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wont declare a winner on election night, and "thats normal" 
https://time.com/7022314/election-night-2024-results-timing-delay/
Sure even in 2020 during the pandemic they accurately declared the winner 
the night of. And I sure a winner not being dwclared only happened once (2000) since the 1800s which was when the only other two times that occurred
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/4-times-u-s-election-night-ended-no-clear-winner
butt since bc of the pandemic or whatever you just gotta accept that things are different now and technology has gone backwards in the 21st century
https://www.newsweek.com/were-unlikely-know-winner-election-night-thats-ok-opinion-1971418
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/13/us/politics/election-night-results-timing.html
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It's because they've done so much gerrymandering over the years that the election is decided by 0.25% of voters in a swing state. This makes contested results and recounts inevitable.
From the sounds of it, this time it's going to be the 350 Samoans who live in west Pennsylvania that'll be deciding who is president of the free world for the next 4 years.
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I know you're canadian and therefore r-slurred when it comes to US politics, but gerrymandering literally has zero impact on presidential elections (for most states, but including Pennsylvania). The specific congressional district literally doesn't matter. They'll total up all the Penn votes and see which candidate got more, and that candidate gets all of Penn's EC votes.
Gerrymandering is still bad and distortionate but very literally and objectively does not come into play when it comes to presidential elections. It matters when it comes to stuff like congressional control (specifically of the house of representatives - it obviously doesn't matter with senators since those are elected statewide).
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Imagine getting dogwalked on American politics by A. FRICKING. LEAF.
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The Founding Fathers wouldn't have it any other way
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They unironically thought each state would elect its own darling and Congress would be able to choose the president every time.
Of course they also had a really r-slurred mechanic where the runner-up in the presidential election became the VP. This person would often be in opposition to the president so the president and VP would be political opposites. Also since the VP takes over if the president dies, it creates a strong incentive to assassinate the president, whereas there's much less incentive these days (since the VP is nominally at least the same party).
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VP from the opposite party is such a pro-drama move. Imagine Trump as Kam's veep, endlessly concocting zany Wile E. Coyote schemes to try and bump her off.
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Tell that to JFK!
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yeah but imagine if Trump was president and Harris was his VP lmao
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But he's not president! And she is Biden's VP!
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If that were true, PACs would use their multi billion budgets to pay a couple thousand voters to move to swing states instead of all that ineffectual advertising
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You're a fricking moron.
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I was hoping the amish could swing it this time tbh
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Voting is sinful
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Then why aren't you drama strags moving to swing states and specific counties to maximize global drama?
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