Thank god. Now I want the last 4 years of my life back.
I doubt the next 4 years will be better.
Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
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#42How does this election relate to the 2000 election when all media called Gore the winner, but then in December, Bush became the president elect? https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2020/11/04/the... "On election night, it was unclear who had won, with the electoral votes of the state of Florida still undecided. The returns showed that Bush had won Florida by such a close margin that state law required a rec…
A few differences:
* In 2000 it was one tipping-point state. Here, Biden has multiple states putting him over the top.
* The margin in those states is larger than in Florida. The final official Florida count gave the victory to Bush by 537 votes.
* 2000 involved a recount of legitimately questionable ballots. Trump's legal cases (thus far) have been judged by experts to be far less serious.
* Trump (so far) is not challenging enough ballots to give him the lead in the tipping-point state.
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#43How does this election relate to the 2000 election when all media called Gore the winner, but then in December, Bush became the president elect? https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2020/11/04/the... "On election night, it was unclear who had won, with the electoral votes of the state of Florida still undecided. The returns showed that Bush had won Florida by such a close margin that state law required a rec…
Yes, at least in theory. The simple reason is that in the end not the media, but the courts will decide.
Re: Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
#44dang's comment from 4 years ago on this subject (Trump's election win): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12910929
Re: Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
#45On behalf of the rest of the world: thanks America, removing the arsonist of global unity and multilateralism is appreciated.
Prepare for 4 years straight of Kumbaya and shoulder rubs. Prepare for world peace. Just like the world had in 2015 before the arsonist got in power.
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#46Until the midterms in 2022 I don't expect much to happen on federal level (minus executive orders) but there's a lot of work to do. Trump has proved US can be hijacked and someone who's a bit more competent can actually take over the country.
Re: Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
#47How does this election relate to the 2000 election when all media called Gore the winner, but then in December, Bush became the president elect? https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2020/11/04/the... "On election night, it was unclear who had won, with the electoral votes of the state of Florida still undecided. The returns showed that Bush had won Florida by such a close margin that state law required a rec…
No. Biden is likely to win across multiple states by a large margin, notably in PA where he is above the point that would require a recount.
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#48On behalf of the rest of the world: thanks America, removing the arsonist of global unity and multilateralism is appreciated.
Has anyone paid attention to the Middle East lately? Quite a lot more peace achieved there recently.
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#49> It's still on our todo list to have some form of karma sharing for situations like this, to make it be less of a race and/or lottery.
Just disable karma on topics like these. They are going to be submitted multiple times and very quickly anyway, nobody "needs" the karma and it doesn't matter if nobody gets it.
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#50Everybody does realize that this has no legal significance, right?
Yes, I'm pretty sure everybody here understands that AP doesn't officially decide who wins the election.
It still has significance.