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2020 Election Recap, Discord Chat, and What’s To Come
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2020 Election Recap, Discord Chat, and What’s To Come

Posted: 14 Nov 2020 03:35 AM PST

Good morning, afternoon, or evening from warm, sunny Israel.

.חבריי האמריקאים

As the US 2020 General Election has finally come to a close with President-elect Joe Biden chosen as the 46th President of the United States, we'd like to recap what seemed like an eternity for the subreddit and many users alike.

Below you will find a variety of statistics and information about our Election Coverage 2020, as well as a bit of background on what made it happen, some of our favorite moments, and a big announcement for the /r/Politics community. We'd love to hear your feedback and thoughts on how we ran our election coverage and the time leading up to it. Please let us know which joke or meme was your favorite as well!

The winners of the Presidential Prediction Contest will be announced after the Georgia runoff elections.

Acknowledgements

First and foremost, I would like to take the opportunity to thank my amazing teammates for their hard work over the past several months and beyond, who made our coverage. Although you often see moderators out and about, that is only the tip of the iceberg for what goes on behind the scenes. Below are shout outs to just some of the many team members who work day in and out to make the community possible:

/u/Isentrope led our efforts to compile regular polling and state election threads, putting together a small team of moderators to organize the information and collect it together. Later in the cycle, he helped guide the creation of a bot to automate parts of the process.
/u/Chris_Hansen_AMA, /u/dottiemommy, /u/JonAce, /u/likeafox, /u/_mr0, /u/remiel, and /u/TheUnknownSticher put together our final election coverage system in the week leading up to the event.
/u/Chris_Hansen_AMA, /u/dottiemommy, /u/Isentrope, /u/_mr0, /u/Ominaeo, /u/Qu1nlan, /u/remiel, /u/thebsoftelevision, /u/TrueAmurrican, and /u/wil_daven_ updated our live thread around to clock to bring you the latest updates.
/u/wildaven started our press briefing coverage, with several hundred threads throughout the Trump presidency. We plan to continue this coverage for Biden and beyond.
/u/Qu1nlan runs our excellent Ask Me Anything (AMA) program, which has been instrumental in bringing politicians, journalists, and advocacy groups to the community. Notable was Stacey Abrams, who helped register over 800,000 disenfranchised Georgian voters and flipped the state blue in the 2020 election. See our calendar for upcoming AMAs.
/u/Calahara and the chat moderation team give users a place to connect and converse with each other in real time.
/u/exoendo, /u/MuffinMedic, ,/u/samplebitch, and /u/txmadison wrote the multiple bots that improve our workflow. These tools help check for rule-breaking content, automate the creation of discussion and megathreads, and allow the team to interact with Reddit across multiple platforms.
Admins from the Reddit Trust & Safety, software engineering, and infrastructure teams helped ensure everything ran smoothly and safely.

/r/Politics Discord Server

In addition to record-breaking subreddit engagement, users have shown throughout the election and months leading up to it that they have a strong desire to connect with their fellow politically-involved community members from across the world. Chat has been a part of /r/Politics for a long time - first as IRC, then OrangeChat, and now Reddit Chat. As usage has grown rapidly and our chat moderators struggle to keep up, we've outgrown these systems and the tools they offer.

Therefore, we are thrilled to launch the official /r/Politics Discord server. The brainchild of our chat moderator /u/Calahara, thousands of moderators, Redditors, and subreddits are already engaged in a multitude of servers and are familiar with the platform. Migrating to Discord gives us more flexibility in creating an environment that fosters communication, improves moderation capabilities, and helps users further engage with us and each other.

We've been rolling the server out to our Reddit Chat regulars over the past week and invite you to come check out the newest part of our community, discuss the latest happenings in politics, and try and top us at our meme game. The link can also be found in our sidebar.

Verification

Users are required to verify their Reddit accounts upon joining to participate. The system uses the AltDentifier bot to verify Reddit accounts. Both the Discord and Reddit logins occur directly through the respective websites and the bot never has access to your personal information.

Statistics

Our non-stop election day coverage began with our first polls open thread on 11/3 03:00 AM and ended with the completion of the President-elect Biden's victory speech at 11/7 07:31 PM, lasting for 4 days, 16 hours, and 31 minutes. We hosted a total of 87 threads, including:

1 live thread
5 poll open threads
78 results threads (including 22 fun themes)
1 projection megathread
1 victory speech thread

Users upvoted 442,936 times and discussed the election in 2,093,874 comments. They spent 2,093,100 coins to give 9,088 awards, worth over 20 years of Reddit Premium.

Highlights

Our Biden victory megathread quickly rose to become the #1 thread in all of /r/Politics history with 207,357 upvotes, beating the previous record by over 50,000 votes.

The live thread ran for over 72 hours straight, our longest single thread to date.

In addition to the non-partisan election coverage, we also used this opportunity to have some fun and engage with the community. Our meme game improved substantially through a series of themed results threads. Some of our favorites include:

Our now infamous shitposting began with the flirty Part 30, where we may have gotten a bit too frisky, leading to...
When a user replied with the 1 millionth election comment in Part 41, it finally hit us in there was no escape.
Moderator /u/TheUnknownStitcher slid into Part 44 and dropped a beat in his debut single. He will be releasing his first rap album shortly and proceeds will go towards repleneshing the team's coffee & alcohol supplies.
Part 69, where users quickly replied with over 30,000 comments saying "Nice."
Part 76 "No Declaration" - While waiting on day 4 for the election to be called, we paid homage in to the 1776 Declaration of Independence and its acknowledgement of the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
"A New Hope" for Part 77 in honor of the 1977 release of the first Star Wars film.

Threads

Number	Thread	Date	Theme	Comments	Upvotes	Awards	Coins
1	Discussion Thread: General Election 2020 - Polls Open	11/3 03:00 AM	Part 1	16,094	1,630	7	390
2	Live Thread: General Election 2020	11/3 03:00 AM	Live updates	1	8,809	45	4,430
3	Discussion Thread: General Election 2020 - Polls Open	11/3 09:49 AM	Part 2	16,680	1,480	5	390
4	Discussion Thread: General Election 2020 - Polls Open	11/3 12:33 PM	Part 3	16,049	1,355	4	270
5	Discussion Thread: General Election 2020 - Polls Open	11/3 02:46 PM	Part 4	16,128	1,280	2	90
6	Discussion Thread: General Election 2020 - Polls Open	11/3 04:36 PM	Part 5	17,588	1,125	1	100
7	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 1	11/3 05:55 PM	6:00pm (ET) Poll Close (IN, KY)	23,916	1,651	4	130
8	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 2	11/3 06:59 PM	7:00pm (ET) Poll Close (FL, GA, IN, KY*, SC, VA, VT)	12,957	1,190	1	10
9	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 3	11/3 07:30 PM	7:30pm (ET) Poll Close (NC†, OH, WV)	12,167	831	0	0
10	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 4	11/3 08:00 PM	8:00pm (ET) Poll Close (AL, CT, DE, FL, IL, KS, ME, MD, MA, MI, MS, MO, NH, NJ, ND, OK, PA, RI, SD, TN, TX*, DC)	14,870	1,193	0	0
11	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 5	11/3 08:30 PM	8:30pm (ET) Poll Close (AR)	14,735	860	2	510
12	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 6	11/3 09:00 PM	9:00pm (ET) Poll Close (AZ, CO, KS, LA, MI, MN, NE, NM, NY, ND, SD, TX, WI, WY)	28,443	1,923	5	615
13	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 7	11/3 10:00 PM	10:00pm (ET) Poll Close (ID, IA, MT, NV, OR, UT)	32,030	1,557	4	40
14	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 8	11/3 11:00 PM	11:00pm (ET) Poll Close (CA, ID**, OR**,WA)	28,539	1,504	0	0
15	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 9	11/3 11:59 PM	12:00am (ET) Poll Close (AK, HI)	28,253	1,280	5	390
16	# Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 10	11/4 01:00 AM	1am (ET) Poll Close AK \	Counting Continues into Tomorrow	45,056	1,956	1
17	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 11	11/4 03:00 AM	Results Continue	34,841	1,524	5	530
18	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 12	11/4 05:09 AM	Results Continue	29,880	1,164	1	100
19	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 13	11/4 06:56 AM	Results Continue	23,328	1,159	4	380
20	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 14	11/4 08:10 AM	Results Continue	24,556	1,084	0	0
21	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 15	11/4 09:13 AM	Results Continue	27,172	1,370	1	300
22	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 16	11/4 10:21 AM	Results Continue	20,491	1,158	0	0
23	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 17	11/4 11:17 AM	Results Continue	22,527	1,208	0	0
24	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 18	11/4 12:10 PM	Results Continue	30,442	1,632	4	610
25	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 18	11/4 01:35 PM	Results Continue	23,705	1,352	5	725
26	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 20	11/4 02:42 PM	Results Continue	26,208	1,351	0	0
27	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 21	11/4 03:26 PM	Results Continue	18,038	1,088	2	180
28	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 22	11/4 04:19 PM	Results Continue	20,096	1,195	2	200
29	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 23	11/4 05:00 PM	Results Continue	19,668	1,134	5	775
30	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 24	11/4 05:40 PM	Results Continue	24,099	1,246	1	100
31	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 25	11/4 06:32 PM	Results Continue	19,508	1,313	0	0
32	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 26	11/4 07:17 PM	Results Continue	20,219	1,166	0	0
33	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 27	11/4 08:01 PM	Results Continue	19,893	1,234	0	0
34	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 28	11/4 08:47 PM	Results Continue	17,180	1,100	1	150
35	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 29	11/4 09:26 PM	Results Continue	17,987	1,057	0	0
36	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 30	11/4 10:06 PM	Thirty, Flirty, and Thriving	17,793	1,759	0	0
37	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 31	11/4 10:46 PM	Results Continue	26,560	1,381	3	750
38	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 32	11/5 12:00 AM	Results Continue	31,113	1,607	5	1,150
39	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 33	11/5 02:00 AM	Results Continue	18,249	984	1	100
40	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 34	11/5 04:00 AM	Results Continue	18,552	939	0	0
41	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 35	11/5 06:49 AM	Results Continue	16,640	1,035	0	0
42	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 36	11/5 08:30 AM	Will Today be the Day?	17,327	1,127	2	380
43	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 37	11/5 09:33 AM	Will Today be the Day?	17,175	1,057	0	0
44	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 38	11/5 10:22 AM	Will Today be the Day?	17,385	1,033	0	0
45	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 39	11/5 11:10 AM	Will Today be the Day?	17,654	1,015	1	150
46	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 40	11/5 11:52 AM	Lordy, Lordy, Disco 40	19,055	1,317	9	1,750
47	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 41	11/5 12:33 PM	In Too Deep (One Million Comment Bonanza)	20,393	1,481	3	270
48	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 42	11/5 01:15 PM	Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything	17,591	2,019	1	150
49	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 43	11/5 02:04 PM	(Forty-Three) is the Natural Number Following 42 and Preceding 44	18,321	1,397	1	100
50	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 44	11/5 02:53 PM	This is Becoming a Chore, our Fingers are Sore, Do We Really Need Any More?	20,321	2,208	2	250
51	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 45	11/5 03:42 PM	Mambo 45	13,066	1,060	7	1,350
52	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 46	11/5 04:09 PM	But Who's Counting?	22,092	1,699	12	1,695
53	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 47	11/5 04:58 PM	Results Narrowing	26,449	1,244	2	275
54	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 48	11/5 05:55 PM	Results Narrowing	26,070	1,131	2	425
55	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 49	11/5 06:37 PM	Trump Delivers Remarks	24,355	1,243	0	0
56	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 50	11/5 07:07 PM	Results Narrowing	20,460	1,700	1	150
57	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 51	11/5 07:52 PM	Results Narrowing	17,973	1,341	2	130
58	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 52	11/5 08:31 PM	Results Narrowing	20,838	1,222	0	0
59	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 53	11/5 09:13 PM	Bottles of Beer on the Wall...	21,350	1,629	0	0
60	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 54	11/5 09:53 PM	How Many More?!	20,316	1,284	2	200
61	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 55	11/5 10:32 PM	I Can't Drive	21,606	1,376	1	20
62	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 56	11/5 11:17 PM	Results Narrowing	31,443	1,529	3	475
63	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 57	11/6 12:30 AM	Results Narrowing	27,725	1,343	5	480
64	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 58	11/6 02:30 AM	Results Narrowing	23,197	1,025	4	650
65	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 59	11/6 04:14 AM	Results Narrowing	5,024	296	4	825
66	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 59	11/6 04:30 AM	Results Narrowing	18,608	1,134	4	450
67	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 60	11/6 06:12 AM	The Cycle Continues	18,709	1,679	0	0
68	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 61	11/6 07:40 AM	The Land Down Under	21,234	1,448	1	100
69	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 62	11/6 08:54 AM	And now, the end is near...	11,559	1,853	11	3,105
70	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 63	11/6 09:15 AM	Updates on GA and PA	20,793	2,179	10	1,025
71	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 64	11/6 10:05 AM	Updates on GA and PA Continue	23,097	1,751	3	300
72	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 65	11/6 11:11 AM	Updates on GA, PA, and AZ Continue	25,718	1,749	2	400
73	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 66	11/6 12:33 PM	Updates on GA, PA, and AZ Continue	22,912	1,767	1	100
74	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 67	11/6 01:54 PM	Updates on GA, PA, and AZ Continue	16,032	1,331	1	300
75	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 68	11/6 03:01 PM	Updates on GA, PA, and AZ Continue	17,879	1,445	1	125
76	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 69	11/6 03:59 PM	Nice	59,545	39,780	438	70,035
77	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 70	11/6 05:16 PM	No Fun Allowed	29,113	2,877	5	930
78	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 71	11/6 07:02 PM	The Wait Continues	17,248	2,139	1	150
79	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 72	11/6 08:03 PM	Biden to Speak	24,817	1,918	4	290
80	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 73	11/6 09:32 PM	Biden Still Planning on Speaking	28,953	2,188	2	180
81	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 74	11/6 11:02 PM	One Way or Another	12,758	1,085	2	200
82	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 75	11/7 12:00 AM	Here It Goes Again	25,307	1,622	2	400
83	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 76	11/7 03:57 AM	No Declaration	25,095	1,611	1	300
84	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 77	11/7 08:45 AM	A New Hope	22,293	2,317	7	1,375
85	Discussion Thread: 2020 General Election Part 78	11/7 11:11 AM	And the Yankees Take the Lead!	9,432	1,442	5	605
86	Megathread: Joe Biden Projected to Defeat President Donald Trump and Win the 2020 US Presidential Election	11/7 11:28 AM	Election called	84,676	207,363	8,198	1,968,975
87	Discussion Thread: President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris Address the Nation	11/7 07:31 PM	8:00 PM	31,608	25,052	26	3,415

Additionally, we had a local downballot discussion after our coverage of the elections came to a close.

tl;dr: Thanks to many, our election day coverage was a huge success, we upped our meme game, and come chat with us.

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Saturday Morning Political Cartoon Thread

Posted: 14 Nov 2020 08:15 AM PST

It's Saturday, folks. Let's all kick back with a cup of coffee and share some cartoons!

Feel free to share political cartoons in this thread. Besides our usual civility policy, there are three rules to follow:

Every top-level comment must contain a political cartoon. This means no text-only top-level comments.
It must be an original cartoon. This means no photographs, no edited cartoons, no memes and no image macros. OC is allowed, as is animation.
Each top-level comment should only have a maximum of 3 cartoons.

That's all. Enjoy your weekend!

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Jared and Ivanka are poised to return to a Manhattan social scene that no longer welcomes them

Posted: 14 Nov 2020 06:41 AM PST