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chill, Democrats, mail-in ballots take time to tally
I think the very same Democrats who are chanting "count all the votes" are reacting emotionally to the partial vote counts they've been watching since Tuesday night, presuming that the outcome is in grave doubt, assuming that the polls were way off, wondering what went wrong, and assuming the worst about our country.
Try to think of it this way. The pandemic led to so many people voting by mail, and mail-in votes take so much longer to count, that 11am on Thursday is the equivalent to 11pm on Election Night. You wouldn't be upset if the race had not yet been called by 11pm on Election Night. You wouldn't assume that the partial vote counts as of 11pm on Election Night were a valid representation of the outcome.
Sure, if there hadn't been a pandemic, it would be upsetting to not know the outcome by Thursday morning. It would mean something like the Bush v. Gore election in 2000 where it was so close it came down to a handful of votes in one state.
THIS IS NOT THE SAME!
We just have to wait for all the mail-in ballots to be received and counted. I'm reasonably confident -- meaning that my confidence is based on well-founded reasons -- that once all the mail-in ballots are counted, you'll see that Biden won the Electoral College with room to spare, that Biden won the popular vote by around 7 million votes or 4-5 percentage points, and that there was nothing the Supreme Court could have done about it.
Chill, Democrats. AP is one state away from calling the race for Biden, but the remaining states need time to count their ballots. That's all :-)
Try to think of it this way. The pandemic led to so many people voting by mail, and mail-in votes take so much longer to count, that 11am on Thursday is the equivalent to 11pm on Election Night. You wouldn't be upset if the race had not yet been called by 11pm on Election Night. You wouldn't assume that the partial vote counts as of 11pm on Election Night were a valid representation of the outcome.
Sure, if there hadn't been a pandemic, it would be upsetting to not know the outcome by Thursday morning. It would mean something like the Bush v. Gore election in 2000 where it was so close it came down to a handful of votes in one state.
THIS IS NOT THE SAME!
We just have to wait for all the mail-in ballots to be received and counted. I'm reasonably confident -- meaning that my confidence is based on well-founded reasons -- that once all the mail-in ballots are counted, you'll see that Biden won the Electoral College with room to spare, that Biden won the popular vote by around 7 million votes or 4-5 percentage points, and that there was nothing the Supreme Court could have done about it.
Chill, Democrats. AP is one state away from calling the race for Biden, but the remaining states need time to count their ballots. That's all :-)