Word: closed
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...scant hours, the polls will close, and the talking heads will have something besides low-pressure centers to hold forth on. Then it'll be time to haul out your galoshes. But it won't be slush you'll be wading through. 6 p.m.: The Spinshine State
...luge" (After me, the deluge) might well be the state motto of Florida today. The Sunshine State will not be the first state to have its polls close, but at 7 p.m. Eastern, it will be the first big prize. Perhaps the big prize, as the punditocracy have over the last few days declared it to be the Maginot Line of the 2000 election. (And with that, we hereby conclude the French metaphors for the duration of this piece.) Which means that come 7:01 p.m. ET, the deluge of heavy spin will arrive...
...pressure to do so is higher this year, because of the fundmentals of this close election: If Gore wins, he's unlikely to win it before California votes - all the more reason for Republican talking heads to spin a Bush Florida win early, and Gore partisans to do the opposite...
...confident. We know things, Peter Jennings, Jim Lehrer and I - specifically, we've had access since mid-afternoon to the results of nationwide exit polls. These polls aren't magic, but they're predictive. And our organizations have signed binding agreements not to reveal them before polls close...
...reason? The media have been telling you for the past several days they thought this election was too close to call. They were lying. Oh sure -margin of error, blah blah blah. But behind it all, for the past few days, the subtext, not too hard to catch if you watched a lot of cable news, was that we were about to meet President Dubya. (Which, again, we still might.) Bush was confident, Gore was struggling; Bush was striking broad, presidential themes, Gre was still trying to find his message...