I just saw a headline in the NY Times that scared the daylights out of me: Networks May Call Race Before Voting Is Complete :
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.
Peacenik is wearing Peacenik's Obama'08 teeshirt today and is very excited as the news starts to roll in. Long lines everywhere. Faulty voting machines being reported. This is a model of democracy? tristero in this post highlights the importance of every vote today. The neocon wingnuts and their ideology must be repudiated. Obama needs every vote.
