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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPennsylvania looks like it's going to seal the deal for Joe Biden.
With Joe Biden at 253 electoral votes, Pennsylvania's 20 votes alone would end it.
Analysis: Biden appears to have an edge in the votes that have yet to be counted.
Pennsylvania: So far, Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic candidate, has been winning absentee votes, 77 percent to 22 percent, according to the Pennsylvania secretary of state. At that pace, he needs only 288,000 more mail votes before taking the lead. By my count, there are about 500,000 mail ballots left. The secretary of state reported a total of 2.6 million absentee ballots cast as of Tuesday, and so far 2.1 million absentee votes have been counted. If Mr. Biden won those 500,000 ballots by the same pace, he would end with a lead of about 100,000 votes in the state. Thats a pretty decent cushion. That estimate may also be conservative. The remaining mail ballots are disproportionately in Democratic counties, and there are more remaining absentee votes than estimated here.
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Even if this somehow goes wrong there are other ways that Biden can win.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)PubliusEnigma
(1,583 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)getagrip_already
(14,647 posts)The philly area alone has enough votes to close this.
Botany
(70,449 posts)n/t
awesomerwb1
(4,265 posts)Don't care by how much just as long as he wins!
catbyte
(34,341 posts)AkFemDem
(1,823 posts)getagrip_already
(14,647 posts)Pitts area. Other regions are still counting.
FakeNoose
(32,599 posts)It's not that they stopped, they are done with the count. I believe they still need to run the military absentee votes and the provisional ballots that were issued on election day. Those won't be run until next week, as I understand it.
pandr32
(11,562 posts)I saw a video of them being carefully gone over to make sure there are no mistakes. Who knows how many?
Under The Radar
(3,401 posts)We have seen election polling for two years now. If the election we held today at least once a week.
National averages mean little when it is this close because even in California, the rural areas are consistently conservative and the urban areas even in Texas are liberal.
I am so sick of the spin, so tired of the optimistic speculation, power of positive thinking bullstuff, cause right now if it isnt based on fact, it is only a lie.