According to The Guardian, Biden is just 37K behind Trump in GA but Fulton is in. Can that be right?

[Music Man]

I believe The Guardian follows AP: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2020/nov/03/us-election-2020-live-results-donald-trump-joe-biden-who-won-presidential-republican-democrat

I thought there were many more outstanding votes from the Atlanta area left to be counted throughout the night. Anyone know what's up?

[Kaleva]

1. According to the Guardian, DeKalb hasn't reported all votes yet.

[Music Man]

3. You'll have to show me where you see that.

When I click on the map, it says Fulton is 100% reporting.

Hoping you're right

[Kaleva]

5. I made an error, First posted Fulton County but it's DeKalb that hasn't fully reported yet.

[Music Man]

6. OK, thanks! Still wondering what's up.

Given the numbers others have been talking about on this board tonight, I'm trying to make heads or tails of what 100% in means in this case.

EDIT: Looks like I got my question partially answered below (re: DeKalb County).

[qazplm135]

2. plenty of other places left

don't worry

[DemInBuckhead]

4. Atlanta is in Fulton County but immediately east of Atlanta is DeKalb County

There's even a little part of Atlanta that sticks out into DeKalb. Anyway, DeKalb is even more blue than Fulton and it still has votes remaining. It has always reported late, and that's obviously the case this time as well.

[Music Man]

9. That's very helpful! Thank you.

[CatWoman]

11. I live in Dekalb County

[Hoyt]

18. Grew up there, decades ago.

[KentuckyWoman]

15. Actually there a dinky little part in Clayton County too.

Just north of where the City of Forest Park ends.

[wishstar]

7. Fulton elections supervisor said their results wouldn't be in until close to midnight

He said they were not going to release numbers piecemeal tonight, but all at one time when their final counting is completed later tonight and can be certified by their elections board at one time. In person got released previously, but tonight they are counting the additional absentees expected to be around 35,000. But there are other Dem leaning counties reporting tonight also.

[Jarqui]

8. Fulton still has 7% more to come according to CNN

https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/results/president?iid=politics_election_bop
but the difference is 40k ...

All these Dem counties have votes to come:

Dekalb has 10% to come

Clayton has 16% to come

Douglas has 7%

Cobb 8%

Richmond has 14%

Chatham 13%

Dougherty 43%

Muskogee 11%


(could have missed some .. I see nothing close to comparable for Trump)

[SKKY]

17. And in all of these, it's early/absentee ballots that are being counted...

...and that is what makes all the difference.

[Jarqui]

19. I used the prevailing % rates for each candidate in each county and

extrapolated the votes for each candidate when Joe was behind 40,000 or so.

It calculates to Joe gaining 84,000 more votes than Trump.

I ignored the 3rd candidate because I did not have that data easily.
So 84,000 slightly overstates Joe's projected pickup.

But if it's absentee ballots, that probably more than offsets ignoring the 3rd candidate because Dems do very well with absentee ballots.

This state is definitely still in play and Joe has a very decent shot of winning it.

If Joe wins this, it gets really hard for Trump to steal the election in the courts.

[In It to Win It]

10. I'm not certain because NYT is reporting the same vote totals in those counties but says

Dekalb is at 90% complete and Fulton at 93%

I'm not sure if either one is correct on votes left to count

[greenjar_01]

12. Fulton County Director of Elections says they're still counting votes

Should be done after midnight tonight.

[oswaldactedalone]

13. About 120K votes left in Ga

About 60K in the atlanta area. Joe down about 39K.

[Goodheart]

14. CNN says that Ga's Sec of State says 122,500 ballots still to count, half from Fulton

So, Biden needs an 82-43 split.

[TrishaJ]

16. Yes. But DeKalb County is not all in.

DeKalb is part of metro Atlanta and is heavily BLUE.