin at 3:30 or 4!
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Definitely confident. Sober is just pants on fire lying. But worth a shot.
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I can’t remember what I posted on election night, if anything, but I’ll out myself. I was freaking out. The only thing keeping from going into full meltdown was Cuse and the couple others on this board who were calm, so props and cheers!
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