NJ Governor: Murphy expands lead to 1.6% with still 8% of votes remaining

[ColinC]

As his lead expands, the results get buried further in the web, so even if he pulls out a 3-5 point victory after it is all said and done, the narrative in the MSM that this was a squeaker will stick in people's heads.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/11/02/us/elections/results-new-jersey.amp.html

[JohnSJ]

1. Yup

[Alexander Of Assyria]

2. Why can't Americans and their media wait a few days for final results like rest of the world?

Seems the social medias and corporate media outrage machines constant need for final judgment as fuel for fury is endless.

[ColinC]

3. Cause we are impatient

Also we shouldn't need to. A lot of states count the mail ballots as they come in and release them first on election day. I guess New Jersey is an exception.

[Uncle Joe]

8. The corporate media has a narrow selfserving-interest in establishing

a corporate centric narrative.

[cadoman]

10. there's only a delay now because of the high mail-in counts

It used to be there were a very small number of provisional ballots--small enough that outcomes were obvious without counting them.

Now we have an increasingly large percent of mail-in votes getting counted beginning day of election. I think we need to find a better way to do counts if we're going to continue this way, or it'll be like this for every close race.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

12. Thinking No need for new methods of counting, need new methods of patience.

[triron]

4. Are results still being updated in Virginia as well?

[ColinC]

5. Not that could effect the results. Those are 99.9% in

But NJ still has around 5-10% of the votes left to count -mostly in democratic areas.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

6. Lead is now 1.8%. Could end up as 2% or more

when they finish counting Essex County.

[ColinC]

7. Now 2.3% with still close to 5% remaining it looks like.

[Cha]

9. TY

[ColinC]

11. Welcome!

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

14. Youngkin beat McAulliffe by 2.5% in VA. Yet the MSM continually downplayed

Murphy's victory, screaming about how Murphy "eked out" a win by a" tiny margin", "a fraction", a "narrow win" in a "close race" in which he "barely won". etc ad nauseum

If you read their coverage of Youngkin's win, there is no such language, although Youngkin's margin of victory is roughly the same as Murphy's, looking at percent of the vote. Reading the MSM coverage of Virginia, you'd think Youngkin won in a landslide

[uponit7771]

13. K&R, So democrats beat historic expectations but M$M says ... WE ... need to change ?!

[Tribetime]

15. Up to 2.5%

[maxsolomon]

16. A 3% victory might as well be a defeat.

It's not just the quantity of the votes, but the QUALITY, and these are just. not. good. enough.

Rend your garments, Dems all over America! WHY DIDN'T BIDEN MAKE MURPHY WIN BETTER?

[ColinC]

17. Lol

I know right? It's crazy to think that in an election, the number of the votes are the only thing that matters. Where are the super votes??

[maxsolomon]

18. I had to ask my Millenial daughter

besides VA, what did the Dems lose that makes it such a portentous disaster?

she pointed to some State Legislature races, and the Seattle City Atty race (which is getting closer by the hour).

[ColinC]

19. The only thing harder for the president's party than midterms are the ones a year before

FWIW NJ and VA elections have almost always gone poorly for the president's party. In fact, This year was the first time in 30 years that the president's party won the New Jersey governorship.

[maxsolomon]

20. Yeah, i heard that

and I keep looking for what, besides VA, was the disaster. i keep not freaking out.