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To: jazusamo; freema; All

Here's how the weather looks in the district at this hour: Cloudy, 44F, Humidity: 52%
Wind:from the SE at 2 mph, Barometer: 30.18in


968 posted on 11/07/2006 4:38:37 AM PST by RedRover (Proud pinger of sinister political forces.)
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To: RedRover
When will we find out that Diana Irey won?

Chances are, it won't be until late tonight, EST.

I found this article at the Wall Street Journal that some people might find useful ...

Following the Election Returns

This year the networks say they are guarding their exit poll results as if they were crown jewels. The results will be delivered to a "quarantine room," access to which will be granted to only two staffers from each network and wire service, who must surrender all cell phones, BlackBerrys and similar devices before entering the room. Such precautions are designed to prevent preliminary results, often wrong in 2000 and 2004, from being posted on Web sites like the Drudge Report.

Only at 5 p.m. will the occupants of the quarantine room be allowed to reveal the exit polls to their bosses. The networks claim to have completely revamped their exit-poll methodology, which in 2004 had surveys in which the results, collected mostly by female graduate students, consistently favored Democrats. The changes will mean the networks will be slower to call the winners. That and the difficulty of adjusting for the large number of absentee ballots could mean a longer night than usual.

So how to make sense of things this election night? Don't feel obligated to listen to the endless analysis of the pundits (including me) on the networks. Consider turning down the TV to a whisper and either watching the crawl of actual returns on the bottom of the screen or monitoring them on the Internet at sites like RealClearPolitics.com.

Based on this, I'm not expecting that we'll know anything until well after 8 p.m., EST, when the polls close. As usual, this Wall Street Journal piece doesn't mention the Irey-Murtha race. You can the article

here.

969 posted on 11/07/2006 5:37:27 AM PST by RedRover (Proud pinger of sinister political forces.)
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