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Is there any research on this news impacting voter participation? Ie if they feel their party is losing do they throw in the towel even though they still might have had a chance?
I have never seen a state called for a candidate until after the polls have closed. Probably for that reason.
Watch live streaming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y60wDzZt8yg
Off topic, but I might as well say it here: I just tuned in to CNN: I think the way they cover the results is ridiculous. They just babble off random, pointless numbers without pause, with their fancy interactive maps in the background. They announce small changes with a sensationalism that's almost pathetic (KEY RACE ALERT! ALL OFF A SUDDEN Clinton takes the lead in Florida!! (by 20k votes... with a vote count of 30…
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Off topic, but I might as well say it here: I just tuned in to CNN: I think the way they cover the results is ridiculous. They just babble off random, pointless numbers without pause, with their fancy interactive maps in the background. They announce small changes with a sensationalism that's almost pathetic (KEY RACE ALERT! ALL OFF A SUDDEN Clinton takes the lead in Florida!! (by 20k votes... with a vote count of 30…
One of the top stories on the homepage this afternoon was about how everyone in the Trump family was glancing over to see how the other members voted. Are grade school antics what the system has come down to?
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It sure looks good. I hope there's a solid statistical model behind it too though.
Yeah... the jitter being fake (and fast?) seems unnecessary per your other comment. If the jitter was an actual uncertainty measure or something... or less fast...
Trump wins. GG.
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Off topic, but I might as well say it here: I just tuned in to CNN: I think the way they cover the results is ridiculous. They just babble off random, pointless numbers without pause, with their fancy interactive maps in the background. They announce small changes with a sensationalism that's almost pathetic (KEY RACE ALERT! ALL OFF A SUDDEN Clinton takes the lead in Florida!! (by 20k votes... with a vote count of 30…
Their function is to entertain, information is an afterthought. It is not a managerial decision, all TV is directed by ratings, "entertainment" is what people want, so "entertainment" is what they give to them.
Even Fox does it better. (As unbelievable as that is...)
There's a reason I picked on CNN specifically.
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Haha, awesome find. Did you just dig through the code or are you a NYT dev?
Dug through the code. Just inspected the element showing the number to get the class (.widget-info-display-cont) and searched through 'general-main.js' to find where the element is created. A timer that updates the value in the element is found ~100 lines further down.
Trump wins. GG.
Why is voting actually hard to do? Even though we're so encouraged to vote, there is a lot of red tape. For example, depending on your street address, you may have to vote at a garden variety pick of a building. At my university, I couldn't vote in building A because my apartment was on street X. I ultimately was not able to vote today because it was actually _hard_ to vote.
Freedom isn't easy. Jokes aside, you're overstating the difficulty to vote. You couldn't vote today because you couldn't pick the building to vote at?
Watch live streaming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y60wDzZt8yg
Off topic, but I might as well say it here: I just tuned in to CNN: I think the way they cover the results is ridiculous. They just babble off random, pointless numbers without pause, with their fancy interactive maps in the background. They announce small changes with a sensationalism that's almost pathetic (KEY RACE ALERT! ALL OFF A SUDDEN Clinton takes the lead in Florida!! (by 20k votes... with a vote count of 30…
They would spend riddiculous amount of time on hearsay or drama, then just switch to some kind of "news" stripped of any context one could use to actually get some information