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Subdivisions Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 07:44 PM
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Why is MSNBS showing Clinton 66% - Obama 34% with
0% of the precincts reporting?

What kinda fucking bullshit psychological propaganda is that considering the polls have not yet closed?
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LSparkle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 07:45 PM
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1. Um, the polls HAVE closed ...
Those are probably absentee ballot returns.
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 07:47 PM
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Actually
It's most likely a few polling stations reporting, that account for less than 0.5% of the state wide electorate.
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Subdivisions Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 07:48 PM
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16. My bad. Confusing time zones. n/t
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 07:45 PM
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2. This is total BS
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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 07:46 PM
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3. THe polls closed at 8 pm.
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Fearless Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 07:46 PM
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4. They are closed.
8:00PM
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ananda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 07:46 PM
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5. Are you sure..
.. that's not just the white female vote?

That's what I saw.
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high density Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 07:46 PM
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6. That's based on literally a couple of hundred votes
They do it every time.
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Jane Austin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 07:48 PM
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18. You can get current totals and county-by-county results here:


http://www.nytimes.com/

Just remember to refresh to keep it up-to-date.
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 07:46 PM
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Uh, I thought the polls closed 45 minutes ago.
0% reporting usually means <0.5% reporting. Or about 2500 in this case.
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Subdivisions Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 07:49 PM
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21. Sorry. Time zones can be confusing and my computer's
Edited on Tue Apr-22-08 07:49 PM by Texas Explorer
clock has NMS, has it an hour ahead all the time.
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Earth_First Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 07:46 PM
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7. Polls closed at 8 p.m. if I'm not mistaken... n/t
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cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 07:46 PM
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8. Well, because MSNBC is reporting ZERO percent in, that's why....
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BeatleBoot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 07:47 PM
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9. It's a Trick
They do it everytime, man.

I think we all should write them and let them know how we feel.

Dang.



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Fearless Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 07:47 PM
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10. 60-40
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 07:47 PM
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11. Small counties report first
No big deal.
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dancingme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 07:47 PM
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12. I live in PA - polls closed at 8
these numbers will tighten
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Subdivisions Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 07:50 PM
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24. Sorry. My bad.
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gcomeau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 07:47 PM
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13. They're rounding down to 0% reporting.
There's like a couple thousand votes in. This happens in every state when the results first start coming in, the numbers jump all over the place until we have a big enough sample for them to begin to stabilize... and then even then it depends which regions are early and which are late. Take a deep breath.
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 07:47 PM
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14. and they haven't shown any vote counts.
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lumberjack_jeff Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 07:47 PM
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15. Because the only three votes are the producer and his cameramen. n/t
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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 07:48 PM
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17. Look here...
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WillyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 07:49 PM
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19. 2,700 Votes In So Far... No Telling What County They're From...
You'll need a whole lot more of the vote to come in from all over the state before we can begin to see what happened.

:shrug:
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JerseygirlCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 07:50 PM
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23. Someone just pointed us to NYT, where you CAN tell
which county, lol.

http://www.nytimes.com/
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IamyourTVandIownyou Donating Member (446 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 07:49 PM
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20. It sure will be fun to try to find this early precinct.
And see if its for real.
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JerseygirlCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 07:49 PM
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22. Polls closed at 8, I believe. nt
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newmajority Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 07:53 PM
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25. It just went from that to 55 -45 within 2 minutes, with 3% reporting.
It was 60-40 when they "projected" it, and had changed again before they could get the next graphic on the screen. What the fuck are they doing calling it at 3% anyway?
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BeatleBoot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 07:57 PM
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26. Just over 60,000 votes and 55% to 45%
Edited on Tue Apr-22-08 07:57 PM by BeatleBoot
If it was 3% of total that would mean 2 million voted

So, they probably meant 3% of polls reporting.


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