Yes, in that situation I could at least agree with the rationality, even if I don't agree with the way the results are announced.
But in the case of Ohio's numbers, which the media based Obama's "win" on, it's not that the remaining votes couldn't possibly have tipped the balance, based on the number of remaining votes. It's that based on how the voters in the remaining precincts had voted in the past, it was extremely unlikely that enough voters in those areas would have voted for Romney, to tip the balance. That's a little like basing the results of a game based on the losing team's track record as opposed to waiting to see how they actually perform in the rest of the current game.
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Date: 2012-11-11 10:30 pm (UTC)From:But in the case of Ohio's numbers, which the media based Obama's "win" on, it's not that the remaining votes couldn't possibly have tipped the balance, based on the number of remaining votes. It's that based on how the voters in the remaining precincts had voted in the past, it was extremely unlikely that enough voters in those areas would have voted for Romney, to tip the balance. That's a little like basing the results of a game based on the losing team's track record as opposed to waiting to see how they actually perform in the rest of the current game.
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