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Date Posted: 06:56:27 10/08/03 Wed
Author: Leo P�tsch
Subject: What was the actual result anyway? How the media declared the CA election (from an outsider's view)
In reply to: SM78 's message, "Arnold cruising to victory in California" on 16:46:27 10/07/03 Tue

I stayed up til 4am (my time) to hear the results start to come in.

I was confused however. My experience of elections is as follows:

Ten pm (usually) the polls close, and then it's just mad frantic counting for the next few hours at the Count, which can go on until six the next morning in some cases. There are one or two opinions and exit polls given out in the media just after the polling booths close, but nothing much happens until the results start getting announced. It's all just speculation.

But...

4am UK time (8pm the previous evening, Los Angeles time) the polls close. BBC radio announces that CNN and MSNBC and ABC and (insert your own letters) have all released exit polls that say Arnie is in the lead.

The BBC's correspondent in LA, Wil Wheaton (he of Star Trek and Stand By Me fame) laments that some female porn star won't win, but it all seems over, because CNN (or whoever) have declared.

So, California, I have some questions:

The actual results don't seem to matter?
The media really does decide elections now?
What WERE the actual results of the election, anyway (not the exit polls from various news networks)?

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Good Questions, Leo -- SM78, 08:17:04 10/08/03 Wed