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An Armchair Pundit's Guide to Election Night on TV

 

Published 11/4/2008 by Howard Kurtz at Wash Post In Congress

Better plan on an early dinner tonight. It is possible that, at 7 p.m., network anchors and their map manipulators will make projections that strongly suggest Sen. Barack Obama is on his way to winning the presidency. But if Obama fails to capture a handful of key states by 8 p.m. or so, then Joh... (link)

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