Report From The Tank
The New York Times reports that some media outlets may call the election before the polls close.
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.
This is wrong. But with the media so firmly in the tank for Obama, it is easy to see why they think this is a great idea. So my advice to Republicans is simple: if the network or networks call the race, vote anyway. (Because you can bet they’ll only call Obama the winner.) I would not put it past the media to fabricate at this point, so take anything they report with a grain of salt the size of Detroit.
Get out and vote.
By Mwalimu Daudi, November 4, 2008 @ 7:17 am
This is a dog-bites-man story. The MSM has been proclaiming the Thousand Year Reich of the Messiah for months now.
By RickZ, November 4, 2008 @ 12:05 pm
I thought the media weren’t supposed to call anything until late polls closed thanks to their debacle in 2000 with calling Florida for Gore eatly — and incorrectly.
By martian, November 4, 2008 @ 1:27 pm
VOTE VOTE VOTE! Do not listen to anything the Guppies say about the results of the election before the polls close and the real votes are counted!