Election Night Results May Be Deceiving #195 By Hank Silverberg Sometime around 11 p.m. on Tuesday night we will be hearing about the election results for the apparently close, and definitely significant, governor's race here in my home state of Virginia. All the polls indicate that former Governor and Democrat, Terry McAuliffe, and Republican businessman and Trumpite, Glenn Youngkin, are in a statistical tie as the days count down to November 2nd. The election is being forecast as a referendum on how President Biden is doing in his first few months, and whether Republicans will be able to pick up seats in Congress in 2022. That may or may not be true. The pundits and political analysts are often as wrong with their forecasts as your local weather forecaster is. But there is something unique to watch for. It's becoming a trend that may make elections harder to forecast and easier to shout fraud, just as the last President did in 2020 witho...
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