One more thing

by Prometheus 6
November 1, 2004 - 6:40pm.
on Random rant

I'm watching all the election returns on CBS News.

www.CBSNews.com will provide the fastest, most reliable, most user-friendly election results available anywhere. Live results, updated every 90 seconds, for the Presidential, Congressional and gubernatorial races will be available down to the county level. CBSNews.com visitors will see projections as soon as they're made by the Network's Decision Desk. The same complete, detailed national and state exit poll data used by CBS News producers and correspondents will be available on CBSNews.com as soon as the polls are closed. To provide context to the data, experts from the CBS News Election Unit will update clear, user-friendly stories on voter trends and behavior throughout the evening. At the end of the night, CBSNews.com will feature opinion and analysis commentary from our partners from across the entire political spectrum. CBSNews.com will also Webcast all of the key victory celebrations and concession speeches.

Dan Rather, who has covered every major election since 1964, will anchor CBS News' on-air coverage of Election Night 2004 and will be joined by a group of some of the most experienced political reporters in broadcast journalism, as well as correspondents and reporters in key battleground states. Reporting live on Election Night will be Bob Schieffer, Ed Bradley, Lesley Stahl, John Roberts, Bill Plante, Jim Axelrod, Byron Pitts and Mika Brzezinski, among others. Complete on-air coverage begins at 7pm ET.

Posting all that is not an ad for CBS so much as flipping the bird at folks.

I'll be watching other returns online. It looks like all the major media has lost its horror of forecasting elections. The monopoly that did all the projections for all the stations, the guys that got in so much trouble for projecting a Florida victory for Al Gore, has sort of fallen away and number of networks will be doing their own projections. CNN, of course, will be wall to wall spin and Fox, as usual, will be making shit up all day.