James Carville predicts a blowout: 'We're going to know the winner of this election by 10pm tomorrow

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November 2, 2020
By Sarah K. Burris

Former top adviser to former President Bill Clinton, James Carville, anticipates that Election Night will be a short night for everyone.

Speaking to MSNBC on Monday with former campaign manager for President Barack Obama David Plouffe, Carville said that he expects the election to be called by 10 p.m. that night.

“What people are doing is unnecessarily scaring people and making them unnecessarily nervous,” said Carville. “That event he had — David Plouffe is exactly right, that event in North Carolina, a state if he loses, I don’t want to wait on Pennsylvania. In North Carolina, he’s going to lose. That event was literally insane. You’re in eastern North Carolina, a state that you’ve got to win and you’re talking about some pollster at Fox News? It is literally insane that anybody — any politician would use that as a closing argument. I am not the least bit concerned about the outcome tomorrow night, and I’m not the least bit concerned that we’re going to have to wait weeks or months to find out what the result is. We’ll know and we’ll know early.”

Even when it comes to voter suppression efforts and legal challenges like the Texas Biden bus assault and the police pepper-spraying Black voters, Carville said that it’s only going to turn people away from Trump and motivate more Biden supporters to come to the polls.

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[C_U_L8R]

1. Blue wave rising

Let’s do this!

[TwilightZone]

2. I think it's election night, as well.

The timing might be slightly later depending on when certain states (like WI) call.

[question everything]

3. Let'ss take him with a grain of salt

After the 2008 elections, he determined that Democrats would rule the country for the next 40 years..

[Blue_true]

30. And his estimate was right.

Had it not been for attacks on Hillary in 2016 from far left democrats, she would be standing for re-election tomorrow and would likely be in a position for a landslide win, after handling the SAR-COV-2 crisis soundly.

[question everything]

35. I don't think he limited it to the presidency, although even if Hillary won still short of 40 years

and we lost the Senate in 2010.

I suppose his comment should have had an asterisk exempting him if there was a healthcare overhaul.

[CottonBear]

4. The Raging Cajun!

I just listened to David Plouffe’s & Steve Schmidt’s recent Battleground podcast episode with guests Stuart Stevens and James Carville.

I feel somewhat better now, however, I am still very anxious.

[Blue_true]

33. After 2016, it is rational to be anxious.

I have a bit of nervousness now, sort of like I had the day before the 2018 Midterms.

[wryter2000]

5. If that's 10 pm Eastern

I won't even be drunk by then.

[BannonsLiver]

13. I think he meant 10 pm CST

Pretty sure he lives in Louisiana.

[lagomorph777]

20. Maybe we should start drinking early.

Remember when we had to time the joint just right at the Van Halen concert? Because we were too young to afford enought for the whole show?

[flying rabbit]

36. +1 nt

[honest.abe]

23. Im sure he meant 10pm Central.

which would align with west coast polls closing.

[unblock]

6. Don't polls close at 8pm pacific time on the west coast? I don't think they will call it until 11pm

Eastern time.

[Wellstone ruled]

7. Oh boy,Mrs. Green Jeans

does not like that kind of talk. Carville caused the so called Queen of the Reporters some major discomfort.

[LizBeth]

8. I think so too.

[obamanut2012]

9. I don't often say this, but I agree with Carville n/t

[Solly Mack]

10. I hope so! Got my champagne ready whenever it is called.

Same bottle I had for 2016. Gonna open it tomorrow finally.

[GoneOffShore]

25. Bottle of non-vintage Ayala Champagne chilling in the fridge for the last two months.

We're hoping to have it for breakfast here in France on Wednesday morning.

[Solly Mack]

26. Sounds like a happy breakfast. :)

[peggysue2]

12. I'm with Carville

I think we'll have a pretty good idea where we stand before the end of the evening. Biden/Harris will win this thing. The only question now is the size of the win. I'm predicting a blowout. Could I be wrong on the size? Of course. But I'm feeling a Tsunami on the way.

[Klaralven]

14. The combination of precinct margins and precinct demographics will tell the story early.

Once you calculate vote percentage estimates by demographic category, you can project to statewide demographics with margins of errors.

[beaglelover]

15. You gotta believe with his political connections he has access to the internal polling

from both campaigns. He makes me feel optimistic about tomorrow night!

[JCMach1]

16. By Midnight EST we will know

[Tracyjo]

37. +1

I agree

[Dr. Jack]

17. I agree. I don't think it's going to be close

I don't think there will even be an early mirage that the election is close. I think once results start coming in, we will see lots of signs that Trump is in massive trouble

[gracemcdonald]

18. Oh, bless your heart Andrea Mitchell....

You were trying your darndest to build up the fake tension, James Carville was having none of that BS! He waited patiently and smacked that down!

[WyattKansas]

19. I think tRUMP and his asshole supporters all know he is going to lose and are going out in...

A blaze of glory for their last chance to get away with it. And deep down they really do know that tRUMP never should have been there in the first place and he only cheated his way there with Russia's help... They have been playing dumb and projecting outrage about his and their alleged honor being questioned, because they too know how dirty they really are themselves. All the mayhem you see are just immature assholes upset that their free reign of terror with the President of the U.S.A. encouraging them is about to come to a screeching halt and they will have to find some other obnoxious circle jerk dogma to get them off in some other scheme to make them seem important.

[JI7]

21. He has been saying this for months and I so hope he is right

[PatSeg]

24. Yes

And he hasn't budged from that position. His confidence is reassuring.

[mtnsnake]

22. That's down 30 minutes from when he predicted it would be by 10:30 a couple weeks ago.

I love Carville because he never minces his words.

[FakeNoose]

27. Hah! If the winner is Biden, yes we'll know quickly

If the winner is Chump we won't know for weeks until they'd counted all the "hanging chads."

'Memba them?

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28. Ugh, don't remind me...

[Niagara]

29. KnR

This makes me happy.

[Cha]

31. Well, we're going to know soon

if James Carville's Prediction is right.

[BlueIdaho]

32. I hope he's right!

All this last minute M$M horse race BS is driving me crazy. I’ve never seen so many people saying a ten point margin is really a toss-up in every state. I’m Really fucking tired of this shit.

[DFW]

34. We may know the winner, but we may not hear Trump concede

I think he doesn't want to give Biden the satisfaction of doing on election night. I think he'll find some flimsy excuse not to do it, and wait until he gets the calls from Graham and McTurtle, and then do it discreetly at 2 PM on Thursday, or some such.

[Orangepeel]

38. I hope he's right, but if it is, it's luck

I don't think Carville has his finger on the pulse these days

[Bayard]

39. Lawrence just had Charlie Cook on

He is also predicting major Dem wins. Lawrence says he's the best prognosticator out there, and he's sleeping easier tonight.

[LAS14]

40. Bookmarked this thread. Will revisit at 10 tomorrow night. nt