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Well, maybe. As soon as the polls close, the networks will still try to call as many contests as possible, but they will be relying on a new system. The old organization that conducted exit polls and counted votes for the networks, Voter News Service (VNS), has been dissolved and replaced by the National Election Pool (NEP), a consortium of six news outlets: ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News and the Associated Press. Veteran pollster Warren Mitofsky led a group that overhauled VNS's computer models, factoring in, for instance, voting patterns from three previous elections instead of one. Mitofsky...
...adds, “It is possible that Moore’s film may have had some kind of effect on swaying independent and undecided voters, but again, without doing movie theater exit polls, how can we tell...
...speech is magnanimous, though this is a pleasing tradition in Australian politics - in what must have been some parallel universe, Howard gave just such a speech as the loser of the 1987 poll. After promising to "see you again," Latham is gone and guests stream for the exit. This party, which never really got going, is over...
They knew their man had been beaten, and on his home turf. Not on foreign policy. And certainly not on substance--Kerry's arguments against Bush's policies, especially on an Iraq exit strategy, were nearly as thin as the President's defense of them. No, Kerry won the debate on Bush's favorite intangible: the appearance of strength. The President, who was so comfortable through three debates against Al Gore, appeared "annoyed," as Fox News's Brit Hume put it. Actually, it was worse than that: Bush seemed the lesser man. Kerry stood ramrod straight and preternaturally calm. Bush...
...FRANCE Indonesia put its diplomatic missions around the world on heightened security alert after a bomb exploded outside its embassy in Paris , injuring 10 people. The world's largest Muslim nation, Indonesia has suffered a number of recent attacks on its soil by Islamic militants linked to al-Qaeda. Exit Strategy POLAND Defense Minister Jerzy Szmajdzinski said that Warsaw would set a date for the withdrawal of its 2,500 troops in Iraq after an Oct. 15 parliamentary vote of confidence in the government. Szmajdzinski earlier surprised coalition allies by announcing that a pullout would take place...