November 02, 2004
Lawyers, rev up your engines. The voie dires have begun!
by Liza Sabater
FUCK! I am watching MTV and Florida goes to Bush.
The fight on the courts is going to get ugly.
Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall
Across the board the story is the same in Ohio, a lawsuit strategy from Republicans is causing delays and shutdowns in precincts that remained open to allow people who were already in line to vote. Lawsuits create delays; folks leave
[...]
What we're hearing is that Florida is too close to call. In Ohio, the GOP is pulling out all the stops, frankly, to steal it in the courts, trying to get courts to stop voting for people who were already in line when the polls closed, ruling against provisional ballots, the whole nine yards. It's wall to wall ugly.
You Want Cautious Calls?
Well, it's clear the networks are not exactly going out on any limbs in calling races. The polls closed in South Carolina more than an hour ago, and they haven't called it for Bush yet. At 8:00, briefly at least, Wolf Blitzer said CNN "didn't have enough information"' to call the District of Columbia for Kerry (they did eventually).
But here's the weird thing about the media web sites (at least the two I checked: CNN and MSNBC). They're publishing exit poll data, including candidate numbers, when the polls close, whether or not they've made a call. What's sneaky about it is they don't show totals, just all the breakdowns. So you can check out Ohio, and see that the exits have John Kerry leading Bush among men by 51-49, and among women by 53-47. Doesn't take a statistician to figure out that the final exits for Ohio show Kerry winning 52-48.
And Ohio, folks, is the ball game.
More:
Media missing the story in Ohio? | Personal Democracy Forum
Posted by Liza Sabater in 2004 Elections
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