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Originally Posted by jfman
Anyone staying up to watch the results?
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Originally Posted by Mick
Though I think if it is close, then we won't know results by morning.
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Same
But unless it's anything other that a blowout (Biden winning Flordia, Trump clearly killing it in all the swing states as what happened last time) then we won't know even in the morning. The sheer amount of postal votes will take time to count hence the 'blue/red shift' worries where a state switches candidate in the days following.
Here is a good breakdown of when states will report and the assumption on if a blue or red shift is more likely:
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com...esults-timing/
So the networks might call some states if a candidate is far enough ahead that they think the remaining postal votes either won't make up a difference or are only likely to increase the leading candidates lead.
So if Biden were winning in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin but then also won Florida which will likely be called on the night/morning then they might call it but otherwise it might take days.