Posted on 11/04/2002 8:46:05 AM PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs
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But Good Luck Tomorrow nontheless!
Today was another exciting installment of pubmom's house cleaning. The featured task of the day was cleaning the dining room carpeting. I'd like to give the folks who make Thermax a free advertising plug, their machine is excellent.(My saint of a mom loaned me her's)
HLL, you'll be in my thoughts tomorrow, good luck! (And may the voters pick the best WOMAN for the job!)
NEW YORK (AP) - Hours before Election Day, Voter News Service said Monday it still hadn't worked all the bugs out of a new system designed to provide media organizations with exit polling information from voters.
As a precaution, NBC and CBS last weekend began conducting their own joint poll of voter attitudes about the midterm election.
VNS, a consortium consisting of ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox and The Associated Press, counts actual votes and also conducts exit polling in certain precincts. That information is used by its members to project winners in individual races on Election Night.
The consortium completely rebuilt its system in response to the 2000 election, when television networks twice used its information to make wrong calls in the decisive Florida vote for the presidential election.
VNS has expressed confidence in its ability to tabulate the votes on Tuesday, though its vote counting process had never been tested in its entirety. VNS members have access to a second, independently conducted vote count by the AP.
VNS also plans to use exit polling of how citizens voted, together with the actual vote count, to help project winners and losers.
Where the system has run into trouble is its attempt to tabulate the results of questions that reflect why voters cast their ballots as they did. VNS has yet to complete a full test of a national voter survey, said Ted Savaglio, VNS executive director.
The consortium will continue to test the system into Election Day, he said.
That information is considered vital to fleshing out the reasons behind the electorate's vote, and is of particular importance to the 19 newspapers that have contracted with the consortium for that information.
The nervousness of some media members about the system was reflected in the new CBS and NBC poll, which gathered voter attitudes about issues Saturday through Monday.
"We remain hopeful that VNS will provide the national poll," said NBC News spokeswoman Barbara Levin. "However, as a precaution, NBC News has been doing our own national polling and we are prepared to use that information."
CBS News spokeswoman Sandra Genelius described the new poll as a backup. CBS has considered all along that the rebuilding of VNS would be a four-year process and that the system won't be as complete this election.
"The parts that we are confident in, we'll use," she said. "The parts that we are not confident in, we will not use."
ABC News also said it was prepared to go on Election Night without VNS exit polling information. "Any information about which we have any doubt will simply be set aside," spokesman Jeffrey Schneider said.
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Hope they won't be offended that I'll ignore it when they say "McBride wins over JEB! or Carnahan Sweeps Talent! Or even the New Jersey and Minnesota races.
We'll probably have to wait til Wednesday to find out the results.
This a.m. I went into town, waved my handmade day-glo Jay Wolfe sign at traffic ("Pro Life? Elect Jay Wolfe"), then taped it to a Wolfe yard sign we had installed at party HQ along the main highway. I was hoping for a busier street, but in such a small town, a few cars was about the best I could expect. Returned to my even smaller town and voted. Tonight, Mr. M and I will be at the courthouse to observe the counting and to call in totals to freeper RFP, who's working for fellow freeper Jay.
SOME juice squeezed from Christopher Andersen's new Morrow book "George and Laura": Laura was not Dubya's first wifely choice. At Yale he was engaged for two years to leggy Rice University blonde Cathryn Wolfman, stepkid of a wealthy Houston clothing store owner. "George was very passionate - and a great kisser," she says. Not great enough though, because she gave back his Neiman Marcus diamond, whereupon he broke down and wept.
She is "much" tougher than he. Per mom, Jenna: "She's the most in control person I know." Compulsive cleaner and organizer, Laura's books are arranged via the Dewey Decimal System.
George, however, the sloppiest man in Midland, bought only secondhand furniture. Bound his bedsprings together with neckties. Reattached shoe tassels with scotch tape. Said one friend: "His apartment looked like a toxic waste dump."
And, says this book: Both Bushes can hardly wait until Nov. 25 when their twins Jenna and Barbara turn 21 and underage boozing ceases to be an issue and no longer will their AOL greetings say, "You've got bail."
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Cindy's wrong about one thing. The press will not let up on the twins, even when they're "legal," if they dare have a glass of wine in public.
MISSISSAUGA - On a blustery, overcast day yesterday in Mississauga, just west of Toronto, the 56-year-old former leader of the free world pocketed upward of US$120,000 for about 50 minutes of gab time. And all that even before noon!
London Drugs, a highly regarded, privately owned retailer with 57 stores in Western Canada, hired him to address its yearly breakfast for vendors. It was probably his 10th or 11th visit to Canada in the last two years, meaning he's been here more than twice as many times as he was when he was president. ...
A flicker of that much-described Clinton star power is on display as soon as he pulls up in a dark Dodge minivan. He hesitates for several moments in his seat as the car door is opened, [zipping up?]>/i> takes off those brainy, brown glasses, familiar from so many White House press conferences. He puts away several sheets of paper he's been studying during the ride. And then, out comes the world's most famous Baby Boomer, flashing that cat-who-swallowed-the-canary smile, his head now capped off with a full, Steve Martin whiteness. He is taller than you'd imagine, slimmer than we remember. Greeting several London Drugs executives, he turns to the press, waves and coos, ''Hi, there!''
Inside, in a few minutes, it's the audience's chance to be charmed. Giving off the vibe of your favourite college professor, he's off and running on a wide variety of global issues. He, clearly, still has the juice. This is a guy who owns the podium. He makes love to the podium. [The writer seems unaware there was a girl hidden within]
Full nauseating story here.
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