Election 2020: Thus far, what has shocked you about this election?

[In It to Win It]

For me, there are a couple things...

1) I didn't expect this election to be a blowout, but I didn't expect it to be the squeaker that it has become.

2) As a Floridian, I wanted Florida to go for Joe (I'm sure we all would have liked that). I had no idea that the GOP-voting population had grown as much as it did since 2016. I didn't expect Trump to completely outperform his 2016 turnout by such a huge number. He's gotten over 1M votes more than he did in 2016.

[MaryMagdaline]

1. Not a damn thing except we are winning

[In It to Win It]

2. Love it!

[Marius25]

3. That Trump and Republicans did so well considering

how awful the last 4 years have been.

[In It to Win It]

24. When Trump got elected in 2016, I saw the circus that his campaign was

and I figured we would get that same circus (dumpster fire, shit show, etc) in the WH... and we got exactly that.

I thought more people would see the circus, and be turn off from him. Apparently people like the shit show. I'm astonished that FOUR MILLION MORE people actually stood in line to vote for this guy.

[Native]

4. Both, and in that order. I'm a Floridian too.

[fierywoman]

5. The abject corruption. And the utter stupidity of not understanding that anything digital is

probably hackable.

[ZZenith]

22. Thank you.

Exactly how I feel.

[durablend]

6. Just how much deplorable shit there is in the country

Knew there was a lot of it, but didn't think this much.

[empedocles]

13. Blue collar fears of lockdowns and the next paycheck.

[In It to Win It]

20. That crossed my mind. Trump is for opening the economy despite COVID

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It crossed my mind that people may be COVID-fatigued and want things opened up, and therefore that would translate to Trump votes.

[Hoyt]

7. That anyone believed the polls.

Christ, I saw DUers criticizing people who posted warning not to get complacent.

[ZZenith]

25. Polls always wrong in favor of Republicans.

Nothing fishy about that, is there?

Can’t possibly be a corrupt election system, no sir.

[Blasphemer]

8. Definitely didn't expect the squeaker. I thought we'd get a big win to lead to an early call

Florida, Ohio, or Texas. The Senate is not a surprise, exactly. All the races had been tightening but I was hoping for at least one more pickup between MT, IA, KS and ME.

[In It to Win It]

16. I thought the Maine senate race would have been a closer race.

I thought there may have been more straight ticket voting this time around in Maine, and Biden would help Gideon with a boost.

[BootinUp]

9. WI. How the fleep can it be so close. It's like we

Missed a whole slew of votes that were expected. Covid challenges I assume.

The rest of it should wait for more votes to be counted.

[Trumpocalypse]

10. Thought Democrats would have done

better in House and Senate races.

[In It to Win It]

52. I didn't expect GOP turnout to be as high as it was. I expected GOP turnout to be around 2016 levels

They crushed their turnout. Their turnout was massive. I think most of us underestimated it.

I'm sure we would have crushed them in the House and Senate races, but for their turnout numbers. I think we did our jobs improving our own turnout numbers such a large amount but I didn't expect the same on their side as well. It doesn't seem like anyone did, especially if you looked at the media. A lot of the media expected high turnout among Dems and therefore would expand the House majority and flip seats in the Senate.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

11. None of it.

[SheltieLover]

12. Thqt there is a known russian asset running for pres & openly cheating

[Mike 03]

14. You hit two really important ones.

As an aside, I'm disappointed Ernst and Collins were re-elected. It's sickening. I really thought we could regain the Senate, and that those two were going down.

[In It to Win It]

18. I thought Maine and Iowa would have been closer races. I also thought that Iowa would be a tough

pickup for Joe in the EC, but obtainable considering Trump really screwed farmers on these trade deals.

[napi21]

15. I didn't expect Ga. to really be this close! I live here in Ga. & I don't know anyone who would

ever think about voting for a Democratic candidate!

[In It to Win It]

29. That is one of the positives for me. Even if Joe doesn't win GA, the fact that it's this close

gives me optimism.

[zipplewrath]

17. AA vote

That he expanded his support (albeit low) over 4 years ago in the black community.

[Hortensis]

19. The dangerous people voting for continuation of crimes against humanity,

endorsement of crime and smashing laws and norms, depraved indifference to life that's developed an opportunistic "cleansing" of supposed only old into a holocaust, cannibalizing the working classes to serve our new kleptocracy...oh, hell, on and on.

Those who didn't admit before that it not only could happen here but with today's increasingly authoritarian white male power Republican leaders is should have all doubts settled.

But we're going to stop it, as we did nearly 100 ago as other nations fell to their worst elements.

[DeminPennswoods]

21. The down ballot voting discipline of

Rs/Trumpers here in PA.

[Binkie The Clown]

23. I am most surprised by the sheer number of morons in this country. nt

[In It to Win It]

26. ..and this year proved that there are even more morons than we knew about in 2016

[AZ8theist]

30. I USED TO BE surprised by the number of idiots....

but no longer. We are a nation filled with morons. The Repuke war on education over the last half century has seen to that...

[In It to Win It]

34. I was surprised in 2016. They're out, loud and proud now.

[sarisataka]

27. Honestly- not much

But then I was a doom and gloomer warning against complacency...

I expected Biden to have be +2M popular votes and the EV would be 274

[Buckeye_Democrat]

28. The polling...AGAIN!

How do these pollsters operate? Do they usually hire people to ask questions, or are the questions automated?

Most people don't answer their phones anymore if they don't recognize the number. Are Trumpers even more that way?

Do the pollsters often hire minorities to ask the questions? If so, I'm sure that many racists would either hang up on them or they'd intentionally give deceptive answers.

[lpbk2713]

31. There's one thing among others I just can't grasp ...

Is it even possible that many people might think they are better of than they were
four years ago? The Kool-Aid plant must have been working double overtime.

[lastlib]

32. Hispanics voting for the dark side!

WHY ON EARTH would any Hispanic person vote for that shithead??

[In It to Win It]

37. The socialism/communism label that the GOP attaches to Dems

is a killer for Florida Hispanics.

They buy into the GOP propaganda, who themselves are no less socialistic.

[LeftInTX]

54. The South Texas Mexican-Americans are starting to tilt to him

They want the wall built and are blaming Covid on Mexico.

Children in cages isn't a deal breaker for them.

There are alot of redneck Mexicans in South Texas.

[Rice4VP]

44. They've been saying since the summer that the Cubans and

Venezuelans in Miami like Trump and think Biden is a socialist. They’ve been running ads comparing him to Castro. Hispanic people also looked at the stimulus check as economic growth

[Raine]

33. Nothing really, I figured it would turn into a fiasco. 😡 nt

[W_HAMILTON]

35. The persistent stupidity of a large -- albeit minority -- of Americans...

...and how in the hell we deal with it going forward.

[marlakay]

36. This is a state one I am not shocked any more

About how brain washed people are throughout the country.

Live in Oregon and we had a proposition to decriminalize hard drugs and make mushrooms legal done at doctors office. It was promoted on all the ads as helping with ptsd and using marijuana money for health drug centers. With 80% of vote in it is leading by 11% and even leading in my conservative county by 2%.

That shocked me don't know why, didn't think it would pass but I read my state was first in 1973 to decriminalize marijuana.

[Ace Rothstein]

38. The results are pretty meh.

It looks like Trump will lose which is great but there was a lot of not so great news as well.

We aren't going to take the Senate.
We are going to have a net loss of House seats.
We are actually going to end up losing a state legislature when we were predicted to win as many as five. This doesn't bode well for redistricting.

[In It to Win It]

39. Whoa!

Which state legislature did we lose? I didn’t see much about state legislature races... and I looked.

[Ace Rothstein]

42. New Hampshire

The coverage has been so slanted to one race.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

43. My county results looked like a big red wave...

... other than Biden beating Trump.

My all-Democratic ballot barely made a dent in the results.

[Ace Rothstein]

45. Same here.

One local state legislature seat that was solid Dem for 20 years and flipped around 2014 went something like 65/35 Republican.

[bif]

40. That 48% of voters still support this criminal!

[Rice4VP]

41. North Carolina and Maine. I thought we would get

those two senate seats. I thought Biden might win NC too.

I had Georgia and Arizona on my electoral map. Black people stood on line in Georgia for 10 hours, it’s obvious that they weren’t voting for Trump so that’s why Biden my pull ahead there.

Not shocked about Florida. They’ve been saying for MONTHS that the Cubans and Venezuelans think Biden is a socialist

[jmg257]

46. Just how many people do not hold trump accountable for anything - its always someone else

at fault.

1000 people dying almost everyday since February, and they just do not care.

[treestar]

47. The long line at the polls

which I thought meant people were turning out to get rid of the Dotard. In a way it was, but I'm in Delaware, where Biden got 58%. Maybe some native son feeling.

[mtnsnake]

48. Nothing shocks me anymore about any of it. Nothing.

[peggysue2]

49. After 2018 and our rousing success, I admit I was shocked at the number of Trumpers

Shocked that so many Americans would vote for the most corrupt, cruel and incompetent man for POTUS, again.

Which firms up the theory IMHO that this is truly a cult of personality. Trump's name wasn't on the ticket in 2018 and we swept the country winning in places that surprised even the pundits. But this year? The Trumpers couldn't' get enough of the man and his disgraceful behavior. After 4 miserable years of non-leadership, the sexism, racism, etc., it all boils down to an astounding number of Americans just don't care about anything other than tawdry entertainment and defiant ignorance.

Covid didn't change their minds, even though Dr. Fauci was right about the current surge--100,000 new cases per day, 1200 deaths. The economy going in the tank didn't move them. The raw injustice and bigotry played to their own beliefs to the point where vigilantism has been celebrated. And those babies in cages? Blame it on the parents, those fleeing economic hardships and/or violent persecution. They also agree with all the whining, the grievance mantra that Trump proudly waves to cheers and howls and chants of "Lock him/her up."

This is what we're up against. This is why we fight. Because this depraved behavior and mindset cannot stand, not in a democratic Republic, not in any civilized, rational society.

[In It to Win It]

50. For me, it's that MORE PEOPLE support him now than before

That’s baffling

[peggysue2]

51. Agreed.

Baffling and chilling.

Because no one can pretend they don't know who or what Donald Trump really is.

[LeftInTX]

53. Latinos are breaking for Trump in South Texas

Depressing.....

These are not cubans, these are Mexican-Americans