This is disingenuous bullshit. If the standard on Tuesday for Illinois is different than the standard on Saturday for Georgia, then that's a *you* problem. At that point, the media should do one of two things:
1. Openly admit that they have changed their standards and justify their reasoning for doing so. 2. Simply announce that they've called the states in question "impossible to call", are going to now treat the current vote total as gospel, and only when it becomes mathematically impossible for one of the candidates to surpass the other will they award the electoral votes. But knock this (expletive) shit off. On Saturday, November 7, 2020 at 3:52:02 AM UTC-6 Dave Sikula wrote: > Apparently (and I'm getting this second-hand from Twitter, so use at least > a grain of salt), Chris Cuomo admitted on CNN tonight that part of the > reluctance to call the races is that Trump has lied about the process so > much that they need to be 100% certain, rather than somewhere in the 90s. > > While I understand that mentality, it also strikes me as similar to what > the Democrats do in trying to appease people who would never watch, > believe, or vote for them in the vain hopes of appealing to their > (non-existent) better natures. Yes, there would be an "I told you so" if > they declared Biden the winner and Trump inexplicably pulled off an > electoral Hail Mary, but the troglodytes are already claiming it's fake > news, so there's really nothing to be lost. > > --Dave Sikula > > On Saturday, November 7, 2020, 12:58:40 AM PST, JW <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > 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. > > I doubt it. The East Cupcake Pennysaver may be worried about blowback, but > the media whose calls we care about are well enough established to > withstand whatever grief they'd get, or are getting for waiting. > > I think this is the residue of 2000. No doubt stringent standards were put > into place to make sure that no calls are made prematurely; the penalty for > being wrong is much greater than the reward for being the first to be > right. And no matter what any news organization reports, or any candidate > claims, nothing is official until the states release their final totals, > whenever that may be. > > Meantime, the reporting is out there for us to draw our own conclusions. > -- 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/726a836a-b954-497d-ace5-8cbba85d60f0n%40googlegroups.com.
