I refuse to watch cable news, don’t have regular tv, and not a fan of visual media for news anyways. I would love something like a Lemmy/reddit mega thread where I can refresh and get up to the minute updates, but from professional news/journalists. But without the faux drama reality tv stuff that the cable news networks always do. I also love podcasts so if there’s a listening medium that isn’t overly dramatic that works too. Any suggestions?
Just drink alcohol in the basement alone and check the internet in a week.
Maybe good ol newspapers or eventually check if the federal government has an official result page
The federal government doesn’t run the elections so you’d have to check the 51 Secretary of State (or equivalent) sites to actually get live results.
Most of the major newspapers (this is from a UK perspective but I’d imagine they’re accessible in other places) have a live news page for big developing news stories - the BBC site is probably a good unbiased-ish one
The Associated Press seems to have a decent results presentation ready to go:
https://apnews.com/projects/election-results-2024/I wouldn’t bother watching minute-by-minute. There is a decent chance that some swing state will be close enough to trigger a recount, and/or one side files lawsuits challenging the results. This circus is far from over.
It took about a week for Biden to be declared the winner last time IIRC.
What I’m really dreading is another Bush v. Gore, which would almost certainly result the same as it did the first time around.
The fact that the Electoral College was determined to be more important than the people’s votes was shameful.
Al Gore and Hillary should have won.
The fact that the Electoral College was determined to be more important than the people’s votes was shameful.
Huh? First of all the Electoral College has never not been the basis for presidential elections, and second of all that election had nothing to do with the Electoral College. It had to do with hanging chads, Florida governor Jeb Bush, and the Supreme Court.
I’m 99.997% certain we’re going to see Trump V. Harris.
In that case there’s 100% chance Trump would be the president.
That depends entirely how this all plays out. Its too soon to say. If his only defense is “just look at them” then I don’t think the SC would go for it, especially if Harris wins decisively or even in a landslide (highly improbable).
Do the dems win the senate and house? Are immediate impeachments on the table?
If there’s any ambiguity though (think hanging chads), then yeah Trump 100%. I just think the SCOTUS is filled with cowards who want a veneer of a lie to hide under.
You just have so much more faith in the Integrity of the Supreme Court than I do. I have no faith whatsoever. I’ve been following their movements the last few years way too closely to have any respect at all for their discretion or good judgment. They’ve shown time and time again that they have no sense of reality no sense of consistency and no sense of justice. Evidence is made up and ignored at will. Precedent is enforced or ignored by their whims. The narrative history of our entire nation is up to how Samuel Alito feels on that particular day. There’s no doubt in my mind that if in any way whatsoever the Supreme Court gets a hold of this thing they will find in favor of Trump no matter the circumstances or evidence.
Well, looks like it won’t even matter. The world is doomed.
Local news usually have a webpage or a YouTube channel keeping track of stuff too.
The Philip DeFranco Show on YouTube.
fetal position in the bathtub, lights off, noize cancelling headphones playing static
Glad to see that other people are doing the same thing as me
That profile pic is amazing
don’t forget the bottle of cheap booze
Pink noise sounds soothing.
A little too literal, but I like your style, lol
For just the results. Decision Desk HQ gets updated quickly, as they provide data to media outlets and others. I don’t think they require a subscription just for results. The AP does the same and generally “calls” states anyway. (As in, the networks will call the results when the AP does, though some have extra requirements like their own data team agreeing.)
I think the US news sites are going to post their live updates to their websites too, that is at least how it was the last few presidential elections (I think I mostly used CNN). That is the same data they use for their news coverage, so you could use that; but watching live television will give you a clue when important updates have happened on them.
Of course you could just follow election-related hashtags on Mastodon to get a wide variety of people shouting all kinds of things about the election.
Some More News will do a livestream of the results. They are usually on point with their analysis and sources.
Unless I take the extreme measure of touching grass, social media will keep me appraised unbidden.
Your state likely has a web page designated for election results, so you could get information straight from the source for everything you voted for in your state and see which way your state goes for the presidential election. Your county website may also have a page to show whether any propositions were accepted or rejected.
I’m not sure about a better source to see where all 50 states’ results are reported. Maybe Balllotpedia has something that updates. I’m not sure the federal government would have something because the official results won’t happen until January 6 when a joint session of Congress reads and counts the votes from the Electoral College (who doesn’t vote until December 17).
Open your neobroker app, if Trump won, the market will crash before it made the news.
Depending on which bit of the market you look at I suspect it could also go up.
Jane Street Capital lost like $100m 8 years ago assuming this would happen and it didn’t.
i plan to just find out when someone on lemmy mentions it in passing
Unironically, Hexbear.
