I think there are a couple of things going on. The first is that whoever is the first to call the election for Biden (and we're basically at the point where the next state does it) is going to get destroyed by the Trumpettes. Part of me thinks they may be waiting for Fox News to bite the bullet and do it, although given how badly the WH reacted to their call of Arizona on Tuesday (which was aggressive but looks like it will be correct) Fox may be a bit gunshy.
The second is that I think the networks are dragging this out to prime time. Once Biden gets past 270, the show is effectively over and we all stop obsessing over Steve Kornacki's khakis and whether John King had a PornHub tab on his big screen (he didn't, but the video is funny). My guess is the next vote dump in Nevada (supposedly at 4 Pacific/7 Eastern) will be enough to call that, and a big dump in Arizona that doesn't see Trump closing the gap quickly enough will pull everybody into line behind the AP and Fox. If PA stretches beyond 25K, that may also provoke a call. But since Harris and Biden are supposedly planning to speak at 8:30 Eastern tonight, I would anticipate a call by then. They aren't going out there again to say "things are looking good." John On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 1:52 PM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > For two days my primary news source has been the AP Election Map via > Google. Late last night I awoke and checked it to see Biden finally having > a majority in Georgia, then this morning I saw Pennsylvania in Biden’s > favor. > > At this point many including myself are wondering if news outlets are > reluctant to call the race out of fear of what Trump will say/do as > reprisal. Multiple statisticians have broken down the math... yes Trump > could still win, but only if every current trend in vote tallies magically > reversed. There will be recounts, but that won’t shift the numbers more > than a couple hundred. So although all the votes aren’t in and won’t be for > days, that doesn’t normally prevent every news outlet from making an > informed prediction/call, yet here we are. > > On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 10:07 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> When I tried it a few minutes ago, two of them were reporting on the >> county just west of mine in PA... one of the local papers made a big series >> of how the area -- majority Dems -- flipped to Donnie in 2016... B >> >> Doug Eastick, to Adam Bowie, Dave Sikula, Joe Hass, and PGage, Nov 6th: >> >>> Adam - thanks for that link. Such an easy thing to use. >>> >>> I wish I'd found this on election night, but I found this really useful >>>> facility built by a developer from The Times (of London) that lets you >>>> watch multiple simultaneous YouTube streams of news channels including the >>>> ability to mute all, or pick the sound of which channel you want to hear: >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/d6d35e8e-6e29-412e-ba23-f60139564c80n%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/d6d35e8e-6e29-412e-ba23-f60139564c80n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > Kevin M. (RPCV) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4APHH0LTM_hMZXeZeoYpGiBK8Sf%2B7P9pnufWKvvRs3Drg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4APHH0LTM_hMZXeZeoYpGiBK8Sf%2B7P9pnufWKvvRs3Drg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- John Edwards "You can insure against the weather, but you can't insure against incompetence, can you?" - Phil Tufnell -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJLXtMKWjj5D%2B3kZ1AEAE2CLjSJ_%3DLtOoQY0Rji%2B%3D7vNsa1Vwg%40mail.gmail.com.
