Date: 2008-11-04 05:44 pm (UTC)
"They will also wait for actual results" <-- top plan!

i have to say if there's one thing that causes UK observers to go "WTF!" in respect of US politics, it is the concept of the networks "calling it" -- obviously our TV political coverage does a bit of early prognostication also (there's a lot of time to fill with stupid vamping) and is often wildly wrong, but no one takes the slightest notice of this

"The decision desk analysts": everything depends on how high up the authority totempole these guys are (probably varies a little from newsroom to newsroom) --- jumping too soon is a disaster, but being badly second is a catastrophe --- and they self-evidently have NO sway on non-election days, in regard to how the networks deal with polls


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