Will Hillary win California, like she won Missouri????

[CoffeeCat]

The media needs to just STOP.

In their undying quest to be FIRST to announce breaking news, the media has declared
Hillary Clinton the winner of California, too early. Most of the votes that have
been counted are absentee votes. These votes would surely give Hillary the advantage.

The media just needs to simmer down, let the results come in and quit trying to project
a winner 5 seconds after the polls have closed.

You would think that they would be a bit more cautious after calling Missouri for
Clinton, and now Obama is ahead.

This is ridiculous!

[Teaser]

1. She will win Cali

just not by the current margin.

[CoffeeCat]

6. You don't know that anymore than I know...

...what's going to happen.

We just have to let it play out.

The media has us all jumping the gun.

[Teaser]

9. I have a time machine

and am my own great-grandfather.

so I know.

Next stop, 1985.

[JackORoses]

11. they are calling it now so people will go to bed with 55-33 in there heads

it will be much closer

[Maven]

2. Well, to be fair ABC/AP/MSNBC never called Missouri.

So they must have some reason for making the projection in CA.

[GOPNotForMe]

5. MSNBC definitely did call Missouri for Clinton. nt

[HughMoran]

15. They just did 5 minutes ago call it for Obama (apparent) - they DID NOT call it earlier for Hillary

I was watching all night...

[Eurobabe]

3. They can't help themselves it's their job to be wrong

:rofl:

I wish they would all just

Like some of the annoying Hillbots.

[DS1]

8. there's a stolen smilie

*swipe*

[motocicleta]

24. I feel that I may be becoming a Hillbot with all this 'Hope' in the air

but that is the best fucking smilie I have ever seen, and since I have spent much of the last year reacting similarly to the stupidest of the Hillbots, I don't feel too bad about stealing it. Thanks.

[Orrex]

4. One would hope that they'd learned their lesson after '00 or '04 or '06

And one would be disappointed.

[Cha]

7. When tom brokaw said they didn't just

have egg on their face..they had the whole omelette.

[Quixote1818]

10. I have been thinking the same thing. I keep checking the numbers

because the Media are a bunch of idiots.

[usregimechange]

12. I hope so!

[goldcanyonaz]

13. MO is a tie. I didn't see anyone call MO for Clinton except on here.

[K Gardner]

16. MSNBC just called it. For Obama. And Alaska, too. Its on CNNs website.

[Kittycat]

17. It's all over the news.

They just started calling.

[mrmx9]

19. Obama won by 5,000 votes - not quite a tie!

[Recursion]

23. 7000 as of now

15 precincts left

[stillrockin]

14. that would be good

[WillyT]

18. Remember How They Learned Their Lesson In 2000 ???

That didn't last long.

:banghead:

[crimsonblue]

20. I couldn't agree more

The nets are basing their projections on the exit poll data. Well, the exit polls were completely wrong in New Jersey, Massachusets, and Arizona. Also, Alameda county was open until 9 pst because of a court's order. Alameda county includes Oakland, which is likely to be heavily pro-Obama. I'm not convinced that the race is over in Cal. One last point. The early vote lead for Hillary is due in large part to the mail in votes. I bet there is a surge for Obama as the night moves on.

[wildflowergardener]

21. they did call MO for Clinton

"Obama had 48.9 percent of the vote to Clinton's 48.3 percent, with 98 percent of Missouri's precincts reporting. The Associated Press initially declared the New York senator the winner based on a review of vote results, exit polling and an analysis of outstanding precincts, but withdrew that declaration as Obama gained and then narrowly surpassed Clinton."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080206/ap_on_el_pr/campaign_missouri

It could be that they just didn't understand what counties were still remaining because they don't live here - that some of the largest counties that were going for Obama weren't in yet.

I was at a results watching party for MO earlier tonight with similar percentages to California and it turned around several hours later - don't have any idea if such a thing could happen in California or not if they have a similar makeup of some large counties that are usually slow to report as Missouri does.

Meg

[usregimechange]

22. Ironically, she is beating by about the same amount that she was in MO

[krkaufman]

25. That would be a media clusterf of epic proportions.

Don't see it happen, but it'd be marvelous, just for the media to be so very wrong YET AGAIN.