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Everybody does realize that this has no legal significance, right?
But it is a marker that people use as shorthand. There is no getting around the fact that Biden will have 270 electoral votes.
How 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…
[0]https://www.npr.org/2018/11/12/666812854/the-florida-recount...
As someone who is not that much into politics but receives salary in US dollar - what does Biden win mean for the US economy and the dollar?
I am holding my breath until Jan 6th at least when electoral college votes: Url: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11641 The Electoral College: A 2020 Presidential Election Timeline
Completely independently of who won/will win this election, I find it massively irresponsible that media outlets are calling it before actual states are. The media should report the news, not make it.
> 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.
I am holding my breath until Jan 6th at least when electoral college votes: Url: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11641 The Electoral College: A 2020 Presidential Election Timeline
As someone who is not that much into politics but receives salary in US dollar - what does Biden win mean for the US economy and the dollar?
[0] https://www.moodysanalytics.com/-/media/article/2020/the-mac...
https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-kamala-harris-got-big-soc...
Social media has been devoid of Covid fear mongering since election night. For months we had daily stories pumping out fear about Covid. For the last few days there has been nothing to talk about while we waited for the recount yet no USA-centric Covid horror stories have appeared.
Why are they gone? Where did they go? There were waves of Covid stories for months on Reddit, HN, and other media. Where did they go and more importantly where did the come from?
"Coivd will go away when the election is over" is shorthand for "The Democrats pumped up the Covid fear to attempt to win elections".
So far it has been true.
As someone who is not that much into politics but receives salary in US dollar - what does Biden win mean for the US economy and the dollar?