Just a perspective

[Golfnbrew]

So, I just ran up on this in 538 live blog:

DAN HOPKINS
NOV. 6, 10:16 AM

The fact that ballots are counted sequentially lends the process of vote counting important transparency. But it can also lead us to apply inappropriate mental frames. For instance, we may resort to horse-race language that suggests that Biden is pulling ahead at the last second, but in fact these votes were all cast on or before Election Day. The illusion of a dramatic horse race is simply a product of the order in which we count votes.

[soothsayer]

1. Here it is with a fancy word

Link to tweet

?s=21


Jennifer Taub
@jentaub
Exactly

Binyamin Appelbaum
@BCAppelbaum
There's something a little off about the standard descriptions of ballot counting. Nobody is surging ahead or falling behind. It's a simulacrum of a race that already happened.

[Wounded Bear]

2. The media needs the drama and suspense...

[Dem2]

5. You think the media coordinated the vote counting?

[Wounded Bear]

6. No, but have we really needed 24/7 coverage of it? nt

[Dem2]

7. Everybody here was watching it with baited breath

Future of mankind on the line and all...

[exboyfil]

3. And the Republican state legislators wanted to emphasize that fact

by preventing counting until after polls close. That was part of the disinformation campaign.

I say remember the last vote is as important as the first one.

[intrepidity]

4. It's important to understand this

the way Trump wants to portray it is as if his horse was ahead by a mile and then someone threw an obsticle in his horse's path, slowing him down.

No, it's not at all like a horse race.

[Golfnbrew]

8. good description -

it's how he thinks... similar to stopping COVID testing -