Politics

Hello darkness my old friend: Familiar unease starts to spread as pollsters proved wrong

A familiar unease has spread across the US after early voting suggests the pollsters could have been way out in predicting a Joe Biden landslide in this year’s election.

“Too close to call” was the message from several key states, which could take days to return a definitive result in what seems like a neck-and-neck contest.

Wisconsin says there’s no way they are announcing a winner tonight, Michigan needs until Friday and Pennsylvania isn’t coming out anytime soon, either, Bloomberg’s Saleha Mohsin is reporting.

Florida, seen as a potentially pivotal state, looks to have plumped for Trump with the Democrats flopping in Miami-Dade.

Hilary Clinton won it with 64 per cent of the vote in 2016, Biden is currently running significantly behind that.

With a long way to go and all outcomes – including a tie – still on the cards, here’s some of the early reaction from the US:

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Jack Peat

Jack is a business and economics journalist and the founder of The London Economic (TLE). He has contributed articles to VICE, Huffington Post and Independent and is a published author. Jack read History at the University of Wales, Bangor and has a Masters in Journalism from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

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