WHOA - NOT SO FAST ABERCROMBIE: FL AGAIN!

[PCIntern]

all of a sudden, like last time, all bets are off. Florida is in doubt and I think we are going to be in for a run like last time. MSNBC is NOT calling FLorida.

Here we go again...

[slinkerwink]

1. good that it isn't called in already!

[harpo]

2. florida never changed to blue or red on c-span

[NYC Liberal]

3. They retracted??

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

4. Do NOT count Fla out yet?

[Blasphemer]

5. Why? What is happening? nt

[prodigal_green]

6. won't count early vote until tomorrow

that was 30% of the vote.

[fishwax]

12. can i get a link for that?

please?

I'm not asking b/c I doubt you, but b/c I've heard people go back and forth on it, and nobody seems to have a link either way.

[LoZoccolo]

7. It's because of absentee ballots.

They've extended the deadline.

[leftyandproud]

8. Florida

http://enight.dos.state.fl.us/

[TimeToGo]

If you go to that page above

here it is again -- http://enight.dos.state.fl.us/

And select reporting status you will see which FL counties have counted absentee votes -- according to that Miami Dade hasn't.

Now, nowhere can I find a mention of early votes. So . . .

[AndrewJacksonFaction]

9. More info.

[ThoughtCriminal]

10. I remember staying up and wathing in 2000

After calling FL for Bush, the lead kept shrinking and shrinking. They really blew it - it never should have been called before recount.

[radiofreesrini]

16. CNN is a CON

i never thought florida was going to go for bush. bullshit. your state rules - at least the parts of it i've been to (pensacola, jacksonville, tallahassee)

[NAO]

11. Florida will NOT be called until Nov 12 - absentee ballot malfeasance

Due to an absentee ballot screw up of criminal proportions, Florida will not be called until Nov.12.

The problem is the over a million people who requested absentee ballots well in time, but FL did not mail them out until Sat. Oct 30. There is no way people could get them, vote, and mail them back by the deadline.

The ACLU has already sued, and the news is reporting that they have WON, to allow absentee ballots until Nov. 12, which is the deadline for overseas absentee ballots.

Even Rep pundits said there is NO WAY it was acceptable or just a glitch for the ballots not to be mailed until Sat.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apelection_story.asp?category=1131&slug=ELN%20Absentee%20Ballots

[LisaL]

13. YEP.

And if this goes to the supreme court again, who do you think they are going to pick?

[belab13]

19. We just have to make damn certain all the votes are counted.

[BlueScreen]

14. Woo-hoo! That's great news!

You would think the frickin' media would have learned a thing or two about jumping the gun after 2000.

Neither

http://www.independentmediasource.com/election_watch2004.htm

nor

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/president/

show Florida going to either candidate yet.

Hold on there, General Electric theater...

[Zen Democrat]

15. ABC did NOT call Florida -- they "projected" and said they cannot CALL.

[MiddleRiverRefugee]

17. Makes sense. If you were a Floridian, what would YOU do?

After what happened in 2000 I'd vote absentee by any means possible.

[PCIntern]

18. I'm about to pull out all the stops I don't give a shit anymore

All right, last time we went to bed and all of a sudden maybe you got a phone call or your wife woke you up and said...not so fast. Well, these bastards at ABC and CBS called FL the way they called it last time and guess what - we ain't there yet, folks. This might get real inhteresting real fast. We won't be defeated so easily - I was letting my guard down - all this fucking work all these months and we'll give it away because we're tied? I think not.

Go Kerry Go. Don't let them fuck you over. Go for the jugular.

[Blaq Dem]

20. CBS still has FL for Bush

Bush can't win with both OH and FL.