2020 US Election Thread

[TheBig3]

Based on my vast history of working dead-end office jobs, I'm going to guess Nevada is going to hope that if PA goes for Biden, they don't have to do as much work.

"Uh, yeah it looks like it went 51% Trump"

And no one gives a **** because the election is over anyway.

[Norg]

The question is what does the state of Nevada have to gain for going blu ..???

did the city of las vegas cut some sort of deal ..???

[TheBig3]

Originally Posted by Norg

The question is what does the state of Nevada have to gain for going blu ..???

did the city of las vegas cut some sort of deal ..???

Historically Nevada goes blue because of the Culinary Union in NV. Harry Reid, former Senate Majority Leader ran Nevada like Tammany Hall ran New York. The problem is that much of Nevada is Latino, and there was a huge disinfo campaign being run on Spanish-speaking media.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/u...formation.html

[Marie Monday]

Originally Posted by adidasss

Yeah that the fuck is taking so long, what is this, some third world country??

Some vote counters in Georgia allegedly forgot to press 'upload' to post their latest count updates lmao

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Marie Monday

Some vote counters in Georgia allegedly forgot to press 'upload' to post their latest count updates lmao

We were never the brightest folks.

[jwb]

Originally Posted by SoundgardenRocks

He could get AZ and be at 270, couldn't he?

He would have to challenge it then wouldn't he? AZ was already declared for Biden.

On the map I'm looking at the only states not declared are PA, GA, NC and NV. All Biden needs for 270 is NV. Trump needs either all 4 of those states or to challenge and flip a state that was already declared with a recount.

[SGR]

Originally Posted by jwb

He would have to challenge it then wouldn't he? AZ was already declared for Biden.

On the map I'm looking at the only states not declared are PA, GA, NC and NV. All Biden needs for 270 is NV. Trump needs either all 4 of those states or to challenge and flip a state that was already declared with a recount.

Nah, the media doesn't decide. They're just projections. The votes just need to be counted and it needs to flip. Not all the votes have been counted.

Nate Silver Says Fox News and AP Projections For Biden in Arizona ‘Should Be Retracted Now’

[jwb]

So what makes them call certain states but not others? That's confusing.

[Marie Monday]

Originally Posted by SoundgardenRocks

Nah, the media doesn't decide. They're just projections. The votes just need to be counted and it needs to flip. Not all the votes have been counted.

Nate Silver Says Fox News and AP Projections For Biden in Arizona ‘Should Be Retracted Now’

That's true, and it depends on the map you're looking at. AP and fox declared Arizona for Biden but that seems to have been premature.
These media all have their ways of calculating when a state is certain to be won by one of the candidates, but apparently the methods are not always accurate? It confuses me too

[TheBig3]

Originally Posted by jwb

So what makes them call certain states but not others? That's confusing.

Projections drawn from outstanding regions based on historical precedent. The major hang-up in AZ as I understand it is that they thought they had 95% and it was much lower, meaning projections based on "10% of ballots are more likely to favor Trump from that district" get all ****ed up.