Want to watch election returns like a pro? Keep an eye on these places

Boston Globe ^ | Oct 27, 2020 | By Dan McGowan Globe Staff

[11th_VA]

Here’s the catch about watching the returns on Election Night: Things kind of move at the glacial pace of a Red Sox/Yankees game. For every split-second homerun moment like calling Florida or Pennsylvania, there are a lot of slow-moving stretches that involve pundits like Rahm Emanuel and Chris Christie second-guessing the candidates for where they traveled in the final days of the campaign.

If you’re looking to spice things up a bit for next week, you can arm yourself with Twitter fun facts if you track results in specific counties in the swings states. Truthfully, there is no perfect system for this, and it’s hard to argue that any one county is going to be the bellwether for a state, let alone the country. But here are a few tips to get you started.

[Good links embedded in article to many vote return sites]

[deks]

How Long Will Vote Counting Take?
<><> Estimates and Deadlines in All 50 States

[scroll down to chart with state info]

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/27/upshot/election-results-timing.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab

[noiseman]

Anyone think it’s odd that the New York Times decided not to run its election probability “meter” this year? Amazing coincidence that it just happens to coincide with all of the dem propaganda about disregarding the Election Day results, and that they will not concede under any circumstances. Could certainly be coordinated, as the Times’ meter gives updated probability of either candidate winning, based upon things like votes cast, who they were cast for, where they came from, and how many votes remain. I wonder if the dem fraudsters thought that to be just a little too much inconvenient information for the public to see, while they proceed with their theft (I mean, ballot “counting”).

[Oshkalaboomboom]

One advantage of living in Spain is that the polls don’t close until I am fast asleep. I can wake up and have a good idea of how things are going without having to put up with a bunch of talking heads and their useless predictions. If there is a left-wing meltdown it will be on YouTube by the time I finish my breakfast.

[Gamecock]

That’s a shame. Four years ago they had a high probability of Trump winning early in the evening.

[mad_as_he$$]

According to FNF this is the place to watch:

Vigo County, Indiana

[catnipman]

“Anyone think it’s odd that the New York Times decided not to run its election probability “meter” this year?”

they made a deliberate decision not to do that because it provoked WAY too much snowflake anxiety amongst their paying customers as the needle steadily swung from 99% hillary to 100% trump during 2016 election night ...