Title: Last time each state was declared as "Too Close to Call" at poll closing Post by: OSR stands with Israel on July 18, 2019, 02:09:05 PM so for this case too close to call and too early to call or any call where the Networks or Cable News Stations are unable to make a projection at poll closing times.
Also now many times the networks will declare states too early to call when some parts of a state has closed but not the others but in this excercise, those calls do not count. I will only count them if they were declared as such when polls actually closed in the entire state Alabama - 2008 Alaska - 2016 Arizona- 2016 Arkansas - 2004 California - 1988 Colorado - 2016 Connecticut - 1988 Delaware - 1988 Florida - 2016 Georgia - 2016 Hawaii - 2004 Idaho- Illinois - 1988 Indiana - 2008 Iowa - 2016 Kansas Kentucky - 1996 Louisiana - 2008 Maine - 2016 Maryland - 1988 Massachusetts - 1988 Michigan - 2016 Minnesota - 2016 Mississippi - 2008 Missouri -2016 Montana - 2008 Nebraska - 2008 Nevada - 2016 New Hampshire - 2016 New Jersey - 2012 New Mexico - 2016 New York - 1988 North Carolina - 2016 North Dakota Ohio - 2016 Oklahoma - 1976 Oregon - 2004 Pennsylvania - 2016 Rhode Island - 1988 South Carolina - 2016 South Dakota - 2008 Tennessee - 2000 Texas - 1992 Utah - 2016 Vermont - 1988 Virginia - 2016 Washington - 2000 West Virginia - 2004 Wisconsin - 2016 Wyoming - 1992 Title: Re: Last time each state was declared as "Too Close to Call" at poll closing Post by: morgankingsley on July 18, 2019, 03:42:43 PM How in the f-ck was Utah too close to call for reporters in 2016? I mean, sure McMullin and what not, but Trump still won it by nearly 20 points. I mean the others I can understand sort of, but Utah is wtf to the maximum
Title: Re: Last time each state was declared as "Too Close to Call" at poll closing Post by: Frozen Sky Ever Why on July 18, 2019, 04:05:39 PM How in the f-ck was Utah too close to call for reporters in 2016? I mean, sure McMullin and what not, but Trump still won it by nearly 20 points. I mean the others I can understand sort of, but Utah is wtf to the maximum I understand Utah because they base a lot of their calls on past election information and GOP numbers were 20-30% lower across the state than in past races. I can't fathom Alabama 2008 though. Title: Re: Last time each state was declared as "Too Close to Call" at poll closing Post by: OSR stands with Israel on July 18, 2019, 04:41:11 PM How was SC not called at polling get closing time in 2016 . I get MO but not SC
Title: Re: Last time each state was declared as "Too Close to Call" at poll closing Post by: 538Electoral on July 19, 2019, 02:03:34 AM Very interesting.
Title: Re: Last time each state was declared as "Too Close to Call" at poll closing Post by: Podgy the Bear on July 20, 2019, 07:41:54 AM It also shows you how skittish the networks have become since 1980 (and definitely since 2000). To call Missouri TCTC in 2016 was ridiculous.
I remember in 1980 how NBC was calling state after state for Reagan once the polls closed, for which they were criticized. And they were right in every instance (even in the Deep South states like Alabama, Mississippi, and South Carolina where Reagan barely won). The only race of significance I think the networks called wrong that year was Mack Mattingly's upset of Herman Talmadge for the GA Senate seat. Title: Re: Last time each state was declared as "Too Close to Call" at poll closing Post by: Frozen Sky Ever Why on July 20, 2019, 05:05:58 PM It also shows you how skittish the networks have become since 1980 (and definitely since 2000). To call Missouri TCTC in 2016 was ridiculous. I remember in 1980 how NBC was calling state after state for Reagan once the polls closed, for which they were criticized. And they were right in every instance (even in the Deep South states like Alabama, Mississippi, and South Carolina where Reagan barely won). The only race of significance I think the networks called wrong that year was Mack Mattingly's upset of Herman Talmadge for the GA Senate seat. The immediate projection of Clinton winning GA & NH in 1992 was so pathetic I wish he would have lost them just to embarrass whoever was making those ridiculous calls. Title: Re: Last time each state was declared as "Too Close to Call" at poll closing Post by: Sumner 1868 on July 20, 2019, 07:00:37 PM I think 1988 was the only time Vermont was ever a swing state.
Title: Re: Last time each state was declared as "Too Close to Call" at poll closing Post by: morgankingsley on July 21, 2019, 01:01:57 AM I think 1988 was the only time Vermont was ever a swing state. And perhaps 1980 Title: Re: Last time each state was declared as "Too Close to Call" at poll closing Post by: buritobr on July 22, 2019, 06:41:45 PM I usually don't consider the far-right serious when it says that CNN is Clinton News Network.
However, it is true that in the election night, CNN calls some states to the democratic candidate immediate after the polls close and the democratic margin is very small and CNN considers some states "too close to call" and then, the republican margin is bigger. |