While watching the silly "projections" of the #PresidentialElection2024 voting returns, I keep thinking of the mantra I learned from @rbreich: #RedMirage; #BlueShift.
I'm hoping for a #HarrisWalz win!
USpol; Trump will declare victory early; don't be fooled by the "red mirage"
Dear all, I think you all know there's an #election in the #USA coming up on Tuesday. If you haven't already voted, if you are eligible, please please #Vote
The thing that I want to talk about, though, is the #RedMirage phenomenon, which is what happens when the more rural republican regions turn in their results first, because they have largely voted in person, and there are fewer voters in those rural regions.
So results start out red when the first counties report.
Then, the more-urban areas, which tend to vote democratic, start reporting the counts of the vote-by-mail ballots, which happens more slowly because of the volume of ballots and voters. This second wave of vote reporting is called the #BlueShift and it was used in 2020 to call the election results into doubt.
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/06/nx-s1-5141959/electoral-college-map-what-is-blue-shift-red-mirage
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#ElectionDay phenomena…
#RedMirage: Rural areas with low number of voters, often for #Republicans, are counted fast; seems to be early lead.
#BlueShift: Urban areas, often for #Democrats, are counted slow. Most mail-in votes are for Dems, too.
#Trump will use RedMirage & later BlueShift to claim his votes were stolen.
Explained by Robert Reich on #YouTube vid, "Beware Trump’s Election Night Trick": https://youtu.be/5XEQ_7zZ-bw
From @rbreich's post: https://masto.ai/@rbreich/113386008469424083
#USPolitics @uspolitics
Going live with a bit of Half-Life #BlueShift
Doing it at 800x600, software renderer.
AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE PLAYED
LinkedIn abandons plans to migrate its datacenter infrastructure to Microsoft Azure https://www.admin-magazine.com/News/LinkedIn-Drops-Migration-to-Microsoft-Azure #datacenter #Azure #Blueshift #cloud #LinkedIn