How long after election will it be before we know who officially won?

Originally posted by eThneoLgrRnae
Nope, the US is a republic so no, not triggered at all by it. I do think it's a terrible form of government though.

Good thing we are a Constitutional Republic instead. 🙂

We can still have democratic processes........but still this is the nightmare I dread, how long until we really know and how many freakin lawsuits and recounts will be forced because of mail in voting.........

How many mail in votes will be thrown away because of signatures not "matching" or any of the other problems that will surface.

If the polls are correct it will be a Biden landslide and barring any shenanigans we'll know pretty quickly, within a day or two, or maybe even on election night if you know what to look for, regardless of whether networks want to be cautious and avoid calling it too early.

A Trump landslide will also be obvious pretty quickly.

Any other scenario it will probably take several days/weeks/months.

Biden will landslide. 😬

You can already make some estimates about overall turnout which is a big key.

We know that 100 million+ people will have voted early by tuesday. And from what I've read estimates are somewhere between 50 million to 70 million people will vote on election day.

If those numbers hold true, and the polling is accurate as far as the percentage of the advantage Biden has with mail in voting, and the advantage Trump has as far as election day voting (according to polls both are pretty equal), then Biden will have the advantage as there will be more mail in voting done this year than election day voting. So on its face, Biden has the advantage and if you just compare those two numbers Biden should have a 10 million+ vote advantage.

Of course there are various wild cards like how many mail in votes will get thrown out (many get thrown out for various reasons every election), how many people actually show up on election day - there could be an election day voting surge that gives Trump an advantage or more people could show up on election day voting for Biden than is expected - or the advantage that each candidate has in their respective voting group (early for Biden vs Day of voting for Trump) could be wrong. So lots of variables still.

When is the last time we even saw a landslide in a presidential election? I just don't see it.

Originally posted by Surtur
When is the last time we even saw a landslide in a presidential election? I just don't see it.

Reagan 84.

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
Reagan 84.

Originally posted by Blakemore
over 30 years ago....

And Reagan had an immense popularity it seems neither Trump nor Biden have.

Originally posted by Surtur
When is the last time we even saw a landslide in a presidential election? I just don't see it.

I’d say Obama 08 was pretty much a landslide.

The possibility of a landslide exists simply because of the potential for such high turnout. We’re probably going to see record numbers of people voting this year because of the expansion of mail voting. Could see up to 170 million people vote. Compare that to 2016 which had a little over 130 million. We’ve already had about 100 million people vote this year.

I guess.

Originally posted by BackFire
I’d say Obama 08 was pretty much a landslide.

The possibility of a landslide exists simply because of the potential for such high turnout. We’re probably going to see record numbers of people voting this year because of the expansion of mail voting. Could see up to 170 million people vote. Compare that to 2016 which had a little over 130 million. We’ve already had about 100 million people vote this year.

How much did he win by?

In 08 Obama won the popular vote by about 10 million and he got 365 EVs

Originally posted by Surtur
And Reagan had an immense popularity it seems neither Trump nor Biden have.

True dat.

Think Nixon's was even bigger.

Not a cock joke.

I mean say what u want, yeah he was kind of a piece of shit but Nixon did accomplish a lot.

That is the tragedy here. He didn't need to be all paranoid and bug offices. If he didn't, he'd have still won and gone down as one of the best presidents.

But that cold war era paranoia just infected him.

Aye well. He shouldn't have done it when Forrest Gump was in town.

Originally posted by BackFire
In 08 Obama won the popular vote by about 10 million and he got 365 EVs

Eh, I see a landslide as like getting 30-40 million more votes.

In a country of over 300 million at least.

If the media was then how it is now Nixon’s popularity never would have plummeted and he probably wouldn’t babe resigned.

Originally posted by BackFire
If the media was then how it is now Nixon’s popularity never would have plummeted and he probably wouldn’t babe resigned.

I don't understand. Our media throws a fit over trump having extra ice cream you think they'd have been cool with what Nixon did?

Nixon resigned for stealing said election.

Hill actually made the case against him. XD

Originally posted by Surtur
Eh, I see a landslide as like getting 30-40 million more votes.

In a country of over 300 million at least.

Well then even the 84 election didn’t have that large a vote discrepancy. Reagan won by about 17 million votes but he did win all but one state.

That kind of landslide isn’t really possible anymore with how entrenched people are in their views and how the other side is so demonized. In this day and age getting 10 million more votes is pretty enormous.