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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: albaby1 SILVER
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Subject: Re: WHERE did Dem voters go?
Date: 11/06/24 12:19 PM
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I can't help notice the progression of uncounted votes in your last few posts. Started with millions but not twenty, then ten million, now ranging up to as high as 15 million. Just having fun. Reminds me of that Speckled Trout I caught, by the fourth time I told the story, that fish had become a record breaker.

You mean the twenty million votes? Or the thirty?

Your explanation actually makes me look better - the truth is I'm just lazy. I had started writing the previous post without looking up what percentage of returns were in, so at the beginning of the paragraph I knew it was millions but not how many. By the time I finished the post I had clicked over to wiki and saw that 87% had been reported, so I knew it was more than ten million - but I was too lazy to either edit or do the math. Then for the next post I did the math in my head, and came up with 15 million as a ballpark. It might actually end up being closer to 20 - if ~138 million reported votes is only 87% of ballots cast, then there's some 19 million still to come. Again, don't know if wiki is accurate.

But that makes it almost dead certain that Trump will have received more votes than in 2020. It makes it possible, but very unlikely, that Harris will have outperformed Biden's total from 2020. Total turnout may have gone up a smidge.
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