Every single other election has been called by the media using

[boston bean]

Projections.

You know the saying “projected winner”.

Why can’t they do some projecting. There is more than enough data to do so.

[soothsayer]

1. I guess these silly lawsuits?

[Thekaspervote]

2. This isn't every other election

[boston bean]

5. What is different? A temper tantrum throwing baby president?

[BusyBeingBest]

6. Coronavirus has screwed up how people voted across the country.

Ballots aren't following the same patterns in battleground states this year. That's part of why they're sort of flying blind.

[boston bean]

8. Trump cannot win PA or AZ.

Biden has won.

Why aren’t they stating so?

[BusyBeingBest]

9. Again, things aren't following normal patterns

because of mail-in vs. election-day voting. That's why they are more jittery about the votes that remain uncounted--harder to read the crystal ball on them this time around, more unpredictable. They will call it soon, though.

[boston bean]

10. There is a very clear and undeniable pattern here. Biden has won.

[JoeOtterbein]

3. Because they think any word starting with the letters, "pro..." is way too...

PROgressive!

[unblock]

4. Because this election has always been about the cheating

And whether Donnie would be able to pull some authoritarian corrupt b.s. to steal it.

There's still a tiny amount of room for that.

[bbernardini]

7. They probably figure we're all tired of projections, after 4 years of projection from Trump. nt

[Retrograde]

11. The media don't decide elections

There are rules for elections to be official: county registrars have to certify their individual counts, doing recounts as mandated by state law. Then the state officials have to review all of them and issue a final, official vote count.

Katie Porter's election in 2018 was decided several days after the polls closed. This year, there are some Congressional races in California where the candidates are within a few hundred votes of each other: since there are still 2 weeks for valid ballots to come in (provided they were post-marked by 8PM Nov. 3) and these could change the outcome. And it just takes time to process mail-in ballots, even if there are no problems with them.

We waited longer than this in 2000.

[coti]

12. 2000 was both absolutely AWFUL and way, WAY closer

than this. This election is over.

[hvn_nbr_2]

13. Projections were based largely on exit polls.

When they projected a winner of a state one minute after the polls closed, it wasn't based on any votes actually counted. It was based on a clear winner according to exit polls. For this election, exit polls would be quite problematic.

[boston bean]

14. We have even better evidence right now as to who has won.