Call me dense but....

[stormraiser]

how the heck can they declare Kerry to have MO with 3% of the vote counted? I mean, what if he loses most of the other 97% of the precincts?

[blizzard]

how the heck can they declare Kerry to have MO with 3% of the vote counted? I mean, what if he loses most of the other 97% of the precincts?

I asked that same thing last week in the NH primaries. It is ridiculous

[Stephanie]

They did it in the Presidential Election as well. It's totally ridiculous!

[stormraiser]

Now, Arizona closes and Kerry is the projected winner with 0% of precincts reporting

[weatherlover427]

That is crazy, anything could happen at this stage of the game...

[mf_dolphin]

Actually they're pretty close in most cases. They use exit polls to find out how people voted. Once in a while they get surprised but not often...

[streetsoldier]

As far as Missouri goes, please remember that Kerry's support is coming from Democratic stalwarts...based primarily within St. Louis, St. Louis County and Kansas City.

It will be the OTHER 151 counties Kerry has to worry about come November...and they are showing themselves BUSH people.

[stormraiser]

Yeah, Bill, I realized it was probably the, um, Urban areas that were the Democrat strongholds

[ColdFront77]

Actually they're pretty close in most cases. They use exit polls to find out how people voted. Once in a while they get surprised but not often...

This was basically my response to Blizzard's mention of the New Hampshire Primary last week. There isn't just looking at the percent reporting in those early stages of the ballot counting.

It is also true that the areas that haven't been counted are being figured in beforehand in a sense and added into the data already in.

So, I agree to a point when there the percentage reporting is below 30% or so, it does make us somewhat wonder why they even announce the winner right at the top of the hour... when the polls and caucuses closed (at least on Fox News Channel).

[coriolis]

There's competition between the networks to be the first to "call" it.

[JCT777]

There's competition between the networks to be the first to "call" it.

Which worked out rather badly in the 2000 presidential election for Florida!

[GulfBreezer]

What about all those who are not voting? Those are all Bush supporters..........what are the statistics on that one? Can you tell I haven't been following this? I KNOW who I am voting for!!

[Guest]

Exit polls and wanting to be the first network to call it...

[senorpepr]

As far as Missouri goes, please remember that Kerry's support is coming from Democratic stalwarts...based primarily within St. Louis, St. Louis County and Kansas City.

It will be the OTHER 151 counties Kerry has to worry about come November...and they are showing themselves BUSH people.

As a born and raised Missourian, I said, "Well said!"

[Lindaloo]

Okay stormraiser... I am going to call you dense. LOL!! j/k

[Guest]

LOL Linda..

[2 Seam Fastball]

Maybe its fixed. I hope Kerry becomes the Presidantial democrat nominee. Because then I would know for sure that Bush would win Re-Election in 04!!!

[stormraiser]

Thanks Linda. At least someone listens to me around here

Okay stormraiser... I am going to call you dense. LOL!! j/k

[Lindaloo]

LOL stormraiser.


2seam... you said it all dude!!

[ColdFront77]

Sure they want to be the first to call it, but they would like to be correct, too. The results are generally correct... when the data is too close to call, they certainly don't call it right away.