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...hint not so subtly at outcomes earlier in the day); print journalists use it to plan election coverage; we all use it to lord our insiderdom over less-well-connected pals. The monopolistic source of the data is the Voter News Service, an exit-polling and vote-counting consortium of the major TV networks plus the Associated Press. (TIME, like many print publications, pays a fee to share in some of the information.) Since the networks set up VNS in 1990 - saving themselves a bundle on their own polling operations - the system has worked fairly well, save for miscalling...
...battleground states of Michigan and Pennsylvania soon fell as well, and every anchor became a math teacher, showing how it was increasingly difficult for Bush to find the 270 electoral votes he would need to win. All the networks were reading the data from the Voter News Service consortium and grinding it through their own analysis to try to be the first to declare a winner. Little things can make a difference when every minute counts, and what they didn't know was that vns had a bad sample in Tampa, some faulty data in Jacksonville. Plus there were voters...
...Voter News Service (VNS), a consortium of the five major news networks and the Associated Press, provides the exit polling data. On election days, it relies upon 40,000 poll-takers at key precincts throughout the country to paint a composite portrait of the nation's voting...
...Created as a cost-cutting measure by the nets after the 1988 election (they'd previously run their own polls, often in partnerships with major daily newspapers), the VNS currently is run by a consortium of the three big networks (ABC, CBS and NBC) as well as Fox News, CNN and the Associated Press. Subscribers such as the New York Times and the Washington Post (and TIME magazine) pony up an undisclosed (but juicy) bit of change for access...
...fact, there are ways to improve sweatshop conditions without costing Harvard a lot of money or causing workers to lose their jobs. The most important step for Harvard is to join the Workers' Rights Consortium (WRC), an organization of universities that monitors sweatshops and holds management accountable for working conditions. The Harvard Corporation has thus far refused to join the WRC, citing an alleged lack of corporate participation and leadership. The organization was founded only a year ago, and some consider this a drawback as well. In fact, on both counts the WRC has made considerable progress: It was incorporated...