The only reason some Democrats (mostly on here, I suspect) feel like this is an underperformance, rather than a decisive win whose contours were delayed by a pandemic mail counting backlog, is because of unreasonable expectations in the final days of winning states like Texas. https://twitter.com/Rob_Flaherty/status/1324008533403324418

Obviously, I'm talking here about *Biden's* performance, which was both much better than Clinton's and well in line with projections overall. It's reasonable for Dems to be disappointed with their Senate showing—even though they gained seats!—because (bad) polls predicted better. https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1324022526444474369

Put another way: this outcome would've looked *entirely different* if we'd had a normal election with the vote count happening all at once & Biden's lead being visible quickly. (And if Twitter didn't constantly overreact to every latest bit of news rather than wait for results.) https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1324022526444474369

We don't live in this world, but we ought to acknowledge the way our questionable contingent perceptions are coloring our interpretation of the objective numbers, which are quite good for Biden. https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1324027676294848514