Additional PSA: If it’s close we likely will have NO IDEA who wins on election night. Vote by mail should take days to count. Yet FOX & CNN & everyone will host huge e-night production$. If tr*mp is close/winning and we’re all watching he’ll claim victory. That would be bad. 1/https://twitter.com/hollyotterbein/status/1302004705422434305 …
Now on a personal note, I know how hard it is to resist despairing over e-night results.
In San Francisco, VBM + Ranked choice voting makes e-night numbers deceptive. When @chesaboudin ran his historic campaign for SF DA, returns initially had him down 6/https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/amp/Loftus-leads-Boudin-Tung-for-San-Francisco-14812809.php …
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It was my first time working and investing so much hope and energy into an SF race, and I couldn’t handle the logic everyone was telling me, that nothing has been decided yet, numbers would come. My stomach was in knots. I was so sad. 7/pic.twitter.com/niudlQXsJy
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But then!! “After four days of ballot counting, a progressive lawyer who vowed to confront police misconduct and mass incarceration won a heated race to become San Francisco’s next district attorney.” 8/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/11/10/progressive-lawyer-wins-san-francisco-district-attorney-race-continuing-national-reform-trend/%3FoutputType%3Damp …
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Now I had ppl all around telling me to be patient, and I still struggled to internalize this shift in election night orientation. Imagine how hard it will be to be stay calm when pundit$, cable new$, and the pre$ident are all saying “LOOK HERE! WE’VE GOT ANSWERS!” 9/pic.twitter.com/xA0g6Atc3P
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And I’m including the $ symbols bc that’s why these corporate media outlets won’t change their election night programming. They make helllllla $$$ when we’re all glued to our screens in anticipation. 10/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/tv-ratings-nbc-leads-early-election-night-numbers-945493 …
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Now obviously tr*mp cares zero about protecting electoral integrity. So if it looks like he’s at all close to the lead, and the cameras (and tens of millions of us) are watching on election night, he will claim victory. And if the media covers it blindly many will believe it 11/
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If this happens and the media/masses legitimize it, it’s gonna be super hard to reverse it a few days later. Remember what a sh*tshow 2000 was? Well this time we have a party/president who is actively pursuing fascism. 12/
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Aaaand also we gotta work like hell to make the results a landslide against fascism so none of this matters! So if you’re still reading this...get active? I’m doing it with
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