h/t @saribethrose
#RedMirage #BlueShift #election #elections #election2024 #USelections #2024PresidentialElection #PresidentialElection #votes #ballots #MailInBballots #USpolitics #politics #political #USpol #AmericanPolitics
#redmirage
@vwbusguy #redmirage @rbreich video is helpful here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5XEQ_7zZ-bw
Trump is expected to falsely claim victory soon just as he did 4 years ago. He may also demand they stop counting the votes - just as he did 4 years ago.
@barney It took 5 days for the Associated Press to declare Joe Biden the winner in 2020.
While watching the silly "projections" of the #PresidentialElection2024 voting returns, I keep thinking of the mantra I learned from @rbreich: #RedMirage; #BlueShift.
I'm hoping for a #HarrisWalz win!
Ignore the #RedMirage and wait for the #BlueShift !!!
#PSA for #Harris supporters...
The polls are closing here in #Florida and #Georgia pretty soon, and as we go into the night, I want to remind people that #Trump has some very scary, and very violent people who are following him.
There have already been some unnerving incidents, and when Trump preemptively declares victory tonight, these are likely to increase, especially as the #RedMirage gives way and we start to see the actual results.
If you have a sign for a #Democrat in your yard, go outside and bring it and when the polls close in your state. Until then it might encourage some on the fence supporters, but once the polls are closed, there's no point.
Same with bumper stickers: if you have a bumper sticker on your car for a #Democratic candidate, either cover it with something or pull in backwards to your driveway.
We don't know what these people will do, but the best course of action is to be safe.
@Morning1 the #Hamburglar will attempt to stop the counting early by declaring victory. #CountEveryVote beware the #RedMirage #LetHimFry
[Video] #Wisconsin #DemocraticParty #Chair predicts a #redmirage before a #bluewave in the #state.
Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair #BenWikler discusses #FormerPresident #BarackObama making a final #pitch to #voters in #Milwaukee on Sunday, and he discusses #earlyvoting in the state.
Dear all, I think you all know there's an #election in the #USA coming up on Tuesday. If you haven't already voted, if you are eligible, please please #Vote
The thing that I want to talk about, though, is the #RedMirage phenomenon, which is what happens when the more rural republican regions turn in their results first, because they have largely voted in person, and there are fewer voters in those rural regions.
So results start out red when the first counties report.
Then, the more-urban areas, which tend to vote democratic, start reporting the counts of the vote-by-mail ballots, which happens more slowly because of the volume of ballots and voters. This second wave of vote reporting is called the #BlueShift and it was used in 2020 to call the election results into doubt.
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/06/nx-s1-5141959/electoral-college-map-what-is-blue-shift-red-mirage
大选夜越来越近，预防输不起的老男人发瘟的预防针：
选举日伴随开票进度会出现两个现象，#红蜃（#RedMirage）和 #蓝移（#BlueShift）
红蜃是指在 #选举日 开票初期，共和党得票率会有明显的领先；蓝移是指随着开票率提升，民主党得票率会逐渐赶上（以及超过）。
这两种现象背后是同一成因，即两党选民群体的人口分布差异。在地广人稀的农村/郊区，共和党选民比例更高，而得益于人口基数小，这些地区的投票和计票都较为迅速，因此会很早就体现在得票率统计中；而民主党选民则一般集中在人口密度较高、投票队伍较长的城区，加上劳工阶层选民往往只能下班后前往投票站，这部分选票结果会在更晚时间呈现；除此之外，邮寄投票的分批次到达导致部分选票在大选夜后半夜才能进入清点流程，而选择邮寄投票的选民有更高比例的民主党选民，共和党选民更倾向于现场投票。
红蜃蓝移现象在每届大选都会出现；需要专门提起是因为2020年大选时唐纳德以此为借口，将伴随红蜃蓝移出现的民主党得票率后来居上污蔑成舞弊和做票；在他心中，唯一公正的结果只有遂他心意的那一种。
GO VOTE！
#mastodon4Harris #默嘟象挺贺锦丽
The #RedMirage don't be fooled! Please share! https://is.gd/rqQaT1 #Politics
Important to know for #election2024. How #ballots are counted and when. #redmirage vs. #blueshift.
#dailydebunks #decentralizednews #citizenjournalism #redvsblue #vote
#ElectionDay phenomena…
#RedMirage: Rural areas with low number of voters, often for #Republicans, are counted fast; seems to be early lead.
#BlueShift: Urban areas, often for #Democrats, are counted slow. Most mail-in votes are for Dems, too.
#Trump will use RedMirage & later BlueShift to claim his votes were stolen.
Explained by Robert Reich on #YouTube vid, "Beware Trump’s Election Night Trick": https://youtu.be/5XEQ_7zZ-bw
From @rbreich's post: https://masto.ai/@rbreich/113386008469424083
#USPolitics @uspolitics
@realTuckFrumper
Every state w/#EarlyVoting stops doing so the weekend before #ElectionDay.
That in-between time should be spent counting those #ballots, and those totals should be reported FIRST after the polls close.
But instead, most #RedStates FORBID the counting of those votes until AFTER the polls close.
So we have situations like 2020, where the first results favor the R, and as early votes are counted, Dems make gains & D's are accused of "cheating". This is deliberate. 🤔 #RedMirage
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