Especially, that is, in the old days when there were no loudspeakers and microphones to help the judges out.
So, too close to call? Well, there will always be situations where, say, two players collide but it’s too difficult to say who is in the wrong, right?
That’s an exact situation to be described as too close to call.
All right, then. To sum up, if an election is too close to call, we cannot really tell who’s going to eventually win.
Eventually, when all votes are counted and if Candidate A bags one or two or, say, three votes more than Candidate B, we say Candidate A wins and we sometimes say he or she wins a close call, i.e. by a small margin.
OK, here are more media examples of “too close to call”:
1. THOUGH the result remained too close to call four hours after polls closed, it is already clear that a referendum on whether to stay in the European Union has triggered an angry revolt by millions of British voters against their government, the leaders of the main political parties, big business and experts of all stripes. First returns and television interviews with voters and (slightly shell-shocked) political grandees painted a picture of a United Kingdom divided sharply along lines of region, class, age and even—in the case of Northern Ireland, where such Roman Catholic areas as Foyle voted Remain while Protestant areas like North Antrim went for Leave amid much higher turnout—by religious denomination. If the public had quietly weighed the costs and benefits of EU membership, it was often hard to hear that analysis through a din of stuff-the-lot-of-them rage from the Leave camp, and the first growls of mutual recrimination among Labour and Conservative politicians backing Remain.
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