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Mister Ed

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6. And networks have no goddamned authority to "call" elections in the first place.

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Oct 21, 2020, 10:48 AM

Oct 2020

What does it mean to "call" an election? The term is meaningless.

Networks have no more authority to "call" elections than I have, but the general population seems to feel, on some gut level, that these election-night declarations by TV network are what really determines the outcome of an election. That feeling can lead to disaster, as it did in 2000.

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The Overblown Alarmism About a Trump Coup [View all] brooklynite Oct 2020 OP

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I just saw on local TV news that my Minnesota county MineralMan Oct 2020 #3

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And networks have no goddamned authority to "call" elections in the first place. Mister Ed Oct 2020 #6

Exactly, Sir The Magistrate Oct 2020 #9

The concern is not the networks calling the election prematurely Proud Liberal Dem Oct 2020 #10

That's true, but people pay attention to those "calls." MineralMan Oct 2020 #13

The fear of a coup has nothing to do Miguelito Loveless Oct 2020 #11

Well, 2016 really was a Trump/Russian coup.. ananda Oct 2020 #12