It is pretty clear whatever happens, there is no repudiation of the nazi in the WH

[still_one]

and all I can say is **** the USA

[Behind the Aegis]

1. Sadly, I agree.

This is DEPLORABLE.

[mr_lebowski]

2. Yeah, this is a bad, bad sign regarding the 'soul' of this Nation ...

It has a sizably rotten core.

[Marie Marie]

3. I think that is what has me floored more than anything tonight.

I cannot believe that people don't see through this con man. So disheartening.

[VMA131Marine]

4. It's really difficult for an incumbent POTUS to lose

and I think Trump is going to lose.

[Crunchy Frog]

13. You're acting like he's a normal president, and he isn't.

And plenty of incumbents have lost, and some have even avoided running for another term because they knew that they couldn't get reelected.

This is a popular vote losing fascist who stands by while hundreds of thousands of Americans die, while he sells the country to the Russians, but he's just a normal incumbent who's hard to beat?

Fuck that narrative.

[VMA131Marine]

14. Fascism is seductive, which is why they come into power

The important thing is that Trump loses. I don’t care how much he loses by.

[Dawson Leery]

5. Richard Haass on this election

Link to tweet

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The American Century is done.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

6. What is wrong with US???

Seriously.

[Wednesdays]

7. Um, not all the votes have been counted.

[still_one]

11. True, but it is definitely no repudiation of the nazi because it is closer than it should be

[zipplewrath]

8. We're not getting a blue wave

We may have a majority (slim) in the senate, but the absolute repudiation of this president isn't going to happen.

[Vdizzle]

15. It's because they are cheating. Electronic hackable voting machines and suppression.

[zipplewrath]

17. Without evidence or proof of any sort

You might want to suggest evidence for such an accusation, especially considering the agressiveness that the cyber warfare unit has been reported using against enemies approaching this election.

[Codeine]

23. Assumes facts not in evidence. nt

[alarimer]

9. Me too.

I hate everyone of those 43%. I’m ashamed and embarrassed.

[PTWB]

10. Trump's victory in FL is bigger this year than in 2016.

That should tell you all we need to know about the values of our countrymen.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

16. He's doing better than the state polling indicated too.

Compare the aggregate polling to the results, and it's very depressing tonight except for Arizona.

The polls might have even been correct too, in terms of the replies and the demographic percentages, but the pro-Democratic respondents still had to actually VOTE!

I had to basically beg an old neighbor woman to finally submit her absentee ballot despite her supposed hatred for Trump.

[PTWB]

19. This may give us some more data regarding enthusiasm.

And that enthusiasm FOR a candidate simply drives more turnout than enthusiasm AGAINST a candidate - even a candidate as abhorrent as Trump.

[young_at_heart]

12. I feel like I don't belong

For 77 years I had a strong sense of patriotism and I really had thought it would be returning tonight

[UTUSN]

18. It's just inconceivable.

[Azathoth]

20. There's no two ways about it. One candidate is claiming COVID is a myth inflated by doctors

who get paid more for COVID-related deaths.

This shouldn't be close. It shouldn't require us to argue over hanging chads a week after election day.

If, God willing, we pull this off, it's still a Pyrrhic victory. There is no overwhelming repudiation. The message the GOP will take is that their behavior cost them nothing and they would have won had it not been for a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic.

[Volaris]

21. Yes, and the more I watch MSNBC, the more I realize a terrible, terrible truth...

2016 Clinton loss seems not to have been about Hillary;
seems to me that it was more about this nations deep, DEEP reaction to our first black president...
and that result was "No, we WANT Fascism, fuck you very much.'

Because if it was JUST about Clinton, Biden would be up, and he isn't. Its not about hating Clinton, its about loving trump and everything he represents.

America, as the best product of The Enlightenment, might very well die this week....

[bullwinkle428]

22. I was saying just a little while ago, that Hillary wasn't nearly the "weak candidate" that

the "conventional wisdom pundits" tried to make her out to be, in their effort to determine why Chump "won".

[Volaris]

27. She was the most qualified presidential candidate in this nation's history,

Minus a stint in the military. She lost, because Obama won 2 terms, and if that kind of Enlightenment Liberalism was seen to be this nation's future, the result was 'no, we will take fascism, thank you very much.' It wasnt JUST about her name, and it wasnt JUST about misogyny.. it was about the promise we made ourselves as A People, and about the FACT that a lot of our people, could give a lesser fuck about our Better Angels.

And THAT is a truly terrifying thought tonight.

[betsuni]

37. Exactly.

So many people tried to make the last election about Hillary or about Democratic Party policy or whatever and it wasn't. All the data points to racism. I've been saying this all night. Wasn't about Hillary running a bad campaign or being a flawed candidate, unlikeable, ignoring the working class, not having enough rallies, not visiting Wisconsin enough or Democrats being out-of-touch elites or corrupt or whatever other bullshit. Or the other bullshit about just having the right candidate and then everyone will vote for the Democrat. There is no such thing.

[Raine]

24. Agree nt 😕

[BusyBeingBest]

25. tRump is but a symptom of America's sickness, not a cause.

[misanthrope]

30. +1

obvious now

[akbacchus_BC]

26. Don't despair yet, lots of votes still to be counted. nt

[still_one]

28. I am not despairing, but all I am saying this is too close to be considered a

repudiation of trump, regardless of what happens, and that is very sad

[akbacchus_BC]

32. I totally agree with you. I am trying to stay positive.

Looks like 2016 all over again. Cannot believe that the GOP has a majority in the Senate and that asshat Graham retained his seat. Glad that Dems retained control of the House. Given what the pundits were saying, I thought it would be a total Blue wave.

[still_one]

33. Absolutely. Biden is speaking right now, and very positive on where we stand in the election

[Blue_true]

29. I believe that Arizona going blue was massive and if Georgia follows (likely),

the combination is a major repudiation of republican party politics.

[still_one]

31. If that happened it would help give me some hope for America

[Blue_true]

34. Florida is a state of two poles, people that have money and poorly

educated poor people that work for shitty wages. Educated young people end up leaving the state for other states, with the exception of Medicine, but that field in Florida is not spinning off startups like in places like California, Oregon, Washington and Massachusetts.