This is a pretty good set of news for Democrats in Nevada. It's not going to be called when the margin is this narrow, but you can pencil it in the Biden column for the purpose of gaming out where we're going from here
We have less concrete data on what's out in Mi than PA, but there are many reasons to think Biden probably catches up, whether it's the trendline/what we know about their count, or what we see in neighboring states and high % counted MI counties
The PA situation is obviously far from completion, but we do know there are at least 1.4 mlilion outstanding absentee ballots and so far they're 78-21 Biden. That's enough for him to catch up if it keeps up.
Wisconsin is what it is; I have nothing to add to the many tweets analyzing the situation there in recent hours.
Arizona's a mess. Late mail ballots usually lean young/Democratic here, but we also know the outstanding mail ballots were reg. GOP. Not quite sure how to balance that.
And we have a very clear picture in Georgia, thanks to the needle's analysis of the vote by precinct x method--stipulating that there aren't any errors in the GA county data. There's a lot of heavily Dem vote in the Atlanta area left. It's enough to make Biden a narrow favorite

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6 Nov
Meanwhile, Trump's lead is under 50k in PA. It sure seems like Philadelphia is due to give us an update at some point this evening...
Meanwhile, Trump's lead in Georgia is now under 2500 votes. It'll be interesting to see whether Georgia beats out Pennsylvania in the race to a Biden lead
Unlike Pennsylvania, Biden won't be called the winner in Georgia if he manages to take a lead. It'll be too close, with provisionals and overseas ballots still left to go and the prospect of recount
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5 Nov
Something interesting to think about: Stacey Abrams is basically the only major Democrat who fared worse in 2018 than Biden/Dems in 202. Who else is there?
Gillum lost, but he did fare better than Biden/Dems 2020
That's a good one. Still in play, though at this point I do think she's favored to beat out Biden
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5 Nov
Trump's lead in Georgia now under 10,000 votes, mainly after mail-in ballots from Fulton.
Clayton and Chatham absentees alone ought to cover the rest of the difference
Yeah, then we get to the extraneous stuff. Overseas ballot v. provisionals v. the scattered missing stuff across the state. If the SOS is right, there's quite a bit of absentee elsewhere to pad Biden. Hard to judge the rest. It'll be in recount territory
Sadly, we're at the point where the needle is no longer very helpful. In a lot of places, the SOS says there's still absentee vote but the count is high enough that the needle isn't expecting much more. At this late stage, exact reporting prevails over the models
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5 Nov
Biden wins the new votes in Nevada by 14 points, and there's still more late mail and provisionals left. I don't know if anyone will call it on this basis, as it's still fairly close and there's no *hard* data on what's out. But you can still pencil this into the Biden column
Additionally, Clark County (Las Vegas) appears to hold a disproportionate share of what's left. That would be good news for Biden, even if the remaining vote methods (late mail, provisional) weren't likely to his advantage
I think a main barrier is that the network projection models may not be built to handle vote by method to this extent. If your model knows it's all late mail/provisionals, then the data could quite possibly support a call. If not, then no call.
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5 Nov
Good morning everyone
Unbeknownst to you, I've been up for a while and I've had my coffee. I think I'm all caught up on where we stand. We'll have an article on the state of play in a bit.
The big picture: no change in where we stand since last night. Biden still on track in PA; GA tallies were in line with our expectations and Biden may still have the tiny edge in GA--though there are a few too many conflicting reports this AM for me be certain about what's out
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4 Nov
The needle accounts for this, and expects...
Chatham: 75-26
Fulton: 85-16
DeKalb: 93-7
Among remaining mail absentees
Biden is still a very narrow favored in the view of the needle, with no meaningful change since last night. Honestly, I'm more curious about any reporting errors (which could go either way) than the needle's estimates, with the race so close
Another factor is the needle thinks the remaining Election Day vote in Fulton and DeKalb is especially Democratic--more so than the Election Day vote that's been counted so far, presumably bc it's in majority black precincts. That seems easy enough to check
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