[Click for Election Results via The Saratogian]There's only one answer to that: elections are fun!
UPDATE: As per Jack, via The Saratoagian, it's now down to a 25 vote Murphy edge in NY-20.
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Why is everyone talking about ties? Not just you, but Andrew Gelman and Nate Silver threw out that word. It's not like it's a three-vote margin. We've seen so many close elections that 65 votes seems like a landslide.
ReplyDeleteIf any election deserved that appellation, it's the 7th House District in Alaska. On election day, Republican Mike Kelly led Democrat Karl Kassel 5000 votes to 4999. A recount left Kelly ahead by a decisive 5024-5020 margin.
I will never understand people who are not completely apathetic not voting.
Well, when you account for the number of votes cast in both of those cases (NY-20, AK-7), we're talking about the same thing. Both votes were within less than .05%, which while technically not a tie, is a tie.
ReplyDeleteObviously, this post was in jest; poking fun at the pre-election over-extrapolation of the potential results in this race. The media wanted one of the two narratives I mentioned, but we got something else entirely. All of that hyping and neither side can really claim a victory.
Of course, as Nate mentioned, this was basically a status quo decision and while neither side can really claim victory in this race, the status quo favors the Democrats.
Yes, I knew it was in jest.
ReplyDeleteAnd apparently some recanvassing has brought it down to a 25 vote margin.
Elections are fun, indeed.
I'm sure you've been following this, but I couldn't resist posting because your title became literally true for a little while. Apparently it was temporarily tied, though TPM is now claiming a 198 vote lead for Murphy.
ReplyDeleteI actually haven't. I've been swamped since Tuesday and haven't been able to follow this as much as I would have liked.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting. Too bad the window of time that it was tied was so small.
I don't know. The NYS board of elections still shows a tie and aside from a couple of left-leaning sites — and I'm sure they've done their factchecking — I've only seen one other site corroborate the 198-vote Murphy lead. Perhaps because they know that the 198-vote lead will evaporate, but that hasn't stopped other media from reporting other changes. Perhaps they can't get verification of the 198. And perhaps it's because a tie is a better story.
ReplyDeleteTedisco, 76,914 to 76,817.
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