That's my gut feeling.

I don't think it's at all impossible for Biden to win, but that's my gut feeling.

To be more specific: I think the "Red Mirage" scenario will happen. Trump will have a lead on election night and he and the Republicans will pull some fuckery to stop mail-ins from being counted in the right places.

If it gets to the Supreme Court, either Biden and the Dems will pull a Gore and surrender the election without a fight, or the Court will rule in his favor and hand him victory.

History will repeat itself.

  • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    This logic only applies to mail-in ballots that arrive after election day, though. The vast majority of early voting was in-person or mail-in well before election day, so it will get counted along with day-of in person votes just the same.

    • budoguytenkaichi [he/him,they/them]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      It should also be noted however that for the past several months Trump and the Republicans have done their damnedest to fuck with the entire mail-in system and make it as broken and inefficient as possible.

      We'll find out soon enough whether or not they did enough damage to make up the difference.

      • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        What they fucked with was the USPS, not the way mail-in votes are counted (generally, they did get a few court cases here and there to limit mail-in counting). And I don't have numbers for this, but I'm pretty confident most of those mail-in votes have already arrived, and there are way more in-person early votes than mail-in.