On behalf of the rest of the world: thanks America, removing the arsonist of global unity and multilateralism is appreciated.
Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
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#32I don't understand why this is flagged. It's highly relevant to tech (particularly given trump's moves on Chinese tech firms and his treatment of social media) and from a legitimate source.
Technically it’s false because one doesn’t become President-Elect until vote counts are officially certified.
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#33I don't understand why this is flagged. It's highly relevant to tech (particularly given trump's moves on Chinese tech firms and his treatment of social media) and from a legitimate source.
Most biden wins and supporting comments are getting downvoted. Just keep an eye and you will understand the types that moderate the forum.
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#34I don't understand why this is flagged. It's highly relevant to tech (particularly given trump's moves on Chinese tech firms and his treatment of social media) and from a legitimate source.
Headline is inaccurate. He's not president elect until a joint session of congress counts the certificates of votes from the electoral college and declares him as such.
Yeah, Biden likely will be president elect. But the news media's call of what they think is likely is in no way official.
Edit: When I wrote this, the headline was along the lines of "Joe Biden is President-Elect."
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#35How 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 recount. A month-long series of legal battles led to the highly controversial 5–4 Supreme Court decision Bush v. Gore, which ended the recount."
Can this happen again this time?
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#36Everybody does realize that this has no legal significance, right?
It's predictive of a forthcoming legally-significant event.
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#37Everybody does realize that this has no legal significance, right?
Surely somewhere in the emanations and penumbras of the constitution we can find that the AP’s decision is binding.
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#38The orange tumour has been excised, however it's clear some chemo is required for the spread into the Republicans of trumpism.
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#39The media was way too cautious in making the call here, but it's easy to understand why when the Republicans made it so difficult to count absentee ballots before election night, likely to benefit their candidate through the confusion of swinging red and then blue. If you don't want this to happen again, pressure your red representatives to stop demonizing mail-in/advance voting, and stop destroying the postal system…
Their cautiousness made sense. Projections just before the election showed a lot steeper win for Biden. It didn't play out that way so it makes sense to be cautious.
Trump had a lot more support among some demographics than people expected. as the race got tighter it made sense to doubt what might play out.
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#40The media was way too cautious in making the call here, but it's easy to understand why when the Republicans made it so difficult to count absentee ballots before election night, likely to benefit their candidate through the confusion of swinging red and then blue. If you don't want this to happen again, pressure your red representatives to stop demonizing mail-in/advance voting, and stop destroying the postal system…
Once it became clear that the election wouldn't be called on election night, was there really any benefit to making an early call? Whether it was called on Thursday or Saturday seems kind of irrelevant when inauguration isn't until January.
It's much better to be certain that wrong.