Re: OT: Kamala Victorious in Pennsylvania!

On 31/10/2024 10:42 pm, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Wed, 30 Oct 2024 17:50:46 -0700, John Robertson wrote:
 

On 2024-10-30 4:51 p.m., Cursitor Doom wrote:

The earliest state to declare in the 2024 presidential election has
Kamala the clear winner over Trump! I'm kind of 'guessing' other swing
states will follow suit. Democracy's great ain't it?
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https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-10-30/abc-mistakenly-airs-election-
result-showing-harris-winning-pa

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Not the first time this sort of thing has happened, won't be the last:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Defeats_Truman
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Really, you need to get a life that doesn't involve being a Russian
stooge.
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John :-#)#

  Quote from our own cited source:
 "On election night, this earlier press deadline required the first post-
election issue of the Tribune to go to press before states had reported
most of the results from the polling places."
 The first three words above are key here. This was merely an innocent
example of a newspaper attempting to get a scoop in advance of its rivals
when under extreme time pressure. They took a chance, made a guess and it
turned out to be the wrong one. Same thing happened with Time magazine's
embarrassing "Madam President" front page splash showing Hillary Clinton
as having beaten Donald Trump. Another innocent mistake from jumping the
gun.
The 'Pennsylvania Incident' bears no such comparison. Those figures
(purportedly *precise* figures, mind) were accidentally released a whole
week in advance of the election day - let alone the date any such result
might become available subsequently!
Really, you need to get a life that doesn't involve being a WEF
stooge.

You and Zero Hedge do love posting right-wing fantasies.
The official explanation - that they were dummy numbers put together for a mock-up of the election night coverage - is a trifle more plausible than the claim that this is evidence of some left-wing conspiracy.
The 2020 election wasn't stolen, and the Trump camp was known to have admitted that before they got stuck into deluding their supporters, and the incipient election isn't going to be stolen either.
The deluded supporters are now making it hard for the vote-counting officials to hire the temporary staff they needs to count the votes.
There's a real fear that Trump's supporters may start their January 6 antics on November 6 this year, and sensible people don't want to be in the firing line.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney