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04 Nov 2008 06:51 pm
The Ghosts Of Elections Past
Ross takes the words out of my mouth:
Even though I don't really see any way that McCain can win this thing, I've been conditioned - by the stalemate in 2000, by the exit-polling disaster in '04, even by New Hampshire flipping for Hillary this year - to assume that some sort of bizarre election-night twist will keep us up till three AM, half-drunk and reeling.
The notion of an election where the anchors know who's won by
mid-afternoon, and where the suspense for television viewers ends early
(when Virginia and Pennsylvania both go Obama's way, perhaps), seems
like something old-fashioned, something retro, something out of my
childhood that couldn't possibly happen in the crazy world of
twenty-first century America. So while my rational mind expects an easy
Obama win, as of this morning my irrational mind is suddenly convinced
that come nine PM tonight, some furrow-browed announcer will be
remarking on his this is much, much closer than anyone expected ...
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