Q see that Fox Has Biden at a 129 electoral votes and Trump at a 109. And, um, some of the other networks have it much lower. How do the networks make these decisions of when to call a state? Because it's too early according to many to call Florida, but we're sitting here with a pretty clear understanding of where Florida is at. Does anybody have any thoughts on that?
A Well, I think they're erring on the side of extreme caution because of the strange year that it is and the fact that there is all this. We had a hundred, over a hundred million votes banked early. Through the mail or through early in-person voting, and nobody's sure how many more mail ballots, according to one side I looked at, there were still twenty-seven million ballots outstanding. Now some of those are redundant ballots, like David's father-in-law who got three ballots in the mail in Pennsylvania, and a lot of those are probably going in the trash, but there could be another five to ten million of those to come in that are postmarked by today. Many states will accept them after the election, as long as they're postmarked by Election Day. So they're probably being very, very careful that they don't make a premature call. Of course, they all have PTSD about what happened in 2000 when they first prematurely called Florida for Al Gore, then prematurely called it for George W. Bush, and we spent the next 37 days trying to figure out what the hell happened in Florida. So, uh, I think they're going to err on the side of extreme caution across the board. Although, uh, I feel like the margin in Florida at this point is
AI assessment note: “they're erring on the side of extreme caution because of the strange year”