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...only two questions on everyone’s mind. They are simple questions, very much in the vein of what it means to be American: Who is going to win and how are they going to do it? Well, as I get my Miss Cleo on, I predict the winner of the 2004 election is going to be, despite his ineptitude as a campaigner and his seeming inability to connect emotionally to other human beings, John Kerry. Indeed, Kerry will unseat our current president thanks largely to the efforts of black voters and the hip-hop generation...
...popular website that amasses daily data from statewide polls to predict the White House’s next occupant, ranked Harvard first among visits from university domains. With 14,735 visits as of Oct. 30, Harvard beat out much larger universities, and nearly doubled visits by fifth-place winner Yale...
Most of the time, media professionals wait for news to happen before reporting it. On election night, however, veteran journalists dispense with tradition and race to declare a winner before all the votes are counted, relying mainly on surveys of voters exiting the polls and partial tallies of ballots cast. The system worked pretty well until it blew up in 2000, when the networks called Florida for Al Gore, reversed themselves, and, well, you know the rest. So things will be different this time. Sure, the TV networks will be competing to declare America's next President. But restraint will...
...that the race is to be right, not first," says NBC News vice president Bill Wheatley. NBC will prevent analysts on its "decision desk," who will sift through the NEP data, from knowing the calls made by other networks. ABC News has a new policy of not calling a winner if the margin is less than 1%, even after all precincts have reported. CBS has moved its decision desk into the studio to give viewers a window into the process. "We'll be trying to explain very clearly where our information comes from, that it's not someone standing over...
Harvard’s Ralph Waldo Emerson Poet-in-Residence is one of the most stellar attractions the University counts among its rich wellspring of resources. The 1995 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature doesn’t restrain himself to the poetry for which he won the prize; Heaney counts a definitive translation of Beowulf, over ten collections of radiant verse and several collections of critical essays among his impressively voluminous works...