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

Started by Surtur15 pages

Originally posted by Blakemore
Nixon resigned for stealing said election.

Hill actually made the case against him. XD

No he didn't.

Originally posted by BackFire
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.

Feel like population maybe wasn't as large and has increased since then?

IOW would my 30 mil now be super diff to 17 back 30+ years ago?

Originally posted by Surtur
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?

Sure the liberal media would have but the mainstream media has a credibility problem with large swaths of the public, plus the conservative media would have excused him and called it all fake news or deflected to something about a democrat.

Partisan news has made it so it’s nearly impossible for a politician’s base to abandon him.

Originally posted by Surtur
IOW would my 30 mil now be super diff to 17 back 30+ years ago?

Fair point about population increase. That may be true. I don’t know.

But I still say such a landslide isn’t really possible anymore.

Originally posted by BackFire
Sure the liberal media would have but the mainstream media has a credibility problem with large swaths of the public, plus the conservative media would have excused him and called it all fake news or deflected to something about a democrat.

Partisan news has made it so it’s nearly impossible for a politician’s base to abandon him.

I disagree with you. I don't think the left leaning media would have seen Reagan as having no chance the way they did Trump. The very reason they gave Trump so much attention is cuz they thought he was a joke.

So I just do not think they'd behave the same.

Well we were talking about Nixon with the media. Not Reagan. They definitely would have taken Reagan more seriously since he had a lot of experience in government by the time he ran for president. He had been governor of California by that point.

Fair point about population increase. That may be true. I don’t know.

But I still say such a landslide isn’t really possible anymore

You know why?

cuz deh let in al da brown folks

Originally posted by BackFire
Well we were talking about Nixon with the media. Not Reagan. They definitely would have taken Reagan more seriously since he had a lot of experience in government by the time he ran for president. He had been governor of California by that point.

If you voted for Joe Biden from Mexico, **** you bro and **** Robtard!

Originally posted by BrolyBlack
If you voted for Joe Biden from Mexico, **** you bro and **** Robtard!

I’m not voting this year. Not worth the hassle.

True.

I’m not voting this year. Not worth the hassle

Remember. You can't have a single opinion about anything political until the the next election.

Thems the rules.

Partisan news has made it so it’s nearly impossible for a politician’s base to abandon him.

👆

You know why?

cuz deh let in al da brown folks

Oh no, hide the 40's and chronic.

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
Remember. You can't have a single opinion about anything political until the the next election.

Thems the rules.

No. I’m going to have more opinions, especially on things I’m uneducated on.

It will be about a week, if it is close, before Biden formally concedes IF and only if Trump wins by a slim margin.

Trump will fight it for weeks if the election is close and Trump loses.

Trump will fight it for weeks even if it’s a Biden landslide.

Originally posted by BackFire
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.

Polls aren't correct though, just as they weren't correct in 2016.

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

Well, Trump got like 70-80 more electoral votes than Hillary in 2016.

That wasn't exactly a close election lol.

*standby for snowflakes starting to cry about "muh popular vote her derp!"*

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

Trump routinely gets tens-of-thousands of fans to show up at his rallies. I believe he got over 50k at one of his most recent ones.

If that isn't being popular I don't know what is.

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.

The popular vote isn't what determines if an election is a landslide lol.

It's the EC vote which is the only vote that truly matters.