California and New York need to count their votes early

[Ms. Toad]

8. We're losing the narrative battle by design.

It has nothing to do with when blue state counts arrive, nor can having big blue state victories change it. The narrative was lost because a winner could not be declared for days. Having big blue state numbers would make no difference in that narrative - since the blue states are not where the electoral votes matter.

The narrative was lost becuse Trump engineered the parade to the polls so that Republicans voted in person and Democrats voted early. He coupled this with advance allegations that counting votes after the election was fraud - while, at the same time - creating a situation that the advance votes were heavily Republican and later votes were heavily Democratic.

That apparent flip from Republican to Democratic after the election is when the narrative was lost. Biden (or better someone like Kornacki) could have done a better job of explaining and touting the red/blue mirage ahead of the election. For example, I had some pretty heated conversations on DU about the blue mirage in Ohio with people who didn't understand the size of the early vote (counted in advance for Ohio - and the first number dump) - and the overwhelmingly Republican election day votes which would overcome the early Democratic lead. Everyone was expecting the same election day split - where we wait for the big cities to come in and turn it back to blue. No amount of talking could convince the individuals I was arguing with that it wasn't going to happen this time. We are now seeing the same dynamic on the other side.

The issue is that people really don't understand (1) vote counting and (2) numbers.

FWIW - NY, NJ, MA, and CT are all allowed to process in advance.