Media Preparing Themselves To Call The Race Early For Obama On Election Night

• October 29, 2008

Sure. Why not.
What’s the worst that could happen? No reason to let everyone, or even most Americans, actually vote before you announce a winner.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – U.S. television news teams that sent election-night viewers to bed without a sure winner in the last two presidential races now face what many political pundits expect to be a swifter outcome next Tuesday.
With Barack Obama consistently leading pre-election opinion polls, network news executives are ready for the possibility that the Democratic nominee could emerge early in the evening clearly headed for victory over Republican rival John McCain.

Didn’t we have a big problem with the media announcing a winner too early during the 2000 election? Isn’t it a little unfair for people living in the west for the media to declare winner before they’ve had a chance to vote? And given all the turmoil that surrounds voting every year, is rushing the matter something we really want to do?
I really don’t see why there’s such a rush to declare a winner. Let people vote. Count those votes. Then declare the guy with the most votes the winner.
This really isn’t rocket science. I understand that everyone in the media wants to be the first to call the election, but what’s more important? Television news ratings, or fair elections?

Tags: Domestic Issues, Politics

http://Array Eneils Bailey

The MSM will be out early and often on election day…

Emphasizes turnout and voter responses in overhelmingly Democrat precinists.

Post-election polls will indicate Obama has an insurmountable lead and there is no use in you Republicans going down to vote.

While Obama voters and supporters will tour states, voting at every precinct under democrat control; a big deal will be made about the local police being at polling places. After all, how you gonna get all the criminal vote if you have the police around?

In some states, in highly democrat precincts, some federal judge is going to rule that sleeping all day and being late at the polling place is a constitutional right.

A pre-scripted pattern of voting irregularities against republicans will appear early in the night.

The MSM is planning giving the Republicans a butt-fucking like they have never seen.
LoadTheMule

Why don’t we just dispense with the election altogether and declare Obama prez by unanimous acclaim?
http://www.rabidamerican.net/ Rabid American

But, the coronation is planned for tonight, right???
RebTex

Wait a minute!
How can they report on election “day”?
obama wants everyone to take that day off.
Will the msm dis-obey their leader?
http://insanereindeer.blogspot.com/ Kenny

As long as all the polling places are closed…who cares? Let them call the election for Ralph Nader.

The vote count may or may not prove them wrong.
RebTex

And what percentage of likely voters will just not vote if the result is already available?

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