That’s exactly the reason I refused to even check the results until after 10 (Eastern Time)... why torture yourself with the corrupt media trying to influence the election with bogus “exit polls”?
I was here monitoring FR in that 7-8 slot and there were numerous posters saying it was over for Trump. That got to me and not wanting to see exactly what this video was showing along with the MSM high fiving each other I decided to watch a John Wayne movie instead. I went to bed after that with bad thoughts in my head. I woke up around 3:00 or so thinking it had surely been decided by now so I dared to return to FR, swallow the bitter pill and face the music. I was to say the least nicely surprised to see the early dark clouds had given way to an early dawn. Morning in America Again!
I noticed one ‘news source’ would call a state for Trump, but other ‘news sources’ would not call that state. Thus, there was no ‘concensus’ of news sources calling some states. And it kept them from declaring Trump the winner early.
Some obvious states were not called until late. Georgia, for example. ‘News source A’ called Arizona early, for example, but none of the other major ‘news sources’ called Arizona until late.
My impression at the time was they needed to determine how many ‘fraudulant votes’ they might need to swing certain states. In many cases, they might have needed 120% of the votes to declare it for Clinton. Such states were really lost causes, mathematically.
In previous elections, newsies always seemed to race so they could claim to be the first to call states for candidates. This time, the concept of ‘being first’ seemed to have been put on hold when it appeared obvious that Clinton wasn’t winning.
Michigan still has not been called by many of the news sources.
I know I was dying. I thought the witch had Florida and it was over.
Sigh... It is Great reliving the memory of that fine night. To think it was over, only to see the late TD and victory of the most hated foe.
Marvelous!