{"id":23841,"date":"2016-09-12T13:19:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T20:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23841"},"modified":"2016-09-12T13:19:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T20:19:54","slug":"on-election-day-projections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/on-election-day-projections\/","title":{"rendered":"On Election Day Projections"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have thought to myself, more than once, "Wouldn’t it be neat to have election vote counts on election day in real time?"  As a blogger I could post them, and we could discuss them in comments.  That possibility is here.  Do you think that is a good idea?<\/font><\/p>\n

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For decades, news organizations have refrained from releasing early results in presidential battleground states on Election Day, adhering to a strict, time-honored embargo until a majority of polls there have closed.<\/p>\n

Now, a group of data scientists, journalists and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs is seeking to upend that reporting tradition, providing detailed projections of who is winning at any given time on Election Day in key swing states, and updating the information in real time from dawn to dusk<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The plan is likely to cause a stir among those involved in reporting election results and in political circles, who worry about both accuracy and an adverse effect on how people vote. Previous early calls in presidential races have prompted congressional inquiries.<\/p>\n

The company spearheading the effort, VoteCastr, plans real-time projections of presidential and Senate races in Colorado, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin<\/strong>. It plans to publish a map and tables of its projected results on Slate, the online newsmagazine… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From <NY Times<\/a>><\/font><\/p>\n

Now that it’s real, I oppose it and think it would be very bad for liberals in downballot races and for progressive outcomes on ballot measures.  Lefties tend to get lazy.  I can see thousands of voters staying home in western states, if the presidential race was already settled. Sadly, all it tales is one ballot measure that would effect whether or not Republicans can deny others’ Constitutional rights, or that helps make Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christianity (the opposite of authentic Christianity) the de facto<\/em> state religion, and goose-stepping sheeple will infest the polls like a plague.  I think this would make presidential election years more like midterms.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have thought to myself, more than once, "Wouldn’t it be neat to have election vote counts on election day in real time?"  As a blogger I could post them, and we could discuss them in comments.  That possibility is here.  Do you think that is a good idea? For decades, news organizations have refrained […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}