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NightWatcher

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13. interesting story on huffpo about how they'll report it tomorrow
Tue Nov 6, 2012, 12:48 AM
Nov 2012
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/05/2012-election-night_n_2078385.html?utm_hp_ref=the-backstory

NEW YORK -- At 11 a.m. Tuesday, representatives from five TV networks and the Associated Press will head into the "quarantine room," an undisclosed location with no cell phone or Internet access.

That's where the National Election Pool -- ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox and the AP -- start sifting through exit poll data provided by Edison Research. Six hours later, staffers will be permitted to start sending data to their respective news organizations, while additional exit polls, especially on the West Coast, keep coming in. While news outlets can begin reporting after 5 p.m. on some general trends they have observed in exit polls, such as whether voters consider the economy the most important issue in the 2012 election, they're not permitted to publish or broadcast any information that suggests which way a state is leaning until its polls close and actual vote numbers start streaming in.

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Yes, you cannot call it until all polls close nadinbrzezinski Nov 2012 #1
And no winner can be declared until ALL the polls close. Zoeisright Nov 2012 #2
Which laws in which states? ProgressiveProfessor Nov 2012 #7
There is no "law." It was a media agreement after that Reagan fiasco. MADem Nov 2012 #10
That is what I thought. It sounded like some here thought it was the law ProgressiveProfessor Nov 2012 #19
What is your definition of "media?" Atman Nov 2012 #3
Maybe the polls have to be closed, but I've always hated it when they say 'with 13% of the codjh9 Nov 2012 #4
Because they are looking at key counties jberryhill Nov 2012 #14
Yeah, I knew all of that already - I just meant I didn't LIKE it, however irrational that may codjh9 Nov 2012 #20
Serious serious Questions brettdale Nov 2012 #5
There is no law forbidding reporting anything jberryhill Nov 2012 #15
How will it be enforced? After tomorrow night what could be done about it? Media does not care. AlinPA Nov 2012 #6
No, we have a First Amendment jberryhill Nov 2012 #8
Not required, no, but as a general principle most networks and major newspapers agree to wait fishwax Nov 2012 #9
Anyone can call anything any time they wish. Stinky The Clown Nov 2012 #11
No they are not. RB TexLa Nov 2012 #12
interesting story on huffpo about how they'll report it tomorrow NightWatcher Nov 2012 #13
That's good to know. Thanks! fried eggs Nov 2012 #17
Poll Closing Times for all the states with ALL time zones listed, below Tx4obama Nov 2012 #16
No. (nt) Posteritatis Nov 2012 #18
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