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...Minnesota: Everyone Vs. Bachmann, 10:00 a.m. E.T. There is an interesting twist in a House race here. After Republican incumbent Michele Bachmann said on MSNBC's Harball - after incessant prodding from Chris Mathews - she thought Obama "may have anti-American views," her Democratic opponent, Elwin Tinklenberg, saw more than $1 million in donations from across the nation in a week. Further, Aubrey Immelman, the Republican runner-up in the primary, is back in the race against her, running as a write-in candidate. He rejuvenated his campaign to pull Republican votes from Bachmann because she "dishonored her office." Says...
Montana: McCain's Late Stand, 10:30 a.m. E.T. Montana has only three electoral votes and has gone GOP in almost every presidential race for the past four decades. (LBJ won it in 1964; but Bill Clinton took it in 1992 only because Ross Perot chomped into what would have been the Republican vote for George H. W. Bush.) In 2008, however, the Obama campaign organized early for the Democratic primary there and has maintained its presence. Indeed, it has been running local TV spots continuously since June. While Barack Obama and his wife Michelle made several trips...
...group will not emerge until 5 p.m. E.T. to share what they have learned with their bosses. These people are part of the National Election Pool (NEP) - and they owe their monastic retreat to a long-running debate on how early election reports can affect the outcome of a race...
...cast - debuted in the 1960s, as news organizations (and on a small scale, candidates) sought to gather demographic data about voters that could be used to predict election results. Legendary polling pioneer Warren Mitofsky conducted the first major exit poll for a network during the 1967 Kentucky governor's race and by the 1970s, exit polling had become an industry practice. But in 1980, NBC reported Ronald Reagan's 1980 victory over Jimmy Carter nearly three hours before polls closed on the West Coast, leading to a large-scale examination of exit polling and Congressional hearings on whether it depressed...
...major news networks and the Associated Press formed a polling consortium called Voter News Service (VNS) to cut costs, eliminating the redundancy of reports from multiple sources. But redundancy isn't always a bad thing, as proved, disastrously, in 2000 - when VNS (and the networks soon afterward) declared the race for Al Gore around 8 p.m., only to switch to George W. Bush at 2 a.m. and declared the race locked at "too close to call" two hours later...