Can’t call the Super Tuesday vote? Be patient

By artappraiser on Tue, 03/03/2020 - 10:44am |

My new one @latimesopinion on the responsibility of cable news to stop with breathless coverage of election reporting delays.
Op-Ed: Can't call the Super Tuesday vote? Be patient https://t.co/6YUN7KQAu8
— Rick Hasen (@rickhasen) March 3, 2020

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https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-03-03/2020-election-confidence-absentee-ballot-security

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And NEW: California voters overwhelmingly are OK with trading a FAST vote count with expanded opportunities for voters, a new @latimes/@BerkeleyIGS poll finds... https://t.co/5QrKNci6ec
— John Myers (@johnmyers) March 3, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 03/03/2020 - 11:06am

Xtreme Bernie bro pic:

good morning from oakland :) pic.twitter.com/Z03FaXRPkv
— joe veix (@joeveix) March 3, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 03/03/2020 - 11:11am

@rickhasen It certainly is less important than the loss of life, but the Nashville tornado is causing issues with voting there today: https://t.co/bsMSw51oER

I hope it all goes as smoothly as possible, and I hope other states learn lessons from it.
— Patrick Bryant (@pat_bryant) March 3, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 03/03/2020 - 11:15am

warning of worse case scenario of amount of patience required: A close primary contest in California may turn into a healthy Sanders win by April

Two weird dynamics — the late Biden surge and the slow count in California — may mean an initial assessment of the results in the state which later shifts substantially. https://t.co/qUe1zbqDVi
— Philip Bump (@pbump) March 3, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 03/03/2020 - 12:18pm

on the distorting effects of the horse race thing:

Ya'll see why I quit full-time journalism and ran to academics? In political journalism, you don't need to be empirical. If you have a narrative, that's all that matters. You are punished more for dissent than inaccuracy. https://t.co/TalYdVkMcW
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) March 3, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 03/03/2020 - 4:32pm

"Instead of milking uncertainty in election coverage, journalists should educate themselves, and then the public, about how and why it can take a long time to tally votes and how vote totals can shift precipitously but with no chicanery involved." https://t.co/9lA3mLSZ4m pic.twitter.com/gybnPJCxha
— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) March 3, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 03/03/2020 - 5:32pm

Can’t call the Super Tuesday vote? Be patient

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