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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsits hilarious how pundits at the boards are twisting themselves
into a pretzel trying to come up with scenarios for Trump to win. True on both cnn and msnbc. instead of objectively analysing the race and maybe discuss why they think polls are innacurate they are like lets give Trump this state and that one for the sake of argument and then maybe one congressional district there. oh look, thats 270.
its fine to discuss possible paths but i feel they are not putting into context how likely or not some of these are. They are presented on the same footing as the other more probable ones and result in people freaking out.
Claustrum
(4,845 posts)say Trump has a chance is NV. They couldn't go there with MN or NH.
drray23
(7,627 posts)but loses Florida and somehow wins nevada , arizona and a district elsewhere to make 270. pretty far fetched.
ScratchCat
(1,988 posts)Its pointless. Its just people talking to hear themselves talk at this point.
treestar
(82,383 posts)That to spread uncertainty.
And now saying we won't know the outcome on election night. Rachel seemed to think it would all come down to PA, forgetting the rest of the states.
Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)They have to fill up airtime and I dont mind if it freaks people out, better than complacency
underpants
(182,791 posts)Etc
fishwax
(29,149 posts)I get texts and emails and social media notifications multiple times each day from the campaign about how it is really much closer than it appears and we're within the margin of error in key swing states and we're in danger of having this slip away. Their motivation, of course, is to get me to donate more (and, frankly, it's not as though this has never worked). But given that's what the campaign itself is doing, I don't see much cause to be critical of the media for also gaming out these scenarios.