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For reasons, I ended up watching CBSN on election night. For much of the night, I was impressed with CBSN. Their liberal bias was there, easily seen, but they contained themselves pretty well.
All the chatter seemed factual, and on target. The numbers seemed reasonable, even accurate.
Then - Trump made an appearance on television. FFS, it was, quite bluntly, childish whining. "We've won this election, and the evil Dems are withholding my coronation!"
At that point, the pundits fell back to repeating dem talking points, yada yada yada.
I've said it many times - if Trump could just STFU sometimes, the world would be a better place.
As for the numbers? Georgia is getting close, but Fulton county has problems and is unable to finish counting tonight. North Carolina is really close to an R victory, but they still have a lot of mail-in ballots that aren't counted. Penna boils down to Philly, and those aren't going to be counted tonight.
Michigan and Wisconsin aren't even close to being safely called yet. There are roughly 5 million uncounted votes remaining among those five states. That is more than enough to swing an election!
Arizona could possibly go R yet, but it seems highly unlikely.
Boys and girls, I do believe Trump is going to win. Once again, it's going to be a close thing, and Biden may or may not actually win the popular vote. But, I think Trump will get the Electoral College again.
I'll have more later, I just wanted to get my initial impression of Trumps whining out there before I forget how pissed off I am.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 04 2020, @04:15PM
I wanted to post about this last night but SoylentNews censored my message with the lameness filter. Hopefully this post gets through.
Rick Santorum was on CNN after Trump's speech. Santorum is a conservative Republican. He usually defends Trump. He said he understands Trump's frustration about votes being counted slowly and understands why it would be annoying that states can't be called. He said it was reasonable for both candidates to speak and express hope and confidence that they will prevail. But he said that Trump was out of line for calling for the counting of votes to stop in places like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. He also called out the hypocrisy of wanting vote counting to continue in Arizona because it probably benefits him while wanting counting to stop elsewhere. He also said very clearly that nothing nefarious is going on in places like Pennsylvania, nothing that there are cameras monitoring places where votes are counted in Philadelphia. He said that vote counting was halted for the night because poll workers needed to get some sleep so they are alert and don't make mistakes while counting the votes. Again, this is Rick Santorum saying Trump was out of line and strongly objecting to his speech.
Santorum is right. Count all of the votes in all of the states. And he was very critical of Trump's speech for suggesting that the election results won't be legitimate in those states, that votes shouldn't be counted, and the hypocrisy of wanting counting to continue in Arizona.
Trump's speech last night was disgraceful. Count all of the votes. If Trump wins once the votes are counted, we should all accept the results of the election. That means there shouldn't be any rioting or looting. If votes that were cast legally according to the law in those states don't get counted, that is the one thing that would call into question the legitimacy of the election. Trump is way out of line.
Thankfully it looks like my message won't be censored by the lameness filter this time. I'm really disappointed in SoylentNews that my post last night saying essentially the same thing with a similar tone was blocked from Azuma Hazuki's journal. I sent an email last night and they need to fix the filter because it shouldn't be censoring political speech.