It Ain’t Over Until It’s Over
Edwards just came out with a short message to the crowds, essentially telling the crowd that
CNN, CBS and ABC are holding back from calling Ohio for either candidate, though MSNBC jumped onto the Fox bandwagon and is calling it for Bush. Neither Fox nor MSNBC has had the cajones to call the whole election for Bush–a far bigger jump than calling Ohio, though they really equal the same thing. It will be interesting to see what happens when they project New Mexico for Bush and put him over the top. Will they say he won? Or will they backtrack and go “green” or some other color on Ohio?
CNN just called Michigan and Hawaii for Kerry, though they are latecomers for calling Minnesota for Kerry. (By the way, the reason I’m reporting on CNN so much despite my recent distaste for them is because they’re the only live TV network I can get here–Hobson’s choice).
One of CNN’s commentators put forth the possibility that people could go to sleep tonight with John Kerry being ahead in electoral votes but behind by 3 million votes in the popular count. Then he asked if his colleagues saw that happening.
“Depends on which network you watch,” retorted another.
