I know that, but when I began posting the results, Steele was ahead by 75k votes. Later, he was still ahead after Baltimore came in. Yesterday (or maybe the day before), one of the more knowledgeable talking heads on Fox said that if he could pull in 25%-30% of the black vote in Baltimore, Prince George's and Montgomery counties, he could win by a small margin. Therefore, with Baltimore in and him still ahead, it wasn't unreasonable (nor "dense") to think that he could still win. You guys are telling me he lost because CNN said so.
Fine.
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.