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The corrupt media will call states for Clinton early (Florida, PA)

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  • Didn't somebody change some kind of rule so that the news wasn't allowed to report results of states on the East Coast until voting was over? If not, they should.

    WSS

    @westside-steve said:

    Didn't somebody change some kind of rule so that the news wasn't allowed to report results of states on the East Coast until voting was over? If not, they should.

    Excellent question...

    From Florida:

    Please be aware that while Florida polls close at 7 p.m., Florida has two time zones. Voting will not be completed statewide until 7 p.m. Central / 8 p.m. Eastern, at which time, unofficial preliminary election results will be released.

    AKA... waitin' on the Panhandle... then begin releasing vote counts...

    Can't find answer as to when News Orgs begin announcing "and we can now project a winner" of individual states for the National race. But I am sure it is after all the polls in a given state are closed. I think the 2000 klusterfook (to borrow a phrase) included a Florida call before panhandle polls were closed... the first of a few erroneous calls that nite.

    As for making a national call... not turning up any restrictions, but the most recent hit was from 2008 survey of the networks by the NYT where all seemed good to go as soon as they were "sure"...

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/us/politics/04network.html

  • If the race is as close as it's been polled I can't see them calling Florida before 10pm anyway

  • If the race is as close as it's been polled I can't see them calling Florida before 10pm anyway

    @bbedward said:

    If the race is as close as it's been polled I can't see them calling Florida before 10pm anyway

    I think if Trump loses Florida, it'll be because of the Hispanic votes

  • @bbedward said:

    If the race is as close as it's been polled I can't see them calling Florida before 10pm anyway

    I think if Trump loses Florida, it'll be because of the Hispanic votes

    @jbluhm86 said:

    I think if Trump loses Florida, it'll be because of the Hispanic votes

    Lots of Cubans though which isn't exactly the same thing as Mexicans

  • @jbluhm86 said:

    I think if Trump loses Florida, it'll be because of the Hispanic votes

    Lots of Cubans though which isn't exactly the same thing as Mexicans

    @bbedward said:

    Lots of Cubans though which isn't exactly the same thing as Mexicans

    I don't think Trump sees a difference. And when it comes to the negative effects of Trump's comments, I don't think it really matters.

  • @bbedward said:

    Lots of Cubans though which isn't exactly the same thing as Mexicans

    I don't think Trump sees a difference. And when it comes to the negative effects of Trump's comments, I don't think it really matters.

    @mld-woody said:

    I don't think Trump sees a difference. And when it comes to the negative effects of Trump's comments, I don't think it really matters.

    Trust me, I can provide very accurate context on this. There's two types of Cubans-pro Cuba (liberal) and anti-Cuba (republican). Living in South Florida and knowing a lot of Cubans rich and poor this is a VERY mixed bag, In general, more are anti-Cuba (aka republican) believe it or not which is hurting the liberal cause due to Obama. I can speak to this knowing folks fairly known in the SoFlo Cuban community.

  • @mld-woody said:

    I don't think Trump sees a difference. And when it comes to the negative effects of Trump's comments, I don't think it really matters.

    Trust me, I can provide very accurate context on this. There's two types of Cubans-pro Cuba (liberal) and anti-Cuba (republican). Living in South Florida and knowing a lot of Cubans rich and poor this is a VERY mixed bag, In general, more are anti-Cuba (aka republican) believe it or not which is hurting the liberal cause due to Obama. I can speak to this knowing folks fairly known in the SoFlo Cuban community.

    @jrb12711 said:

    Trust me, I can provide very accurate context on this. There's two types of Cubans-pro Cuba (liberal) and anti-Cuba (republican). Living in South Florida and knowing a lot of Cubans rich and poor this is a VERY mixed bag, In general, more are anti-Cuba (aka republican) believe it or not which is hurting the liberal cause due to Obama. I can speak to this knowing folks fairly known in the SoFlo Cuban community.

    Not from Florida but I've also heard that Trump has pretty strong Cuban support.

    Which is why I've heard the Hispanic vote will likely be more pro-Trump in Florida than in places like Nevada and Arizona.

  • @jrb12711 said:

    Trust me, I can provide very accurate context on this. There's two types of Cubans-pro Cuba (liberal) and anti-Cuba (republican). Living in South Florida and knowing a lot of Cubans rich and poor this is a VERY mixed bag, In general, more are anti-Cuba (aka republican) believe it or not which is hurting the liberal cause due to Obama. I can speak to this knowing folks fairly known in the SoFlo Cuban community.

    Not from Florida but I've also heard that Trump has pretty strong Cuban support.

    Which is why I've heard the Hispanic vote will likely be more pro-Trump in Florida than in places like Nevada and Arizona.

    @bbedward said:

    Not from Florida but I've also heard that Trump has pretty strong Cuban support.

    Which is why I've heard the Hispanic vote will likely be more pro-Trump in Florida than in places like Nevada and Arizona.

    Problem is though, Cuban support while strong isn't the whole story. Trump should badly lose every other minority group here which of course is a lot. Outside of Cubans the other strong ethnic groups will definitely not vote Trump.That's why as I've noted I think FL this year will serve as an incredible case study for future elections.

  • Supposedly Trump is doubling Romney's support amongst blacks.

  • @westside-steve said:

    Didn't somebody change some kind of rule so that the news wasn't allowed to report results of states on the East Coast until voting was over? If not, they should.

    Excellent question...

    From Florida:

    Please be aware that while Florida polls close at 7 p.m., Florida has two time zones. Voting will not be completed statewide until 7 p.m. Central / 8 p.m. Eastern, at which time, unofficial preliminary election results will be released.

    AKA... waitin' on the Panhandle... then begin releasing vote counts...

    Can't find answer as to when News Orgs begin announcing "and we can now project a winner" of individual states for the National race. But I am sure it is after all the polls in a given state are closed. I think the 2000 klusterfook (to borrow a phrase) included a Florida call before panhandle polls were closed... the first of a few erroneous calls that nite.

    As for making a national call... not turning up any restrictions, but the most recent hit was from 2008 survey of the networks by the NYT where all seemed good to go as soon as they were "sure"...

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/us/politics/04network.html

    @tour2ma said:

    Excellent question...

    From Florida:

    Please be aware that while Florida polls close at 7 p.m., Florida has two time zones. Voting will not be completed statewide until 7 p.m. Central / 8 p.m. Eastern, at which time, unofficial preliminary election results will be released.

    AKA... waitin' on the Panhandle... then begin releasing vote counts...

    Can't find answer as to when News Orgs begin announcing "and we can now project a winner" of individual states for the National race. But I am sure it is after all the polls in a given state are closed. I think the 2000 klusterfook (to borrow a phrase) included a Florida call before panhandle polls were closed... the first of a few erroneous calls that nite.

    As for making a national call... not turning up any restrictions, but the most recent hit was from 2008 survey of the networks by the NYT where all seemed good to go as soon as they were "sure"...

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/us/politics/04network.html

    Yeah I couldn't find any actual restrictions either. I would assume the news outlets would be loath to give up any means within their power to affect the election.

    WSS

  • From Florida:

    Please be aware that while Florida polls close at 7 p.m., Florida has two time zones. Voting will not be completed statewide until 7 p.m. Central / 8 p.m. Eastern, at which time, unofficial preliminary election results will be released.

    AKA... waitin' on the Panhandle... then begin releasing vote counts...
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    The big mistake in Florida in 2000 Bush/Gore race was calling the race before all the polls in the largely republican panhandle ....I wonder how many votes that cost Bush suppressing the vote in the panhandle? Certainly the media have learned their lesson by now...and the panhandle will have to come in bigger than ever for Trump to win Florida with the heavy early voting of Latino/Hispanic voters who have already voted early and likely went for Clinton.