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Of the Republican and Democratic vote popular vote margins are currently.
President: Biden:50.1% Trump 48.2% biden is up 2.6m votes.
House R: 49.4% D:49.2% Republicans up by around 260k votes.

The polls were definitely off. Most were showing these to be 5-10 point races.



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Wisconsin looks like there are barely any votes left to count, low thousands. I take it the only reason it hasn't been called either way is because of how tight it is.

Also, I can see just under two thirds of votes counted in Detroit, which suggests a larger number of blue ballots yet to be counted. Enough to turn the state blue?



jason1637 said:
Of the Republican and Democratic vote popular vote margins are currently.
President: Biden:50.1% Trump 48.2% biden is up 2.6m votes.
House R: 49.4% D:49.2% Republicans up by around 260k votes.

The polls were definitely off. Most were showing these to be 5-10 point races.

Basically means nobody is gonna trust polls for a long time if ever after this...



Barozi said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:
If Biden can keep Nevada and Wisconsin, and flip Michigan now, then he's as exactly 270 electoral votes and has won the election

How do you get exactly 270?

Have the two winners of the congressional district in Maine already been added to Biden's total?

I think 1 district is yet to declare.



SecondWar said:
Wisconsin looks like there are barely any votes left to count, low thousands. I take it the only reason it hasn't been called either way is because of how tight it is.

Also, I can see just under two thirds of votes counted in Detroit, which suggests a larger number of blue ballots yet to be counted. Enough to turn the state blue?

And AP are now showing Michigan as blue with Detroit still to declare its final tally.

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Michigan flipped in favour of Biden, and the gap in Pennsylvania is now below 600k. There's still hope!



Wow... Down to the wire... Unbelievable.



~59,800 people voted for Kanye West accross more than 12 states, before he admitted defeat early.

Thats like 60k people doing the "silly vote" or a selfie vote of voteing for kayne west for "funsies".



Barozi said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:
If Biden can keep Nevada and Wisconsin, and flip Michigan now, then he's as exactly 270 electoral votes and has won the election

How do you get exactly 270?

Have the two winners of the congressional district in Maine already been added to Biden's total?

Just thinking, if Biden (or Trump) do finish on exactly 270 this will really bring the role of faithless electors into focus. I don't believe they've ever had the chance to alter the result before. Imagine the fallout if they did.

I remember some Clinton supporters tried to get them to do this in 2016. As much as I don't like Trump, it is for the best that this didn't work.



SecondWar said:
Wisconsin looks like there are barely any votes left to count, low thousands. I take it the only reason it hasn't been called either way is because of how tight it is.

Also, I can see just under two thirds of votes counted in Detroit, which suggests a larger number of blue ballots yet to be counted. Enough to turn the state blue?

Depending on the source you're looking, it's already blue with about 6% ballots left to count.
Never had a doubt about it though. Biden was catching up extremel fast there. It was 53.3% Trump vs. 44.9% Biden when I first looked at it some 8 hours ago.