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Election will be called at 8-9pm EST from 3 outlets
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Passionate Thug
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 Election will be called at 8-9pm EST from 3 outlets    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/us/po ... ref=sloginNetworks May Call Race Before Voting Is Complete Quote: At least one broadcast network and one Web site said Monday that they could foresee signaling to viewers early Tuesday evening which candidate appeared to have won the presidency, despite the unreliability of some early exit polls in the last presidential election.
A senior vice president of CBS News, Paul Friedman, said the prospects for Barack Obama or John McCain meeting the minimum threshold of electoral votes could be clear as soon as 8 p.m. -- before polls in even New York and Rhode Island close, let alone those in Texas and California. At such a moment, determined from a combination of polling data and samples of actual votes, the network could share its preliminary projection with viewers, Mr. Friedman said.
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Eagle
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Re: Election will be called at 8-9pm EST from 3 outlets The networks are normally pretty good, and each have their own self-regulatory standards. Essentially, they will NEVER announce results until precints are 100% closed in a state because doing so could effect voters, and that won't change tonight.
They will report exit poll numbers, but they will do so with a heavy asterisk that they are just that, polls, and as past elections have shown, they are not always even close to reliable and the margin of error is huge. No network will call a state before all precints are closed, it would be equivalent to network suicide.
Remember the fiasco with Florida in 2000? That changed a lot of how networks handle these kinda things, it's extremely embaressing to call a state only to have to recant later and any network throwing out predictions as fact is not a network I want to watch for long.
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Jedi Master Carr
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Re: Election will be called at 8-9pm EST from 3 outlets Eagle wrote: The networks are normally pretty good, and each have their own self-regulatory standards. Essentially, they will NEVER announce results until precints are 100% closed in a state because doing so could effect voters, and that won't change tonight.
They will report exit poll numbers, but they will do so with a heavy asterisk that they are just that, polls, and as past elections have shown, they are not always even close to reliable and the margin of error is huge. No network will call a state before all precints are closed, it would be equivalent to network suicide.
Remember the fiasco with Florida in 2000? That changed a lot of how networks handle these kinda things, it's extremely embaressing to call a state only to have to recant later and any network throwing out predictions as fact is not a network I want to watch for long. I agree, I don't expect a winner to at least 9 or 10 EST.
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dolcevita
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Re: Election will be called at 8-9pm EST from 3 outlets Crap. I knew I would miss the announcement because I was stuck in class. :-(
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| Tue Nov 04, 2008 2:06 pm |
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