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...truly flattered to receive the award,” Berry says. “With everything the foundation stands for it’s just a great honor. Even being in consideration for an award like this is a huge blessing.”As an award winner, Berry will receive an $18,000 scholarship and will be honored at the 2008 NFF Annual Awards Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. The ceremony will also include the induction of the 2008 College Football Hall of Fame.Each school is allowed to nominate one player for the award. Candidates...
...state's precincts in, Senator Ted Stevens - who on Oct. 27 was convicted in federal court on seven counts of corruption - held a slim 4,000-vote lead over his opponent, Anchorage mayor Mark Begich. With about 50,000 uncounted absentee and early ballots, a definitive winner could be days or weeks away...
...precincts had reported, several thousand votes had yet to be counted, campaign officials said, many of them coming from absentee ballots, provisional ballots and military voters. While both sides expressed confidence, that the outstanding ballots would turn their way, they acknowledged they'd remain in campaign mode until a winner is announced. However, if there's no clear-cut winner from this round of voting, a situation some local experts expect, Georgia voters will head back to the polls on December 2, in a race that could help inch the Democrats closer to a supermajority in the Senate...
...shuttered soon after and replaced by a different set of pollsters that serve the National Election News Pool. But this organization suffered its own scandal in 2004 when exit poll data was leaked online around midday on Election Day, prompting bloggers to declare John Kerry the presumptive winner. In 2006, the pollsters began quarantining representatives of the NEP to prevent such leaks from occurring...
...Actual projections are made by "decision desks" at the networks - small groups of journalists and polling experts who use exit data and actual returns to decide when to announce winners. So even though all the networks have access to the same exit poll data, they often don't broadcast projections at the same time. During the primary season, the networks used exit poll data to slice the electorate into various demographic groups - giving viewers proof, for example, of Barack Obama's strength over Hillary Clinton among black voters and Clinton's popularity among older voters. These tidbits help fill airtime...