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On Nov 6, 6:30*am, Dave wrote:
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Yes the show played out exactly as I told you rubes it would months
ago. *And after 2 1/2 years and $100,000,000,000 of ad revenue the
theatre curtain comes down exactly at 10:00 p.m. cst with all the
networks calling the winner in unison - at exactly the end of prime
time ratings. Gosh what a coincidence!


The polls closing on the West Coast was the reason for the timing.
Prime Time was extended for Grampie's concession and Obama's victory speech.


Yup. The media caught some intense hell in previous elections for
calling it well before the West Coast polls closed. They were blamed
for possibly suppressing turn-out (which I doubt anyone could prove
one way or the other, but it's a plausible concern). Being timid,
they don't risk angering their audience.

So they're very careful not to call it, even though followers of
FiveThirtyEight and other sites already knew when Pennsylvania was
called, that it was almost certainly over, and when Ohio was called,
that was basically "it". It's not like they REALLY needed to wait for
the Western polls to close to predict how CA, OR, WA (super-important
engines of progress in the US) were going to go.



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On Nov 6, 6:30 am, Dave wrote:
wrote:

Yes the show played out exactly as I told you rubes it would months
ago. And after 2 1/2 years and $100,000,000,000 of ad revenue the
theatre curtain comes down exactly at 10:00 p.m. cst with all the
networks calling the winner in unison - at exactly the end of prime
time ratings. Gosh what a coincidence!

The polls closing on the West Coast was the reason for the timing.
Prime Time was extended for Grampie's concession and Obama's victory speech.


Yup. The media caught some intense hell in previous elections for
calling it well before the West Coast polls closed. They were blamed
for possibly suppressing turn-out (which I doubt anyone could prove
one way or the other, but it's a plausible concern). Being timid,
they don't risk angering their audience.

So they're very careful not to call it, even though followers of
FiveThirtyEight and other sites already knew when Pennsylvania was
called, that it was almost certainly over, and when Ohio was called,
that was basically "it". It's not like they REALLY needed to wait for
the Western polls to close to predict how CA, OR, WA (super-important
engines of progress in the US) were going to go.




DBMcD,

The 'issue for the West Coast Elections and Electorate is not the
Nation-Wide US Presidential Race : Since the good Citizens of
California, Oregon and Washington are usually Solid "Blue States".

It is about the 'other' Elections and Items on those States Ballots.

SEE - The 2008 Election Results for California's Propositions
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/...,2728366.story

-note- None were 'close' but one or two might-have-been . . .
http://www.smartvoter.org/2008/11/04/ca/state/prop/

An early prediction of a Winner 'could' 'possibly' cause a reduction in
Voter Turn-Out and have significant impact on those 'other' Elections
and Items on those States Ballots.

As an American Who Loves His Country : I can
now say President Elect Barack Hussein Obama
is "MY" future US President {POTUS}.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bss6lTP8BJ8
http://www.potus.com/
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