Will It Be A Short Night...Or A Long One?
Pundits are all over the board today in trying to predict the outcome of voting in today's presidential contest.
Some believe it will be a short night, an Obama blowout of John McCain evident the instant the first votes from Virginia and Florida and possibly Indiana are counted.
Others say it will be a long night based on last-minute battleground state polls that showed McCain closing in the final hours of the campaign. They cite Virginia, Pennsylvania, Florida and Indiana as states that may contribute to prolonging the suspense. Republican strategist Karl Rove, a Fox News analyst, is among those who say it will be a long night. He says forget about Indiana being called early either way; he says the heavily-Democratic part of the state won't report its vote totals (presumably in favor of Obama) until Democrats there "know how many votes Obama needs" to carry the state. Democratic operative Donna Brazille, former Al Gore campaign manager now a CNN contributor, sees an Obama win of historic proportions and spent considerable time this afternoon emphasizing the racial implications of Obama's historic bid for the White House. CNN and MSNBC personalities spent this afternoon emphasizing all the positives about Obama and his campaign and discussing polls that showed Obama with double-digit leads and how Obama is, they claim, poised to win states that formerly were in the GOP column. CNN's video was almost exclusively of blacks and Hispanics in voting lines. Fox News showed blacks, Hispanics and whites in voting lines in Florida and other states.
Some believe it will be a short night, an Obama blowout of John McCain evident the instant the first votes from Virginia and Florida and possibly Indiana are counted.
Others say it will be a long night based on last-minute battleground state polls that showed McCain closing in the final hours of the campaign. They cite Virginia, Pennsylvania, Florida and Indiana as states that may contribute to prolonging the suspense. Republican strategist Karl Rove, a Fox News analyst, is among those who say it will be a long night. He says forget about Indiana being called early either way; he says the heavily-Democratic part of the state won't report its vote totals (presumably in favor of Obama) until Democrats there "know how many votes Obama needs" to carry the state. Democratic operative Donna Brazille, former Al Gore campaign manager now a CNN contributor, sees an Obama win of historic proportions and spent considerable time this afternoon emphasizing the racial implications of Obama's historic bid for the White House. CNN and MSNBC personalities spent this afternoon emphasizing all the positives about Obama and his campaign and discussing polls that showed Obama with double-digit leads and how Obama is, they claim, poised to win states that formerly were in the GOP column. CNN's video was almost exclusively of blacks and Hispanics in voting lines. Fox News showed blacks, Hispanics and whites in voting lines in Florida and other states.
Labels: 2008 Presidential Race
posted by Mike McCarville @ 3:59 PM
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