CNN says exit polls. The Times isn't calling anyone yet, and I am in love with their zoom-in-by-county map.
Good luck. Try not to kill people. Hands! Hands!
Willow ,'Storyteller'
Natter 61*
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
flea - Nov 04, 2008 2:41:08 pm PST #8683 of 10001
information libertarian
tommyrot - Nov 04, 2008 2:42:04 pm PST #8684 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
what are they basing it? Exit polls?
Ben & Jerry's sales.
billytea - Nov 04, 2008 2:42:46 pm PST #8685 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
CBS appears to be calling West Virginia for McCain. No big surprise there, though again without hard numbers to support it.
Tom Scola - Nov 04, 2008 2:42:56 pm PST #8686 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
They're being much more conservative this year about relying on exit polls, but in somewhere like VT, the exit polls won't even be close, so why not go with them?
Dana - Nov 04, 2008 2:44:27 pm PST #8687 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Oh, Chris Matthews, shut the hell up.
billytea - Nov 04, 2008 2:44:39 pm PST #8688 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
The Times isn't calling anyone yet, and I am in love with their zoom-in-by-county map.
That's nifty. I've added another website to my election watch.
flea - Nov 04, 2008 2:45:43 pm PST #8689 of 10001
information libertarian
NYT also has a nice pop-up that shows who is calling what for whom. They are virtuously not calling anything; everybody else is.
Steph L. - Nov 04, 2008 2:50:00 pm PST #8690 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
NBC called South Carolina for McCain, but CNN has Obama ahead there. I have no idea how the networks make these calls.
flea - Nov 04, 2008 2:53:05 pm PST #8691 of 10001
information libertarian
Best headline so far: "Help me, Wolf Blitzer, You're My Only Hope" (re: CNN hologram).
amych - Nov 04, 2008 2:53:18 pm PST #8692 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I have no idea how the networks make these calls.
It depends on how they're weighting the data they have at this point -- exit polls vs. raw precincts reported vs. the weighting of which precincts have reported.