Election Day Coverage
POSTED BY: BrownShirtsRock
UPDATED: Tuesday, November 2, 2004 18:06
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Originally posted by BrownShirtsRock:
Jon Stewart is a comic genius and I think if more people watched him, we would all be a lot more tolerant.
Word.
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And CNN & Fox both present the news, albeit from opposite sides.
I think CNN and Fox run the gamut, from A to B.
I cannot think of a single mass media outlet that is on the opposite side of Fox. Maybe Air America?
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I've listened to a couple of the BBC world election debates over NPR here. It's terrific.
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Originally posted by whispering:
I'm not from US, but ive watched a lot of the election debates from BBC World. I think they are good.
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Originally posted by Connorflynn:
I'll be ingoring media coverage on election day. They are the biggest force in terms of disenfranchising voters in elections. They tend to jump the gun and call states before the polls are closed.
How is Haken doing? Hawaii gets disenfranchised the most everywhere. With only 4 electoral votes and completed 5 hours off from the DC clock. They get completely forgotten. The election results are announced by lunch time in Hawaii and everyone forgets to vote after that.
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Kerry has won in a landslide before noon!!!!!
Oops!
Oh crap.. I got my info from CBS @#$@^&!!!
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Quote:I echo this 150%. Especially when they start calling East Coast states 30 minutes after the polls close - when most of the country's polls are still open!!
Originally posted by Connorflynn:
I'll be ingoring media coverage on election day. They are the biggest force in terms of disenfranchising voters in elections. They tend to jump the gun and call states before the polls are closed.
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The problem isn't really so much for the Presidential election - ethically and legally speaking, it would be completely wrong to call the results like that. However, with the battleground states all on the east coast - the Presidential election is in reality pretty much over when those polls close.
Even with that though, announcing the results completely kills off the state and local elections. People just figured that it's *all* done when the Presidential election is done and don't bother to vote on the local issues and candidates as well.
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Originally posted by Astriana:Quote:I echo this 150%. Especially when they start calling East Coast states 30 minutes after the polls close - when most of the country's polls are still open!!
Originally posted by Connorflynn:
I'll be ingoring media coverage on election day. They are the biggest force in terms of disenfranchising voters in elections. They tend to jump the gun and call states before the polls are closed.
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I'll probably watch local coverage and Jon Stewart. Always an irreverent view of the world in my view.
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