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To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (59169)	11/9/2000 11:01:38 PM
From: Doppler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 63513

The National Media's handling of this election was an outrage. As a member of the fifth estate I am constantly sticking up for them on many issues, but this time there is no excuse. Since they apparently can't honor requests to stop calling races until ALL polls are closed I say we go with Gloop's idea of having all states polling places close at the same time. Another byproduct of this fiasco that you may see is more states going to a proportional electoral college vote like NEB and Maine. Finally- There the biggest media mistake of all was the "final" call that declared Bush the winner in FL. As the night progressed Bush's lead went from ~300K votes to 200K to 100K to 50K as the % of precincts reporting climbed from 20 to 80 or 90. From 90 -96% tabulated the lead dropped from ~50,000 to several hundred to a couple thousand. At that point I went to sleep because any moron could tell that with so few votes left, and such a small lead, and so many outstanding absentee ballots that there was no way to call the election. Moments later with 97% in the media called the state for Bush. That prompted the Gore concession. Sorry to rant, but I am ashamed of the way the media has handled this.