> 1. Clinton won the popular vote.

I can't get over how differently results seem to be reported in the US.

As of right now, reports I read suggest she's barely 100,000 votes ahead on that measure with "44 electoral votes still available".

i.e. there's a huge number of votes uncounted and that "fact" could easily turn out to be a poor prediction/

Why are news reports/speculation/predictions taken as fact without waiting for results to be announced?