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Home Front: Politix
New York Times 'Unaccepts' AP Call For Democrat In New Jersey House Race, Republican Has Gained 20,000 Votes
2020-11-14
[DAILYCALLER] The New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

unaccepted The News Agency that Dare Not be Named’ call in a New Jersey congressional race Thursday in which the incumbent Democrat has seen his lead steadily decline over the course of the past week.

The race between incumbent Democratic Rep. Tom Malinowski and Republican Thomas Kean Jr. for New Jersey’s 7th congressional district has tightened by more than 20,000 votes since Nov. 3, according to New Jersey Globe editor David Wildstein. While The New York Times automatically accepts most of the election projections made by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, it sometimes differs if it disagrees, a spokesperson said.

"For most House races, we automatically accept the race calls made by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named," Times spokesperson Danielle Rhoades Ha told The Daily Caller News Foundation in an email. "However,
Switzerland makes more than cheese...
we sometimes take a more cautious approach, particularly given the complexity of the voting in this pandemic year."

"We believe the A.P.’s call in this race may have been premature, so we have unaccepted it for now and will continue to monitor results," she continued.
Posted by:Fred

#1  ah, so now we have precedent for what will be happening.

Joe Biden, Office of the President-Unaccepted
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136   2020-11-14 09:00  

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