Reminds me of when the press declared Gore the winner in 2000. They didn’t consider Florida’s panhandle being in the CST and those folks were still voting, EST polls in Fla had just closed.
“They didn’t consider Florida’s panhandle being in the CST and those folks were still voting, EST polls in Fla had just closed.”
They DID consider them, and attempted to keep them home. This is borne out by the fact that other states with much wider margins hadn’t been called for candidates yet - it was an outright attempt to suppress Republican votes.
If Obama tries to claim victory early it will just be the beginning of de-legitimizing a Romney win (if he in fact wins); Dems need the permanent unassimilated malcontents to be...discontent.