John Ellis reports
on a New York Times article about 15% of the votes cast in this year’s
mid-term elections will be cast before Election Day, and therefore
…this will make it much more difficult for the Decision
Desks of the various networks to accurately project winners quickly on
Election Night. Because of the size of the absentee vote in states
across the country, there’s an outside chance that we won’t know on
Election Night who will control the US Senate, the US House and/or key
gubernatorial seats. We may just have to wait until all the “absentee”
votes are counted.
Damn. If only he could have shown such restraint when he worked at the Fox News Desk for Election 2000, when he called the Florida election for his cousin George W.
He also says in the same post, “governors can actually help a presidential candidate win an election.” Gee, you think?