Posted on 11/07/2006 10:44:25 AM PST by meg88
If early indications in Maryland and GOP rumblings can be believed, it looks like the GOP will hold on to the U.S. Senate thanks to the election of Michael Steele to the United States Senate.
Several top Republicans in DC are quietly saying they expect Michael Steele to win and Georgia House District 12 to flip to the GOP.
The way it looks now--this will be the deciding state in who controls the Senate!!
IT'S UP TO YOU MARYLANDERS!!!
Exit Poll Secrecy Measures Aim to Plug Leaks to Blogs
Wall Street Journal ^ | November 7,2006 | Amy Schatz
Posted on 11/07/2006 5:28:30 AM PST by meg88
Two-by-two, polling specialists from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News and the Associated Press will go into rooms in New York and Washington shortly before noon Tuesday.
Their cellphones and BlackBerrys will be confiscated; proctors will monitor the doors; for the next five hours, these experts will pore over exit-poll data from across the country.
If all goes well, only when they emerge from their cloisters will the legions of ravenous political bloggers have any chance of getting their hands on the earliest indication of which party will end up controlling Congress.
The extraordinary security is a result of mix-ups that prompted grumbling about the accuracy of exit polls after the 2004 presidential election: Bloggers posted data from early exit polls, incorrectly calling some states for Massachusetts Democratic Sen. John Kerry and indicating that he would unseat President Bush.
Exit polls will be available for all the key Senate races, giving an early picture of whether it could flip to the Democrats.
The data are collected through the National Election Pool, a consortium made up of the three traditional networks, CNN, Fox News and AP.
In previous years, numbers were made available to the news organizations in waves via secure Web sites. In 2004, the first wave of data went out around 2 p.m. and quickly leaked onto the Internet.
That's what brought about this year's sequestering of the news organization's representatives. The only communication they'll be allowed to make out of the so-called quarantine rooms before 5 p.m. will be to warn news organizations about potential problems in the data.
But at 5 p.m., waves of exit-poll data will begin flowing to newsrooms via limited-access Web sites. For the bloggers, the scramble will be on to get the data first, hoping for an email from a friendly source.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Notice how the demonrats promote Ford and ignore the historic campaign of Steele.
any word on how well Dickerson is doing? I've had to endure a slew of Carson commercials the last few days, and she looks and sounds about 110 years old. How can anyone vote for her?
From what I hear, a lot of people across the political spectrum say Ehrlich is one of few politicians to do an excellent job....its a shame this race is even contested.
That was great..is it on Youtube?..I'd love to see/hear it again..
My guess is that the MSM will try and spin Steele as an anamoly for a few hours. (unless he is the difference in the Senate, and they can't ignore it lol)
Heavy turnout so far in western Carroll County. I voted about 11:30 and the parking lot was full. Inside, one of the election officals told me that there had been steady lines all morning and there had already been as many voters as they had had all day for the primary. Daughter is over voting now and hubby will stop on his way home. This is a strongly Republican district so I expect the turnout here to be high.
Go Steele!!!!!
Political scientists will write volumes on the genius of the Steele campaign, win or lose.
I also think we should send a shout-out to Ambassador Keyes. He was about 14 years ahead of his time...
Thank you very little - lol.
Early indications mean doo-doo. Remember what Parris Glendening was able to do at the 11th hour vs. Ellen Sauerbrey. Everyone in MD needs to get out and vote for Michael Steele.
Would that mean that tomorrow morning the Washington Post will have to EAT IT !!!
Sauerbrey wishes she was half the candidate of the Man of Steele. How she got that close, I have no idea...
Early indications mean doo-doo. Remember what Parris Glendening was able to do at the 11th hour vs. Ellen Sauerbrey. Everyone in MD needs to get out and vote for Michael Steele.
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I agree. Please, lets not end up like the DUmmies in 2004 when they fell for the exit polls.
VOTE!
The only thing I told anyone as I exited the poll was that I liked the touch screen voting.
"This way, I get to give them all the finger!"
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Don't know about that. The Hedgehog Report reports fairly light turnout in the more Republican counties in the Baltimore area. That blog is by politically active Republicans (one of the nicest political blogs around. Many Ds read it and almost every commenter is civil and informative). Guess we will see soon.
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