cnn must be reading du

[brettdale]

Talking about why they havent called it.

[LisaL]

1. No, du is listening to cnn.

NT

[Squinch]

2. What are their reasons?

[Statistical]

4. Cheeseburger ads.

Think of all that glorious glorious ad money. You want that to go away by ending the story?

[Squinch]

5. Yeah, that's the real reason, but I bet that's not what they said.

[Shermann]

12. That's absurd...

They pimp prescription drugs during CNN's commercials, not fast food.

[lindysalsagal]

3. That's gone on all day.

[Mike 03]

6. The NYT live reporter updates are getting snarky about that

too. Upset about all the calls to decision desks asking them to call it.

[AngryOldDem]

7. Bending over backward to explain their reasoning.

Ridiculous. If this were any other year, and any other president....

I thought it was funny this afternoon that MSNBC changed its banner from “Biden nears nomination” (or some such) to “Biden needs 17 votes away.” As if that made a difference.

Just call it.

[ecstatic]

8. I'm growing more and more furious about this. They have never

done this for any other candidate. It's sickening how easily they roll over for dictator wannabes. They are supposed to be the 4th estate. They have not learned anything over the past 4 years. Disgusting!

[AngryOldDem]

11. This isn't like election night....

...when they call states early, or call the whole thing before Western polls close, which discourages voting.

They can’t extrapolate the outcome from what they know? PA is the only state that matters. Surely with 90%+ of votes counted they could safely make a prediction.

Fear of the Wrath of Trump is behind this, and it’s becoming more transparent and ridiculous. I understand wanting to be cautious. But there is a limit.

[BainsBane]

9. More likely Steve Schmidt

[Yavin4]

10. They need Trump because every story needs a big bad.

They're deeply invested in the narrative that Trump is this uber big bad politician capable of pulling off miracles. It's great for business even if they're on the wrong end of his insults.

Declaring Biden the winner is losing their narrative thus rendering them irrelevant.