News

How does AP call elections? In a video posted on AP's Election website, David Scott, vice president and head of News Strategies and Operations for the AP, said the AP will not call a race unless ...
When does the AP call a race? In almost all cases, races can be called well before 100% of the votes have been counted. The AP’s team of election journalists and analysts will call a race as ...
When does the AP call a race? In almost all cases, races can be called well before 100% of the votes have been counted. The AP’s team of election journalists and analysts will call a race as ...
The AP may also decide not to call a race if the margin between the top two candidates is less than 0.5 percentage points unless it determines that the margin is wide enough that it could not ...
AP did not call the closely contested race in 2000 between George W. Bush and Al Gore — we stood behind our assessment that the margin in Florida made it too close to say who won.
The AP says its accuracy rate for the past several general elections surpasses 99.9 percent. It never made a call in the 2000 presidential race between Al Gore and George W. Bush, when Florida’s ...
The AP’s team of election journalists and analysts will call a race as soon as a clear winner can be determined. That may sound obvious, but it is the guiding principle that drives the ...
Only on occasions has the AP gotten a race call wrong, and when it happened the AP corrected themselves immediately, Johnson said. “We need to be as fast as possible in making our race calls, ...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Democratic Rep. Al Green won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Texas' 9th Congressional District. Green, ran unopposed. He has spent nearly two decades in the U.S ...
How does AP call elections? In a video posted on AP's Election website, David Scott, vice president and head of News Strategies and Operations for the AP, said the AP will not call a race unless ...
The AP may also decide not to call a race if the margin between the top two candidates is less than 0.5 percentage points unless it determines that the margin is wide enough that it could not ...