• justhach
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    10 hours ago

    Kamala Harris Hillary Clinton predicted to win by nearly every major forecaster”

    Its like 2016 never even fucking happened lol

    • @[email protected]
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      2410 hours ago

      She was predicted to win the popular vote…

      And she did.

      Looking at statewide polling and a lot of battleground states were coinflips.

      The problem was anyone mentioning that got screeched at for wanting trump to win…

      • snooggums
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        109 hours ago

        YES (no predictions)

        Honestly there should be zero results posted until all votes are counted. Counting as they come in influences later voters, especially in western time zones.

        I thought there was an election in the not too distant past where the news declared a winner before Hawaii even finished voting.

        • SaltySalamander
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          17 hours ago

          I disagree with the “no predictions” part, but fully 100% agree with not releasing any results until all votes are tallied.

          • snooggums
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            16 hours ago

            What would they base predictions on without results?

  • PonyOfWar
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    7410 hours ago

    I wouldn’t say giving Harris a 50.4 percent chance of winning is predicting her to win. That’s effectively a coin toss.

    • ohellidk
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      3510 hours ago

      yeah, I really hate seeing these types of articles during elections. some will skim past it and go “well, its cool. I don’t need to vote, she got it” and that kind of lazyness is how elections are lost.

      • @[email protected]
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        1510 hours ago

        That’s the whole point. America’s plutocracy — who own most of the media — want a fascist dictatorship. They’ve been financing and amplifying Trump the entire time.

        What more could a capitalist want than no competition, low/zero taxes, and not having to worry about the risk that democracy represents to their wealth and power…

  • @[email protected]
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    4010 hours ago

    Vote. Pressure those around you to vote as well. I had to watch Gore lose, Hillary lose, we can’t keep doing this.

  • @[email protected]
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    1510 hours ago

    This is extremely misleading. Most data-driven outlets are open about saying that a 51% chance of a Harris victory is essentially a coin flip.

    And the ones that are based off of gut feelings rather than data? They’re less than useless.

  • @[email protected]
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    26 hours ago

    I love how the only time @[email protected] gets a positive subject rating is only if its towing the line info (not that its not factual, some times with a bad title) but the other posts where they make great points or even just reporting other facts, and they downvote them into the ground.

  • @TacticsConsort
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    910 hours ago

    But remember, we DO. NOT. LET. UP.

    Not until every vote has been cast. Not until it’s over. Don’t get cocky, this is the narrowest race I’ve ever seen and by god there is no room for apathy or overconfidence.

  • Sunshine
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    1110 hours ago

    I’m hopping this is true!

    Please vote everyone!