February 19, 2004
Exit polls
Doesn't this piss you off?
With nothing but Wolf Blitzer's word, CNN tells the world Kerry is the winner, despite Edwards having more tallied votes?
I know they have exit polls and can make a fairly accurate call given what they know about the makeup of the precints not yet reporting, but shouldn't we know some more information about it, like whether the precints already in skew more toward one candidate than the rest of the state? All the viewer has to work with is Larry King naming the three Wisconsin cities he's heard of, opining that some of them may have reported, while others did not. No stats, no solid info, just an old man with suspenders venturing a guess. Hard-hitting coverage it's not. We deserve better.
Posted by rj3 at February 19, 2004 11:51 AM
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CNN was just sheeping off of Fox. Fox called the race (with those same vote totals), so I switched over back to CNN. Big Wolf was on there talking with Larry King about how "the race is very, very tight. We may be up very late tonight." Cut to commercial. CNN returns early from the break (only 1 or 2 ads), and there's Wolfie "CNN is now ready to call the race, CALL THE RACE, for John Kerry." Total elapsed time from start to finish, maybe 90 seconds.
Posted by: Matthew :) at February 20, 2004 7:37 PM