I gotta say no one should ever take DDHQ's "calls" seriously again. They have no standard I can see beyond "call a race if someone is ahead by 5 points with half the vote in", they've had constant near-mistakes where they call races early that end up going down to the wire, and then there's their outright incorrect calls, like last night, Seattle mayor, the 2020 MO-01 Dem primary, 2018 CA-21...their "we get 99% of calls right" metric is useless, sure I can call West Virginia and Massachusetts too. But if they can't be trusted to be right in close races, then...what's even the point? Blowing a call every couple years (with multiple other near misses they pretend don't happen) is an unacceptable rate, if it even happens a single time it's a disaster for your credibility and should prompt operational changes to ensure it never happens again. And for these mistakes to keep happening years after all of us became highly aware of the fact that the early and late vote counts can be radically different...embarrassing!
It's funny that Republicans think that the racist Obama meme that Trump posted on TruthSocial last night (which got deleted) was the bit that costs them the House.
No. They lost the House months before that. If anything that meme might cost them the Senate majority.
The only thing that surprised me about Trump posting that hideous meme was that he didn't do it sooner, like in his first term.
I gotta say no one should ever take DDHQ's "calls" seriously again. They have no standard I can see beyond "call a race if someone is ahead by 5 points with half the vote in", they've had constant near-mistakes where they call races early that end up going down to the wire, and then there's their outright incorrect calls, like last night, Seattle mayor, the 2020 MO-01 Dem primary, 2018 CA-21...their "we get 99% of calls right" metric is useless, sure I can call West Virginia and Massachusetts too. But if they can't be trusted to be right in close races, then...what's even the point? Blowing a call every couple years (with multiple other near misses they pretend don't happen) is an unacceptable rate, if it even happens a single time it's a disaster for your credibility and should prompt operational changes to ensure it never happens again. And for these mistakes to keep happening years after all of us became highly aware of the fact that the early and late vote counts can be radically different...embarrassing!
Final thoughts: https://imgur.com/a/tj8sutK
It's funny that Republicans think that the racist Obama meme that Trump posted on TruthSocial last night (which got deleted) was the bit that costs them the House.
No. They lost the House months before that. If anything that meme might cost them the Senate majority.
The only thing that surprised me about Trump posting that hideous meme was that he didn't do it sooner, like in his first term.