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Here's a link to one of the best election watching sites. NYT Upshot (Original Post) LAS14 Nov 2020 OP
What We'll Know, and When We'll Know Roland99 Nov 2020 #1
The Upshot model broke me in 2016 Tom Rivers Nov 2020 #2

Roland99

(53,342 posts)
1. What We'll Know, and When We'll Know
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 11:16 AM
Nov 2020

What We’ll Know, and When We’ll Know
An hour-by-hour guide to interpreting election results like an expert.

By Nate Cohn
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/03/upshot/election-night-guide.html

More than anything else, keep these three tips in mind:

Be cautious. A lot of states are changing the way they’re administering the election, and even the experts don’t know exactly how all this is going to go.

If you want to dig into detailed results, focus on the right places. If you’re the kind of person who checks the results by county, make sure you’re focusing on counties where all of the votes have been counted. Partial results will be heavily skewed toward whatever vote method was counted first, so home in on the places where results are complete. One possible exception: if a candidate is beating expectations with results that were supposed to be strong for the other candidate.

Our results pages will offer an estimate of whether nearly all of the votes are counted. It’s just a guess, but train your eyes there.

Finally, focus on the states that count their early and mail votes before counting Election Day votes. Why? They’ll probably wrap up most of their count on election night — their counties will probably tell us that all of the vote is in. Florida, Iowa, Ohio and Texas are good examples. Pennsylvania and Arizona are not.

Here’s what I’ll be paying attention to, hour by hour:



and this:


No need to watch the returns Tuesday, this is how it'll go down. - Drunken Irishman
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=14411536

Tom Rivers

(459 posts)
2. The Upshot model broke me in 2016
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 11:21 AM
Nov 2020

And almost did the same in 2018 before rebounding for the Dems.

I definitely will not be following along with that, even if it has given a scarily accurate forecast before. I'll just dod along blissfully unaware following some of my favorite twitter accounts and then go to bed if I learn that things have went south.

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