CNN and a wide variety of other websites have updated actual vote tallies by county with precincts reporting..it's not just a "call"
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/results/states/MD/S/01/index.html
Cardin is ahead of Steele by over 130,000 votes with 93% of precincts reporting, and the ONLY places with precincts left are Baltimore City and Prince George's County. Both those places were 76% for Cardin.
Thank you for a civil reply that included an actual explanation.
Now I understand.
BTW, Steele just announced he isn't conceding due to a large number of absentee ballots that haven't been counted, but obviously if the vote spread is greater than the number of absentee ballots, there's no hope. But perhaps there are more than that since he isn't conceding......yet. That would be an awful lot of absentee ballots for a population the size of MD's, though.