Wednesday, November 4, 2020

11-4: The media and pollsters blew it again; Online cheating surges during pandemic; Young voters—when not cheating online—choose Biden

—New York Times: “The Morning” 
     Joe Biden is now the favorite to win the presidency, and Republicans are favored to keep Senate control — but both results are far from certain. And Democrats failed to win the resounding victory that pre-election polls had suggested they could....
     The outcome is unclear in six swing states — Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — and all are still counting votes. We may get some final vote counts today, while others could take a few days. 
    “Biden’s the favorite, even if narrowly, just about everywhere,” Nate Cohn of The Times tweeted, listing five of the six states above (all but North Carolina). Sean Trende of RealClearPolitics agreed: “Would probably rather be Biden than Trump.”....

Online cheating surges during the pandemic; universities struggle to find a solution -- Like students everywhere during the pandemic, Aguilar, a junior at San Francisco State University, was attending school and taking a test from home under the watchful eye of no one. It would have been easy to Google the answer, and Aguilar admits he was tempted. But he didn’t. Nanette Asimov in the San Francisco Chronicle$ -- 11/3/20 

—Inside Higher Ed 
     Young voters aged 18 to 29 supported Joe Biden over Donald Trump by a nearly two-to-one margin in the election, according to an analysis of Associated Press polling data by the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University, in Massachusetts.
      The Tufts institute estimated that 62 percent of young voters voted for former vice president Biden, while 33 percent voted for Trump…. 

—CHE 

—WashPo 

Presidential election hangs in balance as Trump falsely asserts fraud and makes a claim of victory -- The presidential election in a country convulsed by crisis was headed toward a potential legal showdown early Wednesday morning, with President Trump prematurely declaring he had won even as Democratic nominee Joe Biden had paths to victory and key states continued to tally votes. Philip Rucker, Toluse Olorunnipa and Annie Linskey in the Washington Post$ -- 11/4/20 

Prop. 16: Voters rejecting a measure to restore affirmative action in government agencies and public universities -- California was poised to retain its ban on affirmative action for government agencies and public universities, with voters rejecting a ballot measure that would again allow the consideration of race and sex in state hiring, contracting and admissions decisions. Alexei Koseff in the San Francisco Chronicle$ Thomas Peele EdSource-- 11/4/20 

Orange County investigates report of fake polling site, complete with ‘I Voted’ stickers -- Orange County officials said Tuesday that they were investigating reports that someone established a fake voting center at the headquarters of a City Council candidate in Westminster and accepted ballots and handed out “I Voted” stickers. Adam Elmahrek in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 11/4/20 

California, 3 other states sue to allow new immigrant applications to DACA program -- The Trump administration is ignoring the law and a Supreme Court ruling by slashing eligibility for DACA, the program allowing young undocumented immigrants to live and work legally in the United States, California and three other states said in a lawsuit Monday. Bob Egelko in the San Francisco Chronicle$ -- 11/4/20 

—Inside Higher Ed 
     Peter Sysak, president of the Cuesta College Board of Trustees, is under fire because of numerous comments he posted on his personal Facebook page about a large number of marginalized groups -- comments that one instructor described as "disparaging and so derogatory," the San Luis Obispo Tribune reported....
      “We live in a society where homosexuals lecture us on morals, transvestites lecture us on human biology, baby killers lecture us on human rights and socialists lecture us on economics,” read one post that Sysak shared to his page. The post was originally shared by Occupy Snowflakes….

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Looks like Chris McDonald won his race and Foxy Loxy lost hers.

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