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I know were all shallow breathing, but this count and the results reporting must be unimpeachable. Not one single toehold for the White House occupants. And the networks
Must not squander their chances to be absolutely certain. Its hard, but I support the restraint.
On edit: Slightly confusing thread title. I meant I dont want the networks to declare the winner ahead of clear, unimpeachable vote tallies.
yardwork
(61,599 posts)LearnedHand
(3,388 posts)And I want both to be unimpeachable.
marie999
(3,334 posts)Do you want even the smallest state with very few EC members to be called for trump and then has to change it to Biden? Let the vote counters do their job.
Under The Radar
(3,401 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)renate
(13,776 posts)It really has to be certain at a time when conspiracy theories are thicker on the ground than autumn leaves.
Blasphemer
(3,261 posts)The election is always called before a final official count is known using reasonable estimates of what is possible based on the outstanding votes. That's the media fulfilling their role as the Fourth Estate. Waiting will not making anything better. No matter how unimpeachable the process, Trump will not concede and the MAGATs will not accept it. Prolonging it to suit their delusions is not helpful to this country.
LearnedHand
(3,388 posts)And in normal times it doesnt matter if the networks call the election based on solid statistical probabilities. I thin it matters way more in these crazy times.
Thekaspervote
(32,762 posts)That theres no question about who won
Thekaspervote
(32,762 posts)His goons would claim it happened all over the country if a race was called and then retracted. Violence would ramp up for sure
On another note...death by a thousand paper cuts for dotard is so fitting as he agonizes knowing theres nothing he can do
LearnedHand
(3,388 posts)Now Im really relishing the deliberative approach.
Thekaspervote
(32,762 posts)angrychair
(8,698 posts)and accurately.
That also needs to be weighed in contrast to the chaos that trump and his followers are sowing as we crawl through this mess.
It genuinely puts innocent people, like state officials and poll workers, in very real danger.
Thekaspervote
(32,762 posts)Whether the race is called or not.
National guard has been called up in 18 states and police, fbi and secret service are on high alert to protect
bdamomma
(63,849 posts)I am glad the National guard has been called.
Sogo
(4,986 posts)I haven't heard this, but it sounds prudent....
Ohio Joe
(21,755 posts)My lady and I are smoking a fine sativa, cooking up a storm and checking the news every few hours. We are very amused by the obvious torture this process is causing the orange menace.
We are good letting it linger
Revanchist
(1,375 posts)When they called FL for Gore then had to backtrack.
LearnedHand
(3,388 posts)Even more so with this clown car bunch.
mopinko
(70,099 posts)the thought of him twisting in the wind.