Wishing and hoping... As we wait for more Election 2020 results to come in, let’s take a look at some of last night’s coverage.  In EXPLAINING RACE CALLS, the AP announced that Virginia was going for Biden. “As another round of polls close, the AP is calling seven more states for Joe Biden, including Illinois, and five more for President Trump, including South Carolina,” Brian Slodysko wrote.
For the New York Times, John Buysse shared the paper’s Presidential Election Results with: “If you had shown me this NYT election results layout a year ago with the middle 3 columns looking like this…” Dennis Mersereau took the opportunity to reminisce: “The first heart-stop moment I had in 2016 was shortly after 6 PM when the NYT's ‘change from 2012’ map showed a whole bunch of red arrows pointing wayyy right in Indiana, foretelling Trump's rural strength. They have the same map again.” Elsewhere in the New York Times, their Live Election Forecast Needles focused on the Presidential Battleground States went out, prompting Ken Schwencke to write: “You know where to find me in 5 hours.” Scott Cacciola was also counting down the time, “1 hour, 14 minutes until the needles.” And Apoorva Mandavilli shared, “I'm not reporting on anything today but am sitting back and watching in awe as @nytimes reporters fan out across the country to bring us all news from the election frontlines. So proud to call them my colleagues.” CBS News’ 2020 General Election Center had live results of voting day including polls, who's winning election races, state-by-state governor, and Senate and congressional races. Before we went to bed, they said Kentucky & South Carolina were leaning Trump, Virginia & Vermont were leaning Biden, and that Georgia was a toss-up. Sharing NBC News’ Election Day 2020 live updates, Erin Einhorn tweeted, “Why election results in Michigan might not take as long to arrive as some have feared.” The 2020 Election Results Live Blog from NPR inspired Sean McMinn to tweet: “Before things get crazy, want to shout out these county scatterplots the @nprviz team have for each state. Already updating in Kentucky, where some polls have now closed.” And for die-hard fans of the refresh button, there’s always Decision Desk’s Election Results page where you can find Returns, Analysis, and Projections. Naturally, Nate Silver was following along: “Not sure what this is about, but Decision Desk HQ has Biden a tiny tiny bit ahead in Wisconsin now.” Silver’s own site, FiveThirtyEight was of course doing their own 2020 Election: Live Coverage. “Well, it's here. Our Election Day/Week/Month liveblog is up. Going to be fairly slow-going at first, but it's arrived,” he tweeted. Early voting was off the charts  Way back on Tuesday morning (remember...yesterday?), ABC News’ Election 2020 live updates — led by Lauren King and Michelle Stoddart — began as polls opened on the East Coast. Michelle Franzen pointed out that at the beginning of Election Day, “more than 96 million Americans [had already] cast ballots.”
Ram Ramgopal confirmed those stats as well, “It’s official: More than 100 million ballots were cast before Election Day. That’s 47% of registered US voters and 73% of the 136.5 M votes cast in 2016 pres. Election.” He linked back to CNN's Election results and news, to which Meg Wagner, Melissa Macaya, Veronica Rocha, and Melissa Mahtani contributed. A lot of important lying We wish we didn’t have to write this but it might not surprise you to learn that Trump tried his best to spread some misinformation about the election last night.  In response, BuzzFeed News Kadia Goba filed Donald Trump Is Lying About The Early Election Results. “Again, we're not mincing words in 2020,” Krystie Yandoli tweeted.
In the Washington Post, Dan Balz described the president’s actions as Trump has attacked democracy’s institutions, but never so blatantly as he did overnight. Fenit Nirappil praised, “As always, @danbalz doesn’t mince words: ‘(Trump’s) attempt to falsely claim victory and to subvert the election itself by calling for a halt to vote-counting represents the gravest of threats to the stability of the country.’” Daniel Dale performed his own Fact Check for CNN and concluded: Trump makes series of egregious false claims in Election Night address. On Twitter, Dale called it, “The president did a lot of important lying tonight. Here's a quick fact check breakdown, briefer than usual because it's 4:35 AM.” What happens next?  Bill Bush began the day tweeting, "It's 8 a.m. - do you know where your next president is?"
As there was no winner declared last night, AP News reported on Trump's court threat, writing that the presidency currently “hinges on tight races in battleground states.” Nate Cohn focused on one such battleground state in the New York Times, writing that The Remaining Vote in Pennsylvania Appears to Be Overwhelmingly for Biden. He tweeted, “If the PA SOS page is accurate, then there are enough absentee votes left for Biden to win Pennsylvania.” Zooming out a bit at the greater election, Reid Epstein and Glenn Thrush at the New York Times laid out How Joe Biden and Donald Trump Can Each Still Win the Presidency. Tom Sofield summed it up: “Can Biden Still Win? Yes.” And David Bier focused on this peculiar point in the article: “A what now? No additional explanation.” It’s not over 'til it’s over A judge ordered the USPS to conduct a ballot sweep in 12 districts covering 15 states, according to Washington Post’s Jacob Bogage and Christopher Ingraham. Ingraham pointed out that “USPS ballot processing got *slower* as the election approached,” and Bogage added, “Ballot delivery scores are really bad. The bluer you get, the worse the ballot delays.” So, yikes. Some election victories Here’s what other results we got from Election 2020, since we still don’t yet know who will be president of America:  Oregon became the first state to legalize psychedelic mushrooms, according to Lizzy Acker at The Oregonian. The state also decriminalized all personal drug use, becoming the first state in the US to do so.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Won Her 2nd Term in A Costly Loss for Republicans, New York Times’ Jeffery C. Mays reported. “Her Republican opponent raised $10 million,” Clifford Levy wrote. That “makes the race the 2nd most expensive House contest in the country,” Hunter Schwarz pointed out. According to Dominic Umile, AOC’s Republican challenger also “hired pricey Republican consultants, bought millions of dollars in ads, and distributed more than 700K pieces of mail.” Dean Chang pointed out the “speculation swirl[ing] about her future -- in the House, in another political arena or elsewhere.” And Jeff Mays tweeted, “‘She’s been there for two years and all of a sudden people are like she’s got to run for president?’ said @JamaalBowmanNY when asked about @AOC's future. ‘Calm down.’” At press time, it was also revealed that Republican incumbent Susan Collins won reelection and is keeping her Senate seat in Maine. In what Alan Posener deemed “good news coming out of the USA,” Mississippi voters decided to replace their Confederate-themed state flag, NBC News’ Dan Avery reported. They will switch out a 126-year-old banner that incorporated a version of the Confederate battle flag in lieu of "The New Magnolia," which was designed by graphic artist Rocky Vaughan. The referrendum got 68 percent of the vote, according to results reported to NBC News as of Tuesday night. Kyle Griffin added that the original flag “from 1894 that featured the Confederate battle emblem and was decommissioned by lawmakers in June.” “Reminder: Do not write off the South and the people who live here when you cover election cycles and ‘what’ ‘they’ ‘mean,’” Jennifer Gerson insisted. Highlighting a “heartbreaking story out of North Dakota,” Brianna Ehley tweeted about a North Dakota legislature candidate who died from COVID-19 appears to win election. Fox 9 News there reported, “David Andahl, 55, appears to have won his election for a North Dakota legislature seat despite dying from COVID-19 in October.” Amy B Wang called this “The most 2020 headline imaginable.” Parker Molloy said it’s “a bit on the nose, even for 2020.” A 55-year old Republican candidate who died of covid last month won his election tonight. The state has seen a spike in covid hospitalizations and deaths in recent weeks. Jeffrey St. Clair said, “Nothing could better encapsulate the entire night.” And Rupert Myers added, “Normal country having a totally normal one.” How are voters feeling?  "It’s been very stressful”: After a divisive campaign, voters are ready for results, Jon Hurdle, Alan Blinder, and Alicia Parlapiano uncovered at the New York Times. “I’m visiting polls today in New Hampshire, where the vast majority of ballots will actually be cast ~today~. Updates from me and other Times correspondents,” Ruth Graham tweeted. Kim Masters added, “Bless them, every one.”
Another thought  In her Perspective column for the Washington Post, Margaret Sullivan admitted We still don’t know much about this election — except that the media and pollsters blew it again. “That we should never again put as much stock in public opinion polls, and those who interpret them, as we’ve grown accustomed to doing. Polling seems to be irrevocably broken, or at least our understanding of how seriously to take it is.” Avi Asher-Schapiro deemed it “a wise, early read,” and Michael Chavez wrote, “There is a lot to digest in this @Sulliview column, the absurdity of polling, media ineptness, etc. But the misread by Dems and the media of Latino voters, especially in Florida is key.”
OK, America, so what the hell happens now? Marina Hyde wondered aloud in her piece for The Guardian. “My bit on where we are with the US election result,” she wrote. Sophie Campbell praised that “Hyde nails it again,” and David Shariatmadari said, “Sometimes only Marina Hyde will do.” | 
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