On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 9:05 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:
> What annoys me is that I can't shake the feeling the outcome of the > election was known well in advance of when it was announced, but the press > won't disclose such truths for fear of accusations of election tampering > (i.e.-telling the public on the west coast that there is no point to > voting). Trouble is, as I indicated earlier, reports are that FoxNews was > inflating Obama's lead in key states, which I construe as election > tampering (i.e.-trying to get the GOP voters out en masse). Fifteen minutes > after the last poll closed, Obama was declared the winner. Which means -- > connecting the dots -- the media withheld information it had, lied about > information it didn't have, and refused to accept information despite > verification. I don't think that happened this time. They have a commitment not to call a state before the polls in that state close, and based on exit polling they may have a pretty good idea of what they are going to do, but in the case of a battleground state they really need to see actual votes from real counties to match up against their exit polls and benchmarks before they can feel confident in their projections. The did not declare Obama the winner 15 minutes after the polls closed in Ohio - my notes are that NBC called Ohio for Obama at 8:14 PM PT, which was I think almost 3 hours and 45 minutes after the polls closed in Ohio. The fact that the polls had closed 14 minutes before out west did mean that once they called Ohio they would also be able to project him as the Electoral College winner, but they were not waiting for California, they were waiting for Hamilton county to report enough votes to make it clear that Romney had no chance to overcome his certain big lead in Cuyahoga County, where the vote count was slow, but huge. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
