ABC (tv) was being extremely cautious as well.

On Nov 6, 2:03 pm, OMS-II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually, Jay, I perused several sites. CNN was the last to call a
> state for one candidate or another. I think they were more cautious
> than most.
>
> On Nov 4, 10:43 pm, JayMac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > This maybe a "dumb" question, but how does the media "call" states
> > for
> > a president when there are only 15% of votes in?  I do not understand
> > this.  Can't think of which state it was, but I saw CNN call the vote
> > with a margin of 10,000 votes, each candidate had about 120,000
> > total,
> > with only 15% of the votes in.  Early in the night I believe that I
> > saw a state called with 1% of votes in.  Am I missing something here?
> > Mathematically this doesn't make any sense to me.- Hide quoted text -
>
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