Old Age Sucks 👴🏻

Pro tip for folks preparing to monitor local returns on Election Night: the good folks at @mulawpoll created a tool that lets you instantly pull up election results by municipality going back to 2000. It's wildly helpful. pic.twitter.com/W9UN8Kps6T

— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) November 3, 2024

I still remember the vote count debacle in 2000, when the announced result in Florida changed so many times the networks finally threw up their hands and did what they should always do: wait for official results.

I don’t know if anybody’s exit-polling early voters. All I’ve seen is speculation based on turnout of registered voters, and even dumber speculation about Texas turnout (we don’t register by party). So what I don’t need is wild speculation based on exit polls on Election Day and polling narratives breathlessly announced as soon as polls close.

I haven’t forgotten the year such premature announcements caused people standing in line in California to go home because, why bother? 🤷🏻‍♂️ Lots of down ballot and local races changed by that need to announce results before anyone actually knew.

Although Karl Rove’s epic meltdown on Fox on Election Night made me wish I had cable that night. And ever watched Fox.

Fuck Election Night. And polling.

Told ya getting old sucks. And I’m here to embrace it. What else am I gonna do? 😹