Sad as it may be, most people track results just by looking at the little ticker bar above the candidates' names. If they continue to not call the obvious red wins, and count wins as blue before they have any legitimate cause to do so, it manufactures the talking point that Biden's way ahead, that it's Trump trying to steal it, and anyone who says otherwise is a deluded Trumper conspiracy theorist.
They used the manipulation of the cartoon ticker/slider bars first in the Clinton/Bernie primary, where all the news outlets included all the superdelegates, who don't vote until the convention, in Hillary's count from day one. This manipulation of the slider bar allowed them to call the election for Hillary the day before CA (the state with more D delegates than most others put together) even went to vote.
The MSM cartoon slider has been one of the "arrows in their quiver" ever since. Simple, but effective psyops.
For the same reason they havent called any other red states.
They are still looking for Biden votes over there.
Sad as it may be, most people track results just by looking at the little ticker bar above the candidates' names. If they continue to not call the obvious red wins, and count wins as blue before they have any legitimate cause to do so, it manufactures the talking point that Biden's way ahead, that it's Trump trying to steal it, and anyone who says otherwise is a deluded Trumper conspiracy theorist.
They used the manipulation of the cartoon ticker/slider bars first in the Clinton/Bernie primary, where all the news outlets included all the superdelegates, who don't vote until the convention, in Hillary's count from day one. This manipulation of the slider bar allowed them to call the election for Hillary the day before CA (the state with more D delegates than most others put together) even went to vote.
The MSM cartoon slider has been one of the "arrows in their quiver" ever since. Simple, but effective psyops.