Re: CHAT (POLITICS!!!): Putting the duh in Florida
| From: | Andrew Chaney <adchaney@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 1, 2000, 6:08 |
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On Saturday, December 30, 2000, at 08:11 PM, Robert Hailman wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Robert
>
Right, the idea is that no one's vote should be influenced by the news
"reporters"'s reporting on what other voters have probably voted -- as
determined by such <sarcasm>amazingly accurate</sarcasm> methods as
exit polling. :-/
Andy
http://www.ucs.usl.edu/~adc7593/
adchaney@louisiana.edu