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69 votes
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Joe Biden is the next President of the United States
Race called by Decision Desk HQ at 08:50 AM EST: https://twitter.com/DecisionDeskHQ/status/1324710866516905984 Other sources will follow as there is no path back for Donald Trump to win PA. Update...
Race called by Decision Desk HQ at 08:50 AM EST: https://twitter.com/DecisionDeskHQ/status/1324710866516905984
Other sources will follow as there is no path back for Donald Trump to win PA.
Update #1: Called by Business Insider
Update #2: Called by Vox (thanks @dubteedub)
Update #3: The Economist is coming as close as they can to calling it (explanation: https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/1324860925745229824)
Update #4: The AP, NBC, CNN and ABC News have called the race. It's over.
Update #5: New York Times, BBC
Update #6: Meanwhile in Trump's fantasy land
Update #7: Fox News has called it as well.72 votes -
Donald Trump gives remarks regarding the US election results
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2020 US Presidential Election Results - Discussion Thread
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This is a continuation of the original thread from election day, which was here.
These threads are intended as more conversational spaces to process the day and results. Consider this an open forum for your own thoughts and feelings.
There is also a thread here in ~news that's more focused on articles and events.
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Hasan Piker's Twitch stream is the future of Election Night coverage
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2020 US Presidential Election Day - Discussion Thread
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We have a thread here in ~news that's more focused on articles and events, but I also want us to have a more conversational space to process the day. Consider this an open forum for your own thoughts and feelings.
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2020 Election News and Information (Week of November 1st)
A thread you can easily ignore A new week a new thread As the pace and the quantity of information that is coming out of the election increases. Instead of creating a new post for everything, or...
A thread you can easily ignore
A new week a new thread
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Feel free to break out any information posted here into its own thread if the discussion warrants it.Major news can/should be broken out into its own topic. (use your own discretion)
Final thread before the election
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How a fake persona laid the groundwork for a Hunter Biden conspiracy deluge
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What is the Internet doing to baby boomers’ brains? Social media platforms are sucking a generation into a misinformation rabbit hole.
20 votes -
Polling 101: What happened to the polls in 2016 — and what you should know about them in 2020
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Since 2016, the Falun Gong-backed Epoch Times newspaper has used aggressive Facebook tactics and right-wing misinformation to create an anti-China, pro-Trump media empire
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2020 Election News and Information (Week of October 25th)
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A new week a new thread
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Thank goodness this is almost over
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Donald Trump vs Joe Biden | Epic Rap Battles Of History
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Dear Dad, please don’t vote for Donald Trump this time
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Facebook has sent a cease-and-desist letter to two NYU researchers, demanding that they shut down their research into political ads and disinformation on FB’s platform
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Trump/Biden 2020 Presidential Debate #2 Discussion Thread
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Watch on YouTube
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Info from The Washington Post:
Location: Belmont University in Nashville
Moderator: Kristen Welker, NBC News White House correspondent and co-anchor of “Weekend Today”
Details: The debate will be 90 minutes long and have no commercial breaks. It will be divided into six 15-minute segments that the moderator has chosen. They are: fighting covid-19, American families, race in America, climate change, national security and leadership.
Trump’s campaign has criticized the topics, saying they thought this was supposed to be a foreign policy debate. The head of the Commission on Presidential Debates said that’s not true.
Trump has criticized the moderator, Welker, as being biased, as he has other moderators. The commission and even a Fox News host have defended Welker’s integrity.
The commission also announced days before the debate that in light of Trump’s frequent interruptions during the first one, it will silence the microphone of the candidate who is not speaking during the two-minute opening segment for each candidate. After each candidate has two minutes, there will be an open discussion where both microphones will be on, but the commission urged civility in a statement: “It is the hope of the Commission that the candidates will be respectful of each other’s time.” The Trump campaign said it still will participate, despite the president criticizing a potential virtual debate as a forum where it would be too easy to silence his microphone.
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2020 Election News and Information (Week of October 18th)
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A thread you can easily ignore
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The real divide in America is between political junkies and everyone else
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Vote! (For Joe Biden (Who Sucks!))
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How prepared are these seven battlegrounds for the election? A readiness report
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Voting
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Behind in polls, Republicans see a silver lining in voter registrations
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YouTube has become the latest social media giant to announce a sweeping crack down on content linked to the QAnon conspiracy theory
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Trump & Biden 2020 US Presidential Town Halls Discussion Thread
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Watch Trump's Town Hall on YouTube
Begins approximately ~2 hours from the time of this posting. Runs for one hour.
Watch Biden's Town Hall on YouTube
Begins approximately ~2 hours from the time of this posting. Runs for an hour and a half
More information from CNN.
In case you're wondering why there are two separate town halls happening instead of Debate #2 tonight, @3d12 has the recap here.
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The problem of free speech in an age of disinformation
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The dollars and sense of free college - Georgetown University analysis of Biden's free college plan finds that it pays for itself within a decade
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Last exit from autocracy
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As states prepared mail-in ballots, Postal Service failed to update at least 1.8 million addresses
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Vote safely: How to find a trustworthy election ballot drop-off location
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Why the Philly cheesesteak can swing a presidential election
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New action to combat ransomware ahead of US elections
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Unofficial ballot drop boxes popping up throughout California worry elections officials
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Additional steps Twitter is taking ahead of the 2020 US Election
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Trump will undergo televised medical evaluation on Friday night, Fox News announces
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Presidential debate: Trump refuses to take part in virtual TV event
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Mike Pence/Kamala Harris 2020 US Vice Presidential Debate - Discussion thread
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Watch on YouTube
Other viewing options
Debate starts ~90 minutes from the time of this posting.
Info from The Washington Post:
Location: The University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
Moderator: Susan Page, Washington bureau chief, USA Today
Details: The debate will be 90 minutes long and have no commercial breaks. It will be divided into nine segments of 10 minutes each that the moderator gets to choose.
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US President Donald Trump abruptly scraps stimulus talks, punting on economic relief until after Election Day
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Joe Biden can end the drama on election night. All he has to do is win Texas.
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Should we use a megathread for US election news as we get closer to Nov 3?
I was thinking about how much the quantity of election news is likely to increase as we get closer to Nov 3. And more specifically the likelihood that this election will not be clear cut, will be...
I was thinking about how much the quantity of election news is likely to increase as we get closer to Nov 3. And more specifically the likelihood that this election will not be clear cut, will be contested, lawsuits filed, etc in the days and weeks after Nov 3.
With that in mind, do we want to proactively put up a weekly (maybe daily for the actual week of) megathread to consolidate some of it?
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Tracker for coronavirus test results from officials in the US government and presidential campaigns
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Weird Al - We're All Doomed
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Trump/Biden 2020 Presidential Debate #1 Discussion Thread
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Other viewing optionsDebate starts ~10 minutes from the time of this posting.
Info from The Washington Post:
Location: Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. (This was originally scheduled to be held at the University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame withdrew, saying the fact that it would have to limit student attendance and volunteer opportunities because of the pandemic erased the reason to host a debate at the university.)
Moderator: Chris Wallace, anchor of “Fox News Sunday”
Details: The debate will be 90 minutes long and have no commercial breaks. There will be no opening statements. Wallace will dive right in with the first question to Trump. It will be divided into six 15-minute segments that Wallace has chosen. They are:
- the Trump and Biden records
- the Supreme Court
- the coronavirus pandemic
- the economy
- race and violence in cities
- the integrity of the election
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Postal Service workers quietly resist DeJoy’s changes with eye on election
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DeJoy tells judge mail-sorting machines can’t be reassembled
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Trump won’t commit to ‘peaceful’ post-election transfer of power
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Trump campaign is reportedly plotting an election coup to “bypass” a Biden win
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"What could possibly go wrong?": Chris Anderson, the supervisor of elections in Seminole County, Florida, on the risks of running a presidential election in a pandemic
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In Georgia’s chaotic primary, as many as 1,000 voters may have cast ballots by mail and in person, secretary of state says
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The path to autocracy; A second Trump term will leave America’s political system and culture looking even more like Orbán’s Hungary
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Joe Biden campaign launches official Animal Crossing: New Horizons yard signs
8 votes