What the hell is up with Florida?

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PaladinX13

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Is this the networks just manipulating us so that we stick with them through the night (and getting Dems out to vote in the West), or is there are realistic chance of the state shifting from Gore to Bush?

Why would they put out their credibility by making questionable predictions to just take them back? Do we get Florida! Please make it so!
 
With 500,000 absentee ballots, we might not know about Florida till sometime tomorrow morning. The local news just said that only 2% of the absentee ballots had been counted so far...
 
The GOP has a 100,000 ballot lead for absentee. 90% of that would go to Bush. I figure Bush has Florida.
www.ABC.com has a really cool map for tallying up electoral votes (your choice to count, not theirs). I count 267 possible for Bush without tallying Washington, Oregon, or Alaska which are not yet reporting.

This assumes all of them follow the current trend.

Rick
 
Florida will go to Bush (MY prediction)

Bush also leads in California.

The media didn't even wait for the exit polls to come in before they declared their intention for Gore to win California. The votes are telling a different story, just like Florida did earlier.

Bush will win this 283-254

(I know this doesn't add up correctly, but I've got two different totals as a baseline for algore and don't know which one to believe.)
 
Florida Update:

81% of precincts reporting.

Bush: 2,350,239
Gore: 2,218,270

WTF??

If I may mix a metaphor: CNN needs to pull its head out of its bottom and smell the coffee.
 
Being from the Sunshine State, I gotta tell ya.

It's all part of our Master Plan. We started the CCW Law trend. We'll start the take back of America....now we just gotta make it so. Lord, just give me 1,000,000 more Cubans!
Rich


[This message has been edited by Rich Lucibella (edited November 08, 2000).]
 
CNN has Bush @ 246 EVs, Florida (25 EVs) looks like its going to Elect BUSH for our next PRESIDENT!!!

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Exit polls have Bush taking WI and Alaska for a total of 260 with Gore at 242. Exit polls had Gore taking Florida, but for some reason they pulled it. Maybe some kind of irregularity in the poll. Iowa and Oregon are impossible to decide by using the exit polls and you had better hope that Florida polls are wrong.
 
I have a sinking feeling when I say this, but by pulling Florida they just increased their ratings by keeping the race close. Otherwise they have called every state by poll. Why else would they pull it?
 
Gary-
They'd pull it because they were all competing to get the results out first and called the election with 17% of the FL vote in.

The alternative explanation is about 100X less likely than rigging the Super Bowl during pre-season.
Rich
 
Come on, Bush, you can do it in Florida. Bush has it made if he wins Florida. Nevada and Oregon will go Republican. I'm so glad that I convinced my parents to cast absentee ballots for Bush in Wisconsin from Europe, though I think WI and IA will vote for Gore. I'm not going to bed until this is over.
 
I'm poopin' out folks...

'Nuther Florida update with 92% of precincts reporting:

Bush 2,598,890Ê 49%
Gore 2,546,906Ê 49%

Too close for my comfort.

[This message has been edited by TheBluesMan (edited November 08, 2000).]
 
One last Florida update before I fall asleep and start drooling into my keyboard.

With 96% of precincts reporting:

Bush 2,740,624Ê 49%
Gore 2,710,766Ê 49%

Less than 30,000 votes. :rolleyes:

Wish me sweet dreams, and wake me with good news in the morning. Thanks to all for keeping the faith. We'll have much to talk about tomorrow.

-Dave
 
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