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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 4
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      Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Nicole Valdes

      We’ve gone tacticool in maricopahttps://twitter.com/nicolevaldestv/status/1324210703603961856?s=21 …

      Venkatesh Rao added,

      0:21
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      This @mcsoaz team just arrived in full tactical gear, got a look at the crowd. Could be planning to make a move on demonstrators outside. pic.twitter.com/TCbKcXRNju
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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 4
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      If this drags on into tomorrow I’ll have to get back to work. Could only block out 2 days for the dooooomscrolling

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 4
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      CNN explains the AZ mystery: late mail/drop off in AZ is skewing republican because they’ve been doing it for longer etc. Unlike everywhere else where it’s tending strongly for Biden.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 4
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      Update soon it looks like. They might have to pause the count till tomorrow because open carry trumpies demonstrating for trump are creating a security situation in the parking lot making a shift change hard or something 🙄

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 4
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      This is kinda idiotic. They’re winning this and disrupting the count?

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 4
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      Okay looks like nothing more will move tonight. GA and AZ will both take overnight at least. GA just narrowed a bit more in favor of Biden. This is like watching Cthulhu colored* paint dry. I’m going to call it a night soon. * greenish grey

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 4
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      CNN is doing a weird analysis where they’re acting like Biden has more of a chance because there’s more combinatorial pathways for him. This is ridiculous. You have to weight that pathways by likelihood. 3 unlikely stories for not represent 3x likelihood as 1 good story.

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 4
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      I think I’ll wake up to AZ and GA being called for Trump by a whisker and NV going from safe to dicey for Biden like AZ did today, and it coming down to PA and a courtroom battle. 😬pic.twitter.com/qhRu7To0zB

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 4
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      Live webcam from PApic.twitter.com/MsCPUSvc6c

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    10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 4
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      Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Maricopa County Elections Department

      Maricopa is continuing the count despite the nazgul buzzing themhttps://twitter.com/maricopavote/status/1324223330912669696?s=21 …

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      Maricopa County Elections DepartmentVerified account @MaricopaVote
      Staff at the @maricopacounty Elections Department will continue our job, which is to administer elections in the second largest voting jurisdiction in the county. We will release results again tonight as planned. We thank the @mcsoaz for doing their job, so we can do ours.
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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 4
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      Calling it a night. Now for another chapter of The Hydrogen Sonata. First Trump term I read all of Pratchett. If he wins again I’m reading all of Iain M. Banks. If Biden wins I’ll have to get back to work since a slim shot at a non-sucky future will be briefly back in play.

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 5
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          Good morning. I see nothing has changed. The universe is still expanding, entropy is still increasing, Trump still hates Edmond Dantes, and the race has narrowed everywhere. I guess the ooga booga will continue until morale improves.

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 5
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          The market isn’t doing anything particularly interesting or intelligent that I can see. It’s such a delightfully mediocre superintelligence. Doesn’t even harbor a basilisk.pic.twitter.com/F0WZV7kqCT

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        4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 5
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          Haven’t really been following senate or house either, but that’s doing what I thought it would. I had some hope of a more decisive rejection of Trump but never believed in a blue wave for congress, and am not sure I even was in favor of it. The party hasn’t earned it.

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        5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 5
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          So looks like a divided Congress by a very slim margin in both houses. Aka gridlock for a president who will be a lame duck on day 1. Which would suit either of them fine. Biden won’t try to be bold with a narrow mandate, Trump has no big ideas now that the courts are secured.

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        6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 5
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          Big picture: Monarch (emperor = potus): weaker First estate (clergy = media): weaker Second estate (nobility = congress): weaker Third estate (“commoners” = stock/home-owning wealthy): stronger Fourth estate (social media): stronger Fifth estate (under-the-API workers): weaker

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        7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 5
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          Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Derek Thompson

          Moodhttps://twitter.com/DKThomp/status/1324380977762885635 …

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          Derek ThompsonVerified account @DKThomp
          It's like the entire country is floating around in some miasmic Don DeLillo fever dream of knowing every last detail about why we will never truly know anything
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        8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 5
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          Commercial break: This part of the tweetstorm is sponsored by Sirius Cybernetics. In the grimdark future there will only be robots with Real People Personalities™ to look forward to.pic.twitter.com/xpWdMB0P9m

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        9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 5
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          Thought: there are elections that change everything (1980, 2016) and ordinary elections that convince you nothing can ever change. There are false positives (2008, 2020) that you think will change everything but reinforce nothing-will-change-itis. And false negatives (1964?)

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        10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 5
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          In the US, only presidential elections seem to have global equilibrium shifting powers. Congress is important mainly for optimizing locally within a new region of attraction set by a narrative shifting president and locking in gains.

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        11. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 5
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          Ok, must save lessons learned for later. Back to meditating on the hive-mind present-moment stream. Nothing continues to furiously happen in AZ, GA, NV, PA. I don’t think NC and AK are meaningfully in the decision matrix.

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        12. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 5
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          Hot take: Contra take that Trump will stick around as a power center even if he loses, because he fueled a red wave to shape congress races... no. He’s done the job the party needed to shift the equilibrium and is too much chaos to keep around. He’ll be kicked to the curb.

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        13. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 5
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          They’ll find some face-saving sidelined role for him and a different way to keep the activated new base engaged and enraged. He was the booster rocket. They’re in orbit now. He’s no longer needed and a serious liability for the exercise of actual political power.

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        14. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 5
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          dzzzzooompic.twitter.com/cCfZYPiw6o

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        15. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 5
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          Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Luke Thomas

          Again I’m not sure. His past TV appeal was based on camp. The audience was mostly laughing at him, not admiring him as he thought. His POTUS rhetorical style was based on whining and evasion and posturing which does not translate well to even Sean Hannity style commentary.https://twitter.com/LukeThinksShow/status/1324472590832861184 …

          Venkatesh Rao added,

          Luke Thomas @LukeThinksShow
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          If he loses, he takes over OANN or Newsmax and immediately dethrones Fox as the leading cable news network.
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        16. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 5
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          He likes to be the center of attention, not comment from the sidelines or merely own the media empire from the back room like Murdoch. Also note that a lot of his charisma is derived from being in office. It’s not clear to me his base will see him the same out of it.

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        17. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 5
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          When people go out on top on their own terms, like star athletes who retire at the right time, many doors are open. I think people are underestimating the effects of even a narrow loss all around. He’ll milk the “unfair theft” shtick for a while but it’s not a career.

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        18. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 5
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          I’m not writing him off. He’s more of a live player at 73 than I am at 47. Runs on pure bile which seems to act as an astonishing elixir of life for him. He’ll find some way to matter. It just won’t be the 2 obvious possibilities of offstage kingmaker in politics or media.

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        19. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 5
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          Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Michael Boudreaux

          True. The birther thing was a major kayfabe win. I’d expect something along those lines. Producer and booster of conspiracy theories. Maybe even documentaries like Al Gore.https://twitter.com/mkbdrx1/status/1324481815667761154 …

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          Michael Boudreaux @mkbdrx1
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          His whole schtick previously was tweeting about Obama though. He can resume that with a much larger audience (cult) than he had
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        20. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 5
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          Typo, I’ll be 46 in a few weeks not 47. Anyhow, still no news huh?

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        21. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 5
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          Pace of nothing happening is beginning to accelerate

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        22. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 5
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          If he wins with PA, it will be vindication of the value of technically correct and statsistically conservative strategy in a game with a long history. He bet on the boring play of rebuilding the Blue Wall that Trump breached in 2016. No fancy narrative. Just do the math right.

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        23. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 5
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          It would be poetic justice if a figurative “rebuilt wall” kept Trump from a second term. Tactical fumbles like the Latinos-against-Socialism stuff in Florida foreshadow future strategic concerns, but in the short term, betting on the proven strategy seems to have been wise.

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        24. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 5
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          Venkatesh Rao Retweeted MUZK 黒い雨。BLACK RAIN。

          A good question in this context. I think "wise" political strategy in US elections is not just making historically data-driven decisions (that's merely smart), but also tuning out all massive noise levels about all sorts of things that just don't matter.https://twitter.com/muzkmuzkmuzk/status/1324526374736982016 …

          Venkatesh Rao added,

          MUZK 黒い雨。BLACK RAIN。 @muzkmuzkmuzk
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          define “wise”
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        25. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 5
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          This might be the first time I've noticed NYT baldly use the word "lies" in a headline about Trump instead of euphemisms like "claimed without evidence" ... has this happened before?pic.twitter.com/YPzLXu2Ifp

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        26. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 5
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          Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Salman  🦊

          Nothing happening at go brrrr rates on CNNhttps://twitter.com/daretorant/status/1324497396848447491?s=21 …

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          Salman  🦊 @daretorant
          me? oh just chillin on my couch with my friend the alert machine... yeah i’m SUPER relaxed how bout u pic.twitter.com/0citn4O0Ax
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        27. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 5
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          Getting bored by this. That’s a good sign. We’re not going back to normal, but we can potentially go back to boring for a while.

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        28. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 5
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          If Biden brings it home I would like to request an ASMR presidency. Happy little trees. Free Bob Ross painting kit for everyone with next stimulus check.

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        29. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 5
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          Oh I just realized Token Republican on CNN is Rick Santorum. This is a world I do rarely pay attention to I don’t know most of the players by face.

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