Re: CHAT (POLITICS!!!): Putting the duh in Florida

Andrew Chaney wrote:

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> This is slightly changing the subject, but what effect do you think the near
> universal news coverage and infamous "predictions" ("Bush is President!!!
> Wait, no he's not...") about election results might have on the election process?
> IMHO, there should be no news coverage of an election until *after* the polls have
> closed everywhere.  That is, until Hawaii (IMS, the westernmost state) has voted
> there shouldn't be any mention of who might have won this or that state.
That's similar to what they did in the Canadian election earlier this
week - coverage didn't start in any one time zone until the polls closed
in that time zone, so a few hours into the election coverage on the CBC
they commented that it had just started to be broadcast in British
Columbia.

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Robert