IT’s the same one
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Well, except for in Philly apparently.
Yeah, at no point did I think that Biden was losing (I think I was one of the few posters still posting optimistically throughout the night), but I started getting nervous in the hour before the Milwaukee dump at 4 am. I thought that if that dump was bad, we could be in trouble.
My gaming headphones aren’t hooked up and I’m not going to lurk. I’m drumming and playing with my dog and watching music and stuff anyway. You all are great though. I’m not even drunk yet when saying that.
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congrats, fam! feels good
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Yeah, which I was noting the whole time.
I’ll say Cuse and I were both right. He had no doubt the whole time, and I was saying it looks a lot closer than the multi-point “blowout” that the experts were saying on Wednesday.
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You were. I went to sleep very early that night, but you kept saying we got it we got it chill to everyone.
It’s weird to see American flags being waved by people that I don’t loathe
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I had us down to 65/35 before Arizona got called, but the main reason I wasn’t freaking was: I mentally prepared myself in advance for the possibility of missing FL-GA-NC right away and being in the “close” scenario, which still likely meant 280+ electoral votes.
The second big reason was the problem in Florida was largely Cuban and Venezuelan voters in South Florida. Like when we gave back a big chunk in Miami-Dade, I felt pretty confident in that being unlikely to be correlated. We did well in the early returns in FL suburbs and we did great in Okaloosa, which correlates to the rust belt. Look at Okaloosa in 2008/12/16/20 and that’s some insight into why I was confident in the blue wall.
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I miss peak Simpsons
About to do the same.
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Good thing I see a lot of masks because covid likes these crowds.
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Wait where did Bush’s other 4 votes come from? FL was only worth 25, right?
I do think that even though everyone on this board intellectually understood the red mirage / blue mirage phenomenon because we talked about it so much, it was still hard to process emotionally as it played out in front of us. An interesting thought expirement would be how the reactions would be different if the mail ballots were counted first in the Midwest. However, i am currently intoxicated off of one glas of red wine so i dunno.
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I was most shook by the OH margin being essentially the same as last time, even though analytically a 2% improvement there is just the amount he needed to rebuild the blue wall. But still, nobody had OH -8 in the polls, obv the IA Selzer poll was the main hint it was going to be that bad. At that point I felt it was 50 50.
Yeah this. Honestly, even the early blue results in the Kentucky burbs had me thinking we were ok.