The 2024 United States Presidential Election Thread

[Chris]

I wonder if there's gonna be some live coverage available online to watch Tuesday night for me here without a VPN...

Most of the major news channels have it streaming on YouTube too for the election, no idea if it'll be geolocked or not tho

 

[O-Blaze]

College Football picked a very dumb night to do their first playoff rankings by the way lmao

 

[Samoa Looch]

Most of the major news channels have it streaming on YouTube too for the election, no idea if it'll be geolocked or not tho

Right, that sounds good. I didn't think of official news YT channels. I don't think they can even geolock live streams, so that would be perfect.

 

[Samoa Looch]

College Football picked a very dumb night to do their first playoff rankings by the way lmao

They did it for the "Don't put politics in mah sports" crowd

 

[Barry Poppins]

 

[Barry Poppins]

Minnesota has cast 919,581 ballots so far. Here’s how to vote in the Nov. 5 election.

Local election offices will open for weekend voting on Saturday and Sunday.

www.twincities.com

That's 6% of Minnesota's population who have voted early, a massive amount

 

[Barry Poppins]

Tomorrow is election say, and so I offer this piece of advice to anyone and everyone.

Apathy is the enemy of progress, to care is to act, so give your support and vote no matter what.

 

[Chris]

Here's poll closing times for reference

 

[Barry Poppins]

Hopefully when everything is counted up, Trump ends up with sub-200 Electoral Votes.

 

[Chris]

Wednesday around noon seems to be when most people are projecting anything being officially unofficially called btw

 

[Barry Poppins]

We'll at least get early results from the Bible Belt at the very least. I guarantee Kentucky is gonna be called first for Trump.

 

[Shane]

Hopefully when everything is counted up, Trump ends up with sub-200 Electoral Votes.

No way

 

[Shane]

There’s only 7 states that are close lol so those are the only ones anyone should pay attention to

 

[Barry Poppins]

Judge Denies GOP Missouri Officials' Bid to Block DOJ Election Monitors

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

Big win for election safety

 

[ScareValue]

There’s obviously too much (mis)information out there to get a clean read on what’s going to happen for sure…but I am not surprised to see some polls and predictions started to turn left in the final days. A lot of polls never made sense to me…just mathematically. When you start to see some polls come out after early voting and say they may have underrepresented some voting blocks…it explains why things weren’t adding up to me. I don’t believe Harris is going to win Iowa. I do believe that poll shook other models into looking at how someone not herding came out with something so surprising in result. And the sheer volume of early voting numbers probably forced them to look at who was voting and their own sample data and see a discrepancy. More than any year…so many polls are more interested in staying within the margin of error than trying to represent an accurate method. Pollsters afraid of being wrong are basically worthless as pollsters. The point is always that you can know how each block will vote better than how many of each block will vote. And I can tell you from early voting and the line I stood in today for the first time since 2008…they largely underserved the latter.