[uspol/psa] Not going to discuss anything OTHER than this, but please remember the Red Mirage and subsequent Blue Shift are both normal parts of US general elections.
Unless it's an absolute blowout (which is unlikely but technically not impossible), we will likely not have actual final results tonight.
Unless it's an absolute blowout (which is unlikely but technically not impossible), we will likely not have actual final results tonight.
tl;dr: Most states require in-person ballots to be counted first, mail-in and other absentee ballots second.
normal, predate Trump, and not that difficult to work out why without resorting to fraud conspiracies
This means Republicans will always tend to show an early lead followed by a Democrat rally, neither of which may actually be accurate because they're just how things are counted.
I won't tell anyone how to deal with this (everyone's different), just please remember this for your mental health.
there's also precincts reporting all at once, obviously smaller precincts will get their vote done sooner, and those tend to be rural and lean Republican
that too, and it plays an especially big role in Arizona
I do fully expect Trump to declare victory early on in the Red Mirage and decry all later results as fraudulent
Georgia is another one where the difference between rural and urban counties is an absolute fuckton of people
not caring (or even liking) that that's defrauding most cities of their votes
Ayasugi_san: I'm deliberately not getting into that with this plurk, this is strictly a PSA
I am going to be an anxious mess all day. /o\
Same, despite knowing there's not really anything I can do about it and already voted.
Actually took the day off because of it (and the sleep I lost)
going to just spend the day keeping myself distracted