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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (127649)	11/8/2000 8:22:28 PM
From: david_langston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570483

Jim, The media ran the election up to about 3:45 AM last night It was obvious to me that the media was milking the "drama" for all it was worth. "Calling states" as necessary to keep it neck-and-neck in the electoral vote.

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (127649)	11/8/2000 8:24:32 PM
From: Steve Porter	Respond to of 1570483

Jim, I was so pissed with the popular media last night.. they called florida gore's when bush had a 5% lead with 30% reporting.. ummm... something wrong there.. Hell even michigan was close till around 1am (est). It got so bad myself and a coworker did our own online election coverage, calling them as we saw appropriate.. that means no calls until at least: (a) 25% reporting with a Huge difference (b) 75% reporting with a 4-5% difference (c) mathematical illimination When the media has given out 200+ votes per, we still had only had about 345ish votes handed out.. a huge difference. Then we added 'speculative' votes. If bush wins, I will say this, we called it PERFECTLY ;).. Steve