# Are the news networks waiting to announce which candidate won a state this year?

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [September 26, 2020, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-news-networks-waiting-to-announce-which-candidate-won-a-state-this-year/921626 "2020-09-26T23:43:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-news-networks-waiting-to-announce-which-candidate-won-a-state-this-year/921626/10 "2020-09-27T17:27:21Z")

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> [@Mahaloth](#):
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> Thank you, this is really right on with what I was looking for.

This current thread doesn’t start on exactly the point you asked, but a lot of its replies are.

> [@Trump could temporarily have 408 electoral votes, until the "blue shift" gives Biden 334](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-could-temporarily-have-408-electoral-votes-until-the-blue-shift-gives-biden-334/921207/):
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> Interesting [New Yorker article](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/28/the-legal-fight-awaiting-us-after-the-election) (scroll down, it’s the 9th paragraph): The gap between in-person voting and mail voting is potentially so vast between Republicans and Democrats, respectively, that a data company, Hawkfish, predicted that Trump could climb to a whopping 408 electoral votes on Election Night…until the “blue shift” (the many Democratic mail-in ballots for Biden) kicks in in the days following Election Day and changes it to a 334-EV victory for Biden.

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