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How to report partial returns on election night

- November 7, 2012

As I wrote the other day, when reporting state results, instead of saying, “With 14% of the precincts in, X percent of the vote is going to Mitt Romney,” they should say, “With 14% of the precincts in, the swing is Y percent toward the Republican ticket.” This would be much more informative, considering that those 14% are not a random sample of precincts. I don’t know why they don’t report the swing. I have the impression that they do it that way in Britain.