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...major networks have now called Ohio, Iowa and New Mexico for Obama, along with upper Midwest blue states like Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, and trends in Florida are looking pretty good too. The Democrat now has 206 electoral votes in his column, and with West Coast states California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii almost certainly going his way later tonight, he is well on his way to becoming the next President of the United States...
...electoral-vote rich Florida, ground zero is the unpredictable Interstate-4 corridor which stretches across the state's mid-section from Daytona Beach on the east coast through Walt Disney World to Tampa Bay in the west. Along this swath, Tampa Bay is known as the state's bellwether: since 1980, as Tampa Bay votes, so has the state, according to political analyst Susan MacManus, distinguished professor at University of South Florida...
...front of me in the press box just told me about Conner Kempe's near fatal kit-board accident off the coast of Jupiter...
...began exit polling--surveying people leaving voting locations about the ballots they cast--in the 1960s, and it soon became a common tool to predict winners before votes were tallied. But after NBC reported Ronald Reagan's 1980 victory over Jimmy Carter hours before polls closed on the West Coast, Congress held hearings on whether the practice depressed voter turnout, and networks vowed not to project a state's winners until polls close. (Exit polling is protected by the First Amendment...
Peter Atkins is weary and a little miffed. As usual, he's been up since dawn, fishing for a living off the coast of Kaikoura, a town in the north-east corner of the South Island. Blast, it shouldn't be this cold in October. And seagulls keep pecking at the crate-loads of hoki stacked on the deck of his boat. He's also been let down by a helper who's scampered before the day's work is done. Which gets him started on how, as he sees it, the government favors certain types of people. "Basically, people...