Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
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#2CNN projects Biden has won PA, and thus the presidency. It has also been called by AP, NBC, and ABC.
Re: Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
#3The media was way too cautious in making the call here, but it's easy to understand why when the Republicans made it so difficult to count absentee ballots before election night, likely to benefit their candidate through the confusion of swinging red and then blue.
If you don't want this to happen again, pressure your red representatives to stop demonizing mail-in/advance voting, and stop destroying the postal system.
Re: Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
#4Direct link: https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-biden-elect...
Also called by ABC, NBC and the AP (https://twitter.com/AP/status/1325112826072084480). Congratulations, America.
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#6Thank god.
Now I want the last 4 years of my life back.
Re: Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
#7The media was way too cautious in making the call here, but it's easy to understand why when the Republicans made it so difficult to count absentee ballots before election night, likely to benefit their candidate through the confusion of swinging red and then blue. If you don't want this to happen again, pressure your red representatives to stop demonizing mail-in/advance voting, and stop destroying the postal system…
There was some interesting game theory stuff going on there, where AP and Fox called Arizona early, but other networks didn't feel it was safe.
And then Nevada has obviously been won for days, but nobody was calling it because that would have put Fox and AP over 270. So all the networks just started waiting for PA rather than calling the obvious for Nevada.
Re: Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
#8The media was way too cautious in making the call here, but it's easy to understand why when the Republicans made it so difficult to count absentee ballots before election night, likely to benefit their candidate through the confusion of swinging red and then blue. If you don't want this to happen again, pressure your red representatives to stop demonizing mail-in/advance voting, and stop destroying the postal system…
Looks like they were waiting for Biden to cross the PA recount threshold. He just did (0.51% > 0.5%).
Re: Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
#9Everybody does realize that this has no legal significance, right?
Re: Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
#10The media was way too cautious in making the call here, but it's easy to understand why when the Republicans made it so difficult to count absentee ballots before election night, likely to benefit their candidate through the confusion of swinging red and then blue. If you don't want this to happen again, pressure your red representatives to stop demonizing mail-in/advance voting, and stop destroying the postal system…
> when the Republicans made it so difficult to count absentee ballots before election night
That really can't be noted enough. That the count took so long is specifically because several legislatures decided to not allow any preprocessing of mail ballots, and to count mail ballots last.