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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBeschloss: We did not know Presidential winner for certain before midnight on election nights in...
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Michael Beschloss
@BeschlossDC
We did not know Presidential winner for certain before midnight on election nights in 1960, 1968, 1976, 2000, 2004, 2016. No one should pretend there would be anything historically unusual if that happens again in 2020.
1:07 PM · Nov 1, 2020
Michael Beschloss
@BeschlossDC
We did not know Presidential winner for certain before midnight on election nights in 1960, 1968, 1976, 2000, 2004, 2016. No one should pretend there would be anything historically unusual if that happens again in 2020.
1:07 PM · Nov 1, 2020
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Beschloss: We did not know Presidential winner for certain before midnight on election nights in... (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Nov 2020
OP
trump claim will be a significant Election night story, to trump's benefit if unopposed
empedocles
Nov 2020
#5
coti
(4,612 posts)1. All Biden needs called is NC, AZ, MI and WI.
And it's very over.
Cha
(296,790 posts)2. Rt.. Yeah, so Fuck Off trump.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)3. Dems should pre-empt or counter psycho trump's fraudelent victory claim asap
mobeau69
(11,132 posts)4. Joe should've at his PA rally just now or maybe not.M
Just give the moron more rope.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)5. trump claim will be a significant Election night story, to trump's benefit if unopposed
mobeau69
(11,132 posts)6. I would expect the media to point that out.
I know...!
empedocles
(15,751 posts)7. Might be in a soft way. MSNBC had a chyron on earlier on usps, referring to
GOP efforts to 'thwart voting by mail'.
Damn, they should have pics of sorting machines piled up junk style, and said 'active proven efforts to SABOTAGE voting by mail'.
genxlib
(5,518 posts)8. Consider the opposite framing
When was the first election we actually did know the results the same day?
I would suspect that it wasn't even possible up until the 20th Century and likely not even attempted until Radio and TV got nationwide penetration.
Throw that originalist bs back at him.