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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumKentucky state board of elections link for accurate information.
http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/KY/53704/145170/Mobile01/en/summary.htmlTurtle 46 Alison 51% a few minutes ago with 3 of 120 counties reporting.
Now it's 46.73 for yertle, 43.72 for Alison
123,785 to 1723,760
CNN can kiss my butt. GO ALISON!!
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Kentucky state board of elections link for accurate information. (Original Post)
mahina
Nov 2014
OP
the question is, which 3 counties, and how well was grimes expected to do there?
unblock
Nov 2014
#1
I am guessing the projection is based on Grimes underperforming in urban areas or
LonePirate
Nov 2014
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unblock
(52,219 posts)1. the question is, which 3 counties, and how well was grimes expected to do there?
LonePirate
(13,420 posts)2. I am guessing the projection is based on Grimes underperforming in urban areas or
the turtle is overperforming in the counties tabulated so far. You don't need to be a genius to extrapolate how the remaining counties are going to fall given how the current sample is trending.
still_one
(92,190 posts)3. they are basing their garbage on exit polls and computer projections. Regardless, I don't watch cnn
and I don't see anytime in the future where my position will change on that
KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)4. Looks like the Associated Press is the source of the "official results"
C-SPAN is using them.
Here's the AP site:
http://blog.ap.org/2014/10/28/qa-how-ap-counts-the-vote/
http://www.ap.org/media-center/elections/FAQs
muntrv
(14,505 posts)5. Ditto for MSNBC.